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Shafin Ahmed (14 February 1961 – 24 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi rock bassist, singer-songwriter, record producer and politician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and bassist for the Bangladeshi rock band Miles, where he and his elder brother Hamin Ahmed joined in 1979 and have led the band.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...
For example, a cleric, Robert Lowth, introduced the rule to never end a sentence with a preposition, inspired by Latin grammar, through his book A Short Introduction to English Grammar. [13] The inconsistencies brought from Latin language standardization of English language led to classifying and sub-classifying an otherwise simple language ...
The "Magdalen" papyrus (/ ˈ m ɔː d l ɪ n /, MAWD-lin) [1] was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 26:23 and 31) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are catalogued as P. Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland 𝔓 64) from which they acquired ...
The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs is a 2013 book by Chrisann Brennan.She is an American painter, Steve Jobs's high school girlfriend, an early employee of Apple Inc. before it went public, [1] and the mother of Jobs's first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. [2]
The hexagrams of the I Ching in a diagram belonging to the German mathematician philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [1]. The I Ching book consists of 64 hexagrams. [2] [3] A hexagram in this context is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center).
The resulting Right Meaning of the Book of Changes (Zhōuyì zhèngyì; 周易正義) became the standard edition of the I Ching through the Song dynasty. [ 64 ] By the 11th century, the I Ching was being read as a work of intricate philosophy, as a jumping-off point for examining great metaphysical questions and ethical issues. [ 65 ]
84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff.It is an epistolary memoir composed of letters from the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London.