The Translation Convention trope as used in popular culture. When a group of people whose native language is not English are together, away from any English …

The Fantasy Counterpart Culture trope as used in popular culture. Creating a completely new culture from scratch can be a daunting task. Think about …

What is salad? Food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks. As time progressed, salads became more complicated.

Ynglism (Russian: Инглии́зм, also spelled “Yngliism” or “Ingliism”), institutionally the Ancient Russian Ynglist Church of the Orthodox Old Believers—Ynglings (Древнерусская Инглиистическая Церковь Православных Староверов—Инглингов, Drevnerusskaya Ingliisticheskaya

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Nudity in Ancient to Modern Cultures. Aileen Goodson (This chapter excerpt is from Aileen Goodson’s Therapy, Nudity & Joy) “If anything …

Ancient Northeast African and Middle Eastern scripts. The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt.Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs that are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Other articles where History of Germany is discussed: Germany: History: Germanic peoples occupied much of the present-day territory of Germany in ancient times. The Germanic peoples are those who spoke one of the Germanic languages, and they thus originated as a group with the so-called first sound shift (Grimm’s law), which turned…

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia.