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8 hours ago · A Cornish speaker. Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek; [ 8 ] [kəɾˈnuːək]) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate.
1 day ago · William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4][5][6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
8 hours ago · In the 1660s, the English scientist Isaac Newton and German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz discovered calculus, which led to the development of many infinite series for approximating π. Newton himself used an arcsine series to compute a 15-digit approximation of π in 1665 or 1666, writing, "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other ...
1 day ago · Martin Gore, stated to NME – July 1990. Released in February 1990, "Enjoy the Silence" reached number six in the UK (the first Top 10 hit in that country since "Master And Servant"). A few months later it reached number eight in the US and earned the band a second gold record, and it won Best British Single at the 1991 Brit Awards. To promote their new album, Violator, the band held an in ...
1 day ago · Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
1 day ago · Antonio S. Pedreira (1899–1939), writer and educator whose most important book was Insularismo, in which he explores the meaning of being Puerto Rican [134] Pedro Pietri (1944–2004), poet, playwright; co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café [135] Miguel Piñero (1946–1988), playwright, writer; co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café [136] R
