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Language
Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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Peter Guthrie Tait
Language; Encyclopedias
Physicist and mathematician, born at Dalkeith; educated in Edinburgh; became senior wrangler at Cambridge, and Smith's prizeman in 1852; was in 1854 elected professor of ...
Balfour Stewart
Language; Encyclopedias
Physicist, born in Edinburgh; after finishing his university curriculum went to Australia and engaged for some time in business; returned to England; became director at Kew ...
Smoky City
Language; Encyclopedias
Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, from the effect produced by the bituminous coal used in the manufactories.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Language; Encyclopedias
Poet and prose writer, born in London, son of Admiral Swinburne; educated at Balliol College, Oxford, went to Florence and spent some time there; his first productions were plays, ...
Sir Henry Taylor
Language; Encyclopedias
Poet, born at Bishop. Middleham, in Durham; after a nine months' unhappy experience as a midshipman obtained his discharge, and having acted for some years as clerk in the ...
Earl of Stirling William Alexander
Language; Encyclopedias
Poet, born at Menstrie, near Alloa; was for a time tutor to the family of Argyll; was the author of sonnets called "Aurora," some curious tragedies, and an "Elegy on the Death of ...
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