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101linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …
102South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
103procedural law — Law that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (e.g., in a suit). It is distinguished from substantive law (i.e., law that creates, defines, or regulates rights and duties). Procedural law …
104primitive culture — Introduction in the lexicon of early anthropologists, any of numerous societies characterized by features that may include lack of a written language, relative isolation, small population, relatively simple social institutions and… …
105technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
106Western architecture — Introduction history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …
107Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Saturday, March 4, 1933 I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is… …
108Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Good Neighbor Policy — ▪ Primary Source Three decades of strained relations with the Latin American countries were reversed during the Hoover administration, largely through the work of Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. President Roosevelt, who later… …
109Convocation of the English Clergy — • The technical name given in the Church of England to what corresponds in some respects to a provincial synod, though in other respects it differs widely from it Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Convocation of the English Clergy …
110Israelites — • The word designates the descendants of the Patriarch Jacob, or Israel Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Israelites Israelites …
