Although neither the place nor date of his birth is reliably documented, and some scholars put the date as early as 1483, it is probable that Fran?ois Rabelais was born in November 1494 near Chinon, ...
Paul Skalich (1534–1573), also known as Stanislav Pavao Skali? or Paulus Scalichius de Lika, was an encyclopedist, Renaissance humanist, and adventurer born in Zagreb, Croatia, and who lived part of ...
Badischer Bahnhof (Train Station) with Fountain, Bank for International Settlements, Blaues Haus (Reichensteinerhof) at Rheinsprung 16, Bruderholzschul House at Fritz-Hauser-Strasse 20, Brunschwiler H ...
Early history During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 to 20 km (6 to 12 mi) upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the ...
Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius) (Antwerp, c. 1499 – c. 1531) was a Flemish scholar, humanist, mathematician and astrologer.He is credited with inventing the term ency ...
In 1993, American writer Cathleen Schine published "Rameau's Niece," a satire of academic life in New York that took as its premise a woman's research into an (imagined) 18th-century pornographic paro ...
Denis Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, and began his formal education at a Jesuit collège in Langres.n° 9 de la place dans le centre ville de Langres in the background on the right side the b ...
There are considerable differences between the various transliterations used to represent the Greek alphabet in English. The table in the sidebar shows:The "traditional" transliteration, in other word ...
The word koinē (κοιν?) is the Greek word for "common", and is here understood as referring to "the common dialect" (κοιν? δι?λεκτο?). The word is pronounced /?k??ne?/ or /k?? ...
British English often prefers hyphenated compounds, such as counter-attack, whereas American English discourages the use of hyphens in compounds where there is no compelling reason, so counterattack i ...
In a few cases, essentially the same word has a different spelling that reflects a different pronunciation.As well as the miscellaneous cases listed in the following table, the past tenses of some irr ...
In the early 18th century, English spelling was not standardized. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Today's British English spellings follow, for the most ...
The Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (also called Enciclopedia Espasa, or Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe, after its publisher) is a Spanish encyclopedia comprising 72 volumes (numbered fr ...
The Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Italian for "Italian Encyclopaedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as Treccani for its developer Giovanni Treccani, is an Italian-lan ...
Since the 3rd edition, the Britannica has enjoyed a popular and critical reputation for general excellence. The 3rd and the 9th editions were pirated for sale in the United States, beginning with Dobs ...
