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DIALANG is an online diagnostic system designed to assess a person's proficiency in 14 European languages. [1] [2] Competences tested are reading, writing, listening, grammar and vocabulary, while speaking is excluded for technical reasons.
Many of the city's central buildings, including those lining St George's Quay date from the 18th century, as the Port of Lancaster became one of the UK's busiest and the Lancaster slave trade was the fourth most important in the UK slave trade. [23] Among prominent Lancaster slavers were Dodshon Foster, [28] Thomas Hinde and his namesake son. [29]
Dolphinholme, near Lancaster: 21–25 May 1954 3 Stanley Ellis Yes, survey respondent La11 Eccleston, near Chorley 23–26 March 1954 3 Stanley Ellis Yes, survey respondent La5 Fleetwood: 1954 intermittently 4 Peter Wright Yes, survey respondent La14 Halewood, near Liverpool 29 March – 3 April 1954 3 Stanley Ellis No La12 Harwood, near Bolton
The proceeds are divided between two registered charities, the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund and the Duchy of Lancaster Jubilee Trust. [9] The emblem of the historic county of Lancashire is the Red Rose of the English royal House of Lancaster, and in 2008 the Flag of Lancashire became recognised by the Flag Institute.
The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area, [2] is a group of 23 postcode districts in north-west England, within 17 post towns. These cover north Lancashire (including Lancaster, Morecambe and Carnforth) and southern Cumbria (including Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal, Ulverston, Windermere, Dalton-in-Furness, Milnthorpe, Sedbergh, Grange-over-Sands, Askam-in-Furness, Kirkby-in ...
The Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System (CLAWS) is a program that performs part-of-speech tagging.It was developed in the 1980s at Lancaster University by the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language. [1]
Bailrigg FM (formerly known as University Radio Bailrigg (URB) and Radio Bailrigg) is a student radio station at Lancaster University.It operates in a music format predominantly featuring pop, but also broadcasts news, drama, comedy, and entertainment.
The Friends Meeting House in Lancaster, Lancashire, England is a Quaker meeting house built in 1708. [1] It is an active Friends meeting house, [2] [3] and a Grade II* listed building. [4] The earliest meeting house on the site was built in 1667, and its date stone survives in the current building. [4]