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The great vowel shift, GVS, is a change in the vowel inventory of English. Before the GVS, the English vowel system was similar to that of other West Germanic Languages. The shift lead to the raising of t...

Understanding how to simplify Boolean algebra is as simple as learning a set of rules, when you look at each rule individually it may not make complete sense but after putting all the rules together in en...

Waterfalls are mainly found in the upper course of a river. They are formed where there are alternating bands of hard and soft rock along the river bed. This is because soft rock erodes around ten times q...

Some areas remain 'switched off' owing to a fear of cultural erosion or a desire to retain heritage, such as occurs in North Korea; North Korea has banned social media like Facebook and Twitter in an atte...

Religious causes were undeniably of great significance to the PoG; the dissolution of the smaller monasteries in 1536 caused significant widespread discontent, as evidenced by the main demands of the rebe...