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  • of the procedure to isolate antimony is in the Italian book De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio, published in 1540. This book precedes the more ...
    17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
  • would fill him with a love of the German language that would extend its influence ... of Lorenzo da Ponte's original Italian libretto to the Mozart opera) ...
    17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
  • which means "Bear House" in the Hopi language. meaning "red house" in the Hopi language). Built in the formidable ...
    26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
  • and sometimes unconventional use of the Latin language. ... reports how Tacitus was asked if he were Italian or provincial, and upon ...
    43 KB (6,444 words) - 02:48, 27 February 2023
  • included in EDIT16, the ICCU's census of Italian sixteenth-century books) and even more seventeenth-century ones (particularly in the Barberini and ...
    18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
  • * Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452 – 1519). * Biernat of Lublin (Polish, 1465? – after 1529). * Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621 – 1695). ...
    17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
  • in Europe, particularly from the hands of Italian filmmakers like Mario Bava ... Among the popular English-language horror films of the late 1990s ...
    17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
  • translated the old songs from the Slovene language into English, and arranged ... various popular Polish, Slovenian, Italian, and Bohemian-style bands ...
    27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
  • a group of people of common ancestry and language, shared cultural history ... power, and a common currency. The language of an empire is often not ...
    31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
  • recognition of Quechua as a national language and communal land ownership. ... === Language === Spanish is the official language, as well as—in ...
    46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
  • In 1964, a team of Italian archaeologists under the direction of Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome La Sapienza performed a series of excavations ...
    18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
  • particularly in the field of Arabic language and literature.N. Tomiche ... with French and other foreign languages (Italian and English). Francis at ...
    35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
  • -such as the American M 1 Garand, or the WWII era Italian 7.35 mm Carcano--is often already put into the appropriate clip, so that all the user has to ...
    18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
  • His many essays on Iran, published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della ... garnered a lot of attention from English-language readers, due to Alan Sheridan ...
    48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
  • it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms ... of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (Gordon ...
    40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
  • to the Greek island of Corfu, the Italian region of Apulia, and finally to Moldavia, giving him added exposure to the European architecture ...
    19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
  • founder" of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Antonio Panizzi and architect Sydney Smirke. The reading room was completed in 1857 ...
    19 KB (2,837 words) - 02:43, 22 November 2023
  • K (also known as Utopia) was a French-Italian co-production directed by ... " The phrase has passed into common language usage and means to blame ...
    22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
  • he made the acquaintance of numerous Italian women with whom he found ... to the phonetic rules of the English language. The correct pronunciation ...
    22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
  • by factors which define a nation, such as language or common descent. The nation ... the number of people speaking the Italian language was even lower. ...
    38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023

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