Kuno Meyer

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Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

A ginger cat sleeps in his soft cozy bed on a floor carpet, soft focus

Lay, Lie, Lied, Lain: When Do We Use Which?

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Ancient Song Dynasty. The background of Chinese cultural elements.

The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems

Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier

8 Famous Animals

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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

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles

Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

Vietnam War Timeline

Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION

Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline

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Born	December 20, 1858 • Hamburg • Germany
Died	October 11, 1919 (aged 60) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works	“The Vision of MacConglinne”
Subjects Of Study	Celtic literature • Celtic languages

Charles Rockwell Lanman

American scholar

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist

Alfred M. Tozzer

American anthropologist

Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Frank O’Connor

Irish author

Lin Yutang

Chinese author

Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

E.H. Palmer

British linguist

Carolyn Forché

American poet

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

H.A. Giles

British scholar

James Darmesteter

French orientalist

Charles Eliot Norton

American scholar

Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Henry George Liddell

British lexicographer

James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Martin Opitz

German poet

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