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- Greek language (35285 bytes)
17: ... in the city of [[Rome]] and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the [[Roman Empire]]. Th...
19: ...reek]] during medieval [[Greek history]] as the official and vernacular language of the [[Byzantine Em...
32: ... alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications, is still used today.
34: ...century|20th]] centuries. Demotic Greek is the official language of the modern Greek state, and the m...
38: ...n]] words, the foundation of international scientific and technical vocabulary. See ''[[English words... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...d had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close...
21: ...act knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the...
23: ...t of fishermen and pirates. Behind it there were five native villages scattered along the strip betwe...
51: ...erated him that he completely demolished its fortifications, although he seems to have spared the live... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
12: ...ed, but existed along side the other forms. The [[Rosetta Stone]] contains both hieroglyphic and demotic wr...
20: ...inning the very early 1800s. The discovery of the Rosetta stone by some of [[Napoleon]]'s troops during the...
26: ...ear=1973|title=Egyptian Grammar|publisher=The Griffith Institute|id=ISBN 0-900416-35-1}}</ref>
28: ...he {{IPA|/θ/}} sound was lost. A few uniliterals first appear in Middle Egyptian texts.
30: ...ral signs|triliteral]] signs, to represent a specific sequence of two or three consonants in the langu... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...the solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Whil...
21: Comets are classified according to their orbital periods. ''Short per...
33: Until [[1994]], comets were first given a provisional designation consisting of ...
35: ...}} So Halley's Comet, the first comet to be identified as periodic, has the systemic designation 1P/16...
43: ...planets, on the grounds that while the planets confined their motion to the circle of the [[Zodiac]], ... - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ... '''dictionary''' is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their [[glyph]]...
17: ...nd to be minimizing, whereas single-field and sub-field dictionaries tend to be maximizing. See also [...
23: ...on English [[idiom]]s and [[metaphor]]s, can be defined.
29: ...nary makers apply two basic philosophies to the defining of words: ''prescriptive'' or ''descriptive''...
33: ...y incorporating judgmental interpretations into definitions themselves, such as, "an offensive term fo... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
2: ... time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
7: The first pictograms were drawn on [[clay]] tablets in v...
9: Cuneiform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or...
11: ...ugh the syllabic nature of the script as it was refined by the Sumerians was unintuitive to the [[Semi...
16: ...ge|Old Persian]] was written in a subset of simplified cuneiform characters, that formed a simple, sem... - Apple Macintosh (24250 bytes)
4: ...rcial)|famous Super Bowl commercial]]. It was the first marketed personal computer to popularize the [...
7: ...eing the first to display the Mac OS logo, is the first version of the Mac OS under that name). In [[M...
16: * Long file names, with [[whitespace]] and no [[file extension]].
32: * First laptop with keyboard behind a palmrest ([[Powe...
33: * First laptop with built-in pointing device ([[PowerB... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
9: ... Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
17: ...ther Gulick]] and his wife Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
21: ...ngton, DC]], the [[National Gallery of Art]] is officially opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roose...
26: ...erranean]], the [[DSV Alvin|Alvin]] [[submarine]] finds a missing American [[hydrogen bomb]].
28: ...ssacre]]: The [[United States Army]] charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the i... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: *[[1760]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys ...
15: ...ng Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].
18: ...w Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skating]] championship takes place.
20: ... Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]].
21: *[[1933]] – [[Dachau]], the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed. - French language (40201 bytes)
19: ...er including second language speakers. It is an official or administrative language in various communi...
27: ...f the entire Gallic region for both mercantile, official and educational reasons, yet it should be rem...
60: ...owing a period of unification, regulation and purification, the French of the 17th to the 18th centuri...
62: ...f foreign words and expressions. Some recent modifications include the change from ''software'' to ''...
66: ..., the future of specific "regional" accents is difficult to predict. - Cuneiform (script) (7717 bytes)
2: ... time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
7: The first pictograms were drawn on [[clay]] tablets in v...
9: Cuneiform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or...
11: ...ugh the syllabic nature of the script as it was refined by the Sumerians was unintuitive to the [[Semi...
16: ...ge|Old Persian]] was written in a subset of simplified cuneiform characters, that formed a simple, sem... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: European history scholars will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789...
9: ...ld generate the [[peasant revolt]]s that, for the first time, would begin to shake the old ways and fe...
23: * [[1721]]: [[Robert Walpole]] becomes the first [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime M...
46: ...anish]] [[missionary|missionaries]] establish the first of 21 [[Spanish Missions of California|mission...
48: * [[1775]]-[[1782|82]]: [[First Anglo-Maratha War]] - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250p...
6: ...f Maximlien de Robespierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenme...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the ev...
14: [[File:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke o...
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