Roger was one of the first words for "R" in early aviation phonetic alphabets and came to mean "message received." ...

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As autumn paints Shanghai in shades of gold, J Hotel Shanghai Tower, perched atop China's tallest building, introduces a ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

One letter never appears in any U.S. state name. It’s not J, Z, or X. Here’s why Q was left out and how that happened. The ...

The report, generally taken as a temperature check of the bullishness of UK advertisers, led with a positive note: after a ...

As a Frenchwoman who has lived in Australia, I’ve noticed it’s often the same French words that give English speakers the ...

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With its indomitable heroine and themes of longing and return, Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” is a challenge—and an ...

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