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In 1799 French soldiers discovered a large stone near the town of Rosetta. Egyptian priests created the stone in 196 BC to honor their pharaoh. The writing on the stone appeared in two languages and three scripts and was instrumental in unlocking the key to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The stone became known as the Rosetta Stone. |
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According to the Inupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Webster and Zibell, the Inupiat have
32 words that describe types of snow or snow conditions. For example: ayak: snow on clothes, |
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Afrikaans is one of eleven official languages of South Africa. At about 90 years old, it is one of the world's youngest. A mixture of Dutch, German, and other languages, it is spoken by descendants of Dutch settlers. |
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Here’s a sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. |
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"Uncopyrightable" is the longest English word with no repeated letters. |
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In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it. |
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“Freelance” comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master. |
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Mandarin is the official language of China, and is based on the language spoken in
Beijing. It is the home language of people in northern China and Sichuan. It is written in simplified
Chinese characters, introduced in 1950 under Chairman Mao Zedong to increase literacy. |
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Arabic is the Semitic language spoken across North Africa and the Middle East. It is the fourth most spoken in the world, and one of six official languages used at the United Nations. It is the holy language of Islam and the Qur'an. |
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Corn has been cultivated in Mexico since the year 7000 B.C., more than 4,500 years before the Chinese had begun to develop a national cuisine. Many of the most popular Mexican dishes date from long before the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521, making Mexico the country with the longest tradition of a national cuisine. |
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