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Which are the Romance languages?

The Question: Which are the Romance languages? The Answer: "Romance languages" is a term used to describe a group of languages that are derived…

Ossetia

(Encyclopedia) OssetiaOssetiaŏsēˈshə, Rus. əsyĕˈtēə [key] or AlaniaAlaniaälänˈyä [key], Ossetian Iryston, region of the central Caucasus, divided between the Republic of Georgia and the Russian…

Heliodorus of Emesa

(Encyclopedia) Heliodorus of EmesaHeliodorus of Emesahēˌlēōdôrˈəs, [key]Heliodorus of Emesaĕmˈəsə [key], fl. 3d cent., Syrian Greek writer. He wrote the romance Aethiopica, one of the oldest and…

Beveland, North, and South Beveland

(Encyclopedia) Beveland, North, and South BevelandBeveland, North, and South Bevelandbāˈvəlänt [key], peninsula developed from the above former islands, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, in the Scheldt…

Women's Suffrage: That Adjective Male 1866

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Averted TriumphThe Negro's HourThat Adjective Male 1866Before the Civil War, there was no movement in the United States to secure…

Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah

(Encyclopedia) Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben JudahIbn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judahĭˈbən gäbēˈrôl [key], c.1021–1058, Jewish poet and philosopher, known also as Avicebron, b. Malaga. His secular poetry deals…

air forces

(Encyclopedia) air forces, those portions of a nation's military organization employing heavier-than-air aircraft for reconnaissance, support of ground troops, aerial combat, and bombing of enemy…