WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographical...

    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially ...

  3. Honoré de Balzac - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoré_de_Balzac

    Honoré de Balzac ( / ˈbælzæk / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈbɔːl -/ BAWL-, [3] [4] [5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d (ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post- Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus .

  4. Indian English literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English_literature

    Indian English literature ( IEL ), also referred to as Indian Writing in English ( IWE ), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India.

  5. Nadir - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir

    Nadir also refers to the downward-facing viewing geometry of an orbiting satellite, [2] such as is employed during remote sensing of the atmosphere, as well as when an astronaut faces the Earth while performing a spacewalk. A nadir image is a satellite image or aerial photo of the Earth taken vertically. A satellite ground track represents its ...

  6. Narendra Modi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi

    Narendra Damodardas Modi ( Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ⓘ; born 17 September 1950) [b] is an Indian politician who has served as the 14th prime minister of India since May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak ...

  7. Kangyur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangyur

    Kangyur. The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur. The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation of the Word'), and the Tengyur or Tanjur is the commentaries by great masters on Buddha's teachings (or ...

  8. Cursive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive

    Cursive (also known as joined-up writing [1] [2]) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal ...

  9. Nader Shah - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Shah

    Nader's Campaigns. Nader Shah Afshar [a] ( Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 [5] – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion.