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• Tau Beta Pi
  ...ys do not. The symbols on the Bent are an ancient form of [[Greek alphabet|Greek letters]]. The quarterly magazine of Tau Beta Pi is also titled ''The Bent'
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• Asparagus
  ...rd century AD ''[[De re coquinaria]],'' Book III. It was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, who ate it fresh when in season and dried the ...from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''aspharagos'' or ''asparagos'', and the Greek term originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] ''asparag'', meaning
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• Directory:Logic Museum/CIMAGL
  ...Dating of the Sticherarion EBE 883 Acts of the Dano-Hellenic Symposium on Greek and Latin Philosophy, Danish Institute at Athens, November 1993. * 67-95 [[Directory:Logic Museum/Sten Ebbesen|S. Ebbesen]], Greek and Latin Medieval Logic
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• Directory:Get the Facts on Herbal Supplements/Mistletoe
  ...an mistletoe's scientific name, Phoradendron, means "thief of the tree" in Greek. The plant is aptly named: it begins its life as a handily sticky seed that
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• Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipaedophilia
  ...e West! Pederasty is inseparable from the high points of Western culture - ancient Greece and the Renaissance [...] in the late nineteenth century, pederasty ...asty before the growth of the Judaic religions in Europe. The paradigm was Greek culture, in which older men took young boys in the role of benevolent guard
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• User:Jon Awbrey/MATH
  | logic with Greek. But both have developed in modern times: ...the diagonal was than an edge. This caused a significant re-evaluation of Greek philosophy of mathematics, as [[non-Euclidean geometry]] would do to Europe
  105 KB (15,873 words) - 11:53, 20 August 2007
• Directory:Jon Awbrey/MATH
  | logic with Greek. But both have developed in modern times: ...the diagonal was than an edge. This caused a significant re-evaluation of Greek philosophy of mathematics, as [[non-Euclidean geometry]] would do to Europe
  105 KB (15,875 words) - 22:02, 25 January 2008
• Directory:Zuvela
  ...s probably born around 1610s, or earlier, 1590-1600s (most likely Zouvella-Greek or Greco-Venetian <ref>The mystery of the old Zuvela’s might remain a per ...them in the Eastern Mediterranean (Greek origins). There are very similar Greek surnames to Zuvela and most promising is '''Zouvelos'''. The shared spelli
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• Latitude
  '''Latitude''', usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter [[phi (letter)|phi]], <math>\phi\,\!</math>, gives the location of a ...e. Evidence of this is that the agricultural revolution occurred first in ancient Mesopotamia.
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• Defence of Korcula (part two)
  ...Nigra (Black Korčula)’it is probably because it is located simiraly to the Greek island of Korfu, both of these island are stretched in East-West direction ...hering it is still preserved. This inscription contains the history of the ancient times. ''“Here the Antenor’s men laid down the foundations of Korčula
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• User:Jon Awbrey/BIB
  * ''[[A Greek-English Lexicon]]'' (1940), [[Henry George Liddell]] and [[Robert Scott (ph * Kline, Morris (1972), ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'', Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/BIB
  * ''[[A Greek-English Lexicon]]'' (1940), [[Henry George Liddell]] and [[Robert Scott (ph * Kline, Morris (1972), ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'', Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
  61 KB (7,562 words) - 18:18, 18 March 2008
• Patent
  ...vidence suggesting that something like patents was used among some ancient Greek cities, patents in the modern sense originated in Italy in [[1474]]. At th
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• Directory:Korcula History 2
  * '''Encyclopædia Britannica''': "Korcula, Italian Curzola, Greek Corcyra Melaina, island in the Adriatic Sea, on the Dalmatian coast, in Cro * perun/ fork - Venetian: pirón ''from'' [[Greece|Greek]]: pirouni
  50 KB (7,685 words) - 14:05, 23 July 2023
• Technology
  '''Technology''' is a word with [[Etymology|origin]]s in the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''technologia'' (τεχνολογία), techne (τέχνη) "craft" ...me primitive forms of tools have been discovered with almost every find of ancient human remains dating from the time of [http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/homo_
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• Sophismata
  '''Sophismata''' (from the Latin plural of the [[Directory:Greece|Greek]] word meaning 'sophism') in [[Medieval philosophy]] are difficult or puzzl *Pattin, A. 1988: Pour l'histoire du sens agent, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Series I, VI, Leuven Unive
  24 KB (3,030 words) - 16:52, 18 April 2009
• Korcula Dialect
  * perun - fork (Venetian: pirón ''from'' [[Greece|Greek]]: pirouni) * Encyclopedia Britannica: "Korčula, Italian Curzola, Greek Corcyra Melaina, island in the Adriatic Sea, on the Dalmatian coast, in Cro
  21 KB (3,328 words) - 04:31, 15 October 2022
• Directory:Tennessee
  * A replica of The Parthenon, the famous ancient Greek building in Athens, Greece, stands in Nashville's Centennial Park.
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• Computer
  ...[[abacus]] and the [[Antikythera mechanism]], an [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] device for calculating the movements of [[planet]]s which dates from abou
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