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A vârcolac in Romanian folklore may refer to several different figures. In some versions, a vârcolac is a wolf demon. Like the Norse Fenris, the vârcolac can swallow the moon and the sun and is thus responsible for eclipses. Some legends say it is a ghost or vampire (Strigoi) while others say it is a werewolf (in some versions, a werewolf that emerges from the corpses of babies [citation needed]). In Romanian, vârcolac commonly mean ...

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Veselin Topalov (Bulgarian: Веселин Топалов; born Ruse, Bulgaria, March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. He became the FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. However, his title is disputed; some regard Vladimir Kramnik as the World Chess Champion, because of his victory over Kasparov in 2000. In the January 2006 FIDE rating list, he was number two in the world (after the retired Kasparov) with an Elo rating of 2801, becoming the third ...

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• Veselin Topalov - Notable tournament victories
• Veselin Topalov - Sample game

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Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venessia in the local dialect), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′N 12°19′E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). The city is included, with Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of ...

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• Venice - History
• Venice - Naval and military affairs
• Venice - Transport
• Venice - Demographics
• Venice - Places of note
• Venice - Sestieri
• Venice - Piazzas and Campi of Venice
• Venice - Palaces
• Venice - Churches
• Venice - Other buildings
• Venice - Bridges and channels
• Venice - Surroundings
• Venice - Sinking of Venice
• Venice - Venice in culture the arts and fiction
• Venice - Miscellaneous
• Venice - Famous Venetians
• Venice - Foreign words of Venetian origin
• Venice - Bibliography
• Venice - Scholarship
• Venice - Other

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Slavic mythology and Slavic religion evolved over more than 3,000 years. It is conjectured that some parts of it are from neolithic or possibly even mesolithic times. The religion possesses numerous common traits with other Indo-European religions. Slavic mythology - Primary sources. Very few written records are known to survive from the centuries before Christianization. The controversial Book of Veles is believed by some to be a sacred text of this religion. Saxo Grammaticus is another source with ...

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• Slavic mythology - Primary sources
• Slavic mythology - Cosmology
• Slavic mythology - Major feasts
• Slavic mythology - Gods
• Slavic mythology - Supreme god
• Slavic mythology - Pantheon
• Slavic mythology - Locations
• Slavic mythology - Mythical creatures
• Slavic mythology - Mythical persons
• Slavic mythology - Spirits
• Slavic mythology - Slavic folk medicine and magic
• Slavic mythology - Circles

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Constantine of Preslav (Konstantin Preslavski) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have been a disciple of Saint Methodius. After the death of Methodius in 885, Constantine of Preslav was jailed by the German clergy in Great Moravia and sold as slave in Venice. After a successful escape to Constantinople, he came to Bulgaria a ...

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The Citroën Traction Avant was a automobile produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1935 to 1957. It is one of the most famous early examples of front wheel drive, hence its name which in French means pull from the front (this is a general term for all front wheel drive cars). Traction Avant was designed by André Lefèbvre in late 1933/early 1934. In addition to front-wheel-drive, the car also introduced the use of an arc-welded monocoque frame, independently sprung front wheels, and a torsion bar suspension. ...

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The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʒ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z. An alternative commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, is ž. Voiced postalveolar fricative - Features. Features of the voiced postalveolar frica ...

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• Voiced postalveolar fricative - Features
• Voiced postalveolar fricative - In English
• Voiced postalveolar fricative - In other languages

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Yoghurt or yogurt, less commonly yoghourt or yogourt, is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. Any sort of milk may be used to make yoghurt, but modern production is dominated by cow's milk. It is the fermentation of milk sugar (lactose) into lactic acid that gives yoghurt its gel-like texture and characteristic tang. It is often sold in a fruit, vanilla, or chocolate flavour, but can also be unflavoured. Yoghurt - History. Yoghurt is traditionally believed to be a ...

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• Yoghurt - History
• Yoghurt - Presentation
• Yoghurt - Dahi yoghurt
• Yoghurt - Bulgarian yoghurt
• Yoghurt - Greek yoghurt
• Yoghurt - Lassi yoghurt
• Yoghurt - Kefir
• Yoghurt - Home-made yoghurt

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Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Hellenistic Koine (Ελληνική Κοινή) and includes Hebrew elements as well. It was mutually intelligible with Greek of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used their version o ...

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• Yevanic language - External link

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The letter (Ъ, ъ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак /'tvʲor.dɨj znak/) in the modern Russian alphabet and as er golyam (ер голям, "big yer") in the Bulgarian alphabet. The letter is called back yer in the pre-reform Russian orthography, in Old Russian, and in Old Church Slavonic. Originally the yer denoted an ultra-short or reduced middle vowel. Its companion is the front yer, now known a ...

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• Yer - Original use
• Yer - Russian language
• Yer - Old Russian: Yer
• Yer - Modern Russian: Hard sign
• Yer - Bulgarian language
• Yer - Belarusian language
• Yer - Ukrainian language

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Yelena Victorovna Davydova (Russian:Еле́на Ви́кторовна Давы́дова) (born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh, 400 miles south of Moscow), is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the Olympic all-around title in Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Yelena Davydova - Childhood Training. Davydova became interested in gymnastics at age six after seeing on television the famous Soviet Olympic gold medallists Larissa Petrik and Natalya Kuchinskaya. She attempted alone to be enrolled in V ...

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• Yelena Davydova - Childhood Training
• Yelena Davydova - Young Competition Life
• Yelena Davydova - Full-Fledged Olympian
• Yelena Davydova - All-Around Olympic Champion
• Yelena Davydova - Post-Olympic Sports Achievements
• Yelena Davydova - Life After Retirement from Sports
• Yelena Davydova - Acknowledgements in the Recent Times

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Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs (jug in the word Jugoslavija means south). The first was a kingdom formed in December 1, 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was re-named the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in ...

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• Yugoslavia - Origins
• Yugoslavia - The First Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia during the Second World War
• Yugoslavia - The Second Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Breakup
• Yugoslavia - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Yugoslavia - Legacy
• Yugoslavia - Miscellaneous

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An article is a word that is put next to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Articles can have various functions: a definite article (English the) indicates, among other things, that an entity has been identified as unique in some way (The cat on the mat is black.) an indefinite article (English a, an) indicates, among other things, that an entity has not been identified as unique (A cat is a mammal vs The cat on the mat is bl ...

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• Article grammar - Presence in various languages
• Article grammar - The the English grammatical article
• Article grammar - Usage
• Article grammar - Bibliography

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Caesar (p. Caesares) is a title of imperial character. It derives from the cognomen of Gaius Julius Caesar ("Julius Caesar"), the Roman dictator. The change from being a familial name to an imperial title can be loosely dated to 68 / 69, the so-called "Year of the Four Emperors". Caesar title - Onomastic root. Caesar originally meant "hairy", which suggests that the Iulii Caesares, a specific branch of the gens Iulia bearing this name, were conspicuous for having fine heads of ha ...

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• Caesar title - Onomastic root
• Caesar title - Sole Roman emperor
• Caesar title - Minor dynastic title
• Caesar title - Legacy

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Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and his need to do the right thing by helping her husband, Resistance hero Victor Laszlo, escape f ...

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• Casablanca film - Plot
• Casablanca film - Production
• Casablanca film - Writing
• Casablanca film - Direction
• Casablanca film - Cinematography
• Casablanca film - Music
• Casablanca film - Reception
• Casablanca film - Sequels
• Casablanca film - Cast
• Casablanca film - Myths
• Casablanca film - Errors
• Casablanca film - Criticism
• Casablanca film - Awards
• Casablanca film - Quotes

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Zhe (Ж, ж) is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ (listen), similar to the "s" in the English word "treasure". Zhe is the 7th letter of the Bulgarian and Belarusian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian, Russian and Serbian alphabets, and the 9th in the Ukrainian alphabet. It is also found in most non-Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, representing either Including:

• Zhe Cyrillic - Code positions

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Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It looks exactly like the Latin letter E. In Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian, it is called E, and represents the vowel /e/ or /ɛ/. In Belarusian and Russian, it is called Ye and represents a palatalizing vowel, that is, it modifies the letter before it but is otherwise no differ ...

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Yat or Jat (Ѣ, ѣ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and name of the sound represented by it. Its name in Old Church Slavonic is yět’ (ѣть) or yat’ (ıать), in Bulgarian yat (ят), in Russian and Ukrainian yat’ (ять), in Serbian yat (јат, Croatian spelling jat). In the common scientific Latin transliteration for old Slavic languages, the letter is represented by e with caron: ...

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• Yat - Yat in Russia and Ukraine
• Yat - Yat in South Slavic languages
• Yat - Code positions

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Christopher is the name that corresponds to the Greek name/word Christophoros. The latter consists of words for 'Christ' and "to bear" (pherein). It was popular with early Christians who believed they "carried" Christ in their hearts. The name also became associated with the apocryphal story of a giant who physically carried the Christ-child across a river. See Saint Christopher. The truncations Chris, Christ, Christo, Christoph, Christophe, Christy are also used as names, in various languages. Nicknames derived from Christopher include Chris, Pher (pronoun ...

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• Christopher - Famous Christophers
• Christopher - Christopher in other languages

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Latin differs from languages like English in that it uses many noun cases which are declined in such a way that they are nearly all different from each other, and even proper nouns such as names are declined. For example, the ending of the common Roman name Marcus is different in each of the following sentences due to the different cases in which it is used (the name Cornelia remains undeclined): Marcus hits Cornelia. (Subject-Verb-Object, the most common permutation of expression in English)

The Church Slavonic language (Macedonian: црковнословенски јазик, tsrkovnoslovenski yazik; Bulgarian: църковнославянски език, tsarkovnoslavyanski ezik; Russian: церковнославя́нский язы́к, tserkovnoslavyánskiy yazík) is the liturgical language of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church and other Slavic Orthodox Churches. Historically, this language is derived from the Old Church Slavoni ...

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• Church Slavonic language - Pronunciation
• Church Slavonic language - Grammar and style

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The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [tʃ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is [tS]. Alternatives commonly used in linguistic works, particularly in older or American literature, are č and more rarely tš. Historically, this sound often derives from a former voiceless velar plosive ...

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• Voiceless postalveolar affricate - Features
• Voiceless postalveolar affricate - In English
• Voiceless postalveolar affricate - In Portuguese
• Voiceless postalveolar affricate - In other languages

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