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  2. Complete Idiot's Guides - Wikipedia

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    Alpha Books, publisher of the Complete Idiot's Guides, is a member of Penguin Group. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained the line while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1] Alpha moved from Pearson Education to Penguin Group in 2003 ...

  3. Alpha Books - Wikipedia

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    Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained Complete Idiot's Guides while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1]

  4. Caption contest - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Guide to Prize Contests, Sweepstakes, and How to Win Them. New York: F. Fell Publishers. ISBN 0811903273. LaRocque, Paul (2003). Heads You Win!: An Easy Guide to Better Headline and Caption Writing. Portland: Marion Street Press. ISBN 0-9729937-0-3. Mendrinos, James (2004). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing. Indianapolis ...

  5. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - Wikipedia

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    Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).

  6. Russian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Various terms are used to describe Russian grammar with the meaning they have in standard Russian discussions of historical grammar, as opposed to the meaning they have in descriptions of the English language; in particular, aorist, imperfect, etc., are considered verbal tenses, rather than aspects, because ancient examples of them are attested ...

  7. Moscow dialect - Wikipedia

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    The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica wrote: [4]. Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect... The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature.

  8. List of Russian language topics - Wikipedia

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    The list of Russian language topics stores articles on grammar and other language-related topics that discuss (or should discuss) peculiarities of the Russian language (as well as of other languages) or provide examples from Russian language for these topics. The list complements the Category:Russian language and does not overlap with it.

  9. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Although Russian word stress is often unpredictable and can fall on different syllables in different forms of the same word, the diacritic accent is used only in dictionaries, children's books, resources for foreign-language learners, the defining entry (in bold) in articles on Russian Wikipedia, or on minimal pairs distinguished only by stress ...