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Božidar Finka was born in Sali on 19 December 1925. In 1947 he finished high school in Split. In 1960 he graduated in Slavic Studies with the dissertation Dugootočki Čakavski govori. [1] Finka spent most of his scientific career working at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, serving as its director from 1973–77. He was a ...
Finka may refer to: Božidar Finka (1925 – 1999), Croatian linguist and lexicographer; Finka, a diminutive of Josephine in Croatian; Finka (potato) , early-ripening variety of potato; Finka, a Zpetsnaz operator in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege video game; Informal synonym for "Finnish knife" in Russia: NR-40 knife; Puukko knife
[citation needed] A good puukko was considered an essential outdoorsman's tool, and thus vital for a soldier in the field. Puukkos proved to be good close combat weapons in the Winter War and Continuation War. Paradoxically, the Defence Forces do not have knives on general issue, due mainly to the puukko having been a highly personal item ...
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow – William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800) [28] The labourer is worthy of his hire; It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back; The law is an ass (from English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist) The leopard does not change his spots
"Good Thing" is a song by British band Fine Young Cannibals, released as the second single from their second and last album, The Raw & the Cooked (1989). The song was their second and final US number-one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. [ 4 ]
According to Sellar and Yeatman, in English history kings are either "Good" or "Bad". The first "Good King" is the confusingly differentiated King Arthur / Alfred (Chapter V). Bad kings include King John , who when he came to the throne showed how much he deserved this epithet when he "lost his temper and flung himself on the floor, foaming at ...
July 31 marks a very special occasion for "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling. The author responsible for fueling our imaginations and providing us with an open-minded, creative, and loving ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...