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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LiteratureLiterature - Wikipedia

    5 hours ago · Definitions Definitions of literature have varied over time. In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books and writing. Literature can be seen as returning to older, more inclusive notions, so that cultural studies, for instance, include, in addition to canonical works, popular and minority genres. The word is also used in reference to non-written works: to "oral ...

  2. 1 day ago · The Syriac language (/ ˈ s ɪr i æ k / SIH-ree-ak; Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Sūryāyā, Leššono Suryoyo), also known as Syriac Aramaic (Syrian Aramaic, Assyrian Aramaic, Syro-Aramaic) and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CantoneseCantonese - Wikipedia

    5 hours ago · In English, the term "Cantonese" can be ambiguous. "Cantonese" as used to refer to the language native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou, was popularized by An English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859), a bestseller by the missionary John Chalmers.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › VeganismVeganism - Wikipedia

    5 hours ago · Veganism The symbol widely used to denote a vegan-friendly product Pronunciation Veganism / ˈ v iː ɡ ən ɪ z əm / VEE -gə-niz-əm Vegan VEE -gən [a] Description Avoiding the use of animal products, particularly in diet Earliest proponents Al-Ma'arri (c. 973 – c. 1057) [b] Roger Crab (1621 – 1680) Johann Conrad Beissel (1691 – 1768) James Pierrepont Greaves (1777 – 1842) Lewis ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Social_mediaSocial media - Wikipedia

    5 hours ago · Social media as a news source is the use of online social media platforms rather than moreover traditional media platforms to obtain news. Just as television turned a nation of people who listened to media content into watchers of media content in the 1950s to the 1980s, the emergence of social media has created a nation of media content creators .

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OrangutanOrangutan - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The word 'orangutan' in modern Malay and Indonesian was borrowed from English or Dutch in the 20th century—explaining the missing initial 'h' of 'hutan'. [4] The name of the genus, Pongo , comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battel , an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola , which describes two anthropoid "monsters ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Papal_StatesPapal States - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The Papal States (/ ˈ p eɪ p ə l / PAY-pəl; Italian: Stato Pontificio; Latin: Dicio Pontificia), officially the State of the Church (Italian: Stato della Chiesa [ˈstaːto della ˈkjɛːza]; Latin: Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 ...

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