Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French)) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The island is one of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It is situated about southeast of Miami, Florida. The land area of St. Kitts is about , being approximately long and on average about across. Saint Kitts has a population of aro...

"Wanderer's Nightsong" () is the title of two poems by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written in 1776 (Der du von dem Himmel bist) and in 1780 (Über allen Gipfeln), they are among Goethe's most famous works. Both were first edited together in his 1815 Works Vol. I with the headings Wandrers Nachtlied and Ein gleiches ("Another one"). Wanderer's Nightsong I The manuscript of Wanderer's Nightsong (Der du von dem Himmel bist) was among Goethe's letters to his friend Charlotte von Stein and bears the signature "At the slope of Ettersberg, on 12 Feb. 76". One translation is by He...

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–87), written in 1883. In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. History of the poem This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise money for the pedestal's construction. Lazarus's contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially she refused but Constance Cary Harriso...

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities ( ) is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its heretical content. It was published simultaneously in three cities in 1554: Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp. The Alcalá de Henares edition adds some episodes which were probably written by a second author. Summary Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take Lazarillo (little Lázaro) on as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beg...

Voiced dental non-sibilant fricative The voiced dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the th sound in father. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is eth, or . This was taken from the Old English letter eth, which could stand for either a voiced or unvoiced interdental non-sibilant fricative. This symbol is also sometimes used to represent the dental approximant, a similar sound not known to contrast with a dental non-sibilant fricative in any language, thou...

This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Spanish language. Unless otherwise noted, statements refer to Castilian Spanish, the standard dialect used in Spain on radio and television. For historical development of the sound system see History of Spanish. For details of geographical variation see Spanish dialects and varieties. Spanish has many allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written between slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written between brackets [ ]). Consonants {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: ce...

:Este artículo sección cubre la fonología del idioma. Para un enfoque más general sobre el idioma, véase idioma español Sonidos y alófonos En lo que sigue diferenciaremos entre fonemas y alófonos. Un alófono es cualquier sonido segmental del habla cuya articulación implica generalmente del orden de una décima de segundo. Un alófono se caracteriza por la distribución de la energía sonora entre diferentes frecuencias. Por el contrario, un fonema no es una realidad sonora concreta sino una clase de equivalencia de sonidos de acuerdo a como se consideran en una lengua dada. Los alófonos pue...

Metamizole (INN), or dipyrone, is an analgesic (pain reliever) and antipyretic (fever reducer). Metamizole sodium is marketed under various trade names, including Algozone, Algocalmin, Algopyrin, Analgin, Dipirona, Novalgin, Neo-Melubrina and Optalgin. Metamizole was first synthesized by the German company Hoechst AG (now part of Sanofi) in 1920, and its mass production started in 1922. It remained available worldwide until the 1970s, when it was linked with a small risk of causing agranulocytosis, a potentially fatal condition. Those results have been disputed in meta-analyses conducte...