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  2. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    [Yet students must pronounce with diffidence and circumspection on the merits of such illustrious characters, lest, as is the case with many, they condemn what they do not understand. (translated by Rev. John Selby Watson) damnatio ad bestias: condemnation to [the] beasts: Colloquially, "thrown to the lions". damnatio memoriae: damnation of memory

  3. Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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    The most decisive shift of the general American population towards rhoticity (even in previously non-rhotic regions) followed the Second World War. [11] For instance, rapidly after the 1940s, the standard broadcasting pronunciation heard in national radio and television became firmly rhotic, aligned more with the General American English of ...

  4. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, [8] as the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. [9] At the time of Jeff's birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high-school student and his father was 19. [10]

  5. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

  6. Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia

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    The need for national unity thus became a decisive legacy of the first World War. [35] Brighton notes that while both believed in the Stab-in-the-back myth , Rommel was able to succeed using peaceful methods because he saw the problem as related to economic problems and empty stomachs, rather than to Judeo-Bolshevism – which right-wing ...

  7. Decisive victory - Wikipedia

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    The phrases "decisive battle" and "decisive victory" have evolved over time, as the methods and scope of wars themselves changed. More modernly, as armies, wars and theaters of operation expanded — so that the gestalt (i.e., a result which is greater than the sum total – see synergy) of the overall venture was more definitive — the phrase "lost its meaning."

  8. Narses - Wikipedia

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    Narses (also sometimes written Nerses; Latin pronunciation:; Armenian: Նարսես; [citation needed] Greek: Ναρσής; 478–573) was, with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the Roman reconquest that took place during Justinian's reign.

  9. Helvetism - Wikipedia

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    To describe the food, the Swiss use the spelling Müesli (reflecting the pronunciation [ˈmyəsli] of the dialects). Nature: Gletscher (a glacier, in the Western Alps; in the East Alps a glacier is called a Ferner or Kees) Gülle (liquid manure) Lärche (larch) Lawine (avalanche) Murmeltier (marmot) Senn (Alpine farmer) Politics: Putsch (putsch ...