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• Puzzles
  ...ce the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Mathematical puzzles by the Greek mathematician Euclid, Pythagorous, or the Vedic scholar Bodhayana eventuall Mathematical challenges of ancient and more recent times can be found in puzzles such as ticktacktoe, sliding
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Sten Ebbesen
  ...ncluding many editions of medieval philosophical texts (mostly Latin, some Greek). ...tin 1992-99. Previously (1982-86 and 1989-91) director of the Institute of Greek and Latin Medieval Philology, which in 1992 was fused with the Institute of
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• Directory:Tarpon Springs, Florida
  ...in the remaining sponge boats and in the dock area, where sponge shops and Greek restaurants and bakeries are plentiful. Sponge-diving exhibitions and deep- ...nue (US 19A) and Orange Street, is the center of colorful pageantry during Greek festivals.
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• Organon
  The '''''Organon''''' (Greek word meaning "tool") is the name given by [[Aristotle]]'s followers, the [[ *[[De Interpretatione|''On Interpretation'' (Latin:''De Interpretatione'', Greek ''Perihermenias'')]] introduces Aristotle's conception of [[proposition]] a
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• Directory:Logic Museum/The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
  ...nd Early Medieval Philosophy, though it does not continue the histories of Greek and Islamic philosophy but concentrates on the Latin Christian West. Unlike ** 4. Ancient scholastic logic as the source of medieval scholastic logic Sten Ebbesen;
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• Ship building and repairing
  Evidence from [[ancient Egypt]] shows that the early Egyptians already knew how assemble planks of ...[[Phoenicia]] seems to have been of a similar design. The [[ancient Greece|Greek]]s and probably others introduced the use of multiple banks of oars for add
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• Scholasticism
  ...reconcile the [[Christian theology]] of the [[Church Fathers]] with the [[Greek philosophy]] of [[Aristotle]] and his commentators. ...[Thomas Aquinas]], whose [[Summa Theologiae]] is an ambitious synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian doctrine. In the [[Renaissance]], the deductive a
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• Geographic coordinate system
  ...[[Babylonian]]s, later expanded by the famous [[History of Ancient Greece|Greek]] thinker and geographer [[Ptolemy]], a full circle is assigned 360 [[degre
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• On Interpretation
  ...which it is usually known) or '''''On Interpretation''''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]] Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or ''Peri Hermeneias'') is one of the earli
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Ancient Roman society
  ...://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20586744.html ''Abstrat of'' The population of ancient Rome.] by Glenn R. Storey. HighBeam Research. Written 1997-[[December 1|12- ...es indicate that around 20 percent of the population under jurisdiction of ancient Rome (25–40%, depending the standards used, in Roman Italy<ref>N.Morley,
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• Directory:Bloomington, Indiana
  ...th sculpture, jewelry, woodcarvings and other works from early Japanese to Greek cultures; and the African, Oceanic and Art of the Americas collections. Wed
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• Directory:Croatia
  ...or sklaboi). Later in Latin, Sklabenoi was written Sclaveni. Ancient Roman-Greek communities also referred to the early Slavic peoples as Veneti and Antes. ...is, today's Azov, [[Russia]]. At that time the region had a mixed [[Greece|Greek]]-Sarmatian population.
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• Directory:Get the Facts on Herbal Supplements/Licorice Root
  ...icorice.html" TARGET="_blank" ^[4]</a> Licorice has been used in ancient Greece, China, and Egypt, primarily for gastritis (inflammation of the stom
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of terms for gay in different languages
  | [[Greek language|Greek]] || αδερφή (adherfí) || sister (sissy) || align="left" | derogatory | [[Greek language|Greek]] || αρσενοκοίτης (arsenokítis) || man who lies down with men
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• Cybernetics
  ...study of sociotechnical systems. The term ''cybernetics'' stems from the Greek &#922;&#965;&#946;&#949;&#961;&#957;&#942;&#964;&#951;&#962; (''kybernetes' ...people. The words govern and [[governor]] are also derived from the same Greek root.
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• Croatian Identity
  ...iny the Elder: Natural History, Latin: Naturalis Historia 77 AD </ref> and Greek communities also referred to the early Slavic peoples as Veneti and Antes. ...Tanais, today's Azov, Russia. At that time the region had mainly a mix of Greek - Sarmatian population.
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• Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/FT2 on Animal Films
  ...ing]]s, moves on to the human-animal [[god]]s and religious rites of the [[ancient world]] and [[antiquity]], diverts to [[erotic art]] in non-[[Abrahamic rel ...back to antiquity, and were well known to benefit [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] and [[Roman]] [[brothel]]s, in terms of profitable arousal of their patro
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• Directory:Korcula History
  ...<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gDMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA64&dq=Ancient+Greek+historian+Ditte+Crete&hl=en&ei=uMiiTd7vLImcvgO53MGFBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&c ...pearance of its woods"'' referencing to the Greek island. In English ''the Greek'' island is called Cofu</ref><ref>'''Korcula''' is an island in the Adriati
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Lambertus Marie de Rijk
  ...orn at Hilversum (Nederland) November, 6 1924. He is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Leiden, and Honorary Professor * Kephalaion. Studies in Greek philosophy and its continuation, offered to professor C. J. de Vogel. Edite
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Egbert J. Bos
  ...emantics and Metaphysics. Studies Dedicated to L.M. de Rijk , Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Leiden, on the Occasion of his ...York/Köln (E.J. Brill), 1992 (Philosophia Antiqua, A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy, edited by J. Mansfeld, D.T. Runia, W.J.Verdenius and J.C.M. van
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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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/VORPALS
  | 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
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/THEORY
  ...e meaningful before it can be true or false. This association is found in ancient times, and has become standard in modern times under the heading of ''[[sem In an ancient fragment of text called the ''Dissoi Logoi'', a writer is evidently trying
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• User:Jon Awbrey/THEORY
  ...e meaningful before it can be true or false. This association is found in ancient times, and has become standard in modern times under the heading of ''[[sem In an ancient fragment of text called the ''Dissoi Logoi'', a writer is evidently trying
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• Christmas
  ...ith various other traditions and customs, many of which were influenced by ancient [[Winter holiday season|winter festivals]] such as [[Yule]]<ref>The Odinic ...ristmas Season"] ''The Voice,'' CRI/Voice, Institute, 2006.</ref> In early Greek versions of the [[New Testament]], the letter [[Chi (letter)|''Χ'']] (chi)
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• Truth theory
  ...e meaningful before it can be true or false. This association is found in ancient times, and has become standard in modern times under the heading of ''seman In an ancient fragment of text called the ''Dissoi Logoi'', a writer is evidently trying
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• Dalmatian Italians
  ...Romans after the Dalmatae (''or'' Delmatae) Illyrian tribes <ref>Medieval Greek"Dalmatae": Δαλμᾶται.</ref> who inhabited the region. ...avish and Italian today ; for as times of peace followed times of war, the Greek and Roman inhabitants of Rausium intermarried with the surrounding Slavs, a
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• Defence of Korcula
  ...island of Cyprus except for Famagusta. <ref>'''Editors''' note: Famagusta (Greek: Αμμόχωστος Ammóchōstos, Turkish: Gazimağusa/Mağusa) is a cit ...note: Epidaurus (Greek: Επίδαυρος, Epidavros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. Two modern towns bear the name Epidavros (Επ
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/TRUTH
  ...only meaningful things can be true or false. This association is found in ancient times, and has become standard in modern times under the heading of ''[[sem In an ancient fragment of text called the ''Dissoi Logoi'', the writer is evidently tryin
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• User:Jon Awbrey/TRUTH
  ...only meaningful things can be true or false. This association is found in ancient times, and has become standard in modern times under the heading of ''[[sem In an ancient fragment of text called the ''Dissoi Logoi'', the writer is evidently tryin
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• User:AndrewM/Tunisia
  ...antiquity had managed to preserve some of them, including two statues of a Greek god which was always depicted as being ugly, fat, and drunk. ...for fluids and grains. The back room on this floor showed more statues of Greek gods, here largely intact and well-preserved, though the garish paint which
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