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The orthography of the Greek language ultimately has its roots in the adoption of the Greek alphabet in the 9th century BC. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of several centuries (the Greek Dark Ages) between the time Mycenaean stopped being written and the time when the Greek alphabet came into use.
John Hope Franklin: Alpha Chi: President of American Historical Association; 1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient; author of From Slavery To Freedom; namesake of the John Hope Franklin Memorial Plaza at the site of the Tulsa, Oklahoma "Black Wall Street" massacre and race riot [17] [39] [56] [57]
Robertson was born at Cherbury near Chatham, Virginia.He was educated at Wake Forest (N. C.) College (M. A., 1885) and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS), Louisville, Kentucky (Th. M., 1888), where he was thereafter instructor and professor of New Testament interpretation, and remained in that post until one day in 1934, when he dismissed his class early and went home and died ...
John Fitzgerald Lee (May 5, 1813 – June 17, 1884) was the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1849 until 1862 [1] and the first Judge Advocate General since the position had been vacant since 1802. [2]
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The Greek alphabet was developed by a Greek with first-hand experience of contemporary Phoenician script. After it was established in the Greek mainland, it was exported eastwards to Phrygia, where a similar script was devised.
A Catalogue of Greek Verbs for the Use of Colleges. Hartford, 1844; . Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. Boston, 1857, . History of the Greek alphabet with remarks on Greek orthography and pronunciation. George Nichols, Cambridge, 1848, . History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation. Cambridge, 1848; Second edition, revised.
Robert Estienne was born in Paris in 1503. The second son of the famous humanist printer Henri Estienne, [6] he became knowledgeable in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. [6] After his father's death in 1520, the Estienne printing establishment was maintained by his father's former partner Simon de Colines who also married Estienne's mother, the widow Estienne. [7]