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  • Yiddish: פֿאָרװערטס), a Yiddish-language newspaper. After a promising ... speaking peoples, Yiddish seemed a dead language. Though Singer had moved ...
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  • the "Q Source", from Quelle, the German word for "source." ... rejecting the Old Testament entirely. German scholar Adolf Harnack in ...
    25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
  • the first higher level programming language, was invented. This allowed ... concerns were raised about the original Fortran language.) ...
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  • to about 1600, additional names used in the German language were "Schurel," "Schörle," and "Schurl." From the eighteenth ...
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  • more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist, mythographer ... led Müller to relate the history of language to the history of religion ...
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  • The northern half of the country came into German hands in the late ... provinces with respect to road access and language groups, so that such statutes ...
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  • Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, [http://dictionary.reference ... Since 1633, the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, in German: Kaisergruft but ...
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  • though the domination of French, the language of the Russian aristocracy ... juvenile, dexterous in its command of the language, but more appealing to adolescents ...
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  • the crescent-like croissant (Hörnchen in German, "little horn" ... beugal are used in Yiddish and Austrian German to refer to a round loaf ...
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  • (c. 1398 – c. February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and inventor who ... editions followed such as the first German Bible in 1466, the first ...
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  • names given to the central figure. In German-speaking countries he is ... The legend became more popular after it appeared in a German pamphlet ...
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  • (the Leibnizian eighteenth-century German philosopher Christian Wolff attempted to base an entire philosophical system on it), but some historical ...
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  • to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language. The Cyrillic alphabet, ... excelled. Besides his native Greek language, he was fluent in Latin ...
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  • The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or ... of the Long Knives" in the German language predates the massacre ...
    33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
  • His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... into Latin, Spanish, French, English and German. Ibn Ezra also introduced ...
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  • she was one of a remarkable group of German immigrants who played a major ... to England in 1861 to learn the English language, and spent several years ...
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  • February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure in the ... He occupies a place in philosophy of language alongside Wittgenstein in ...
    17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
  • such as James Joyce's playing with language, and the use of stream of ... after World War I, wanting to disavow his German background, he finally settled ...
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  • 27, 1808 – February 8, 1874), was a German theologian , writer, German ... which secured him a permanent place in German literature (Schubarts Leben ...
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  • under the Burgundian and ultimately German alliances of the Hundred ... strategically poised to court Protestant German powers. This idea was later ...
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