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Randoseru at a school A premium 84,000 yen (about $938 or €530) randoseru made of cordovan on sale at Mitsukoshi department store in January 2008. A randoseru (ランドセル) is a firm-sided backpack made of stitched firm leather or leather-like synthetic material, most commonly used in Japan by elementary schoolchildren.
In modern German the word "der Rucksack" is commonly used. [1] The name rucksack is cognate with the Danish rygsæk, Norwegian ryggsekk, Dutch rugzak, Afrikaans rugsak, Swedish ryggsäck, and Russian рюкзак (rjukzak). The word knapsack was the usual name for a rucksack or backpack up until the middle of the 20th century. This is commonly ...
English and German both are West Germanic languages, though their relationship has been obscured by the lexical influence of Old Norse and Norman French (as a consequence of the Norman conquest of England in 1066) on English as well as the High German consonant shift. In recent years, however, many English words have been borrowed directly from ...
The text of the original poem was sent by Spring Rice to William Jennings Bryan in a letter shortly before his death in February 1918. [2] The poem circulated privately for a few years until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his Jupiter to fit the poem's words.
Yoriko Tsutsui's and Akiko Hayashi's picture book of the same name (published in English as Miki's First Errand) was the inspiration for the program's launch. [ 1 ] Most of the children who try to perform errands are between 3 and 6 years old (nursery school children and kindergarteners), but in rare cases, children as young as 1 or 2 years old ...
After all, what is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"? "Auld Lang Syne" has its origins in the Scottish language, which explains why so much of it may as well be Greek to most of us.
Freshman class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, [1] is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
Historically a duffel bag had a top closure using a drawstring. [3] Later bags had a webbing hand grip, along with a shoulder strap with clip that closed the bag by nesting grommets from around the rim of bag, over padlockable eye loop, later an independent pair of ruck sack straps were used.