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  • 61caird — noun Etymology: Scottish Gaelic ceard craftsman; akin to Greek kerdos profit Date: 1663 Scottish a traveling tinker; also tramp, gypsy …

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  • 62Henri Estienne — Henri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus or Henry Stephens, was a 16th century Parisian printer.Henry Estienne, the eldest son of the great Robert Estienne, was born in Paris in 1528 (some sources say 1531), and died at Lyon in 1598.He… …

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  • 63Modern literature in Irish — Although Irish has been used as a literary language for more than 1500 years (see Irish literature), and in a form intelligible to contemporary speakers since at least the sixteenth century, modern literature in Irish owes much to the Gaelic… …

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  • 64List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin — This is a list of English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic. Some of these are common in Scottish English and Scots but less so in other varieties of English.Word of Gaelic origin; Airt : Point of the compass, from àird (pronounced|aːrˠtʲ),… …

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  • 65Simplon Pass — Infobox Mountain Pass Name =Simplon Pass Photo = Caption = Elevation = m to ft|num=2008|abbr=no|spell=Commonwealth|precision=0|wiki=yes Location = SUI Range = Alps Coordinates =coord|46|15|6|N|8|2|0|E|region:CH VS type:pass|display=inline,title… …

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  • 66Académie Goncourt — The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organization based in Paris that was founded in 1900 in accordance with the wishes of French writer and …

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  • 67Irish syntax — is rather different from that of most Indo European languages, notably because of its VSO word order.Normal word orderThe normal word order in an Irish sentence is: #Preverbal particle #Verb #Subject #Direct object or predicate adjective… …

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  • 68Essays (Montaigne) — Essays is the title of a book written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number.… …

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  • 69Ulster Irish — Note: This page uses the IPA to transcribe Irish. Readers familiar with other conventions may wish to see International Phonetic Alphabet for Irish for a comparison of the IPA system with those used in learners materials. The three dialects of… …

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  • 70Les Soirées de Médan — ( Evenings at Médan ) is a collection of six short stories by six different writers associated with Naturalism, first published in 1880. All the stories concern the Franco Prussian War. The contents of the book are as follows:* L Attaque du… …

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