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  2. Excelsior (Longfellow) - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow explained the repeated title as from the Latin, Scopus meus excelsior est ("my goal is higher"). [2] Biographer Charles Calhoun suggested the Alpine setting was an autobiographical reference to the poet's then-unsuccessful wooing of Frances Appleton, daughter of industrialist Nathan Appleton .

  3. List of U.S. state and territory mottos - Wikipedia

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    Latin: 1887 [N 8] [45] New York: Excelsior: Ever upward Latin: 1778 [46] North Carolina: Esse quam videri: To be, rather than to seem Latin: 1893 [47] North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable — English January 3, 1863 [48] [49] Serit ut alteri saeclo prosit: One sows for the benefit of another age Latin: March 11 ...

  4. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    [5] cwt. centum weight "hundredweight" [1] This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. DG Dei gratia "by the grace of God" [1] A part of the monarch's title, it is found on all British and Canadian coins. DV Deo volente "God willing" ead. eadem "the same" (woman) See id. below. Eadem is pronounced with stress on the first e. et al.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...

  6. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...

  7. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  8. Hebdomada Aenigmatum - Wikipedia

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    Latin crosswords have been the subject of several conferences at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. [ 14 ] Both Hebdomada Aenigmatum and Onomata Kechiasmena are included in a memorandum of understanding with the Italian Ministry of Education to promote the use of Latin and Greek crosswords as a tool to facilitate learning ancient languages.

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...