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  1. 15 hours ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...

    • Ancient Belgian

      Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European...

    • Proto-Indo-European Homeland

      The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric...

    • Dacian

      Dacian (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n /) is an extinct language generally...

    • Cimmerian

      Neo-Assyrian power experienced another significant blow in...

    • Elymian

      Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PlutoPluto - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Pluto ( minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most- massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.

  3. 15 hours ago · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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

    15 hours ago · Timbuktu ( / ˌtɪmbʌkˈtuː / TIM-buk-TOO; French: Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; Tuareg: ⵜⵏⵀⵗⵜ, romanized: Tin Bukt) is an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 54,453 ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ModernismModernism - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Overview and definition. Modernism was a cultural movement that impacted the arts as well as the broader zeitgeist. It is commonly described as a system of thought and behavior marked by self-consciousness or self-reference, prevalent within the avant-garde of various arts and disciplines. [13]

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

    15 hours ago · Origin and development Etymology The word 'Pali' is used as a name for the language of the Theravada canon. The word seems to have its origins in commentarial traditions, wherein the Pāli (in the sense of the line of original text quoted) was distinguished from the commentary or vernacular translation that followed it in the manuscript. K. R. Norman suggests that its emergence was based on a ...

  7. 15 hours ago · A near-Earth object ( NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun ( perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance ( astronomical unit, AU). [2] This definition applies to the object's orbit around the Sun, rather than its current position, thus an object with such an orbit is considered ...