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  2. Mother Earth (novella) - Wikipedia

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    "Mother Earth" is a science fiction novella by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was written from September 1 to October 10, 1948, and published in the May 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . It was republished in Asimov's 1972 short story collection The Early Asimov .

  3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  4. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  5. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    For English, a modern English cognate is given when it exists, along with the corresponding Old English form; otherwise, only an Old English form is given. For Gothic , a form in another Germanic language ( Old Norse ; Old High German ; or Middle High German ) is sometimes given in its place or in addition, when it reveals important features.

  6. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  7. Earth's Children - Wikipedia

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    The Clan of the Cave Bear - National Book Award Finalist for First Novel (1981) [8] The Shelters of Stone - Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek Nominee (2002) Despite the above, the Earth's Children series was the nineteenth most banned and challenged book in the United States between 1990 and 1999. [9]

  8. Mother Earth (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman , an activist in the United States, it published articles by contemporary activists and writers in Europe as well as the US, in addition to essays by ...

  9. Mother Nature - Wikipedia

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    Mother Earth image, 17th century alchemical text, Atalanta Fugiens. The pre-Socratic philosophers abstracted the entirety of phenomena of the world as singular: physis, and this was inherited by Aristotle. [citation needed] The word "nature" comes from the Latin word, "natura", meaning birth or character [see nature (philosophy)].