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Powaqqatsi (1988) Naqoyqatsi (2002) The Qatsi trilogy[ a] is a series of three non-narrative films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass. The trilogy includes Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988), and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The titles of the films are derived from the Hopi language, in which the word qatsi translates to "life."
English Pronouncing Dictionary. The English Pronouncing Dictionary ( EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [ 1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a ...
Comparison of English dictionaries. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other ...
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided ...
Life. Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics. He was a pupil and colleague of Daniel Jones, and is known for having updated and extended Jones's description of standard British English ...
Dazzle (video recorder), a family of external video capture devices. Dazzle camouflage, a family of ship camouflage. Dazzle Draw, a raster graphics editor for the Apple IIc and Apple IIe. Dazzle reflex, a type of reflex blink where the eyelids involuntarily blink in response to a sudden bright light. Dazzle, an intense and vision-impairing glare.
The Free Library has a separate homepage. It is a free reference website that offers full-text versions of classic literary works by hundreds of authors. It is also a news aggregator, offering articles from a large collection of periodicals containing over four million articles dating back to 1984. Newly published articles are added to the site ...
Glossary of. Dune. (franchise) terminology. This is a list of terminology used in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, the primary source being "Terminology of the Imperium", the glossary contained in the novel Dune (1965). Dune word construction could be classified into three domains of vocabulary, each marked with its own ...