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  2. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    One legal definition of degrees of consanguinity. [1] The number next to each box in the table indicates the degree of relationship relative to the given person. Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor.

  3. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

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    [1] It "created at a stroke what without exaggeration might be called the seminal concern of contemporary anthropology, the study of kinship..." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the book Morgan argues that all human societies share a basic set of principles for social organization along kinship lines, based on the principles of consanguinity (kinship by blood ...

  4. File:Escudo de Hernán Cortés completo.svg - Wikipedia

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    Bordura de azur con ocho cruces de San Juan de Jerusalén, de plata. Blasonario de la consanguinidad ibérica ) cargado con su lema Judicium domini aprehendit eos et fortitudo ejus corroboravit brachium meum ( La heráldica de Hernán Cortés ) y un león alado sobre el yelmo que Cortés añadió al escudo.

  5. Learned helplessness - Wikipedia

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    Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused by the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness, by way of their discontinuing attempts to escape or avoid the aversive stimulus, even when such alternatives are unambiguously presented.

  6. William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, CB FRS (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English engineer and industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.

  7. World language - Wikipedia

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    Various definitions of the term world language have been proposed; there is no general consensus about which one to use. [4] [5]One definition proffered by Congolese linguist Salikoko Mufwene is "languages spoken as vernaculars or as lingua francas outside their homelands and by populations other than those ethnically or nationally associated with them".

  8. Joaquín Clerch - Wikipedia

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    Joaquín Clerch (born 1965 in Havana, Cuba) is a classical guitarist and composer.He was a close friend and protégé of Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer.Clerch's composition Yemaya won first prize in both the 1987 National Cuban Composition Competition and the 1987 Toronto International Guitar Competition.

  9. World Englishes - Wikipedia

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    The notions of World English and World Englishes are far from similar, although the terms are often mistakenly [citation needed] used interchangeably. World English refers to the English language as a lingua franca used in business, trade, diplomacy and other spheres of global activity, while World Englishes refers to the different varieties of English and English-based creoles developed in ...