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  2. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The point was first established by the Milanese typographer, Francesco Torniella da Novara (c. 1490 – 1589) in his 1517 alphabet, L'Alfabeto.The construction of the alphabet is the first based on logical measurement called "Punto," which corresponds to the ninth part of the height of the letters or the thickness of the principal stroke.

  3. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  4. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Using historical figures in marketing communications and in branding is a new area of marketing research but historical figures’ names were used to promote products as early as in the Middle Ages. [46] Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein.

  5. History - Wikipedia

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    For example, the three-age system divides early human history into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age based on the predominant materials and technologies during these periods. [46] Another methodological tool is the examination of silences, gaps or omissions in the historical record of events that occurred but did not leave significant ...

  6. Pontius Pilate - Wikipedia

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    Sources on Pontius Pilate are limited, although modern scholars know more about him than about other Roman governors of Judaea. [14] The most important sources are the Embassy to Gaius (after the year 41) by contemporary Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria, [15] the Jewish Wars (c. 74) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94) by the Jewish historian Josephus, as well as the four canonical Christian ...

  7. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Wikipedia

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    From that point, as Borges reads the tome, part two comprehensively describes and discusses Tlön's culture, history, languages and philosophy. The people of the imaginary Tlön hold an extreme form of Berkeley's subjective idealism, denying the reality of the material world. Their world is understood "not as a concurrence of objects in space ...

  8. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    Throughout history, each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually evolved from a system of proto-writing that included a small number of ideographs, which were not fully capable of encoding spoken language, and lacked the ability to express a broad range of ideas.

  9. History of the International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Association based their alphabet upon the Romic alphabet of Henry Sweet, which in turn was based on the Phonotypic Alphabet of Isaac Pitman and the Palæotype of Alexander John Ellis. [1] The alphabet has undergone a number of revisions during its history, the most significant being the one put forth at the Kiel Convention in 1989.