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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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Leon Levi

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Commercial economist, born at Ancona; settled in England and was naturalised; drew attention to the want of commercial organization, and to whose pleading the first chamber of ...

St. Sophia

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The personification of the Divine wisdom, to whom, as to a saint, many churches have been dedicated, especially the Church of Constantinople.

strelitzes

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The name given to the life-guards of the czar, which at one time numbered 40,000; became so unruly and dangerous to the State that they were dissolved by Peter the Great, and ...

Sir Tibert

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The cat in "Reynard the Fox", an epic of the Middle Ages, in which animals represent men, full of broad rustic mirth, inexhaustible in comic devices, a world Saturnalia, where ...

Cornelius Tacitus

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Roman historian, born presumably at Rome, of equestrian rank, early famous as an orator; married a daughter of Agricola, held office under the Emperors Vespasian, Domitian, and ...

Thomas Tallis

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The father of English cathedral music, born in the reign of Henry VIII., lived well into the reign of Elizabeth; was an organist, and probably "a gentleman of the Chapel Royal"; ...