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111Joseph Caspi — Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi (1279 Largentière mdash;1340, Tarascon), was a Provençal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher, apparently influenced by Averroës. He was born at Largentière, whence his Hebrew surname Caspi (= made… …
112Klingon Language Institute — The Klingon Language Institute (KLI) is an independent organization located in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, USA. Its goal is to promote the Klingon language and culture. Contents 1 General 2 History 3 Organization 4 …
113writing — /ruy ting/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that writes. 2. written form: to commit one s thoughts to writing. 3. that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible. 4. such characters or… …
114Tibeto-Burman languages — Introduction language group within the Sino Tibetan family (Sino Tibetan languages). At the end of the 20th century, Tibeto Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto… …
115DUNASH BEN LABRAT — (mid tenth century), Hebrew poet, linguist, and exegete. Most medieval scholars believed that he and Adonim ha Levi were the same person. Moses Ibn Ezra described him as a Baghdadi by origin and a man of Fez by education. He could have been born… …
116SAADIAH (Ben Joseph) GAON — (882–942), greatest scholar and author of the geonic period and important leader of Babylonian Jewry. Saadiah was born in Pithom (Abu Suweir), in the Faiyum district in Egypt. Little is known about his family except that his opponents slandered… …
117SLONIK (Solnik), BENJAMIN AARON BEN ABRAHAM — (c. 1550–c. 1619), Polish rabbi. Slonik was probably born in Grodno. He studied there in his youth under Nathan Nata Spiro. He was rabbi in Silesia (Joseph Katz, She erit Yosef (Cracow, 1590), no. 47) and Podhajce (Meir of Lublin, Responsa, no.… …
118Eskimo — The map of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Eskimo peoples : * Yupik peoples (Yupik, Siberian Yupik) * Inuit (Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Kalaallit) …
119Weasel word — Weasel words is an informal term for words that are ambiguous and cannot be substantiated by facts. They are typically used to create an illusion of clear, direct communication. Weasel words are usually expressed with deliberate imprecision with… …
120Tushara Kingdom — Tusharas (alias Tukharas, Tocharians) were a Mlechcha tribe, with their kingdom located in the north west of India as per the epic Mahabharata. An account in Mahabharata (Mbh 1:85) depicts Mlechchas as the descendants of Anu, one of the cursed… …
