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The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.
Saint Shenouda was a popular leader who only spoke to the Egyptians in Egyptian language ( Coptic ), the language of the repressed, not in Greek, the language of the rulers.
As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.
Use of the Aramaic language was also popular in the 3rd Century BCE and was widely spoken amongst Jews in Palestine.
This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanize the Khmer language again.
He also mentions, but only in passing, the use of the English language and consumption of news and popular music and film as cultural dominance that he supports.
One of the main sources of confusion in popular classifications is the difference between a dialect and a language.
Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural – Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >
Changes could and did occur in the language, but only by acquiring widespread popular support ; there was no central authority making arbitrary changes, as happened with Volapük and some other languages.
Although not as popular as other programming systems, Forth has enough support to keep several language vendors and contractors in business.
It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.
Several words and phrases from Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered popular language.
The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).
Schroeder's wife Barbara Sofer is a popular columnist for the English language Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post.
Certainly major contributors to computer science such as Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth, as well as the inventors of popular software such as Linus Torvalds ( Linux ), and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ( the C programming language ) are likely to be included in any such list ; see also List of programmers.
Compared with language in a modern newspaper, magazine or popular novel, Shakespeare's language can strike contemporary readers as complex, elaborate and at times difficult to understand.
Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal ( people's language ) for Norway.

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Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.
For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.
his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs!!
In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.
A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.
During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.
In some parts of Atlantic Canada, such as Newfoundland, Celtic music is as or more popular than in the old country.
It was where ( as a shadow of the popular elections of old Rome ) the people by acclamation showed their approval of a new emperor, and also where they openly criticized the government, or clamoured for the removal of unpopular ministers.
In 1931 Hu Hanmin, Chiang's old supporter, publicly voiced a popular concern that Chiang's position as both premier and president flew in the face of the democratic ideals of the Nationalist government.
These models were popular in the 1960s, 1970s, but nowadays can be found primarily in old legacy systems.
Allegory was popular at the time, so " old Christmas " was given a voice to protest his exclusion, along with the form of a rambunctious, jolly old man.
The oude ( old ) style of jenever remained very popular throughout the 19th century, where it was referred to as " Holland " or " Geneva " gin in popular, American, pre-Prohibition bartender guides.
In the popular Canadian television program Degrassi, character Eli Goldsworthy, a ' death obsessed ' 16 year old, drives a 1960's era vintage hearse, affectionately nicknamed Morty.
Home runs are among the most popular aspects of baseball and, as a result, prolific home run hitters are usually the most popular among fans and consequently the highest paid by teams — hence the old saying, variously attributed to slugger Ralph Kiner, or to a teammate talking about Kiner, " Home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Fords.
This great work covered the whole range of the subject, tracing the mythology and superstitions of the old Teutons back to the very dawn of direct evidence, and following their evolution to modern-day popular traditions, tales, and expressions.
Service-taxis are probably the most popular means of transportation in Lebanon and recognizable by their red plate and most of them are old white Mercedes.
However popular musical tastes were being heavily affected by rock and roll and the freedom and youth associated with it, and indeed Elvis Presley made a few films that have been equated with the old musicals in terms of form.
The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.
Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.
The neo-Classical approach, similar to that of the White House and the federal Capitol in the United States, was popular at the time and had already been used by Soane in his additions to the old palace, but had connotations of revolution and republicanism, whereas Gothic design embodied conservative values.
As in all German cities the Altstadt old city medieval sections, are the most popular attractions of any town.
A number of popular recordings featured " prepared pianos ," playing rags on pianos with tacks on the hammers and the instrument deliberately somewhat out of tune, supposedly to simulate the sound of a piano in an old honky tonk.

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As a boy, John Wilkes Booth was athletic and popular, becoming skilled at horsemanship and fencing.
In the mid-1990s, father-and-son management team Bob and Chris Herbert set about creating a girl group to compete with popular boy bands that dominated the pop music scene in the mid-to late-1990s: " The whole teen-band scene at the time was saturated by boy bands like Take That and East 17.
* Calvin Chen, singer and actor as a member in the popular Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit
In an early and less popular version of the story, Thetis anointed the boy in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away the mortal parts of his body.
The consort song, which was the most popular form of vernacular polyphony in England in the third quarter of the sixteenth century, was a solo song for a high voice ( often sung by a boy ) accompanied by a consort of four consort instruments ( normally viols ).
One version, popular during the Romantic period, even claims Joseph had taken Jesus to Britain as a boy.
For example, she is a fan of most popular boy bands and has admitted to a crush on Dennis the Menace, so much so she has sent him a Valentine's card.
He admits to using taxpayer dollars to fund the murder of his enemies, but thanks to a clever use of a popular Gabbo catchphrase (" I'm a bad wittle boy "), he is re-elected in a landslide.
JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake were the two lead singers of what would become the popular boy band ' N Sync.
Some models built by Fiat or its subsidiaries Lancia and Autobianchi were co-branded Abarth, the most famous being the Autobianchi A112 Abarth, probably the most popular " boy racer " vehicle of its time on account of its lightness and low price.
" Sturges objected, and eventually Lewin gave in, writing, " Follow your witty nose, my boy ; it will lead you and me and Paramount to the Elysian pastures of popular entertainment.
Los Chicos ( also known as Los Chicos de Puerto Rico ) were a popular boy band in Puerto Rico, created to rival Menudo's success.
Walthamstow was home to the popular 1990s boy band East 17, who named themselves after the area's postal code E17, and titled their debut album " Walthamstow ".
However, the moderator, concerned about the contest ’ s low television ratings, offers Lisa free tuition (' and a hot plate ') at the Seven Sisters college of her choice if she will allow a more popular contestant ( who happens to be a boy ) to win.
Though a girl as popular as Veronica can have her choice of dates, she will drop any boy, including Reggie, if she sees Betty with Archie.
In the Disney movie Race to Witch Mountain ( 2009 ) starring Dwayne Johnson, " The Rock ," scenes where he and the alien boy and girl go into a small town, Stoney Creek, where they have repairs done on his taxi and go to a restaurant / country music club, were actually shot in Piru, which continues to be a popular location with film companies.
Fishburne's most memorable childhood role was in Cornbread, Earl and Me, in which he played a young boy who witnessed the police shooting of a popular high school basketball star.
His kindness, and a childhood friendship with a Creek boy, caused Brown to reject the portrayals of Indian peoples as violent and backward, which dominated American popular culture at the time.
During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.
Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed opposite the popular star Jane Wyman.
In another, Memín decides not to receive Communion at his church, after a cruel boy tells him blacks are not allowed in Heaven, pointing to the lack of black angels in religious paintings as proof ( this was inspired by a popular song " Angelitos negros " that asked the same question and a popular Mexican motion picture of 1948 of the same name ).

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