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lam: To lay down, go into hiding. large: a thousand, a grand, a G. LCN: abbreviation for La Cosa Nostra. lupara bianca: a journalistic term to indicate a Mafia slaying done in such a way that the victim's body is never found. made man: an inducted member of the family. make one's bones: gain credibility by killing someone.
The reigning Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia has the full regnal name Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah, while the reigning Sultan of Brunei officially known as Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka ...
Most Semang, in addition to their own language, also speak Malay. There are also many Malay loanwords in all Semang languages. In addition, some Aslian languages contain many loanwords from each other. Another source of loanwords is the Thai language, which is noticeably predominantly in the Kensiu language, in the north of the peninsula.
KPRS (103.3 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. The station's playlist consists of hip-hop , R&B , and gospel music. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it is the oldest continually African American family-owned radio station in the United States . [ 1 ]
During the Risorgimento, Italian still existed mainly as a literary language, and only 2.5% of Italy's population could speak Italian. [56] Proponents of Italian nationalism , like the Lombard Alessandro Manzoni , stressed the importance of establishing a uniform national language in order to better create an Italian national identity . [ 57 ]
Jay-Z, left, and Sean "Diddy" Combs perform onstage in 2016. A near-decade later, the duo is at the center of wide-ranging claims that they raped a then-13-year-old girl in 2000.
Teochew [ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan) [iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, amended in 2006, requires that state and local governments provide voting material to assist voters who speak minority languages if they are more than 5% of the voting population in a voting district, or if there are more than 10,000 citizens of voting age who do not have the English skills necessary to ...