Elias Lönnrot

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7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

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Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

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Born	April 9, 1802 • Finland
Died	March 19, 1884 (aged 81) • Finland
Notable Works	“Kalevala”
Subjects Of Study	Finnish language

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Max Müller

German scholar

Matthias Alexander Castrén

Finnish nationalist and linguist

Ovid Densușianu

Romanian author

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Norwegian author

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Friedrich von Schlegel

German writer

Rasmus Rask

Danish language scholar

F.W. Ritschl

German scholar

Johan Vilhelm Snellman

Finnish philosopher

Ramón Menéndez Pidal

Spanish scholar

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

C.K. Ogden

British writer

William Dwight Whitney

American linguist

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Greek critic and grammarian

Franciscus Junius, the Younger

European scholar

al-Aṣmaʿī

Arab scholar

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