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Schubert, Franz (Seraph Peter) (b Vienna, 1797; d Vienna, 1828). Austrian composer. Son of impoverished schoolmaster,… B , B, b [Called ‘bee’]. The 2nd LETTER of the modern Roman ALPHABET as used for English. It descends from the Phoenician symbol bēth (‘house’), which wa… Determiner , DETERMINER A PART OF SPEECH or word class that determines or limits a noun phrase, showing whether a phrase is definite (the, this, my), indefinite (… Determinism , The concept of determinism conveys the idea that everything that happens could not have happened in a different way than it actually did. Or alternat… calciferol , calciferol
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