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  2. Zapya - Wikipedia

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    Zapya (Chinese: 快牙; pinyin: kuai ya) is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that allows users to transfer files of any size and of any format without the need of an Internet connection. Dewmobile, Inc. initially conceived Kuai Ya in Silicon Valley , California, USA to target the Chinese market in 2012.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a noted actor of his day, but his theatrical fame is far eclipsed by his notoriety as an assassin.

  4. Writing - Wikipedia

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    Writing is a cognitive and social activity involving neuropsychological and physical processes. The outcome of this activity, also called "writing", and sometimes a "text", is a series of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. The interpreter or activator of a text is called a "reader".

  5. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    e. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [1][2] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [3] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and ...

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    Costello's, c. 1940. Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker ...

  7. Written language - Wikipedia

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    Written language. Specimen of typefaces used to write numerous languages – from the 1728 Cyclopædia by letter founder William Caslon. A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing. This involves the use of visual symbols, known as graphemes, to represent linguistic units such as phonemes, syllables, morphemes, or ...

  8. Mi'kmaq language - Wikipedia

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    The Mi'kmaq language (/ ˈ m ɪ ɡ m ɑː / MIG-mah), [nb 1] or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Mi'kmaq population is roughly 20,000. [4] [5] The native name of the language is Lnuismk, Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk [6] or Miꞌkmwei [7] (in some dialects).

  9. English language - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.