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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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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Language; Encyclopedias

German physicist and satirist, born near Darmstadt; was educated at Gottingen, and appointed professor there in 1770; he wrote a commentary on Hogarth's copperplates; his ...

William Forbes Skene
Language; Encyclopedias

Scottish historian, born in Kincardineshire, bred to law; devoted 40 years of his life to the study of the early, in particular the Celtic, periods of Scottish history, and was ...

David Teniers
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The elder (1582-1649), and David Teniers, the younger (1610-1690), father and son, both famous masters of the Flemish school of painting, and natives of Antwerp; the greater ...

The Three Tailors of Tooley Street
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Three characters said by Canning to have held a meeting there for redress of grievances, and to have addressed a petition to the House of Commons beginning "We, the people of ...

Hamo Thornycroft
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Sculptor, born in London; has done statues of General Gordon (1885), John Bright (1892), and Oliver Cromwell (1899); born 1850.

Sir Austen Henry Layard
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English traveller and diplomatist, born at Paris; spent his boyhood in Italy, and studied law in London; between 1845 and 1847 he conducted excavations at the ruins of Nineveh, ...

Theiss
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The longest river of Hungary and largest of the affluents of the Danube; is formed in East Hungary by the confluence of the White Theiss and the Black Theiss, both springing from ...

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