Cape Flissingsky (Russian: Мыс Флиссингский; Mys Flissingskiy) is a cape on Northern Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It is considered the easternmost point of Europe, including islands. The cape was discovered by Willem Barents in 1596, during his pursuit of the northern sea route to Asia. It is named after the Dutch city of Vlissingen, the original name being 't Vlissinger Hooft. The cape is a few km from the shelter that Barents and his crew built to overwinter from 1596–97, and he ultimately died the next year. A memorial cross in his honor is erected in the same area. == See also == Extreme...

Hard and soft G in Dutch (Dutch: harde en zachte G) refers to a phonetic phenomenon of the pronunciation of the letters ⟨g⟩ and ⟨ch⟩ and also a major isogloss within that language. In southern dialects of Dutch (that is, those spoken roughly below the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Waal), the distinction between the phonemes /x/ and /ɣ/ is usual, with both realized as cardinal velars [x, ɣ] or post-palatal [ç˗, ʝ˗], hereafter represented without the diacritics. The allophony between those two types of fricatives is termed soft G in Dutch dialectology. It is almost the same as the distinction between the...

Ghe with upturn (Ґ ґ; italics: Ґ ґ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is part of the Ukrainian alphabet, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet and both the Carpathian Rusyn alphabets, and also some variants of the Urum and Belarusian (i.e. Belarusian Classical Orthography) alphabets. In these alphabets it is usually called "Ge", while the letter it follows — ⟨Г г⟩ (which in its turn is also called "Ge" in Russian and many other languages) — is called "He". In Unicode, this letter is called "Ghe with upturn".The letterform of this letter is based on the letterform of the letter ⟨Г г⟩, but its handwritten...

Noun: sprog (countable and uncountable, plural sprogs)

1. (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, informal, humorous) A child.
2. 1984 September 13, Donald Gould, Forum: Suck it and see, page 54,
3. 2008, Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, & Inheritance Tax For Dummies, UK Edition, unnumbered page,
4. 2010, Brett Atkinson, Sarah Bennett, Scott Kennedy, New Zealand′s South Island, Lonely Planet, page 220,
5. (UK, military, RAF, slang, derogatory) A new recruit.

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Verb: sprog (third-person singular simple present sprogs, present participle sprogging, simple past and past participle sprogged)

1. (UK, Australia...

Een bedstede of bedstee is een in de wandbetimmering opgenomen slaapplaats in de vorm van een kast en afgesloten met deurtjes of een gordijn. Bedsteden werden tot aanvang 20e eeuw veel gebruikt, vooral op het platteland in boerderijen. Een van de voordelen van een bedstede is dat hij in de woonkamer kan worden ingebouwd, terwijl hij overdag door de afgesloten deuren toch onzichtbaar is. Een aparte slaapkamer is daardoor overbodig. Een ander voordeel is dat een bedstede in de winter, doordat het een vrij kleine ruimte is (de kast is niet groter dan het bed zelf), door de lichaamswarmte van de slapers...

A box-bed (also known as a closed bed, close bed, or enclosed bed; less commonly, shut-bed) is a bed enclosed in furniture that looks like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The box-bed is closed on all sides by panels of wood. One enters it by removing curtains, opening a door hinge or sliding doors on one or two slides. The bed is placed on short legs to prevent moisture due to a dirt floor. In front of the box-bed was often a large oaken chest, with the same length as the bed. This was always the 'seat of honour,' and served also...

Nucular is a common, proscribed pronunciation of the word "nuclear". It is a rough phonetic spelling of . The Oxford English Dictionary's entry dates the word's first published appearance to 1943. == Dictionary notes == This is one of two contentious pronunciations which receive particular mention in the FAQ of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-kyə-lər\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers, including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents...

Purple is one of the least used colours in vexillology and heraldry. Currently, the colour appears in only three national flags: that of Dominica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia). However, it is also present in the flags of several administrative subdivisions around the world, as well as flags of political and ethnic groups and sexual minorities. == Background == In the past, purple dye was very expensive to produce, with the first compound used as one, Tyrian purple, being made from the mucus of a family of sea snail...

Oleh Hornykiewicz (17 November 1926 - 26 May 2020) was an Austrian biochemist. == Life == Oleh Hornykiewicz was born in 1926 in Sykhiw (a district of Lviv), then in Poland (now Ukraine). In 1951, he received his M.D. degree from the University of Vienna and joined the faculty of his alma mater the same year and worked there ever since. He also served for twenty years as chairman of the Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology. In 1967, he began a long association with the University of Toronto in Canada and, in 1992, he was named professor emeritus at that institution.One of his seminal acco...

Noun: home stretch (plural home stretches)

1. The final part of a racecourse from the last curve to the finish line.
2. Synonym: home straight
3. (figuratively, by extension) The final part of a distance or the final effort needed to finish.
4. Synonym: home straight

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor. Often described as one of the preeminent actors of his generation, he received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned over four decades, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor, making him the first and only actor to have three wins in that category, and the third male actor to win three competitive Academy Awards for acting, the sixth performer overall. Additionally, he has received four British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2014, Day...