The pilcrow, ¶, is a typographical character that marks the start of a paragraph. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P.
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Oz was born on May 25, 1944, in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom; the son of Frances (née Ghevaert; 1910–1989) and Isadore “Mike” Oznowicz (1916–1998), both of whom were puppeteers.
The pilcrow may be used at the start of separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy
The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.