Liliane Simon is from Luxembourg, where she trained as a stenotypist. She joined the European civil service at a very young age. She started at the High Authority of the ECSC in 1957 and then worked ...
The relationship between mutual intelligibility and linguistic classification is famously complex, often boiling down to ...
Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...
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Speaking in Rajya Sabha, the Congress leader calls the Vande Mataram debate part of a project to defame Nehru. Vande Mataram is sung at every Congress session, he says.
Meezan Hadjiar, born Sathkorale Muhamdiramlagedara Segu Abdul Cader Hajiar Mohamed Mohideen, rose from a small village in ...
At the tail end of our discourse, he inquired whether or not the Chairman of the South Sudan People’s Movement (SSPM), Gen.
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has presented “When Pages Breathe: American Black/Out.” Co-directed by Ches ...
The prolific author who had at least 35 titles to her name (and her pen name) has died from an aggressive form of brain ...
Comedy legend Richard Pryor's wife said he died with a smile on his face ...
Chatto & Windus has won a 14-way auction for revisionist history of sport, Championess, by Anna Kessel MBE. The book offers a “radical reassessment of the history of sport” by the award-winning ...