Composite sports events applying skills and abilities necessary for a soldier have been known since ancient times, for example, the pentathlon in the ancient Greek Olympic Games. During the second half of the 19th century in Sweden, and subsequently in other countries, competitions were held in a...
do not seem to occur in everyday English language use. In specialized fields such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, however, it is possible to find loans of this type. The constant π is a case in point. The ancient Greek letter has been borrowed together with an approximation...
A three-part story set in contemporary Macedonia and London, the film explores love and fate within the context of ancient Macedonian traditions and conflicts. The film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. Nick Vanoff (1929-1991), born in Vevey, near the Greek port of ...
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ar abic, armenian, assamese, basque, bengali, bokmal, bulgarian, catalan, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, ga lician, german, german-x-2009-06-19, greek, gujara...
Ancient India had two main scripts in which Indo-Aryan languages werewritten. Kharoṣṭi, used in the northwest, is of Aramaic origin and is written from right to left;Brāhmī, of North Semitic origin, is written from left to right and appears earliest onAśokan inscriptions in areas ...