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91How now brown cow — is a phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate rounded vowel sounds. Each ow sound in the phrase represents an individual diphthong. The phrase does not have an explicit meaning per se but can be used as a light hearted greeting.… …
92Lawspeaker — wedenIn Sweden, this office was the most important one of regional governments, where each lagsaga (usually the same as the traditional province) was the jurisdiction of a lawspeaker who was subordinate to the lawspeaker of Tiundaland. The… …
93Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future — infobox television show name = Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future caption = format = Science fiction camera = runtime = approx. 22 minutes (per episode) rating = creator = Gary Goddard starring = Tim Dunigan country = Canada network =… …
94John Sims Reeves — (21 October 1821 [Date thus in J. Sims Reeves, The Life of J. Sims Reeves, Written by Himself (Simpkin, Marshall Co, London 1888, p. 15). C. E. Pearce, in Sims Reeves Fifty Years of Music in England (Stanley Paul, London 1924, pp. 17 18),… …
95Bel canto — (Bel Canto) (Italian, beautiful singing ), an Italian musical term, refers to the art and science of vocal technique which originated in Italy during the late seventeenth century and reached its pinnacle in the early part of the nineteenth… …
96Injunctive mood — The injunctive mood was a mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect. It typically stood in a main clause and had a subjunctive or imperative meaning; for example …
97Apaturia — For the orchid genus, see its synonym Pachystoma. Apaturia (Απατουρια) were Ancient Greek festivals held annually by all the Ionian towns except Ephesus and Colophon (Herodotus i. 147). At Athens it took place from October to November, and lasted …
98Aurél Dessewffy — Count Aurél Dessewffy (1808 1842), Hungarian journalist and politician, eldest son of Count Jozsef Dessewffy and Eleonora Sztaray, was born at Nagymihály, county Zemplén,Austria Hungarian Empire.Carefully educated at his father s house, he was… …
99Dialogue (fiction) — Dialogue in fiction is a verbal exchange between two or more characters. If there is only one character, who is talking to himself in his mind, it is known as interior monologue.Purpose of dialogueDialogue in a piece of writing such as a short… …
100Edward K. Thompson — (1907 ndash; October 1996) was an American writer and editor. The Smithsonian Magazine called him one of the great editors of the last half [of the 20th] century. He was the editor of LIFE from its early days as a weekly and was the founding… …
