Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
There is some disagreement over the meaning of the Morrígan's name. Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror, monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere (which survives in the modern English word "nightmare") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old East Slavic "mara" ("nightmare"); [15] while rígan translates as "queen".
Toledano ( Hebrew: טולדנו, Ladino: טולידאנו) is a family name derived from the city of Toledo, Spain. Bearers of the name can be found mainly in Spanish -speaking countries, the United States, France, Canada, Israel, and Australia. [ 1] The surname is also found among Sephardi Jews in their various diasporas, indicating possible ...
In 2008, Shapiro married Mor Toledano, an Israeli medical doctor of Moroccan descent, [174] [175] and they lived in Los Angeles. [4] The couple has two daughters and two sons. [176] [177] They practice Orthodox Judaism. [178] In 2019, the FBI arrested a man from Washington for making death threats against Shapiro and his family. [179] [180]
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...
An English language pangram being used to demonstrate the Bitstream Vera Sans typeface. The best-known English pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". [1]It has been used since at least the late 19th century [1] and was used by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. [2]
Nalbuphine binds with high affinity to the MOR and KOR, [9] and has relatively low affinity for the DOR. [9] It behaves as a moderate-efficacy partial agonist (or mixed agonist/antagonist) of the MOR and as a high-efficacy partial agonist of the KOR. [9] Nalbuphine has weak or no affinity for the sigma receptor(s) (e.g., K i > 100,000 nM). [8 ...