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8 hours ago · Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since Old English is preserved only as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large corpus of the language, and the orthography apparently indicates phonological alternations quite faithfully, so it is not difficult to draw certain conclusions about the nature of Old English phonology.
1 day ago · The term "genderqueer" first appeared in queer zines of the 1980s, preceding the more widely used "non-binary." [15] It gained prominence in the 1990s through activists, [16] such as Riki Anne Wilchins. [17] who used it in a 1995 essay and a 1997 autobiography to describe individuals deviating from traditional gender norms.
1 day ago · The English law on abortion was first codified in legislation under sections 1 and 2 of Malicious Shooting or Stabbing Act 1803. The Bill was proposed by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough to clarify the law relating to abortion and was the first law to explicitly outlaw it. The Act provided that it ...
8 hours ago · Ali ibn Abi Talib ( Arabic: عَلِيُّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب, romanized : ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; c. 600–661 CE) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE to 661, as well as the first Shia imam. Born to Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Fatima bint ...
8 hours ago · Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. [ 10][ 11] Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough insulin, or the cells of the body becoming unresponsive to the hormone's effects. [ 12] Classic symptoms include thirst, polyuria ...
1 day ago · The word psychopathy is a joining of the Greek words psyche ( ψυχή) "soul" and pathos ( πάθος) "suffering, feeling". [ 18] The first documented use is from 1847 in Germany as psychopatisch, [ 19] and the noun psychopath has been traced to 1885. [ 20] In medicine, patho- has a more specific meaning of disease (Thus pathology has meant ...
8 hours ago · The point, however, is to change it. Karl Heinrich Marx ( 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for labor theory of value, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought.
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