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  1. Jun 19, 2017 · Scholars in Italy, Holland and elsewhere perfected the Latin of Cicero and learned Greek and Hebrew. The “rediscovery” of these languages and the advent of printing allowed access to knowledge...

  2. This relates only to Chuchill's assertion of "more than 760". Churchill began his History of the English-speaking Peoples in the late 1930s. Like many authors, not all of whom perhaps have as much justification, Churchill allowed himself to become distracted by other things, and did not complete it until after he finally ceased to be PM in the mid fifties.

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  4. Later, the Germanic foederati, the Scirians and the Heruli, as well as a large segment of the Italic Roman army, proclaimed Odoacer Rex Italiae ("King of Italy"). In 493, the Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great killed Odoacer, and set up a new dynasty of kings of Italy. Ostrogothic rule ended when Italy was reconquered by the Byzantine Empire ...

  5. Oct 16, 2015 · The King James Bible has influenced language, ... translations — the product of individual translators and individual companies working in individual ways — than has ever been properly ...

  6. The King James Version of the Bible, released in 1611, was authorized by King James in order to have as accurate a translation as possible, which could be printed and widely circulated. The original Old Testament writings were in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. Jerome (5th century) translated the Bible into Latin, called the Vulgate ...

  7. King James Version, English translation of the Bible, published in 1611 under King James I of England. The translation had a marked influence on English literary style and was generally accepted as the standard English Bible from the mid-17th to the early 20th century.

  8. Feb 19, 2011 · Scrapping the King James version, in the well-meaning way of the well-educated classes, had a number of effects, the most decisive and the most disastrous of which was to destroy for ever an ...

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