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  • 21Yefim Karskiy — Yefim (Fyodorovich) Karskiy ( be. Яўхім (Фёдаравіч) Карскі, ru. Ефим (Фёдорович) Карский), ru. Евфимий (Феодорович) Карский) (older name form); he was born on 1 January 1861 (20 December 1860), in Lasha (Grodno Uyezd of Grodno Governorate) and… …

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  • 22Biblical manuscript — A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia (books); manuscript comes from Latin manu (hand) and scriptum (written). The original manuscript (the original… …

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  • 23textual criticism — n. the scholarly study of the text of a written work, often, specif., in an effort to determine the original or most authoritative form of that work * * * Introduction       the technique of restoring texts as nearly as possible to their original …

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  • 24Nalini Kanta Bhattasali — (Bengali: নলিনীকান্ত ভট্টশালী) (24 January 1888 6 February 1947) was an Indian historian, archaeologist, numismatist, epigraphist and antiquarian, whose contributions have gone a long way in clarifying many obscurities in the history and culture… …

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  • 25Geography of Venezuela — Map of Venezuela Shaded relief map of Venezuela …

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  • 26Georgian language — language name=Georgian nativename= ka. ქართული Kartuli familycolor=Caucasian states=Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia speakers=4.1 million [Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe By Glanville Price] fam1=South Caucasian script=Georgian… …

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  • 27Malachi Martin — Malachi Brendan Martin Born July 23, 1921(1921 07 23) Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland Died July 27, 1999(1999 07 27) (aged 78) Manhattan, New York, USA …

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  • 28Bosnian Cyrillic — Croatian Cyrillic Bosančica A miniature from the Hval Manuscript Type Alphabet Cyrillic script …

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  • 29Scribal abbreviation — Sigla redirects here. For the village in Poland, see Sigła. Text sample from an early 15th century Bible manuscript. Scribal abbreviations (sigla [plural], siglum and sigil [singular]) are the abbreviations used by ancient and mediæval scribes… …

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  • 30Bitola inscription — The Bitola inscription is a medieval stone inscription written in Old Church Slavonic. It was found in 1956 during the demolition of an old Ottoman mosque in the town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia and it is now kept at the Institute and Museum …

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