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Indo-European

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Indo-European, family of languages having more speakers than any other language family. It is estimated that approximately half the world's population speaks an Indo-European…

writing

(Encyclopedia) writing, the visible recording of language peculiar to the human species. Writing enables the transmission of ideas over vast distances of time and space and is a prerequisite of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: My Garden

My GardenIf I could put my woods in song And tell what's there enjoyed, All men would to my gardens throng, And leave the cities void. In my plot no tulips blow,— Snow-loving pines and oaks…

Brewer's: Hudibrastic Verse

A doggerel eight-syllable rhyming verse, after the style of Butler's Hudibras. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HudsonHudibras A B C D E F G H I J…

My Name Is Joe

Director:Ken LoachWriter:Paul LavertyArtisan Entertainment; RRelease:2/99Cast:Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, David McKay and David Hayman British director Ken Loach revisits the…

Celtic languages

(Encyclopedia) Celtic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian…