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Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: /ˈaɫapə/) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu). The word ultimately comes from a Celtic word referring to the whole island of Great Britain, hence the early classical Albion. It was used by the Gaels to refer to the island as a whole until roughly the ninth or tenth centuries, when it came to be the name given to the kingdoms of the Picts and the Scots (Pictavia and Dalriada ...

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Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. It is a West Germanic language and therefore is similar to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. It is also quite similar to Old Norse (and by extension, to modern Icelandic). Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of approximately 700 years – from the Anglo-Saxon migrations which created England in the fi ...

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The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. Alans - Name. The various forms of Alan, as well as the Iron of the Ossetes (descendants of the Alans), are an Iranian dialectical form of Aryan. The ancient Alans were on what is generally conceded (although not without contest) to be the original or one of the origin ...

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> nona- (from Latin) 9 (nine) is the natural number following 8 and preceding 10. 9 number - In mathematics. Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3. It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number. 9 is a Motzkin number. In base 10 a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if the iterative sum of ...

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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was completed on September 17, 1787, with its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later ratified by special conventions in each of the original thirteen states. It created a federal union of sovereign states, and a federal government to operate that union. It replaced the less defined union that had existed under the Articles of Confederation. It took effect in 1789 and has served as a model for the ...

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A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. The main characteristics of the classical symphony, as it existed by the end of the 18th century in the German-speaking world were: 4 movements, of which the first would usually be a fast movement in sonata form, the second a slow movement, the third either a minuet and trio or a ternary dance-like (scherzo) movement in "simple triple" metre, finishing with a fourth, fast movement in rondo and/or sonata form. Instrumental, to be played by an orchestra of the relativ ...

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Tenth could refer to: In mathematics, arithmetic or plain old numbers a tenth is one part of a unit or one divided equally into ten parts. A tenth is the reciprocal of ten. A tenth is written as a decimal fraction thus 0.1 and as a vulgar fraction as 1/10. Tenth is also the ordinal number, being occurrence number ten, following ninth and preceding eleventh. The ordinal number tenth is written 10th. In music or music theory a tenth is the note ten scale degrees from the root of chord and

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September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. September begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Virgo and ends in the sign of Libra. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Leo and ends in the constellation of Virgo. The name comes from the Latin septem, for "seven". September was the s ...

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The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. United States Constitution - The Bill of Rights 1–10. The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Those amendments were all adopted within a few years of the ratification of the Constitution, and all relate to limiting the power of the federal government. They were added in response to critici ...

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Old English was at first written in runes (futhorc), but shifted to the Latin alphabet with some additions: the letter yogh, adopted from Irish; the letter eth and the runic letters thorn and wynn. Also used was a symbol for the conjunction 'and', a character similar to the number seven ('7'), and a symbol for the relative pronoun 'þæt', a thorn with a crossbar through the ascender (''). Also used occasionally were macrons over vowels, abbreviations for following 'm's or 'n's. ...

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Old English language, Old English language - Germanic origins, Old English language - Latin influence, Old English language - Viking influence, Old English language - Celtic influence, Old English language - Dialects, Old English language - Phonology, Old English language - Standardised orthography, Old English language - The alphabet, Old English language - Syntax, Old English language - Morphology, Old English language - Sample text

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The Percies, who hailed from the village of Perce in Normandy, had large estates in Yorkshire, bestowed by the Conqueror on the first of the name to arrive in England in his train. The family, however, was represented by an heiress only in the reign of Henry II, whose second wife, a daughter of the Duke of Brabant, thought this heiress, with her wide possessions, a suitable match for her own young half-brother Joceline of Louvain. The marriage took place; and thereafter followed the long line of Henry Percies (Henry being a favourite name of ...

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Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Northumberland - Synopsis, Earl of Northumberland - Earls of Northumberland first Creation 1377, Earl of Northumberland - Earls of Northumberland second Creation 1416, Earl of Northumberland - Earls of Northumberland third Creation 1557, Earl of Northumberland - Earls of Northumberland fourth Creation 1674, Earl of Northumberland - Earls of Northumberland fifth Creation 1749

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Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3. It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number. 9 is a Motzkin number. In base 10 a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if the iterative sum of its digits reduces to 9. A simple way of saying this is that if you multiply nine by any whole number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it's just one digit, you will end up with nine: 2*9=18 (1+8=9) 3*9=27 (2+7=9) 9*9=81 (8+1=9) 234*9=2106 (2+1+0+6=9) 578329* ...

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Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates are 50°27′N 30°30′E. Geographically, Kiev belongs to the Polissya natural zone (a part of the European mixed woods). However, the city's unique landscape distinguishes it from the surrounding region. The older right-bank (western) part of Kiev is represented by numerous woody hills, ravines and small rivers (now mostly extinct). It is a part of the larger Prydniprovska (near-Dnieper) upland ad ...

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The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. United States Constitution - The Bill of Rights 1–10. Main article: United States Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Those amendments were adopted between 1789 and 1791, and all relate to limiting the power of the federal government. They were ...

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Northern Sudan's earliest historical record comes from Egyptian sources, which described the land upstream from the First Cataract, called Kush, as "wretched." For more than 2,000 years after the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700-2180 B.C.), Egyptian political and economic activities determined the course of the central Nile region's history. Even during intermediate periods when Egyptian political power in Kush waned, Egypt exerted a profound cultural ...

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Early history of Sudan, Early history of Sudan - Prehistory, Early history of Sudan - Kush, Early history of Sudan - Meroe, Early history of Sudan - Christian Nubia, Early history of Sudan - Sources

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The physical geography can be broken into roughly three sections: the highlands, the rainforest, and the coastal areas. Pahang - Highlands. Peninsular Malaysia straddles a rich quartz vein that is associated with the mountain range in the center. Rainforest covers much of the highlands, but it tends to be thinner, with more deciduous trees. Ferns are also extremely common, thanks mainly to the high humid ...

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The first mentions of names that historians link with "Alani" appear almost at the same time in Greco-Roman geography and somewhat later Chinese dynastic chronicles of the 1st century BCE. The Geography (book 23, ch.XI.v) of Strabo, who was born in Pontus on the Black Sea, but was also working with Persian sources, to judge from the forms he gives to tribal names, mentions Aorsi that he links with Siraces and claims that a Spadines, king of the Aorsi, could assemble two hundred thousand mounted archers in the mid-1st cen ...

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Alans, Alans - Name, Alans - Early Alans, Alans - The 'western' Alans and Vandals, Alans - Alans and Slavs, Alans - The 'eastern' Alans and Huns, Alans - Medieval Alania, Alans - The Mongol Invasions and their aftermath

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Symphony - The 18th century symphony. The form that we now recognise as the symphony took shape in the early 18th century. It is commonly regarded to have grown from the Italian overture, a three-movement piece used to open operas, often used by Alessandro Scarlatti among others. Another important progenitor of the symphony was the ripieno concerto — a relatively little explored form resembling a concerto for strings and continuo, but with no solo instruments. The earliest known ripieno concerti are by G ...

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Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates are 50°27′N 30°30′E. Geographically, Kiev belongs to the Polesia natural zone (a part of the European mixed woods). However, the city's unique landscape distinguishes it from the surrounding region. The older right-bank (western) part of Kiev is represented by numerous woody hills, ravines and small rivers (now mostly extinct). It is a part of the larger Prydniprovska (near-Dnieper) upland adj ...

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Kiev, Kiev - Geography and climate, Kiev - History, Kiev - Legal status and local government, Kiev - Subdivisions of Kiev, Kiev - Modern Kiev, Kiev - Structures, Kiev - Transportation, Kiev - Local transportation, Kiev - Railways, Kiev - Air, Kiev - Attractions, Kiev - Views of Kiev, Kiev - Universities, Kiev - Kiev or Kyiv?

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Religious orders have played a significant role in Somali Islam. The rise of these orders (tarika, "way" or "path") was connected with the development of Sufism, a mystical current in Islam that began during the ninth and tenth centuries and reached its height during the twelfth and thirteenth. In Somalia Sufi orders appeared in towns during the fifteenth century and rapidly became a revitalizing force. Followers of Sufism seek a closer personal relationship to God through special spiritual disciplines. Escape from self is facilitated by pov ...

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Islam in Somalia, Islam in Somalia - Religious Orders and the Cult of the Saints, Islam in Somalia - Folk Islam and Indigenous Ritual, Islam in Somalia - Islam in the Colonial Era and After, Islam in Somalia - Rising Islamism

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