(Translation: Today I learned how to spell my name in Braille.)
There's a great site on pbs kids that has a Braille translator as well as a Braille key. I also found a great site that has a pretty extensive history on Louis Braille, a man who at the age of 3 in 1812 injured his eye and became blind due to infection that spread to both eyes. He later went on to form a six-dot cell system for reading by touch and published his first book at the age of 20 with the new system he had perfected. I learned that the letters k-t follow the same pattern as the letters a-j with the addition of a dot in the lower left corner. It also has a system for punctuation, capitals and numbers. Here's how my first name looks in Braille (the first dot indicates the following letter is capitalized):
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