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Some ethnic groups practice ritual mutilation, for example, burning, clitoridectomy, or flagellation, sometimes as part of a rite of passage.In some cases, the term may even apply to treatment of dead bodies, as in the case of scalping, when a person is mutilated after they have been killed by an enemy.
English . The full text of Mein Kampf (Stackpole Sons) at Wikisource; 1940 Mein Kampf: Operation Sea Lion Edition at archive.org; Murphy translation at Gutenberg Archived 26 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine; Murphy translation at greatwar.nl (pdf, txt) Archived 14 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine; Complete Dugdale abridgment at archive.org
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mayim Bialik Bialik in 2018 Born Mayim Chaya Bialik (1975-12-12) December 12, 1975 (age 49) San Diego, California, U.S. Education University of California, Los Angeles (BS, PhD) Occupations Actress author Years active 1987–present Spouse Michael Stone (m. 2003; div. 2013) Children 2 Scientific ...
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
Hōichi-dō (Hōichi's shrine) in Akama Shrine. Hoichi the Earless (耳なし芳一, Mimi-nashi Hōichi) is the name of a well-known figure from Japanese folklore. His story is well known in Japan, and the best-known English translation first appeared in the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.
Since the early 1930s, the history of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in English has been complicated and has been the occasion for controversy. [1] [2] Four full translations were completed before 1945, as well as a number of extracts in newspapers, pamphlets, government documents and unpublished typescripts.
In most English dialects, there are vowel shifts that affect only vowels before /r/ or vowels that were historically followed by /r/. Vowel shifts before historical /r/ fall into two categories: mergers and splits. Mergers are more common, so most English dialects have fewer vowel distinctions before historical /r/ than in other positions of a ...
The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ⓘ) is a collection of the earliest Welsh prose stories, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350 –1410, as well as a few earlier fragments.