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The short-range wireless technology Bluetooth is named after 10th-century Danish king Harald Blåtand (“bluetooth”), who brought Denmark’s tribes together into a single kingdom.
The Bluetooth logo is a rune merging the Futhark runes ᚼ and ᛒ, Harald’s initials.
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The short-range wireless technology Bluetooth is named after 10th-century Danish king Harald Blåtand (“bluetooth”), who brought Denmark’s tribes together into a single kingdom.
The Bluetooth logo is a rune merging the Futhark runes ᚼ and ᛒ, Harald’s initials.
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The short-range wireless technology Bluetooth is named after 10th-century Danish king Harald Blåtand (“bluetooth”), who brought Denmark’s tribes together into a single kingdom.
The Bluetooth logo is a rune merging the Futhark runes ᚼ and ᛒ, Harald’s initials.
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The short-range wireless technology Bluetooth is named after 10th-century Danish king Harald Blåtand (“bluetooth”), who brought Denmark’s tribes together into a single kingdom.
The Bluetooth logo is a rune merging the Futhark runes ᚼ and ᛒ, Harald’s initials.
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The short-range wireless technology Bluetooth is named after 10th-century Danish king Harald Blåtand (“bluetooth”), who brought Denmark’s tribes together into a single kingdom.
The Bluetooth logo is a rune merging the Futhark runes ᚼ and ᛒ, Harald’s initials.
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When Jews were expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent ships to bring them into their empire in the Eastern Mediterranean.
That is how Thessaloniki in Greece grew its large Sephardic Jewish community, until World War II.
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When Jews were expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent ships to bring them into their empire in the Eastern Mediterranean.
That is how Thessaloniki in Greece grew its large Sephardic Jewish community, until World War II.
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When Jews were expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire sent ships to bring them into their empire in the Eastern Mediterranean.
That is how Thessaloniki in Greece grew its large Sephardic Jewish community, until World War II.
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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.
Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.
She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.
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Maltese is the only semitic language written in the Latin script and the only semitic language that is an official language of the EU.
Spoken natively by over half a million people on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the language is closest to historical Arabic.