Matter of words

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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~ Anthony Burgess Traducerea nu e doar o problemă de cuvinte: ea presupune să faci înţeleasă o întreagă cultură. ~ Anthony Burgess

Barack Obama

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Assumed office: January 20, 2009 Vice President: Joe Biden United States Senator from Illinois – In office: January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 Member of the Illinois Senate from the 13th District – In office: January 8, 1997 – … Read More

Office packages

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Packages are collections of office applications that help the user in performing common tasks related to office work. The main types of applications included are detailed below: Text editors, Spreadsheets, Presentations Databases Calendar. Main office packages currently used are: Microsoft … Read More

Spyware

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 Malicious websites may attempt to install spyware on readers’ computers. In this screenshot a spamblog has triggered a pop-up that offers spyware in the guise of a security upgrade. In the field of computing, the term spyware refers to a … Read More

Start for the tiger tourism in India

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The tiger is a cat in fact, isn”t it? But a big cat, with a length of up to  3.3 metres (11 ft) and a weight of up to 306 kg (670 lb). It was once upon a time when the tiger ranged … Read More

Translation theories

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In terms of contemporary theories of translation, it is generally found that there are six mainstreams: Practical / communicative approach Interpretive mainstream: theory of the meaning of TISS, based primarily on the practice of conference interpreting. In their book Interpreting … Read More

Dice history

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Dice were probably originally made from the ankle bones of hoofed animals (such as oxen), colloquially known as “knucklebones”, which are approximately tetrahedral. Even today, dice are sometimes colloquially referred to as “bones”, as in “shake them bones”. Ivory, bone, … Read More

Criticism and controversy of Yahoo

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  The Yahoo! Holdings controversy In April 2005, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court of Hunan Province, China (First trial case no 29), for … Read More

Avicephalans

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Fossil range: Permian-Triassic Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Subclass: Diapsida (unranked) Avicephala, Senter, 2004 Families: Longisquamidae, Coelurosauravidae, Drepanosauridae Avicephala is an extinct order of bizarre diapsid reptiles that lived during the Late Permian and Triassic periods. Many … Read More

Declaration

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Declaration is an action in poker, when a player shows his intention to take some action that will be performed later. There are several types of such declarations. Declaring target in a split pot The most common is the act … Read More

Why Ajax?

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The core justification for Ajax style programming is to overcome the page loading requirements of HTML/HTTP-mediated web pages. Ajax creates the necessary initial conditions for the evolution of complex, intuitive, dynamic, data-centric user interfaces in web pages—the realization of that … Read More

Tourism in Mehedinti County, Romania

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Places of twinning of the Carpathians with the Balkans, where the last arch of our great spectacular mountain range meets the Danube at the Iron Gates, host one of the most picturesque regions of Romania, Mehedinti.    On a physical … Read More

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