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Mimosa rubicaulis Mimosa rubicaulis is a shrub belonging to Fabaceae and subfamily Mimosoideae. It is bipinnately compound, each leaf having 8–12 pairs of pinnae, each with 16–20 pairs of pinnules, unlike "Mimosa pudica" which has at most two prickly pairs of leaflets. It is found across India.
Mimosa invisa Mimosa invisa is a species of leguminous woody shrub or vine native to South America. "Mimosa invisa" includes two subspecies, each with two varieties:
Mimosa turneri Mimosa turneri, the desert mimosa, is a perennial small- to medium-sized shrub that grows native to the lower 48 states of the U.S and is particularly abundant in Texas. It grows between 3.5 and 10 feet tall and produces pink flowers. This plant is considered a weed that can grow invasively in moist soil...
Mimosa tenuiflora Mimosa tenuiflora, syn. Mimosa hostilis (Jurema Preta, Calumbi (Brazil), Tepezcohuite (México), Carbonal, Cabrera ) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and co...
Jeon Soo-il Jeon Soo-il (born September 25, 1959) is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Busan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (E.S.R.A) in France from 1988 to 1992. He...
Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer'. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. His career as a film director was ma...
Issa Serge Coelo Issa Serge Coelo (born 1967) is a Chadian film director. Born in Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Télévision, France 3, TV5MONDE and CFI before creating the 1994 short film "Un tax...
Jackie Torrens Jackie Torrens (born in Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian award-winning writer, actress, documentary-maker and journalist, best known for her CBC radio and television appearances, and for acting roles in the television series "Made in Canada" the OUTtv mini-series, "Sex & Violence" and Andrea Dorfman's...
Marie Epstein Marie Epstein (born Marie-Antonine Epstein; 14 August 1899, Warsaw - 24 April 1995, Paris) was an actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist. Her career is distinguished by three important collaborations. Throughout the 1920s, she acted in and wrote scenarios for films directed by her bro...
Zoé Valdés Zoé Valdés (born May 2, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban  novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the "Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona", but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the "Delegación de Cuba" at UNESCO in Paris and in the "Oficina Cu...
Richard Quine Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and, later, a film director. He began acting as a child in radio, vaudeville and in stage productions before being signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in his early 20s. When his acting career began to wane after World...
Pascal Kané Pascal Kané (born 21 January 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. He studied in Paris before joining the editorial staff of Cahiers du Cinéma from 1969 to 1979. He left Cahiers du Cinéma to concentrate on directing. In addition to numerous documentaries he has directed feature films including "...
Roman Polanski Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Polanski was born in Paris, and his Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back to Poland in 1937, when he was four. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany to start World War II two years later...
Julie Delpy Julie Delpy (] ; born 21 December 1969) is a French-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, or acted in more than 30 films, including "Europa Europa" (1990), "Voyager" (1991), ""...
Fred M. Vinson Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American Democratic politician who served the United States in all three branches of government. The most prominent member of the Vinson political family, he was the 53rd United States Secretary of the Treasury and the 13th Chief...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ( ; March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States from January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his conci...
Rehnquist Court The Rehnquist Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2005, when William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the United States. Rehnquist succeeded Warren Burger as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and Rehnquist served as Chief Justice until his death in 2005, at...
Supreme Court of Nepal The Supreme Court is composed of the Chief Justice, twenty Justices. The Chief Justice is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council. S/he is appointed from among the justices having at least three years as a Supreme Court justice. Justices of the Supreme Court...
Taft Court The Taft Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft served as Chief Justice of the United States. Taft succeeded Edward Douglass White as Chief Justice after the latter's death, and Taft served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point Char...
Chief Justice The Chief Justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan,...
Priyasath Dep Priyasath Dep PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer and the 45th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka . He was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Prior to his appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka he was serving as Solicitor General of Sri Lanka. On February 27th 2017 he was ...
Thomas R. Phillips Thomas Royal Phillips (born October 23, 1949) is an attorney with the Baker Botts firm in Austin, Texas, who was from 1988 to 2004 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. With nearly seventeen years of service, Phillips is the third-longest tenured Chief Justice in Texas history. He was appo...
Jay Court The Jay Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1795, when John Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Jay served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point John Rutledge took office as a recess appointment. The Supreme Court was established in Arti...
Enrique Fernando Enrique Medina Fernando (July 25, 1915 – October 13, 2004) was the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. A noted constitutionalist and law professor, he served in the Supreme Court for 18 years, including 6 years as Chief Justice.
Osieki Słupskie Osieki Słupskie (German "Wusseken", Kreis "Stolp") is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ustka, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Ustka, 16 km north of Słupsk, and 104 km west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Two and One-Half Mile Village Two and One-Half Mile Village is an Indian settlement in southeast Yukon, Canada. It is located on the Robert Campbell Highway (Highway 4), approximately 16 km northwest of Watson Lake. The settlement is recognized as a census subdivision by Statistics Canada.
Kosowa Niwa Kosowa Niwa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 16 km south-west of Czersk, 16 km east of Chojnice, and 92 km south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
RAF El Amiriya RAF El Amiriya is a former Royal Air Force military airfield in Egypt, located approximately 16 km south-southwest of Alexandria; 180 km northwest of Cairo
Konigort Konigort is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 16 km west of Czersk, 16 km north-east of Chojnice, and 89 km south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Gąbino Gąbino , (German: "Gambin" ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ustka, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Ustka, 16 km north of Słupsk, and 103 km west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Pniewo, Gryfice County Pniewo (German: "Pinnow" ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoty, within Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 16 km north-east of Płoty, 16 km east of Gryfice, and 78 km north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.
Zielony Kąt Zielony Kąt is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowodwór, within Ryki County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Ryki and 55 km northwest of the regional capital Lublin.
Charles Prince Airport Charles Prince Airport (ICAO: FVCP) , formerly named Mount Hampden and renamed after former airport manager Charles Prince (who was a Royal Air Force officer during World War II), is approximately 16 km northwest of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Jaffna Airport Jaffna Airport (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் விமான நிலையம் , Sinhalese: යාපනය ගුවන්තොටුපළ ) (IATA: JAF, ICAO: VCCJ) is an air force base and domestic airport in Palaly in northern Sri Lanka. Located approximately 16 km north of the city of Jaffna, the airport is also known as Palaly Airport and SLAF Palaly. Origin...
Dana Plato Dana Michelle Plato (born Dana Michelle Strain; November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress who was notable for having played the role of Kimberly Drummond on the U.S. television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes", from 1978 to 1986. After leaving the cast of "Diff'rent Strokes", Plato attempted to estab...
Gordon Jump Alexander Gordon Jump (April 1, 1932 – September 22, 2003) was an American actor best known as the clueless radio station manager Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson in the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati" and the incompetent "Chief of Police Tinkler" in the sitcom "Soap". Jump's most memorable guest starring role was o...
Todd Bridges Todd Anthony Bridges (born May 27, 1965) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role as Willis Jackson on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes", for his recurring role as Monk on the sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris", and as a comedic commentator from 2008 to 2013, on the television series "".
Mary Jo Catlett Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American actress. She is notable for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes", and currently for her role as Mrs. Puff in "SpongeBob SquarePants", which she has held since the show's debut.
Bonar Bain Bonar Stewart Bain (February 4, 1923 – February 18, 2005) was a Canadian actor and the identical twin brother of actor Conrad Bain, who starred in the television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" as Phillip Drummond and "Maude" as Arthur Harmon. He once played a fictional “evil” twin to Conrad (“Hank Bain”) in an e...
Mario Castañeda Mario Cuitláhuac Castañeda Partida (born June 29, 1962 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico), known professionally as Mario Castañeda is a Mexican voice actor and dubbing director. When he was very young, his parents moved to Mexico City where he resides currently. He studied drama in the Andrés Soler Instit...
Different Strokes (film) Different Strokes (also titled Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill...and Jill) is a 1998 erotic drama film about a love triangle involving a young couple and another woman. Written and directed by Michael Paul Girard, the film stars Dana Plato, Landon Hall, and Bentley Mitchum. The fi...
Steven Mond Steven Mond (born May 12, 1971) is a Canadian former child actor best known for playing Robbie Jason on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes.
Diff'rent Strokes Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Par...
Shavar Ross Shavar Malik Ross (born March 4, 1971) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, photographer, author, and entrepreneur. He is known for his recurring television role as Dudley Johnson, Gary Coleman's best friend in the NBC sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes", Alex "Weasel" Parks in t...
South Asia South Asia or Southern Asia is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as Nepal...
Awaous ocellaris Awaous ocellaris is a species of goby native to fresh, marine and brackish waters of southern Asia from India to the Philippines, and eastern Asia to Japan as well as the islands of Oceania. This species can reach a length of 13 cm TL. It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.
Plantago ovata Plantago ovata, known by many common names including blond plantain, desert Indianwheat, blond psyllium, and ispaghul, is a medicinal plant native to Western Asia and Southern Asia. The plant can be found growing wild in the southwestern United States, where it is considered a possibly introduced species...
Ceiba pentandra Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety "C. pentandra" var. "guineensis") to tropical west Africa. A somewhat small...
Heteropogon contortus Heteropogon contortus is a tropical, perennial tussock grass with a native distribution encompassing Southern Africa, southern Asia, Northern Australia, Oceania, and southwestern North America. The species has also become a naturalised weed in tropical and subtropical regions in the Americas and E...
Eleocharis atropurpurea Eleocharis atropurpurea is a species of spikesedge known by the common name purple spikerush. This is an aquatic plant native to much of (Africa, eastern and southern Asia, Australia, Latin America). It also has a wide distribution in temperate regions of North and South America and Asia. It is ...
Ammi visnaga Ammi visnaga is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by many common names, including toothpick-plant, toothpickweed, bisnaga, and khella. Also known as Bishop's weed. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but it can be found throughout the world as an introduced species. This i...
Cinema of Asia Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia, and is also sometimes known as Eastern cinema. More commonly, however, it is most often used to refer to the cinema of Eastern, Southeastern and Southern Asia. West Asian cinema is sometimes classified as part of Midd...
Ammi (plant) Ammi is a genus of 3 to 6 species of plants in the Apiaceae family. They are native to southern Europe, northern Africa and Southwest Asia. "Ammi spp." (Bishops weed) is prohibited by the Australian New Zealand Food Standards code under standard 1.4.4 due to active constituents:
Lycoris (plant) Lycoris is a genus of 13–20 species of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. They are native to eastern and southern Asia in China, Japan, southern Korea, northern Vietnam, northern Laos, northern Thailand, northern Burma, Nepal, northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, and ea...
Hilde Benjamin Hilde Benjamin (née Lange, 5 February 1902 – 18 April 1989) was an East German judge and Minister of Justice. She is best known for presiding over a series of political show trials in the 1950s. She is particularly known as responsible for the politically motivated persecution of Erna Dorn and Ernst Jenn...
Darren Lange Darren Niel Lange (born 5 August 1971), from Toowoomba, Australia is a former freestyle swimming champion. He competed in the Australian Olympic trials on three occasions to qualify for an Australian Team but fell short, although in 1991 he qualified for the World Championship Team. Darren went on to repre...
Elaenia (album) Elaenia is the debut studio album by British electronic musician Sam Shepherd, released under his alias Floating Points on 6 November 2015 by Shepherd's own Pluto label and Luaka Bop. Shepherd created the artwork for the album by connecting fibre-optic cables to a home made harmonograph. Shepherd had or...
The Artie Lange Show The Artie Lange Show was an American sports entertainment radio show hosted by comedian Artie Lange, airing from October 2011 to April 2014 on the Audience Network, DirecTV, SiriusXM Satellite Radio and several terrestrial radio stations by Premiere Radio Networks. It originally launched as "The Ni...
Rémi Lange Rémi Lange (born 4 February 1969 in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French film director. Lange's films have mostly been released directly to video, except "Omelette" (1998) where he filmed his own coming out, and its sequel "Les Yeux brouillés" (2000), which both had general cinematic release in France....
Darren Benjamin Shepherd Darren Benjamin Shepherd is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born in San Jose, CA and graduated with film and music degrees from San Jose State University.
Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street) "Subway" (sometimes referred to as "The Accident") is the seventh episode of of the American police television drama "", and the 84th episode overall. It first aired on NBC in the United States on December 5, 1997. In the episode, John Lange (Vincent D'Onofrio) becomes pinned betwe...
Darren Carter (comedian) Darren Carter is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Carter has performed on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, "Comics Unleashed", "Premium Blend" on Comedy Central, and as a supporting character in the 2005 feature film "Be Cool" with John Travolta. Carter debuted on the comedy scene in 1...
Statross le Magnifique Statross le Magnifique is a 2006 film by director Rémi Lange featuring actor Jann Halexander.
Wyatt Earp's Revenge Wyatt Earp's Revenge is a 2012 American Western film about the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. It is a fictionalized account of an actual Old West event, the slaying of beautiful singer Dora Hand in Dodge City, Kansas, when Earp was a deputy there. In one of its many instances of dramatic license, the...
Battle of Bishops Court The Battle of Bishops Court, also known as The Defeat of Thurot, was a naval engagement that took place 28 February 1760, during the Seven Years' War, between three British ships and three French ships. The French force under famed commander François Thurot were brought to battle in the Irish se...
Battle of Texel (1694) The Battle of Texel was a sea battle fought during the Nine Years' War on 29 June 1694, when a force of 7 French ships, under Jean Bart, recaptured a French convoy, which had earlier that month been taken by the Dutch, and captured 3 ships of the 8-ship escorting force under Hidde de Vries. De Vr...
Action of 18 November 1809 Despite spirited resistance from the largest British merchant ship, "Windham", the failure of the other Indiamen to support their leader and the size and power of the French ships forced the British to withdraw: all the HEIC ships were subsequently captured by the larger, faster French warshi...
French destroyer Lynx The French destroyer "Lynx" was a "Chacal"-class destroyer ("contre-torpilleur") built for the French Navy during the 1920s. The "Chacal"s were regarded as obsolete by 1935 and "Lynx" became a training ship for the torpedo school at Toulon that year. She was assigned convoy escort duties in the At...
Battle of Tellicherry The Battle of Tellicherry was a naval action fought off the Indian port of Tellicherry between British and French warships on 18 November 1791 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Britain and France were not at war at the time of the engagement, but French support for the Kingdom of Mysore in the co...
Action of 7 October 1795 The Action of 7 October 1795 was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars during which a French squadron led by Rear-Admiral Joseph de Richery captured a large British convoy of thirty-one merchant vessels. The British convoy, escorted by three ships of line and several frigates unde...
HMS Peterel (1794) HMS "Peterel" (or "Peterell") was a 16-gun "Pylades"-class ship-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794 and was in active service until 1811. Her most famous action was the capture of the French brig "Ligurienne" when shortly after "Peterel" captured two merchant ships and sent them off wit...
Action of 2 May 1707 The Action of 2 May 1707, also known as Beachy Head, was a naval battle of the War of the Spanish Succession in which a French squadron under Claude de Forbin intercepted a large British convoy escorted by three ships of the line, under Commodore Baron Wylde. The action began when three French ship...
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Order of battle at the Battle of San Domingo The Battle of San Domingo was the last fleet engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, contested off the Southern coast of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, then under French occupation, on 6 February 1806. A British squadron of seven ships of the line under ...
The Unwinding The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist George Packer. The book uses biographies of individual Americans as a means of discussing important forces in American history from 1978 to 2012, including the subprime mortgage crisis, the decline of ...
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is a branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It was established in 2002 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The campus offers full-time and part-time professional Masters...
Lala (website) Lala was an online music store created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen. The service allowed members to legally create online shareable "playlists" (formerly known as "radio stations") of their own uploaded music which could play full length songs for other registered Lala members, purchase MP3...
Jon Fisher Jon Fisher (born January 19, 1972 in Stanford, California) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker, philanthropist and inventor. He is the CEO and a cofounder of augmented reality streaming start up, CrowdOptic. As co-inventor and co-founding CEO, Fisher built three companies including Bh...
Kim Polese Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive. She currently serves as Chairwoman of ClearStreet Inc., a social finance startup focused on helping people eliminate debt and achieve long-term financial health.
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David James Richards David James Richards is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive. He currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of WANdisco. His entrepreneurship is associated with the UK city of his birth Sheffield. In June 2012, he led the company to an IPO on the London Stock Exchange.
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Will Harvey Will Harvie (born in 1967) is a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He wrote "Music Construction Set" (1984) for the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. "Music Construction Set" was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two g...
Blueseed Blueseed is a Silicon Valley-based startup company and a seasteading venture to create a startup community located on a vessel stationed in international waters near the coast of Silicon Valley in the United States. The intended location (outside the territorial seas of the United States, 12 nautical miles fro...
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Neighborsgo Neighborsgo was a weekly community newspaper published by "The Dallas Morning News". Each Friday, from 2005 until Friday, January 15, 2016, 10 print editions were distributed to thousands of households in the Dallas area. The material in print editions came from user-submitted material on the Web site, "nei...
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List of newspapers in India by circulation This is a list of the top 10 newspapers in India by circulation. These figures include both print and digital subscriptions, are compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The figures include normal print editions, branded print editions (e.g., regional editions or editions...
List of TV Guide covers (2000s) This is a list of issue covers of "TV Guide" magazine from the decade of the 2000s, from January 2000 to December 2009. The entries on this table include each cover's subjects and their artists (photographer or illustrator). This list is for the regular weekly issues of "TV Guide", and i...
TV Guide TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes. The print magazine is owned by NTVB Media, while its digital properties are cont...
Verbal fluency test Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to produce as many words as possible from a category in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, including objects such as animals or fruits, or phonemic, including words beginning with a specif...
Wasei-kango Wasei-kango (Japanese: 和製漢語 , "Japanese-made Chinese words") refers to words in the Japanese language composed of Chinese morphemes but invented in Japan rather than borrowed from China. Such terms are generally written using kanji and read according to the "on'yomi" pronunciations of the characters. While ...
Circumlocution Circumlocution (also called circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, or ambage) is speech that circles around an idea with many words instead of stating it directly and simply. It is sometimes necessary in communication (for example, to avoid lexical gaps that would cause untranslatability), but it ca...
Word Streak with Friends Word Streak (formerly Scramble with Friends) is a word game developed by Zynga with Friends for iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android and released in January 2012. Gameplay is similar to that of "Boggle" - players try to find as many words as possible in a jumbled 4x4 grid of letters by connecting ad...
Esperanto vocabulary The word base of Esperanto was originally defined by "Lingvo internacia", published by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. It contained some 900 root words. The rules of the language allow speakers to borrow words as needed, recommending only that they look for the most international words, and that they borro...
List of English Latinates of Germanic origin Many words in the English lexicon are made up of Latinate words; that is, words which have entered the English language from a Romance language (usually Anglo-Norman), or were borrowed directly from Latin. Quite a few of these words can further trace their origins back to a ...