QUESTION MARK
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QUESTION MARK, also especially AmE interrogation mark, interrogation point. The
PUNCTUATION mark (?). Its primary use is to show that a preceding word, phrase, or sentence is a direct
QUESTION:
Do you want more to eat? It is not used in indirect speech, because a reported question is part of a statement:
I asked you whether you wanted more to eat. The question mark is sometimes repeated in informal usage or followed by an exclamation mark/point in order to indicate a specially strong question (
What did you say??;
What did you say?!). It is also used, often in brackets, to express doubt or uncertainty about a word or phrase that immediately follows or precedes it:
Julius Caesar,
born (?)
100 bc;
They were then seen leaving the house (
in tears?)
and walking away.
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The Hanseatic League and Freedom of Trade
Magazine article from: Journal of Private Enterprise; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Hanseatic League was an unusual entity. It was embedded...against unrestrained governments. The Hanseatic League had no finances, army or fleet of its own. There were no Hanseatic officials, only the officials of the...
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The Hanseatic League and freedom of trade.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Private Enterprise; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Hanseatic League was an unusual entity. It was embedded...against unrestrained governments. The Hanseatic League had no finances, army or fleet of its own. There were no Hanseatic officials, only the officials of the...
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The first common market? In the 13th century a remarkable trading block was formed in northern Europe. Stephen Halliday explains how the Hanseatic League prospered for 300 years before the rise of the nation state led to its dissolution.
Magazine article from: History Today; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Hanseatic League, or Hansa, began as...active involvement in the League's interests. In the...campaigns. Thus in 1361 the League took up arms against...Denmark who attacked the Hanseatic city of Visby on the...
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[ Whatever happened to the Hanseatic League? ]
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/20/2003; ; 700+ words
; Whatever happened to the Hanseatic League? A medieval trade association of some northern European cities...another such report should put the UN in the company of the Hanseatic League. UN inaction on Iraq is further proof of its irrelevance
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Gdansk, top of the Hanseatic League; The Baltic merchants' city bombed so badly that bricks melted is buzzing again.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 9/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...Century, Gdansk, a member of the Hanseatic League, one of the most powerful trading...Visit Gdansk now, as it climbs the league of must-see European cities...Green Gate at the riverside. The Hanseatic merchants who built many of the...
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A New Hanseatic League.(Baltic States)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 3/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...inevitably, some describe what's happening as the emergence of a "new Hong Kong"--or, more aptly, a new Hanseatic League, a post-cold-war reincarnation of the mercantile monopoly that dominated Baltic trade in the Middle Ages. Sheer...
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The `Amber Gateway' -- Picking Up Where the Hanseatic League Left Off
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to help ourselves is to help the entire region," he added. The Amber Gateway would be fashioned after the old Hanseatic League, one of the world's earliest free-trade zones, which came to fruition in the 14th century and connected major...
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Hanseatic to be in a League of his own
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 4/14/2005; ; 615 words
; ...local runners, including Middleham-based raider Hanseatic League (2.45), a leading contender for the Chequers...year. But it was not all doom and gloom because Hanseatic League then paid a visit to Windsor and came away with the...
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In league with history; Hanseatic ports echo steps of German merchants, emigrants.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...writers, I toured several German Hanseatic League cities, including Bremen and...remains a fishing port. The term Hanseatic League suggests power and romance...continue proudly to call themselves Hanseatic cities. It is in Bremen and Hamburg...
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Defining a culture: the meaning of Hanseatic in medieval Turku.(Research)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...concept and ask to what extent Hanseatic culture has relevance for...culture of the town. The term Hanseatic has its beginnings in historians...association into a community or league of towns, but fundamentally...trade relations were with the Hanseatic towns of Tallinn (Reval...
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Hanseatic League
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hanseatic League , mercantile league of medieval German towns...led (13th cent.) to leagues. Most notable was the...major impetus to the league's development was...and consequent loss of Hanseatic privileges, advances...
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Waldemar IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...nationalistic challenge to the mercantile Hanseatic League. Waldemar IV was born to a bankrupt...in shambles. Influence of the Hanseatic League In the midst of the intrigues...was the influence of the German Hanseatic League. Founded in the mid...
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Stockholm
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hanseatic merchants; and several old Hanseatic houses. Also on the island are...trade center, dominated by the Hanseatic League (especially Lübeck...ended the privileges there of the Hanseatic merchants. Stockholm was made...
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Hansa
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...HANSA. The Hansa was a league of northern European...Along with other town leagues that predate the Hansa, such urban leagues became a common means...The extremely loose Hanseatic confederation was made...Flanders and Norway. The league developed its enduring...declined. Though most ...
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Lübeck
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Baltic trade, and headed the Hanseatic League . However, the rise of the maritime...beck. In 1630 the last of the Hanseatic diets was held there. The city...later the German Empire as a free Hanseatic city; it retained that status...
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