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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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August Strindberg
Language; Encyclopedias
The most noted of modern Swedish writers, born at Stockholm; accumulated stores of valuable experience during various early employments, which he utilised in his first successful ...
Solon
Language; Encyclopedias
The great Athenian law-giver, and one of the seven sages of Greece, born in Athens, was of royal degree, and kinsman of Pisistratus; began life as a trader, and in that capacity ...
spectrum
Language; Encyclopedias
The name given to colored and other rays of pure light separated by refraction in its transmission through a prism, as exhibited on a screen in a darkened chamber.
third Earl Sunderland Charles Spencer
Language; Encyclopedias
Son of succeeding, and son in law of the Duke of Marlborough; was a Secretary of State in Queen Anne's reign during 1706-1710, and in the following reign, as leader of the Whigs, ...
Tranquillus Suetonius
Language; Encyclopedias
Roman historian; practised as an advocate in Rome in the reign of Trajan; was a friend of the Younger Pliny, became private secretary to Hadrian, but was deprived of this post ...
Tippoo Saib
Language; Encyclopedias
Son of Hyder Ali, whom he succeeded in the Sultanate of Mysore in 1782; already a trained and successful warrior in his father's struggles with the English, he set himself with ...
Thames
Language; Encyclopedias
The most important river of Great Britain, formed by the junction at Lechdale of four head-streams—the Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach—which spring from the SE. slope of the Cotswold ...
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