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18 hours ago · In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue , with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
18 hours ago · Background The album's concept was born out of an altercation with audience members at the Montreal Olympic Stadium, pictured in 2006. In 1977, Pink Floyd played the In the Flesh tour. The bassist and singer-songwriter, Roger Waters, despised the experience, feeling the audience was not listening and that many were too far away to see the band. He said: "It became a social event rather than a ...
- December 1978 – November 1979
- 30 November 1979
18 hours ago · Biography Early years Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk (now in Stavropol Krai, Russia). His father, Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn, was of Russian descent and his mother, Taisiya Zakharovna (née Shcherbak), was of Ukrainian descent. Taisiya's father had risen from humble beginnings to become a wealthy landowner, acquiring a large estate in the Kuban region in the northern foothills of ...
- Александр Исаевич Солженицын
- Yermolai, Ignat, Stepan
18 hours ago · The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons by Matt Groening.The film was directed by series veteran David Silverman and stars the series' regular cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and Tress MacNeille reprising their roles and Albert Brooks as the film ...
- $536.4 million
- Hans Zimmer
- $75 million
- James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, Richard Sakai
18 hours ago · Book of Life, the book in which God records the names of every person who is destined for Heaven or the World to Come. ( Christian / Jewish ) Levisterio , a book contains magical forms and an instrument they used to take various exams used by the Mapuches to protect by the dark forces.
18 hours ago · One example is the Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china, written around 1593 by the Spanish Dominican friars in the Philippines. Another is a Ming dynasty script of a play called Tale of the Lychee Mirror (1566), the earliest known Southern Min colloquial text, which mixes both Hokkien and Teochew. Chinese script
18 hours ago · In 2014, Pitchfork named it the best album of the 2010s so far, with Ian Cohen writing, "West broke the ground upon which the new decade's most brilliant architects built their masterworks; Bon Iver, Take Care, Channel Orange, and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City don't exist without the blueprint of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
