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In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, " Alexander the false prophet ", trained by " one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates ",< ref >

Galileo has been called the " Father of Modern Observational Astronomy ",< ref >

Arne Grøn calls this doctrine " the classic example of a metaphysical idealism as a transcendent idealism ",< ref > Arne Grøn Encyclopedia of Science and Religion while Simone Klein calls Plato " the earliest representative of metaphysical objective idealism ".

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

" The British were the " people of forms ",< ref > referring to their practice of tattooing or warpainting.

Tasmania is promoted as the natural state, the " Island of Inspiration ",< ref >

Cognates within Indo-European include Greek kýklos, " wheel ", Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic kolo, all meaning " circle " or " wheel ",< ref >

The year 2010 is pronounced either " two thousand ( and ) ten ",< ref >

Both lauded and criticized for being a " sculptor of monuments ",< ref >

In the English language nunchaku are often referred to as " nunchucks " or " nunchuks ",< REF > thefreedictionary. com </ REF >.

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In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal ( from xochitl " flower " and quetzalli ) a " quetzal bird ", also called Ichpōchtli, meaning " maiden ",< ref name =" dic ">< i > Nahuatl Dictionary .</ i > ( 1997 ).

Wallace was also a self-taught " practicing statistician ",< ref >

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Augustine spoke passionately of God's " beauty so ancient and so new ",< ref > Augustine of Hippo ,< cite > Confessions 10, 27 </ cite ></ ref > and his fascination with beauty extended to music.

The album was informally executively produced by Busta Rhymes, whom Raekwon cited as getting him in the " Cuban Linx mindset ",< ref >

This has earned Leunig the description of " political cartoonist ",< ref >

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In 560 a new, energetic king emerged: Alboin, who defeated the neighboring Gepidae, made them his subjects, and, in 566, married the daughter of their king Cunimund, Rosamund .< BR > In the spring of 568, King Alboin led the Lombard migration into Italy :< BR >

St. Barbatus of Benevento observed many pagan rituals and traditions amongst the Lombards authorised by the Duke Romuald, son of King Grimoald .< BR >