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Denmark [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 7] also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. [11]
The new king of Denmark has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland in an apparent rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to take over the ...
Historically, the word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part". This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: pars minuta secunda), and this is where the word "second" comes from.
Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).
Staunton is a pretty small town and so there aren't many places to eat, but you could tell Gloria's was the town's go-to place to eat on a weekday night—steadily busy but not packed.
Lions head coach Dan Campbell (right) talks with Doug Pederson of the Jacksonville Jaguars after the Lions defeated the Jaguars, 52-6. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) (Gregory Shamus via Getty Images)
An example of a font that uses turned small-capital omega ꭥ for the vowel letter ʊ. The symbol had originally been a small-capital ᴜ . Among consonant letters, the small capital letters ɢ ʜ ʟ ɴ ʀ ʁ , and also ꞯ in extIPA, indicate more guttural sounds than their base letters – ʙ is a late exception.
If you have an inherited intolerance to alcohol, a mutated gene could be the culprit. An at-home DNA test could detect whether you have the mutation, but doctors say there could be some drawbacks.