Now, incoming calls can be replied to with pre-written texts and data usage can be kept to a minimum by preventing Internet Explorer from downloading images automatically.

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The program was fed a set of 89 texts written by nine Italians, including Dante, Machiavelli and Pirandello.

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The government put together a panel of 100 historians and scientists that began cataloging 1, 500 yoga poses found in ancient texts written in Sanskrit, Urdu, and Persian.

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Besides the intrinsic value of cursive writing, some are worried that phasing it out may make texts written in cursive go the way of hieroglyphics, as McGrann pointed out.

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The texts, written in Norwegian, were provided to CNN by Bremnes.

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Why is it that everyone has read and endorsed this bestselling business book as one of the greatest negotiation texts ever written, yet so few actually follow it?

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One of the earliest texts 'The Chirurgia of Roger Frugard', which was written in Latin in Italy around 1180AD mentions oral cancer and suggests surgery.

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Variations of place names for Nazareth (sometimes called Natzrat or Nazara), Capernaum (Kapharnaum) and Tzippori (Sepphoris) appear in biblical texts and in the Talmud, an ancient Jewish rabbinical scripture written in Hebrew and Aramaic.

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