Black sign language was born out of this isolation.

This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.

Black sign language speakers prefer to use two hands opposed to one, for example: remember.

Black sign language speakers are also more likely to sign higher on the body.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

The sign for rabbit provides a good example of variation between Black and White speakers.

While both communities use the forehead location and neutral space location with the H handshape, Black speakers also have a separate sign for rabbit, with a bent V handshape and different hand movement.

For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

Asking his followers to embrace the traditions of what he referred to as Mon-Khmer ' holy warriors ' ( yuthesel ), he also encouraged them to refer to him as their " Black Papa ", a name referring to the dark skin considered to be the sign of an ' authentic ' Khmer.

A black cat happened to be nearby, and the group took this as a sign and adopted the Black Cat as their mascot figure.

*" The flaming star, which, when turned upside down, is the sign of the goat of Black Magic, whose head may be drawn in the star, the two horns at the top, the ears to the right and left, the beard at the bottom.

::"... Friis and Jensen had made the same distinction Black used between ' positive feed-back ' and ' negative feed-back ', based not on the sign of the feedback itself but rather on its effect on the amplifier ’ s gain.

In contrast, Nyquist and Bode, when they built on Black ’ s work, referred to negative feedback as that with the sign reversed.

The main attractions, in addition to a picturesque setting, are the covered bridge spanning the Gatineau River, the Maclaren Mill built in 1838 and named after an early family in the region, now restored and operated as the Wakefield Mill Inn and Spa and the Black Sheep Inn ( or Auberge Mouton Noir, as its sign reads to conform with Quebec language laws.

Jeremy Black agrees, although points out that the inclusion of Leiter was a sign of American influence in the Caribbean.

Black fur is looked upon as the sign of a true killer, so the elite Stormvermin corps draw their members from black furred ratlings, it is also common for lighter colored Skaven to dye their fur.

Big Black booked their own tours, paid for their own recordings, and refused to sign contracts, eschewing many of the traditional corporate trappings of rock bands.

Vincent " Manny " McIntyre from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada becomes the first Black Canadian to sign a professional baseball contract ( with the Sherbrooke Canadians ).

She is also highly skilled at interpreting the gestures and body language of Black Bolt, and has a fluency in a special sign language used to communicate with Black Bolt.

During the Napoleonic Wars, when Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was killed in battle, his troops changed the colour of their uniforms to black, with a Totenkopf on their shakos in mourning their dead leader ( Other sources claim that the " Black Brunswickers " were so equipped while Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick lived, as a sign of revenge on the French.

In 1986, TeeVee Toons was shortened to TVT Records, a label that would sign and / or develop musical acts over the next couple of decades such as: The Saints, Shona Laing, Nine Inch Nails, the Connells, Aphex Twin, Tackhead, Underworld, Gravity Kills, Buck-O-Nine, Jurassic Five, Sevendust, Default, XTC, Guided By Voices, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes, Bounty Killer, KMFDM, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Gil Scott-Heron, Tha Eastsidaz, Just Jack, Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins, Pitbull, Teedra Moses, and Ambulance LTD.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

Also writing in the German language, Jeremias Gotthelf wrote The Black Spider ( 1842 ), an allegorical work which used gothic themes.

*** Pa-Oh ( Pa-O, Pa ' o ), Taungthu or Black Karen ( people, language )

The word " burzum " means " darkness " in novelist J. R. R. Tolkien's doubly artificial language ; the Black Speech.

Black Africans generally speak English as a second language, and accent is strongly influenced by mother-tongue ( particularly Bantu languages ).

The Scythians were a group of north Iranian nomadic tribes, speaking a Indo-Iranian language who had invaded Media, killed Cyrus in battle, revolted against Darius and threatened to disrupt trade between Central Asia and the shores of the Black Sea as they lived between the Danube river, river Don and the Black Sea.

* Mistahi-maskwa ( recorded as Mistihui ' muskwa or as Mistahimusqua ; better known as Big Bear in English and as Gros Ours in French ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1825, son of the Ojibwa-Chief Mukitou (‘ Black Powder ’), mastered his native language, the Cree language, as well as Ojibwe language, led the last resistance to the dispersal of the Cree on many reservations and asked for a big total reserve, a revolt of the young warriors under the leadership of one of his sons in 1885 destroyed these plans, died 17 January 1888 on the Poundmaker reservation in North Battleford in Saskatchewan.

* Twelve Western fonts ( including Andalé Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield ) and seven Asian language fonts ( including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set )

Although " classical " Adûnaic was not spoken after the Akallabêth, surviving groups of the King's Men ( referred to as Black Númenóreans ) who served and worshipped Sauron ( notably in Umbar ) continued to speak a debased form of the language ( called Black Adûnaic ) as recently as the War of the Ring at the end of the Third Age.

* Black Library's Horus Heresy series novel set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, titled A Thousand Sons, by Graham McNeil, references the Enochian language.

* Translations of the legends of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian language can be found in Black, J. A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998 –.

The name reportedly means " Black water " in the aboriginal language.

Ebonics ( a blend of the words ebony and phonics ) is a term that was originally intended to refer to the language of all people descended from enslaved Black Africans, particularly in West Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.

The word Ebonics was originally coined in 1973 by African American social psychologist Robert Williams in a discussion with linguist Ernie Smith ( as well as other language scholars and researchers ) that took place in a conference on " Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child ", held in St. Louis, Missouri.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.

Wound-tumor virus is a leafhopper transmitted virus not easily transmissible by mechanical inoculation ( Black, 1944 ; ;

Mr. Justice Black no doubt concurs in principle but is more apt to make exceptions to achieve a generous and `` just '' result.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

Black and white is her favorite color combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens.

Such is the case with the Black Sea invasion of the natural hybrid Pelophylax esculentus reported in 2010.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau.

The Black Sea coast is characterized by a range of steep mountains that extend along the entire length of the coast, separating it from the inland Anatolian plateau.

The Bosphorus, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about long and averages in width but narrows in places to less than.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

Analog Brothers is an experimental hip-hop crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice-T ( keyboards, drums, vocals ), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith ( bass, strings, vocals ), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live ( drums, violyns and vocals ), Silver Synth also known as Black Silver ( synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals ), and Rex Roland also known as Pimp Rex ( keyboards, vocals, production ).

Black arsenic is similar in structure to red phosphorus.

Black antimony is formed upon rapid cooling of vapor derived from metallic antimony.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.