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- of the Oxford-based British ordinary language philosophers who were influenced ... some time learning languages, especially Italian, and learning some Italian ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- Ragusa was one of the centers of Croatian language, literature, and scientific ... The South Slav language was introduced into literature, which flourished ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The word opera means "works" in Italian (from the plural ... to compose new operas, mostly in the Italian language. Simultaneously some ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- including the Socratic schools; and 'Italian' from Pythagoras to Epicurus, including the Eleatics and Skeptics. The accuracy of his ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. ... In 1964, Italian archaeologists from the University of Rome La Sapienza ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini in order ... Over the next few years, she appeared in several Italian films for ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- Italy. His father was the distinguished Italian historian and physician ... archaeology, his knowledge of the Arabic language, and with the help of his ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- 15,774 feeet (4,808 meters) on the French-Italian border. The highest and ... Alps, which uses the Splügen Pass (Italian: Passo dello Spluga) on ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- the site of a village named Nkuna by the Italian born French explorer, Pierre ... The area came under French sovereignty in the 1880s. Franco-Italian ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) was an Italian medievalist ... father. After serving for 18 months in the Italian Army, he left RAI to become ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- within the Romance Languages: Catacomba in Italian, catacumba in Spanish, and catacombe in French. It is most likely that from the French version ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- and the VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) authoring tool for viewing ... and Archaeology: The Contribution of the Italian National Research Council ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian ... Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and English, other ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- Italian explorer Pietro della Valle visited the inscription in the ... and translated the Babylonian writing and language, working independently of ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- destination for persecuted French and Italian Protestant refugees. Politically ... French and Italian Protestant refugees included noble families who ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- azure, the Spanish and Portuguese azul, and the Italian azzurro are cognates. == Occurrence == Lapis lazuli usually occurs in crystalline marble ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- (July 15, 1848 – August 19, 1923) was an Italian economist, sociologist, ... 1848, in Paris, France. His father was an Italian civil engineer and his mother ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- quot; is somewhat problematic, as the Italian concertare can mean “to ... show a number of influences, notably Italian and Austrian. Several passages ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the ... the Spaniards did impose their language to the degree they did their ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- to restore Attic purity to the Greek language. He was a devoted student ... instead. He unwisely took the side of the Italian city-state of Genoa in its ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- Persian loanword, coming into English through Italian, and is a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Peste'. ==Cultivation and production== ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Other notable versions of the Nights include the famous 1974 Italian movie Il fiore delle mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the 1990 ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Adenet le Roi (c. 1275), and a later Franco-Italian reworking ... force of the genre itself was spent. The Italian epics of Torquato Tasso ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- His later work focuses on the role of language and the spontaneity of expression ... === Language and Art=== The highlighting of corporeality as intrinsically ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- . From there it worked its way to the Latin language, where it was called Draconis, meaning "snake" or "serpent." In the English ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- *Italian Orthodox Church *Korean Orthodox Church *Philippine Orthodox Church =====Diasporan churches===== These churches in Diaspora broke with ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to the Italian border. It is part of the ... area was at its height. The Provençal language, (see langue d'oc and ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- men better. It is said of one of the old Italian painters, that he never ... Image:Cole Thomas L-Allegro (Italian Sunset 1845.jpg|L'Allegro ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- and Latin and was acquainted with French, Italian, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac ... Young was interested in the evolution of language groups, and divided ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- : Italian: Lago Lemano, Lago di Ginevra /'lago di dʒi'nevra/ ... Roman culture, eventually developing the French language. ...16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... and beginning in the middle ages, by Italian, French, English, and German ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer Science ... Studies; Humanities; Holocaust Studies; Italian; Jewish Studies; Latin American ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the ninth ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- to large French, French Canadian, German, Italian, and Russian communities ... As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as their first language accounted ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound in that language. Zukofsky's first real ... and models that range from the medieval Italian canzone through sonnets ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- of fourteen was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin as well as his ... Full of obscure references and verbose language, the poem became something ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- is often stewed, as in the French ratatouille, the Italian melanzane alla parmigiana, the Greek moussaka, and Middle-Eastern and South Asian dishes. It ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- The term fascismo was coined by the Italian Fascist dictator Benito ... Fascio (plural: fasci) is an Italian word used in the late nineteenth ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- World War II, Selassie was in exile due to Italian occupation. Later in his ... captured by the Fascists during the Ethio-Italian War and taken in captivity ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- music what Donizetti and Bellini had done for Italian music. His return route took him through the Alps, and he stopped for a while in Vienna, where ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer ... and building a reputation, winning the Italian Prize in 1966 for Laborintus ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- an ending), and possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable, each of ... on. As early as 1503, however, original language versions of Sophocles, Seneca ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- [[Image:Ricci1.jpg|frame|The Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (left) and ... Lì Mǎdòu, Li Ma-tou, Li Madou) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- "new flower" in the Amharic language. Empress Taitu named the ... On May 5, 1936, Italian troops occupied Addis Ababa during the Second ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) was an early Baroque Italian ... realism of Caravaggio and included the language of the Bologna school. Some ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- 1940), and Bulgaria (March 1, 1941). The Italian name Roberto briefly acquired ... The Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Italian ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... Fascist Italy was officially called the Italian Empire. That collapsed after ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- as HTML. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works ... Pietro Di Miceli, an Italian volunteer, developed and administered ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- example of a marriage of convenience. The Italian and German campaigns for ... in strength and in power—both in the Italian peninsula (as a result of ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- she had mastered French, Latin, Greek, Spanish and Italian in addition to her native Scots. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:03, 7 November 2022
- coined by Matthias' biographer, the Italian Antonio Bonfini, who claimed ... Matthias quickly mastered German, Italian, Romanian, Latin, and principal ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- In its original meaning, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone, meaning ... of "cartoon" comes from the Italian "cartone," meaning ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- 1888 - August 23, 1974) was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder ... perhaps valuable acquaintance, our first Italian, a Dr. Assagioli from the ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- 20, 1469 - August 9, 1534), was an Italian cardinal and theologian ... intellect. In contrast to the majority of Italian cardinals of his day, Cajetan ...15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- ===Foreign language editions=== foreign edition in 1890, the Spanish-language La America Cientifica. Publication ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Cavmentis, Fontus), while the Lymphae (originally ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- More, the French writer Francois Rabelais, the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, and the Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian ... skills, such as sensorimotor skills, language acquisition, and social ...21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- In 264 B.C.E. the Roman Republic had gained control of the Italian ... of Rome itself, he had planned to turn the Italian allies against Rome and ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- quot; (суббота) and the Italian word Sabato—all referring to Saturday. The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the Hebrew verb shavat, which ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and ... meaning "green mountain" in Italian) was born in Cremona in ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- to Italy, and the lighter style of the Italian composers current at the ... combines some of the light elegance of the Italian popular song of the time ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- part of World War II. In 1943, his diplomatic and language skills resulted in his secret mission to Rome to coordinate an 82nd air drop with Italian ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian Marxist writer and politician ... cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and nationalism ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- A "Germanic" Byzantine or Italian author referred to one of ... as late as the 16th century: the Crimean Gothic language. ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- had attempted to prevent the German-language border areas that had formerly ... into holding the conference, however, by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is ... Unlike the other major Italian cities, Venice came into being after ...34 KB (5,043 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... Notable cities on the Italian coast are Trieste, Ravenna, Rimini, ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- and the French. During World War II, Italian Somalia was combined with ... Somalis themselves, though, speak a common language. Border disputes ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- A modern view of the Grigori appears in some versions of Italian witchcraft, in which they are said to come from ancient stellar lore. ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- Esox is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish, whose members are known as pike, pickerel, and muskellunge, and are characterized by a pronounced ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- digit to come into use. In the English language, zero may also be called ... ISBN 0471393401). This became zefiro in Italian, which was contracted to ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- south of the Rivanna Gap. Monticello, in Italian, means "little mountain." An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... Given that a common language is essential for good communication and ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni ... of some of the "pedestrian" language used in some translations ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- official languages: German, French and Italian, while a fourth national ... ), Italian ( it|Confederazione Svizzera ) and Romansh ( ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... and versions exist in German, French, Italian, Dutch, Yiddish, Latin, ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- local Left Book Club. He also mentions the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia ... interested in the relationships between language, literature, and society ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the second ... for Oscar awards for "Best Foreign Language Film," and all four ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- the 1524 description of Block Island by Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano ... In 1524, Italian navigator Giovanni de Verrazzano traversed the mid ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian, while mastering Italian and French. Two years later, he wrote a Syriac grammar for publication. In his later years, he ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- Anderson was intent on perfecting her language skills (as most operas ... recognition and a compliment from the Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- eastern basin), some 93 km south of the Italian island of Sicily across ... most prominently in the modern Maltese language, which also contains significant ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian ... the grounds of their use (or misuse) of language than of their philosophical ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- knew no Russian and Horowitz knew very little Italian, their primary language became French. They had one child, Sonia Toscanini Horowitz (1934-1975). ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- closest to Argentina. It shares a common language and many social customs ... quot; comes from Guaraní the language, meaning "river of ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- called "The Zone." Its hidden language holds the key to keeping ... * Voyage in Time (1982)--a documentary made for Italian television ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... sonata and persists as a tradition of Italian violin music, even into ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- each one heard them speaking in his own language…. Then how is it that each ... Pentecost is called Pascha rosatum. The Italian name Pascha rossa comes ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- The ideal of the polymath Renaissance Man is embodied in the Italian ... and Uomo Universale, which in Latin and Italian, respectively, translate ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- caused a major scandal. Like the Italian and French Communist Parties, the Communist Party of Finland denounced the occupation. Nonetheless, ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish authors. His ... in Suzhou, where he manifested his talent in language. ===College === ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- often expressed in symbolic or formal language, and through the study of ... * Informal logic is the study of arguments expressed in natural language ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Roosevelt during wartime, alongside many Italian-Americans. It is important, however, to recognize that the Japanese-Americans and Italian-Americans ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- spoke. Chico started to talk in a fake Italian accent, which he had developed ... of undetermined status, using a fake Italian accent--who, through gumption ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- Triglav and reaches the Gulf of Venice on Italian territory, where it is known ... the Adriatic Veneti, a people who spoke a language close to the Italic languages ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
