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1 day ago · These various changes mean that many words that formerly rhymed (and may be expected to rhyme based on their spelling) no longer do. For example, in Shakespeare 's time, following the Great Vowel Shift, food , good and blood all had the vowel [uː] , but in modern pronunciation good has been shortened to [ʊ] , while blood has been shortened ...
- Pronunciation of English /R
Variations. Depending on dialect, /r/ has at least the...
- Fortis and Lenis
In linguistics, fortis and lenis (/ ˈ f ɔːr t ɪ s / FOR-tiss...
- Pronunciation of English /R
1 day ago · They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music. In 1974 , ABBA were Sweden 's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Waterloo ", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th ...
- 1972–1982, 2016–present
- Stockholm, Sweden
5 hours ago · The location parameter μ, which is zero for all three of the PDFs shown, is the mean of the logarithm of the random variable, not the mean of the variable itself. Distribution of first digits (in %, red bars) in the population of the 237 countries of the world. Black dots indicate the distribution predicted by Benford's law.
1 day ago · Maringa dance music—although unrelated to Cuban rumba—became known as "Congolese rumba", as imported records by Sexteto Habanero and Trio Matamoros were often mislabeled as "rumba". Various artists and groups emerged on the Congolese music scene, with Paul Kamba, Zacharie Elenga, and Antoine Wendo Kolosoy credited as pioneers.
5 hours ago · An example of how modernist art can be both revolutionary and traditional is the music of the composer Arnold Schoenberg. On the one hand, Schoenberg rejected traditional tonal harmony, the hierarchical system of organizing works of music that had guided music-making for at least a century and a half. He believed he had discovered a wholly new ...
1 day ago · Part of a series on Social generations of the Western world Lost Generation Greatest Generation Silent Generation Baby boomers Generation X Millennials Generation Z Generation Alpha Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), colloquially known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as ...
5 hours ago · 1817–1837. The University of Michigan was established on August 26, 1817, as Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, under an act of the Michigan Territory.The corporate existence of the university had its rise in the Act of 1817, and has been continuous throughout all subsequent changes of its organic law.
