The two <u>Byzantine missionary brothers St. Cyril and St. Methodius </u>influenced Russia to adopt a script or writing system which came to be known as <u>Cyrillic alphabet</u>. The Cyrillic alphabet owes its origin to Greek alphabet and is closely based on the same, with more than a dozen additional letters invented to represent local Slavic sounds. The script developed in 9th century AD and later it was simplified and regularized. It became the official alphabet of most languages of Eurasian countries and we see in 2007 AD the European Union adopt it as 3rd official alphabet after Latin and Greek.
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He says his poem is "a pot full of yellow corn/ to warm your belly in winter." The speaker is using a metaphor, because he isn't saying his poem is like a pot full of corn, he is saying it is a pot full of corn. ... The cold imagery in these lines points to a motif that is repeating in the poem.
This depends greatly on the time period in question, since for a long time it was Irish immigrants who were coming to the United States in great numbers, but yes, mostly it was German immigrants.
