Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Idi Amin's musical aspirations and the death of cursive
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Nov. 17, 2006
By the dawn of World War II, many of the European Dadaists had fled or emigrated to the United States. Some died in death camps under Hitler, who disliked the kind of "degenerate art" that Dada represented.
Like English, Urdu is a polyglot, a language that's a combination of other languages. It combines Persian, Hindi, Ural, and other languages. Urdu is almost the same as Hindi except it's written in Perso/Arabic script, rather than the Sanskrit characters of Hindi.When the SAT introduced written essays in 2006, only 15% of students wrote their essays in cursive. The rest printed them.
In Japanese myths, butterflies are the symbol of insanity.
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