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Beaker culture
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Middle English literature
Middle English literature English literature of the medieval period, c.1100 to c.1500. See also English literature and Anglo-Saxon literature . Background The Norman conquest of England in 1066 traditionally signifies the beginning of 200 years of the domination of French in English letters.... Read more |
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cultural
cultural cultural Chernobyl a cultural disaster; an event which is considered to be detrimental to the culture of a particular country, used originally and chiefly with reference to the opening of the Euro Disney theme park near Paris in April 1992. The phrase is a translation of French Tchernobyl... Read more |
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Culture-Fair Test
Culture-fair test An intelligence test in which performance is not based on experience with or knowledge of a specific culture. Culture-fair tests, also called culture-free tests, are designed to assess intelligence (or other attributes) without relying on knowledge specific to any... Read more |
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semiotics
semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure . It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. Saussure's key notion of the arbitrary nature of the... Read more |
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cultural pluralism
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Italians
Italians LOCATION:Italy POPULATION:57 million LANGUAGE:Italian; French; Slovene; German; Fruilian RELIGION:Roman Catholicsim; small amounts of Protestantism, Judaism, and Greek Orthodoxy 1 • INTRODUCTION The twenty regions that make up Italy were united into a single ... Read more |
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Vladimir Jabotinsky
Vladimir Evgenevich Jabotinsky Vladimir Evgenevich Jabotinsky (1880-1940) led the Revisionist Zionist party. He fought for a Jewish state extending on both sides of the Jordan River. Vladimir Jabotinsky was born on Oct. 18, 1880, in Odessa, the Jewish cultural center of southern Russia. He... Read more |
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ethnology
ethnology , scientific study of the origin and functioning of human cultures. It is usually considered one of the major branches of cultural anthropology , the other two being anthropological archaeology and anthropological linguistics. In the 19th cent. ethnology was historically oriented and... Read more |
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