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Free Translation Online |
Promt Online - free online translation software translates using specialized dictionaries between English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and ... |
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A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period. For additional information specific to English Renaissance, Reformation, and early time period books and manuscripts, visit the University of Toronto English Library . |
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The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish Dictionary, French Dictionary and the Italian Dictionary. Search with the form below or the box above...... |
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Compilation of Colonial Spanish Terms and Document Related Phrases |
Presented by Somos Primos™, a publication dedicated to past and present articles, events and information concerning Hispanic heritage issues. COMPILATION Of COLONIAL SPANISH TERMS And DOCUMENT RELATED PHRASES, Second edition, 1998. Compiled and edited by: Ophelia Marquez and Lillian Ramos Navarro Wold. Copyright, 1998. SHHAR PRESS, 1998 (Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research) , P.O. Box 490 Midway City, CA 92655-0490 . 1-714-894-8161. |
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Americans probably use a greater variety of units of measurement than anyone else in the world. Caught in a slow-moving transition from customary to metric units, we employ a fascinating and sometimes frustrating mixture of units....read more.... |
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Imperial weights and measures, English weights and measures, Customary weights and measures - they are all the same (almost!)...acres, bushels, chains, chalders, chaldrons, crowns, customary measures, drachms, drams....read more.... |
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23 July 2007 - ESBUnitConv is a Free User-friendly Windows Utility to easily convert between units of measurement. Includes Units for Temperature, Distance, Mass, Area....read more.... |
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For further discussion of Land Records in the United States, see the chapter by Thorndale in The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (1984) edited by Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, Ancestry, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT. |
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When the Calendar was Changed and Who was Responsible-At the time of the settling of New England in America, the New Year began on the 25th of march. Thus, March 24th was in 1599 and March 25th in 1600...Read More...; Calendar Switch and Double Dates-Beginning in 45 B.C., many parts of the world used the Julian calendar to mark the passage of time. By the Julian calendar, March 25 was the first day of the year and each year was 365 days and 6 hours long. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII determined...Read More.... Information provided by the USGenWeb. |
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