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  2. Initial - Wikipedia

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    An inhabited initial is an initial, an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of text that contains an illustration of human or animal figures within the letter. It is similar to a historiated initial (see below); however, the figures in historiated initials show an identifiable scene or story, while the figures in ...

  3. Changes in Star Wars re-releases - Wikipedia

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    The franchise-originating film was released in 1977, under the title Star Wars.The subtitle Episode IV – A New Hope was retroactively added to the opening crawl for the theatrical re-release on April 10, 1981, [13] [37] to align with the titling of the sequel, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

  4. Personal name - Wikipedia

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    Older generations used the initials system where the father's given name appears as an initial, for eg: Tamil Hindu people's names simply use initials as a prefix instead of Patronymic suffix (father's given name) and the initials is/ are prefixed or listed first and then followed by the son's/ daughter's given name.

  5. Just-noticeable difference - Wikipedia

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    where is the original intensity of the particular stimulation, is the addition to it required for the change to be perceived (the JND), and k is a constant. This rule was first discovered by Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), an anatomist and physiologist, in experiments on the thresholds of perception of lifted weights.

  6. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    The initial consonant in the word finger in traditional dialects of England. Initial fricative voicing is a process that occurs in some traditional accents of the English West Country , where the fricatives /f/ , /θ/ , /s/ and /ʃ/ are voiced to [v] , [ð] , [z] and [ʒ] when they occur at the beginning of a word.

  7. Original Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage: Which should you ...

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    Original Medicare. 2024 cost. Part A. $0 in most cases, thanks to Medicare taxes from working 10 years or more. Part A deductible. $1,632 for every hospital benefit period, without any limits ...

  8. Head (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Head-initial vs. head-final languages [ edit ] Some language typologists classify language syntax according to a head directionality parameter in word order , that is, whether a phrase is head-initial (= right-branching) or head-final (= left-branching), assuming that it has a fixed word order at all.

  9. Prototype - Wikipedia

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    The word prototype derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον prototypon, "primitive form", neutral of πρωτότυπος prototypos, "original, primitive", from πρῶτος protos, "first" and τύπος typos, "impression" (originally in the sense of a mark left by a blow, then by a stamp struck by a die (note "typewriter"); by ...