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8 hours ago · The English lawn became a symbol of status of the aristocracy and gentry; it showed that the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used for a building or for food production. 1668: Earliest concept of a metric system proposed by John Wilkins (1614–1672) in An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language.
1 day ago · Martynas Mažvydas' Catechism was published in Lithuanian in Königsberg (1547) Lithuania needed a close alliance with Poland when, at the end of the 15th century, the increasingly assertive Grand Duchy of Moscow threatened some of Lithuania's Rus' principalities with the goal of "recovering" the formerly Orthodox-ruled lands.
8 hours ago · The first dictionary of a German dialect was Johann Ludwig Prasch's Glossarium Bavaricum. [27] Published in Regensburg in 1689, it contains 500 words from the Bavarian variation spoken in Regensburg. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Regensburg's Bauerntheater , a type of farmers' or folk theater, has staged plays delivered in Bavarian for over 90 years. [ 30 ]
8 hours ago · In 1236, the Knights of Saint Thomas, an English order, adopted the rules of the Teutonic Order. A contingent of Teutonic Knights of indeterminate number is traditionally believed to have participated at the Battle of Legnica in 1241 during the first Mongol invasion of Poland. The combined Polish-German army was crushed by the Mongol army and ...
8 hours ago · A diversity of earlier Southern dialects once existed: a consequence of the mix of English speakers from the British Isles (including largely English and Scots-Irish immigrants) who migrated to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular 19th-century elements also borrowed from the London upper class and enslaved African-Americans.
1 day ago · James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (/ ˈ l ɒr i /; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician.He first gained recognition for his work as one half of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry.
1 day ago · Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
