The latter case, though a common practice in some sub-dialects, is rarely used in official publications. Even though most initials contain a consonant, finals are not always simple vowels, especially in compound finals (复韵母; 複韻母; fùyùnmǔ), i.e. when a "medial" is placed in ...
Sellers' Strangelove takes from Rotwang the single black gloved hand (which in Rotwang's case is mechanical because of a lab accident), the wild hair and, most importantly, his inability to be completely controlled by political power.[13] According to film critic Alexander Walker, Sellers ...
“world brain”; thomas edison bet on wafer-thin slices of nickel. but for most people who were alive in the earliest days of the internet, an encyclopedia was a book, plain and simple. back then, it made sense to pit wikipedia and britannica against each other. it made sense to high...
The play had its German premiere in April 1909 at the Hebbel-Theater, Berlin. The play was cordially received but the Berlin correspondent ofThe Eradoubted that the work would last: "It is in the heavy, gloomy style of most Russian writers, while the interest of the average audience is no...
Paintings in the Dubrovnik Museum show the name "de Bona" on all the paintings - description tags usually say Bunic and now also Bona in most cases (since Croatia's independence -- under Yugoslavia, nearly exclusively Bunic). In Dubrovnik the family is known as Bona, not Bunic. The ...
As a narrative which depicts a character throughout his formative years, M. Angeles Conde-Parrilla posits that identity is possibly the most prevalent theme in the novel.[46] Towards the beginning of the novel, Joyce depicts the young Stephen's growing consciousness, which is said to be a co...