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1 day ago · A stained-glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180. It depicts the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative. In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD, although some prefer other start and end dates. The Middle Ages is the second of the three traditional divisions of Western ...
8 hours ago · A AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward. On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
1 day ago · The report, and an accompanying poem supposedly on the fountain describing the sleeping nymph, are now generally concluded to be a fifteenth-century forgery, but the motif proved influential among artists and landscape gardeners for several centuries after, with copies seen at neoclassical gardens such as the grotto at Stourhead.
8 hours ago · For example, we find forms like 𒂵𒁽 ga-kaš 4 "let me run", but, from the Neo-Sumerian period onwards, occasional spellings like 𒄘𒁺 gu 2-du "let me go". According to Jagersma, these assimilations are limited to open syllables [89] and, as with vowel harmony, Jagersma interprets their absence as the result of vowel length or of stress ...
1 day ago · The scope and scale of the Winter Olympics is smaller; for example, Beijing hosted 2,971 athletes from 91 nations in 2022. Most of the athletes and officials are housed in the Olympic Village for the duration of the Games. This accommodation centre is designed to be a self-contained home for all Olympic participants, and is furnished with ...
8 hours ago · Nahuatl (English: / ˈ n ɑː w ɑː t əl / NAH-wah-təl; Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ⓘ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
8 hours ago · For example: mouse (computer mouse) is used in Latin America, in Spain ratón is used. This happens largely due to closer contact with the United States . For its part, Spain is known by the use of Gallicisms or words taken from neighboring France (such as the Gallicism ordenador in the European Spanish, in contrast to the Anglicism computador ...
