ai [ai̯] ai like English eye, but a bit lighter ei [ei̯] ei as in hey ao [au̯] ao approximately as in cow; the a is much more audible than the o ou [ou̯] ou as in North American English so an [an] an like British English ban, but more central en [ə...
the most visited website in the world, Google, will *almost always* put the Wiki entry in top spot. Whether we like to admit it or not – Wiki is probably one of the greatest influencers in the world. Everyone knows media outlets such as the Sun and Daily Mail contain some inaccuracy...
Joseph Merrick Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), was an English man known for having severe deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show as the "Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital after he met Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming wel...
The first English use of the term iron curtain applied to the border of communist Russia in the sense of "an impenetrable barrier" was derived from the safety curtain used in theatres and used in 1920 by Ethel Snowden, in her book Through Bolshevik Russia.[11] Another known usage is record...
(far more than any other encyclopedia could ever hope to attain) on the English Wikipedia alone (there are hundreds of thousands of articles in the projects that make up the Wikimedia Foundation in dozens of different languages), we prove ourselves as a resource like none ever known before. ...
Robert D. English notes that, despite Shevardnadze's diplomatic inexperience, Gorbachev "shared with him an outlook" and experience in managing an agricultural region of the Soviet Union (Georgia), which meant that both had weak links to the powerful military-industrial complex.[23] A number of...
[ 1 ] In modern English , gay has come to be used as an adjective , and occasionally as a noun , that refers to the people , practices , and culture associated with homosexuality. 后来这个词开始在提及同性恋使用,特别是从20世纪初,一个可能给前19世纪的使用。[1]在现代英语 , 同性恋已到...
65. English Speculative Freemasonry: Some possible Origins, Themes and Developments. The Prestonian Lecture for 2004 in Ars Quatuor Coronatum 2004 by Trevor Stewart, pub London 2005 66. Stevenson, David (1988). The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland’s Century 1590-1710. Cambridge Univ. Press. ...
Timemagazine choseAnimal Farmas one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005);[11] it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels.[12] It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is included in the Great Books of the Western World ...
In this paper, we study the network of global interconnections between language communities, based on shared co-editing interests of Wikipedia editors, and show that although English is discussed as a potential lingua franca of the digital space, its domination disappears in the network of co-editi...