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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
In English, the question mark typically occurs at the end of a sentence, where it replaces the full stop (period). However, the question mark may also occur at the end of a clause or phrase, where it replaces the comma (see also Question comma):
The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1]
Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" [1] or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o , it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after z — thus x , y , z , æ , ø , and å .
The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the left, <, has been found in documents dated as far back as the 1560s.
The Trump administration has filed suit against the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago, arguing their sanctuary laws “interfere” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
O.A. Cargill: April 4, 1923 April 12, 1927 Democratic 21 Walter C. Dean April 12, 1927 April 12, 1931 22 C.J. Blinn April 12, 1931 November 7, 1933 23 Tom McGee: November 7, 1933 April 9, 1935 24 John Frank Martin April 9, 1935 April 11, 1939 25 Robert A. Hefner: April 11, 1939 April 8, 1947 26 Allen Street April 8, 1947 April 7, 1959 Democratic
A major interval is one semitone larger than a minor interval. The words perfect, diminished and augmented are also used to describe the quality of an interval.Only the intervals of a second, third, sixth, and seventh (and the compound intervals based on them) may be major or minor (or, rarely, diminished or augmented).