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The Phoenician alphabet[ b ] is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) [ 2 ] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script ...
In Halo: Epitaph, the Didact, his sanity having been restored from being digitized by the Master Chief, learns that the Librarian was uploaded directly to the Domain upon her death because of her contributions to Living Time unlike the other Forerunners who had died when Halo was fired and were trapped in the outer boundaries of the Domain. Now ...
List of Halo media. Halo is a science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and owned and published by Xbox Game Studios. Central to the Halo series are the three first-person shooter video games Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3; novelizations, soundtracks, and other media are also available. The story of the series is about the ...
t. e. Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune"). Today, the characters are known collectively as the futhorc ...
A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk'; [ 1 ][ 2 ] also called a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole (Latin: gloriola, lit. 'little glory') is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [ 3 ] that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or ...
History of the alphabet. The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. [1] Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script ...
Contact (. Halo. ) Master Chief (played by Pablo Schreiber) takes off his helmet and reveals his face. This scene was subject to commentary amongst critics and controversy amongst fans. [1][2] " Contact " is the series premiere of the American military science fiction television series Halo. Written by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane and directed ...
The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a ] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b ] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It is derived from the Cyrillic script, which was modified in the 9th century to capture accurately the phonology of the first Slavic ...