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Those who enjoy studying languages will surely have come across the term Sprachbund, especially if they have ever set about the Balkan tongues

Sprachbund, or linguistic union, describes similarities that arise not from the genetic kinship of languages but from close linguistic and cultural contact. Different languages with no shared basic vocabulary or morphology may nonetheless have weighty similarities in syntax, phonetics and cultural lexis: this is precisely what a Sprachbund is. The

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If it is good to know how to use men as they are, it is far better still to make them what one needs them to be; the most absolute authority is that which penetrates into the inmost being of a man and exerts no less influence…

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau's article “Discourse on Political Economy” in the Encyclopédie

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The Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Melbourne, Australia

It turns out that in Orthodox churches in Australia the "Our Father" is also recited in English. It sounds very unfamiliar. The text, as I understand it, is taken from Protestant translations. I consider it an excellent aid for those learning the language. Save it, and do not

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A Hussar Officer's Mentik of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, Made for Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich When He Was Two Months Old

From the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve; on view at Tsaritsyno, in the exhibition "Becoming a Romanov. Upbringing and Education in the Imperial Family"

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When asked about her lack of an academic degree, the American writer and historian Barbara Tuchman replied that Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon, Macaulay and Parkman had held no doctorates

In her words, the demands of a conventional academic career can dull the imagination, smother enthusiasm and stifle the style of one's prose.

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Learning the Orders of Classical Architecture Once and for All: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

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Boys from Ardingly College travelling home for the Christmas holidays, 1926

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Dreadful Academic Dreams

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“It seems to me as if I had not eaten for three days”, “when I do not have supper, I cannot sleep” and other important phrases for not dying of hunger, in French, shed light on the origins of the education of Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, known as Kis

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There is the post of assistant to a professor, and there is the assisted professor; both are abbreviated simply as asst. prof.

There is the post of assistant to a professor, and there is the assisted professor; both are abbreviated simply as asst. prof. In this case, of course, we are dealing with the second

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The Minister of Education and Science Has Turned to Nature-Like Technologies

The Minister of Education and Science has decided to turn to nature-like technologies. Though, to be fair, Da Vinci was at it more than five hundred years ago. It used to be called bionics, bioengineering, biomimetics and biomimicry. Now it is "nature-likeness" (prirodopodobiye), presumably under the