N is the fourteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is en. Semitic Nûn was probably the picture of a snake; the sound value of the letter was /n/ - as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin and all modern languages. Greek name: Nυ, Ny. N - Usage. N serves as an alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with N is NG, which produces a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually final in English. Aspirated forms NH and NGH are sometim ...

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November represents the letter N in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter N is DahDit: - · In Braille the letter N is represented as ⠝ (in Unicode), the dot pattern: XX .X X. N - Computing. In Unicode the capital N is codepoint U+004E and the lowercase n is U+006E. The ASCII code for capital N is 78 and for lowercase n is 110; or in binary 01001110 and 01101110, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code ...

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N serves as an alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with N is NG, which produces a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually final in English. Aspirated forms NH and NGH are sometimes seen in other languages. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [n] represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital [ɴ] represents the uvular nasal. ...

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Becán is the name of an ancient Maya site. Becán is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the state of Campeche, Mexico, about 150 km north of Tikal. Archeological evidence shows that Becán was occupied in the middle Pre-Classic period (see: Mesoamerican chronology), about 550 BC, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic. The population and scale of construction declined in the early classic (c 250), although it was still a significant site, ...

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Ridván is a twelve day festival in the Bahá'í Faith, commemorating the commencement of Bahá'u'lláh´s prophethood. It begins at sunset on April 20th and continues until sunset, May 2nd. On the first, ninth and twelfth days of Ridván, work is suspended. "Ridván" means paradise, and is named for the Garden of Ridván, outside Baghdad where Bahá'u'lláh stayed for twelve days after the Ottoman Empire exiled him from Baghdad and be ...

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Coín is a town about 30 miles west of Malaga in Malaga province in Spain. Other related archivesMalaga, Spain

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Mirza Asadullah-i-Khuy, often refered to as Dayyán was a devout follower of the Báb and had numerous tablets of praise sent to him recognising this. Other related archivesBáb

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Aydın is the capital city of Aydın Province in Turkey. It was known in the Roman and Byzantine Empires as Tralles. The population of the city is 143,267 (2000 census). Aydin was named after the successful Ottoman general Aydin Pasha who placed large swathes of the Byzantine sea coast of Asia Minor under his rule. By 1918, the majority of the population of Aydın and its surrounding districts consisted of Greeks. The retreating Ottoman armies massacred or deported the Greek population, after which time it was occupied b

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In Finnish mythology, a Näkki is a Nix that resides in murky pools, wells, docks, piers and under bridges that cross rivers. He has been borrowed from Näcken in Scandinavian folklore. He is principally known for pulling young children into the depths, if they lean over bridge railings, docks or otherwise look into water surfaces to see their own reflection and touching the water. Näkki is a fine example of a spirit enlisted by parents ...

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2C-N, or 4-nitro-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is a psychedelic phenethylamine first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin, sometimes used as an entheogen. 2C-N - Chemistry. The full name of the chemical is 2-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-nitrophenyl)ethanamine. 2C-N - Appearance. Salts of 2C-N has a bright yellow to orange color due to the presence of the nitro group, unlike all other members of the 2C family in which the salts are white. 2C-N - Dosage. ...

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The bandoneón is a free-reed instrument particularly popular in Argentina. It plays an essential role in the orquesta tipica, the tango orchestra. The bandoneón, called bandonion by its German inventor, Heinrich Band was originally intended as an instrument for religious music and the popular music of the day, in contrast to its closest cousin, the German Concertina (or Konzertina), considered to be a folk instrument. German immigrants to Argentina brought the instrument with them in the early twentieth century ...

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Airén is a variety of white grape used to make white wine, and is the most planted variety of grape in Spain, particularly in the region of La Mancha. The Airén vine has an unusually low vine density (around 1500 vines per hectare), and so its vineyards cover more area than any other grape variety in the world. However, as trends move towards red wine, a huge number of the vines are being uprooted, not least because the grape produces an acidic and characterless wine. A consequence of this is that its principal use has ...

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Bön has typically been described as the shamanistic religion in Tibet before the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century. With the recent exile of many Bönpo lamas to India, however, a more complex description of Bön is emerging and is now being considered by Western scholars. Bön - Historical phases of Bön. According to the Bönpo themselves, the Bön religion has actually gone through three distinct phases: Animistic Bön, Yungdrung or Eternal Bön, and New Bön.

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Bohuslän ▶ (help·info), (Latin: Bahusia, English, Norwegian Båhuslen) is a province (landskap) in west Sweden. It borders to Dalsland and Västergötland, as well as the Skagerrak and Norway. Bohuslän belonged to Norway until the treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The central city has always been Uddevalla, in the middle of the province, and today boasts 35,000 inhabitants. Bohuslän is otherwise known for fishing, salt ocean baths and rocks, and its around 20,000 kn ...

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Ynys Môn may refer to: The isle of Anglesey in Wales (being the Welsh for Isle of Anglesey) Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament which covers the island Ynys Môn (NAW constituency), a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales covering the same area as the parliamentary one Other related archivesAnglesey, Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cayönü is a Neolithic settlement in eastern Turkey. It is located 40 km NW of Diyabarkir, at the foot of the Taurus mountains. It lies near the Bogazcay, a tributary of the upper Tigris and the Bestakot, an intermittent stream. Excavations, first under the direction of Robert Braidwood took place between 1964-1978 and 1985-1991. The Settlement covers the periods of PPNA, PPNB, and the pottery neolithic. The stratigraphy is divided into the following subphases according to the dominant architecture: -round, PPNA -grill , PPNA -channeled, Early PPNB -cobble paved, Middle PPNB -cell ...

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The bodhrán (IPA [ˈbɔːrɑːn] or [ˈbaʊrɑːn]; plural bodhráin) is an Irish frame drum ranging in anywhere from 10" to 26" in diameter, with most drums measuring from 14" to 18". The sides of the drum are 3 1/2" to 8" deep. A goat skin head is tacked to one side (although nowadays, synthetic heads, or new materials like kangaroo skin, are sometimes used). The other side is open ended for one hand to be placed ...

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Ricardo González Gutiérrez (Cepillín) (1945, Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a, Mexican clown as well as a singer, TV host and actor. Ricardo was a dentist who started to paint his face so that kids would not be afraid of him as he worked on their teeth. He became famous when a local TV channel interviewed him. The name Cepillín means little (tooth) brush, "cepillo" ("de dientes") in Spanish. With Televisa he had a show called El Show de Cepillín. This show was an educational, comedy and interview sh ...

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In early Irish folklore, the bánánach are supernatural female beings who haunt battlefields. Other related archivesIrish folklore, supernatural

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