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  2. Quinquereme - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 4 March 2021, at 18:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  3. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  4. Hellenistic-era warships - Wikipedia

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    Leaving aside a deck crew of c. 20 men, and accepting the 2–2–1 pattern of oarsmen, the quinquereme would have 90 oars in each side, and 30-strong files of oarsmen. [37] The fully decked quinquereme could also carry a marine detachment of 70 to 120, giving a total complement of about 400. [ 14 ]

  5. Togalu gombeyaata - Wikipedia

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    Togalu gombeyaata translates to "a play of leather dolls" in the native language of Kannada. [1] It is a form of shadow puppetry . Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat has undertaken research on this art and has a good collection of leather puppets.

  6. Robert Robinson (phonetician) - Wikipedia

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    Even more significant than Robinson's published work, however, is his transcription (unpublished in his lifetime) of several poems by Richard Barnfield into this alphabet. . These transcriptions provide very valuable evidence as to the pronunciation of English in Robinson's time; a pronunciation which, perhaps due to Robinson's youth or place of origin, contains many features that are more ...

  7. Vettor Fausto - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] His original name, in Latin, was Lucius Victor Falchonius. By 1511, he had adopted a different surname, going by Victor Faustus in Latin and Niketas Phaustos in Greek . [ 3 ] According to Paolo Ramusio , he was a child prodigy, although nothing is known of his early education. [ 4 ]

  8. Pronouncing Orthography - Wikipedia

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    [image 1] Cover – Leigh's Pronouncing Edition of Hillard's Primer. In 1864, Pronouncing Orthography was released as a simplified version of traditional English orthography to help children learn to read more quickly and easily; it became widely adopted by the United States public school system and incorporated into most basal reading schemes of the time.

  9. Afanc - Wikipedia

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    In China Miéville's 2002 book The Scar, the floating city-state of Amarda summons an avanc, attaching it to the city and using its huge pulling-power to cross the ocean. [ 3 ] In the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire , afanc are a marsh creature about the size of a cow with fur, scales, and a "disturbing" number of teeth.