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Proto-writing

Nsibidi is used for the Ekoid and Igboid languages, and the Aro people are known to write nsibidi messages on the bodies of their messengers.


Aaron Fricke

Fricke's archive material, covering the period of writing the two books, is held in the San Francisco Public Library.

Ampelography

Ampelography (ἄμπελος, "vine" + γράφος, 'writing') is the field of botany concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines, Vitis spp. Traditionally this has been done by comparing the shape and colour of the vine leaves and grape berries; more recently the study of vines has been revolutionised by DNA fingerprinting.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Bruce Joel Rubin

His writing credits include: Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact, Brainstorm, Ghost, Deadly Friend (which he adapted from the novel Friend by Diana Henstall), My Life (which he also directed), Stuart Little 2, The Last Mimzy and The Time Traveler's Wife.

Christian Topography

Edward Gibbon, for example, said "the nonsense of the Monk was, nevertheless, mingled with the practical knowledge of the traveller" and used it in writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Danny Bernardi

Bernardi has cited his main influences on his writing as being the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, playwrights such as Stephen Berkoff and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) as well as such diverse sources such as The Clash, Billy Childish, Benjamin Zephaniah.

David Saxe

Writing and developing acts came naturally to David and at the age of 17, he launched his sister's show Melinda Saxe - First Lady of Magic at Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino making him the youngest producer in Las Vegas’ history.

Enchilada

Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by Hernán Cortés in Coyoacán, which included foods served in corn tortillas.

Eric Weinberg

His other credits including writing for the series Party Girl, Politically Incorrect and Too Something.

Fenton John Anthony Hort

Hort was a member of the Cambridge Apostles and is credited with writing the oath of secrecy taken by new members, in or around 1851.

Glen David Gold

Gold has also ventured into comic books, writing a short story featuring Will Eisner's classic creation The Spirit.

Grigory Adamov

He moved to the state publishing house Goslitizdat and started writing for Nashi Dostizhenyia (Our Achievements) magazine, edited by Mikhail Koltsov.

Henrike Lähnemann

Lähnemann's current research focuses on devotional writing from northern Germany, especially the manuscripts of the convent of Medingen.

Henry Melville

Henry Melville (1799-1873) was an Australian author and journalist best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers.

Jemdet Nasr

The site was first excavated in 1926 by Stephen Langdon, who found proto-cuneiform clay tablets in a large mudbrick building thought to be the ancient administrative centre of the site.

Johan Reinholdz

The first Nonexist album Deus Deceptor came out in 2002 and in 2011 he started writing the second Nonexist album From My Cold Dead Hands.

Kostas Krystallis

He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being denounced to the authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry.

London Figaro

Writing in Journalistic London later in the year, Joseph Hatton, said,

Macmillan New Writing

Books Macmillan New Writing has published have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the CWA New Blood Dagger, the Edgar Award for best paperback original, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year, and the Wales Book of the Year.

Manegold of Lautenbach

Manegold's book also contained an account of the life of Gregory VII, reflecting the Vita by John the Deacon of Gregory the Great; this shares details with chronicles of Berthold of Reichenau and Bernold of St Blasien, writing in the part of southern Germany in which Manegold had sheltered after having to leave Alsace.

Memoirs of a Dervish

Writing in The Spectator, Anthony Sattin finds the book "a more enlightening type of memoir" than what he sees as the current fad of the "misery memoir".

Mike Ruocco

Mike then began co-writing with different artists and producers such as Stacy Jones, SR-71 singer Mitch Allan, Holly Knight, Jack Blades, Jani Lane, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, John Corabi and many others.

Nanos Valaoritis

He was also writing poetry, and in 1939 when he was barely eighteen, he saw himself published in the pages of George Katsimbalis’ review Nea Grammata alongside contributions from Odysseas Elytis and George Seferis, and was immediately taken into their literary circle.

Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute became, along with Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor, one of the figures most associated with the rise of this new trend in writing, which sought to radically transform traditional narrative models of character and plot.

Naya Kashmir

The actual writing of this memorandum took place in "Delhi Hotel" at Lahore and at Mr.Bedi's residence at Model Town Lahore.

One World, One Flame

They had problems writing the song, so Adams asked for some help from Gretchen Peters.

Orange Lake, New York

In the late 1940s Mickey Spillane and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and lived in a house they built while he was writing for comic books.

Paper Tigers

On the other hand, Allmusic's Heather Phares criticized the album, writing that beyond "Jerk It Out," "It's Not the Fall That Hurts" and "Soulchaser," there were not many other memorable songs on the album.

Paul Laikin

Returning home in 1947, he studied English at Columbia University and began writing for leading comedians, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Jan Murray, Ed Wynn and Alan King.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Gary Braver, bestselling author of Skin Deep, said “Paul’s writing in The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen has the humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own.”

Proto-Algonquian language

It has merged with the reflex of *r in all Algonquian languages except for Cree and the Arapaho group.

Proto-Anatolian language

However, the usage of Hittite cuneiform writing system limits the enterprise of understanding and reconstructing Anatolian phonology, partly due to the deficiency of the adopted Akkadian cuneiform syllabary to represent Hittite sounds, and partly due to the Hittite scribal practices.

Proto-Elamite

The Mesopotamian civilization emerged during the period 3700–2900 BC amid the development of technological innovations such as the plough, sailing boats and copper metal working.

Proto-Indo-Europeans

Another counter-argument is the fact that ancient Anatolia is known to have been inhabited by non-Indo-European people, namely the Hattians, Khalib/Karub, and Khaldi/Kardi; though this does not preclude the possibility that the earliest Indo-European speakers may have been there too.

Richard Fulton

This interest landed him a slot as a contestant on the To Tell the Truth game show as the song-writing Congressman.

Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham

Maugham bought the merchant ship MV Joyita as a hulk in the early 1960s, writing about the mystery of the incident in his book The Joyita Mystery (1962).

Ron Powers

In addition to writing, Powers has taught for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.

Salomon Bochner

There, he was a student of Erhard Schmidt, writing a dissertation involving what would later be called the Bergman kernel.

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

Sharman Apt Russell

Russell is a professor in the Humanities Department at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, where she teaches writing for graduate students.

Sor Marcela de San Félix

For many women of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Baroque periods to live a life completely retired from the world implied that they could live a life not only fully committed to God, but it also meant that they were able to devote time to their own writing, to their community and perhaps they could even have a place in the administration of their own convents.

Stax

StAX, (Computer Programming) Streaming API for reading and writing XML in Java

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

The Empty City

Kidsreads.com called it a "new and creative twist" for dystopian fiction, with clever names for human things and great emotion for animals in the writing.

The Stone Book Quartet

When she asks for a book, he shows her an older writing – his own stonemason's emblem carved in rock deep within Alderley Edge and dating back countless centuries.

Tibetan incense

Tibetan medical theory states that everything in the universe is made up of the 5 proto-elements: sa (Earth), chu (Water), me (Fire), rLung (Wind or Air), and Nam-mkha (Space).

Tommaso dei Cavalieri

John Addington Symonds, the early British homosexual activist, undid this change by translating the original sonnets into English and writing a two-volume biography, published in 1893.

Tyler Pursel

He has served as long-time touring keyboardist and occasional guitarist for Gym Class Heroes and in 2011 received writing credit on The Papercut Chronicles II.

Valerie Landau

Engelbart and Landau also collaborated on writing the book "The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart" along with co-author Eileen Clegg.

Wade Keighran

He started his career playing guitar in punk band Taking Sides, was the bass player and co-songwriter with The Scare and is currently writing and playing bass for Wolf & Cub.


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