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The modern digraph th began to grow in popularity during the 14th century ; at the same time, the shape of thorn grew less distinctive, with the letter losing its ascender ( becoming similar in appearance to the old wynn (), which had fallen out of use by 1300 ) and, in some hands, such as that of the scribe of the unique mid-15th century manuscript of The Boke of Margery Kempe, ultimately becoming indistinguishable from the letter Y.
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The letter ð was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English, practically disappearing altogether by 1300 ; þ survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph th by about 1500.
It is from this ‹ uu › digraph that the modern name " double U " derives.
In modern typography, and where technological limitations make its use difficult ( such as in use of typewriters, first telegraphs or ASCII ), æ is often eschewed in favour of the digraph ae.
In Spanish the digraph nn, which used to indicate ( palatal nasal ), was turned into the letter ñ, while ll indicates ( traditionally a palatal lateral approximant, though it has several dialectal variants in modern Spanish ).
While in modern editions of ancient and modern Greek the trema is used only to prevent a digraph ( as < ευ > versus < εϋ > ), Slavonic kendema-usage still continues that of many mediaeval Greek manuscripts, where the " diaeresis " sign was often used simply to mark an ypsilon or iota as such, irrespective of any other vowels ( e. g. δϊαλϋτϊκά, which would not be correct by today's conventions ).
Actually there was not modern letter У in the Old Church Slavonic orthography, and its code point was replaced in different Old Slavonic computer fonts with digraph or monograph forms of the Uk or with the tailed form of Izhitsa.
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An Old and Middle English letter has become a false friend in modern English: the letters thorn ( þ ) and eth ( ð ) were used interchangeably to represent voiced and voiceless dental fricatives now written in English as th ( as in " thick " and " the ").
To speed up designs, manufacturers have switched to constructions that have lower voltage thresholds but because of this a modern NMOS transistor with a V < sub > th </ sub > of 200 mV has a significant subthreshold leakage current.
The modern form riding was the result of initial th being absorbed in the final th or t of the words north, south, east and west, by which it was normally preceded.
The oasis provided water for early farms until th modern age.
The modern statement of the Poincaré duality theorem is in terms of homology and cohomology: if M is a closed oriented n-manifold, and k is an integer, then there is a canonically defined isomorphism from the k-th cohomology group H < sup > k </ sup >( M ) to the ( n − k ) th homology group H < sub > n − k </ sub >( M ).
The modern system of local government that is in use today was implemented on 8 < sup > th </ sup > March 1996.
Shanxi University, was founded on May 8 th, 1902, as Shanxi Grand School, alongside the Metropolitan Grand School ( the predecessor of Peking University ) and the Northern Grand School ( the Predecessor of Tianjing University ), inaugurating a new era for modern Chinese higher education.
The existing records disclose the names of only three of the dynasty's kings, namely Suketavarvan who ruled some time in the 4 th or 5 centuries BC, Chandravarman in the 6 th century BC and Ajitavarman in the 7 th century BC, who ruled from Kumardvipa or modern Kumarjuve, but beyond that the records provide no clue as to their mutual relationship.
Some modern Karailar authors claim in the 8 < sup > th </ sup >- 9 < sup > th </ sup > centuries CE, the upper stratum of Khazar society converted to a form of universalist Mosaism untouched by the influence of Babai.
Old Swedish used some letters that are no longer found in modern Swedish: ⟨ æ ⟩ and ⟨ ø ⟩ were used for modern ⟨ ä ⟩ and ⟨ ö ⟩ respectively, and ⟨ þ ⟩ could stand for both ( th as in the ) and ( th as in thing ).
In the first case, it is a vestige of the spelling in the word's original language ( usually Latin or Greek ) maintained in modern French, for example the use of ⟨ ph ⟩ in words like téléphone, ⟨ th ⟩ in words like théorème or ⟨ ch ⟩ in chaotique.
During the time of Grammarian Panini ( 5 < sup > th </ sup > Century B. C ), a territory named Taitila Janapada flourished to the west of Kalinga and that territory has been associated by historians with the modern town of Titlagarh in Balangir district.
The Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang visited Po Lo Mo Lo Ki Li monastery at modern Paikmal in the 7 < sup > th </ sup > Century AD.
modern and began
The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac.
With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted and he also began to acquire some of the continental languages.
The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.
With the rise of education, cheap newspapers and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop, and the beneficiaries of this were not slow to cash in on this by producing autobiographies.
In the modern world, the killing of important people began to become more than a tool in power struggles between rulers themselves and was also used for political symbolism, such as in the propaganda of the deed.
The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.
The groundwork for the modern bikini began to be laid in 1907, when Australian swimmer and performer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a form-fitting one-piece swimsuit, which became an accepted beach attire for women by 1910.
The appearance of the exhibition galleries began to change as dark Victorian reds gave way to modern pastel shades.
The King-James-Only Movement — or more correctly, movements, since it has many variations — became a divisive force in fundamentalism only as conservative modern Bible translations, such as the New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) and the New International Version ( NIV ) began to appear in the 1970s.
* System: privatization began in 1988 ; advanced telecommunications infrastructure ; modern system based on extensive microwave radio relay facilities ; fixed-line connections have dropped in recent years as mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching a level of 85 telephones per 100 persons
( See The Modern Corporation and Private Property The well-known Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision began to influence policymaking and the modern corporate era had begun.
By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.
One of the largest diasporas of modern times is the African Diaspora, which began at the beginning of the 16th century.
Eventually, in 1849, when Arnold Berthold noted that castrated cockerels did not develop combs and wattles or exhibit overtly male behaviour, modern endocrinology began.
Later, in post war years, as consumer devices began to be developed, the field grew to include modern television, audio systems, computers and microprocessors.
* The modern Environmental movement, which began in the 1960s with concern about air and water pollution, became broader in scope to including all landscapes and human activities.
On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "
The etymologies of humanist scholars in the early modern period began to produce more reliable results, but many of their hypotheses have been superseded.
The modern sword and sorcery boom also began at this time with 1982's Conan the Barbarian.
The modern trigger-actuated machine gun began with various designs developed in the late 1800s and fielded in World War I, such as the Maxim gun, Lewis Gun, and MG 08 " Spandau ".
Some modern scholars, such as Fielding H. Garrison, are of the opinion that modern geology began in the medieval Islamic world.
However, the modern science of genetics, which seeks to understand the process of inheritance, only began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-19th century.
As the early modern period commenced in the late 15th century, many changes began to shock Europe that would have an effect on the production of grimoires ; the historian Owen Davies classed the most important of these as being the Protestant Reformation and subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the witch-hunts and the advent of printing.
Where guilds were in control, they shaped labour, production and trade ; they had strong controls over instructional capital, and the modern concepts of a lifetime progression of apprentice to craftsman, journeyman, and eventually to widely-recognized master and grandmaster began to emerge.
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