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The Indus Valley Civilization left behind magnificent ruins and thousands of mysterious seals featuring a "unicorn" and short strings of…
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While Malta is a devoutly Roman Catholic nation, its congregants pray to "Alla"—a direct cognate of the Arabic word for…
Maltese is the world's only Semitic language written officially in the Latin script, serving as a unique linguistic bridge between…
While most European languages form questions by simply swapping the subject and verb (like the German "Trinken Sie?"), English requires…
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