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The plains-wanderer is a quail -like ground bird, measuring 15 to 19 centimetres (5.9 to 7.5 in). The adult male is light brown above, with fawn-white underparts with black crescents. The adult female is substantially larger than the male, and has a distinctive white-spotted black collar.
Wiktionary ( UK: / ˈwɪkʃənəri /, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈwɪkʃənɛri /, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web -based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Dal lived to see only this edition of his dictionary. 1880 [ edit ] The editors of the posthumous second edition (1880–1883) expanded it using the author's words cards, but, following the norms of Russian public morality, abstained from adding entries with the obscene words of the Russian mat.
The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, claimed by its publishers to be a work " Comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge ", was published at London in 1809 in six octavo volumes and around 150 plates. The title page credits William Nicholson as the author, and much of the ...
The English word "free" has several meanings. The word "free" in "The Free Encyclopedia" refers first and foremost to the licensing terms of Wikipedia's content. Text is contributed to Wikipedia under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) — copyleft licenses ...
The Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins is a historical dictionary of Australian English, recording 16,000 words, phrases, and meanings of Australian origin and use. The first edition of the dictionary, edited by W. S. Ramson, was published in 1988 by Oxford University Press; the second edition was edited by Bruce ...
Ranching. Recreation and Entertainment. Religion. Settlement Patterns. Transportation. Urban Development. Westward Expansion. Women. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture includes more than 2,600 articles about the people, places, and events that shape our history.
