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A youth football team's Instagram account has been viewed 4.7 million times in the last month thanks to their "ridiculous" training session game. Each week, the Uttoxeter Juniors bring in random items ...
Alphabet Soup letters are nostalgic for many. They've been around since the late 19th century for generations of kids to enjoy. Here's how they're made.
The Wall Street Journal has a long, charming article on the ups and downs of a Russian letter that is fading from the vernacular. The Cyrillic-alphabet letter, ë, is pronounced "yo." Apparently ...
A is for Apple, L is for Lion, and so on. But have you ever stopped to ask why? This video hilariously unpacks the strange, unquestioned rituals around teaching kids the alphabet and why linking ...
"The Latin alphabet was used [in Kazakhstan] from 1929 to 1940," Nazarbayev said. "In 1940…a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script.
If one group has its way, Russian schoolchildren will get a hearty dose of pro-Kremlin patriotism as they master the intricacies of the Russian alphabet.
"Z" as we know it, doesn't exist in the Russian alphabet, but it's been spotted everywhere from Russian tanks to propaganda videos.
They not only changed the political order and overthrew the tsar, but also introduced new spelling rules and purged the Russian alphabet of several letters. The idea of reforming the Russian ...
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist Russian politician known for outrageous remarks on everything from migrant laborers to terrorism, has now targeted a letter in the Russian alphabet. The ...