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8 hours ago · Avatars socialising in the virtual world Second Life The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. The term metaverse originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe". In Snow Crash, the metaverse is envisioned as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal, and immersive virtual world that is ...
8 hours ago · te DEF. SG tamariki child. PL te tamariki DEF.SG child.PL "children (in general)" as opposed to ngā DEF. PL tamariki child. PL ngā tamariki DEF.PL child.PL "the (specific group of) children" In other syntactic environments, the definite article may be used to introduce a noun-phrase which is pragmatically indefinite due to the restrictions on the use of he as discussed below. The indefinite article he is used most frequently in the predicate and occasionally in the subject of the sentence ...
8 hours ago · Bina Agarwal in A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (1994), quoting Adrian C. Mayer, Caste and kinship in Central India (1960) Raksha Bandhan is a popular and traditionally Hindu annual rite or ceremony that is central to a festival of the same name celebrated in South Asia. It is also celebrated in other parts of the world significantly influenced by Hindu culture. On this day, sisters of all ages tie a talisman or amulet called the rakhi around the wrists of their ...
1 day ago · A lakh (/ l æ k, l ɑː k /; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 10 5). In the Indian 2,2,3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000.
8 hours ago · Initially, the meaning of the term was restricted to the theory of equations, that is, to the art of manipulating polynomial equations in view of solving them. This changed in the course of the 19th century [c] when the scope of algebra broadened to cover the study of diverse types of algebraic operations and algebraic structures together with their underlying axioms.
8 hours ago · Kabir is known for Hindi poetry, which expresses a rejection of external religion in favor of inner experience. After his death, his followers founded the Kabir panth. A similar movement sharing the same Sant Mat bhakti background that drew on both Hinduism and Islam, was founded by the Guru Nānak (1469-1539), the first Guru of Sikhism.
8 hours ago · At the same time, a very large and significant proportion of Newari vocabulary is Indo-European in origin, by one estimate more than 50%, indicating an influence of at least 1,600 years from Indo-European languages, first from Sanskrit, Maithili, Persian, and Urdu and today from Hindi, Nepali and English.
