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The Columbia Encyclopedia is easy to use. All articles are arranged alphabetically with each article heading in boldface type. The headings of biographical articles are inverted and alphabetized by…1938 College Basketball Consensus All-America Team
(In alphabetical order)Meyer Bloom, TempleHank Luisetti, StanfordJohn Moir, Notre DamePaul Nowak, Notre DameFred Pralle, KansasJewell Young, Purdue 1939 College Basketball Consensus…Sanskrit
(Encyclopedia) SanskritSanskritsănˈskrĭt [key], language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian). Sanskrit was the…American Sign Language and Braille
Sign language for the deaf was first systematized in France during the 18th century by Abbot Charles-Michel l'Epée. French Sign Language (FSL) was brought to the United States in 1816 by…Larry Page
Name at birth: Lawrence Edward PageLarry Page and his friend Sergey Brin created the search engine Google in 1998. Larry Page's father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State, and…Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton was the popular mystery writer whose novel titles followed the alphabet, from "A" is for Alibi (1982) and "B" is for Burglar (1985) to titles like "U" is for Undertow (2009) and "Y" is…1936 College Football Consensus All-America Team
(By position, in alphabetical order)EndsLarry Kelley, YaleGaynell Tinsley, LSUTacklesAverell Daniel, PittsburghEd Widseth, MinnesotaGuardsSteve Reid, NorthwesternMax Starcevich,…Southeast Asian languages
(Encyclopedia) Southeast Asian languages, family of languages, sometimes also called Austroasiatic, spoken in SE Asia by about 80 million people. According to one school of thought, it has three…The Devil's Dictionary: W
by Ambrose Bierce VXW W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the…Brewer's: Alpha
“I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last” (Rev. i. 8). “Alpha” is the first, and “O-mega” the last letter of the Greek alphabet. A . Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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