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11 hours ago · The aim of this study is to experimentally capture the semantic, syntactic, and phonological properties of recursive compounds in English. We asked 22 native speakers of English to judge the semantic, syntactic, and phonological properties of 20 recursive compounds that are inherently ambiguous in interpretation (e.g., university entrance exam). We found variations among the participants in ...
11 hours ago · The word is recorded from Old English (in form crīstendōm), and comes from crīsten ‘Christian’ + -dōm ‘domain’”.3 The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines it in a straightforward way: in the first sense, “Christendom” equals “Christianity”, and in the second, it is “the part of the World in which Christianity ...
11 hours ago · The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) or Baroquism [1] is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [2] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past ...
- 17th–18th centuries
11 hours ago · Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...
11 hours ago · Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be ...
- Mathematics, engineering, political economy, computer science
11 hours ago · Plutarch ( / ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of ...
11 hours ago · Walt Whitman, often described as the United States' national poet Léopold Sédar Senghor Du Fu Ferdowsi Rabindranath Tagore Shota Rustaveli Murasaki Shikibu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Petar II Petrović-Njegoš William Shakespeare Ausiàs March Dante Alighieri Luís de Camões Miguel de Cervantes Johan Ludvig Runeberg Alexander Pushkin Lydia Koidula Muhammad Iqbal Adam Mickiewicz Neruda Taras ...
