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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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Cape of Storms
Language; Encyclopedias
Name originally given in 1486 to the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias.
Skye
Language; Encyclopedias
Next to Lewis the largest of the Hebrides Islands, belongs to the Inner group, and is included in Inverness-shire, from the mainland of which it is separated by the narrow channel ...
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Language; Encyclopedias
Novelist and essayist, grandson of the preceding, born at Edinburgh, where in 1875 he was called to the bar, after disappointing his father by not following the family vocation of ...
Tobias George Smollett
Language; Encyclopedias
Novelist, born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, of good family; bred to medicine, but drifted to literature, in prosecution of which he set out to London at the age of 18; his first ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
Language; Encyclopedias
Novelist, born in Calcutta, educated at the Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge; after leaving college, which he did without taking a degree, travelled on the ...
The Temple
Language; Encyclopedias
Of Jerusalem, a building constructed on the same plan and for the same purpose as the Tabernacle, only of larger dimensions, more substantial and costly materials, and a more ...
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