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It may not be generally known that Comenius was once solicited to become President of Harvard College. The following is a quotation from Vol. II, p.14, of Cotton Mather’s Magnalia: “That brave old man, Johannes Amos Commenius, the fame of ...more

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“The Phoenician system was a much easier consonantal system made up of only a few graphemes (letters). These “letters” did not stand for things, but for the sounds that made up words.”
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