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An augur with sacred chicken; he holds a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins. Augury was a Greco-Roman religion practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens.
Only some species of birds (aves augurales) could yield valid signs [21] whose meaning would vary according to the species. Among them were ravens , woodpeckers , owls , ossifragae , and eagles .
Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Agüero, [5] is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League.
PDF 2.0 defines 256-bit AES encryption as the standard for PDF 2.0 files. The PDF Reference also defines ways that third parties can define their own encryption systems for PDF. PDF files may be digitally signed, to provide secure authentication; complete details on implementing digital signatures in PDF are provided in ISO 32000-2.
Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where he and Harry Gem invented the modern game of lawn tennis. Juan Bautista Luis Augurio Perera Orfila (in Spanish; Joan Baptista Auguri Perera in Catalan, c.1822 – 1905), known as Augurio Perera, was a Catalan merchant and sportsman based in England, credited alongside his friend Harry Gem as a lawn tennis pioneer.
These are 1100 of the most common words in American English in order of usage. This can be a particularly useful list when starting to learn a new language and will help prioritise creating sentences using the words in other languages to ensure that you develop your core quickly.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
James Parton (1912–2001) was a grandson of the English-born American biographer James Parton (1822–1891). He was the founder, publisher and co-owner of the magazines American Heritage and Horizon, and was appalled by the perceived permissiveness of Webster's Third, published in 1961.