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Encyclopedia - Alba: Encyclopedia - Alba
Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: /ˈaɫapə/) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu). T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia - Old English Language
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 southe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia - Alans
The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia - 9 Number
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia - United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was completed on September 17, 1787, with it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia - Symphony
A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. The main characteristics of the classica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tenth: Encyclopedia - Tenth
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 part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - September: Encyclopedia - September
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. September begins (astro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Amendments
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Standardised Orthography
Old English was at first written in runes (futhorc), but shifted to the Latin alphabet with some additions: the letter yogh, adopted from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Earl Of Northumberland: Encyclopedia Ii - Earl Of Northumberland - Synopsis
The Percies, who hailed from the village of Perce in Normandy, had large estates in Yorkshire, bestowed by the Conqueror on the first of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 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. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Geography And Climate
Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Amendments
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - Early History Of Sudan - Kush
Northern Sudan's earliest historical record comes from Egyptian sources, which described the land upstream from the First Cataract, calle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pahang: Encyclopedia Ii - Pahang - Geography
The physical geography can be broken into roughly three sections: the highlands, the rainforest, and the coastal areas. Pahang - Highlan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Early Alans
The first mentions of names that historians link with "Alani" appear almost at the same time in Greco-Roman geography and somewhat later ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia Ii - Symphony - History Of The Form
Symphony - The 18th century symphony. The form that we now recognise as the symphony took shape in the early 18th century. It is common...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Geography And Climate
Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islam In Somalia: Encyclopedia Ii - Islam In Somalia - Religious Orders And The Cult Of The Saints
Religious orders have played a significant role in Somali Islam. The rise of these orders (tarika, "way" or "path") was connected with th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 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. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - As Lucky Or Unlucky Number
Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting" (久 pinyin ji...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - In Music
In music theory a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or the interval between the first note and the ninth. A ninth chord is a cho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - History
During the Revolutionary War, the thirteen states first formed a very weak central government—with the Congress being its only componen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Articles Of The Constitution
The remainder of the constitution consists of seven articles. United States Constitution - Legislative power. Article One establishes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - The Arabic Glyph
In the beginning, various Indians wrote 9 in a way that pretty much looks like our modern closing question mark, but dotless. The Kshtra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Preamble
The Preamble reads: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - International Influences On The Development Of The Constitution
To a small degree, historians disagree on the specific international influences on the development of the Constitution, possibly due to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islam In Somalia: Encyclopedia Ii - Islam In Somalia - Rising Islamism
Somali Islam rendered the world intelligible to Somalis and made their lives more bearable in a harsh land. Amidst the interclan violence...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islam In Somalia: Encyclopedia Ii - Islam In Somalia - Islam In The Colonial Era And After
Because Muslims believe that their faith was revealed in its complete form to the Prophet Muhammad, it has been difficult to adapt Islam ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Subdivisions Of Kiev
Administratively, the city is divided into raions, which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction over a li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Modern Kiev
Like many other large cities of the former Soviet Union, modern Kiev is a mix of the old and the new, seen in everything from the buildin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pahang: Encyclopedia Ii - Pahang - History
Evidence for nomadic tribes living in the Pahang area go back to the Mesolithic Era. In more modern times, the tin and gold deposits of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pahang: Encyclopedia Ii - Pahang - Economy
For decades, Pahang's main industry centered on tropical timber production, as large forest swatches supported massive production of wood...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islam In Somalia: Encyclopedia Ii - Islam In Somalia - Folk Islam And Indigenous Ritual
Somalis have modified Islam, for example with reference to the social significance of baraka. Baraka is considered a gift from God to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - Early History Of Sudan - Christian Nubia
By the sixth century, three states had emerged as the political and cultural heirs of the Meroitic kingdom. Nobatia in the north, had its...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Preamble
The Preamble reads: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Principles Of Government
Although the Constitution has been amended several times since it was first adopted, its basic principles remain the same now as in 1789....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Articles Of The Constitution
The remainder of the constitution consists of seven articles. United States Constitution - Legislative power. Main article: Article On...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Provisions For Amendment
The authors of the Constitution were clearly aware that changes would be necessary from time to time if the Constitution was to endure an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early History Of Sudan: Encyclopedia Ii - Early History Of Sudan - Meroe
Egypt's succeeding dynasty failed to reassert control over Kush. In 590 B.C., however, an Egyptian army sacked Napata, compelling the Kus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Legality Of The Constitution
One historical controversy is whether the Constitution was illegally adopted. The Constitution was originally proposed by a convention wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - The Constitution
The U.S. Constitution styles itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this phrase to mean that when laws (including ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Transportation
Kiev - Local transportation. Since Soviet times, the publicly owned and operated Kiev Metro system remains the fastest, the most conven...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Germanic Origins
The most important shaping force on Old English was its Germanic heritage in vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar that it shared wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The Mongol Invasions And Their Aftermath
In the thirteenth century, fresh invading Mongol hordes pushed the eastern Alans further south into the Caucasus, where they mixed with n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Latin Influence
A large percentage of the educated and literate population (monks, clerics, etc.) were competent in Latin, which was then the prevalent l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Dialects
To further complicate matters, Old English was rich in dialect forms. The four main dialect forms of Old English were Mercian, Northumbri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Syntax
As a West Germanic language, Old English syntax has a great deal of common ground with Dutch and German. Old English is not dependent upo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Phonology
The inventory of Old English surface phones, as usually reconstructed, is as follows. The sounds marked in parentheses are allophones: [...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Medieval Alania
In the 8th century a consolidated Alan kingdom, referred to in sources of the period[citation needed] as Alania, emerged in the northern ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The 'eastern' Alans And Huns
Some of the other Alani, who remained under the rule of the Huns, were among the federates at the Battle of the Halys River, in Anatolia,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - As Lucky Or Unlucky Number
Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting" (久 pinyin ji...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - The Arabic Glyph
In the beginning, various Indians wrote 9 in a way that pretty much looks like our modern closing question mark, but dotless. The Kshtra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 9 Number: Encyclopedia Ii - 9 Number - In Music
In music theory a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or the interval between the first note and the ninth. A ninth chord is a cho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Symphony: Encyclopedia Ii - Symphony - The Word Symphony
The word symphony is derived from the Greek syn (together) and phone (sounding), by way of the Latin symphonia. The term was used by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - Alans And Slavs
Alan tribes living north of the Black Sea may have moved northwest into what is now Poland, merging with Slavic peoples there to become t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alans: Encyclopedia Ii - Alans - The 'western' Alans And Vandals
About 370 the Alans were overwhelmed by the Huns. They were divided into several groups, some of whom fled westward. A portion of these '...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - History
During the Revolutionary War, the thirteen states first formed a very weak central government—with the Congress being its only componen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - The Constitution
The U.S. Constitution styles itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this phrase to mean that when laws (including ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Attractions
It is said that one can walk from one end of Kiev to the other in the summertime without leaving the shade of its many trees. Most charac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Modern Kiev
Like many other large cities of the former Soviet Union, modern Kiev is a mix of the old and the new, seen in everything from the buildin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Kiev Or Kyiv?
Kiev is the traditional English name for the city, but the Ukrainianized version Kyiv is gaining usage. The earliest known English-langua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - Subdivisions Of Kiev
Administratively, the city is divided into raions, which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction over a li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kiev: Encyclopedia Ii - Kiev - History
Kiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of the Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Principles Of Government
Although the Constitution has been amended several times since it was first adopted, its basic principles remain the same now as in 1789....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Provisions For Amendment
The authors of the Constitution were clearly aware that changes would be necessary from time to time if the Constitution was to endure an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - Legality Of The Constitution
One historical controversy is whether the Constitution was illegally adopted. The Constitution was originally proposed by a convention wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Constitution - International Influences On The Development Of The Constitution
To a small degree, historians disagree on the specific international influences on the development of the Constitution, possibly due to t...   » Read the article