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Capitalization

Capitalize the following:Proper nouns and adjectives derived from proper nouns: Marie CurieChina, Chinese Smokey RobinsonDarwin, Darwinian But vocabulary words derived from proper nouns…

Country Capitals

Geography Quiz Country Capitals ContinentsMountainsRivers and LakesFlagsThe capital of Indonesia is: JakartaPhnom PenhNew DelhiThe capital of Bosnia is: PristinaSarajevoPragueThe capital of…

Brewer's: Capital

Money or money's worth available for production. “His capital is continually going from him [the merchant] in some shape, and returning to him in another.” —Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations,…

Brewer's: Capitals

To speak in capitals. To emphasise certain words with great stress. Certain nouns spelt with a capital letter are meant to be emphatic and distinctive. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

The capital of Israel

The Question: Your site incorrectly lists Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is not the officially recognized capital of Israel. Only two countries around the world,…

World Capitals

Find the capitals of every country in the world and their population. Country City, Population Afghanistan Kabul, 2,206,300 Albania Tirana, 353,400 Algeria Algiers, 3,917,000 (…

paleography

(Encyclopedia) paleographypaleographypālēŏgˈrəfē [key] [Gr.,=early writing], term generally meaning all study and interpretation of old ways of recording language. In a narrower sense, it excludes…

The Devil's Dictionary: Capital

by Ambrose Bierce CANONICALSCARMELITECAPITAL -n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part…

Brewer's: Capital Fellow

(A). A stock-jobber, in French called Un Capitaine, par allusion aux capitaux sur lesquels un agiote habituellement. A good-tempered, jovial, and generous person. Source: Dictionary of…