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The 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the German armed forces during World War II. Formed on 18 July 1944 from a battalion, it was understrength and was soon reduced to a brigade.
J. G. Ballard. James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) [ 2] was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. [ 3] Ballard first became associated with New Wave science ...
A Quaternary clay deposit in Estonia, laid down about 400,000 years ago. Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals [ 1] (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 ( OH) 4 ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities ...
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Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories. Cover of first edition, published by Jonathan Cape. Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer J. G. Ballard published in 1976.
The English Dialect Dictionary ( EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [ 1] The time of dialect use covered is, by and large, the Late Modern English period ...
Ballard, Seattle, a neighborhood that was once a city before being annexed by Seattle, Washington. Ballard, Utah, a town in Uintah County. Ballard, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Monroe County. Ballard County, Kentucky. Ballardvale, Massachusetts, a village in the town of Andover, Essex County.
English lexicology and lexicography is that field in English language studies which examines English lexicon, English word-formation, the evolution of vocabulary and the composition of English dictionaries .