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16 hours ago · Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as the primary spoken language in the area c. 2000 BC (the exact date is debated), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Akkadian-speaking Mesopotamian states such as Assyria and Babylonia until the 1st century AD.
16 hours ago · Certain religions also have a sacred language often used in liturgical services. The practice of a religion may also include sermons , commemoration of the activities of a God or gods, sacrifices , festivals , feasts , trance , rituals , liturgies , ceremonies , worship , initiations , funerals , marriages , meditation , invocation , mediumship ...
16 hours ago · Messapic (/ m ɛ ˈ s æ p ɪ k, m ə-,-ˈ s eɪ-/; also known as Messapian; or as Iapygian) is an extinct Indo-European Paleo-Balkanic language of the southeastern Italian Peninsula, once spoken in Salento by the Iapygian peoples of the region: the Calabri and Salentini (known collectively as the Messapii), the Peucetians and the Daunians.
16 hours ago · During the 16th century, European visitors to the Indian subcontinent began to notice similarities among Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and European languages. In 1583, English Jesuit missionary and Konkani scholar Thomas Stephens wrote a letter from Goa to his brother (not published until the 20th century) in which he noted similarities between Indian ...
16 hours ago · Structure of the FeMoco active site of nitrogenase The molybdenum cofactor (pictured) is composed of a molybdenum-free organic complex called molybdopterin, which has bound an oxidized molybdenum(VI) atom through adjacent sulfur (or occasionally selenium) atoms. Except for the ancient nitrogenases, all known Mo-using enzymes use this cofactor.
16 hours ago · Burushaski (/ ˌ b ʊr ʊ ˈ ʃ æ s k i /; Burushaski: بُرُݸشَسکݵ, romanized: burúśaski, IPA: [bʊˈruːɕʌskiː]) is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
16 hours ago · Biography Youth and education House of birth in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II) Gauss's home as student in Göttingen Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick (Braunschweig) in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (now part of Germany's federal state Lower Saxony), to a family of lower social status.
