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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...w year" is a week later, on January 14. It is all Julius Caesar's fault ... The Romans sometimes neglected to introduce an extra month every two... ...iene was rediscovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. Water was... ...most often leaves and corncobs. French royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times i...

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... of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the se... ...s of John’s gospel referred to above, and in connexion with the eleventh chapter of the Romans; it appeared to me that the church of the Gentiles was... ... work of one of his most gifted servants. Now let this book be read as a voice from the Roman Catholic Church, and let the Palingenesia and Basilicu... ...ublication; and I count it well that it has been so ordered, because the members of the Roman Catholic church, for whose sake I undertake this labour... ...othic kingdoms, I heartily concur; observing merely, that when we attribute this to the Roman kingdom, we include the Gothic period as one of the int... ... up within its womb; Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Greece. In short, almost the whole of Europe, Asia Minor, wit... ..., which every one knows to be widely different from heresy, and which has devoured all Greece, Asia Minor, Armenia, Georgia, Palestine, Egypt, in a ... ...haldea. 134 The second Empire supposed to be that of Persia. 135 Third Empire, that of Greece. 135 Fourth, the Roman Empire. 136 Another division ...

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...urch is, at the same time, apostolic, and may likewise with propriety be termed Roman, forasmuch as it posesseth all the authority, jurisdiction, and... ...s of the Gentiles, and not without a mysterious meaning sent it directly to the Romans; protesting upon this particular point, that although the prop... ...oint out the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, or even the Romans? And he might have added, or all the barbarous nations who sub... ...Romans? And he might have added, or all the barbarous nations who subverted the Roman empire? These races of nations are no longer discernible, they ... ..., that as various nations, to wit, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, and Romans, had at various times subjected, afflicted, and oppressed the ... ...ion, and withdrew some to Carthage, a colony of the Tyrians, others to Ionea or Greece, others to different parts of Europe or Africa, leaving to th... ...aul, writing to the Corinthians, which was one of the most flourishing cities of Greece, most prudently accommodates himself to the opinions which pr...

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...am Forderungen des Tages Maksa Friša. Ispred mene NIN, otvoren na intervjuu najnovijeg dobitnika nagrade za roman godine. Za stolom pored, momak jed... ...A NEĆE PROMENITI. - ĈUJ ME SAD DOBRO: NAŠA VEZA NE LIĈI NA POPODNEVNO ŠTIVO ZA DOMAĆICE. TO NIJE HERTZ-ROMAN. TO JE ŢIVOT. MOŢDA NISI PRIMJETIO?... ...pozorištu, ne u našem ţivotu. Uostalom, mi nikog ni meĊu ţivima ni meĊu mrtvima ovde više i nemamo. Sve je romantiĉno i glupo, kao neki roman, koji ... ...UDBINU. ZAHVALAN JE. BAR TAKO MISLI. KAD SE PROBUDI, KREVET JE PRAZAN. ARHETIP FRANCUSKOG (TRIVIJALNOG) ROMANA. FRANSOAZ SAGAN MU SE MEŠA U ŢIVO... ...8 DUŠAN GOJKOV, BEOGRAD,1965. OD ISTOG AUTORA: Grand Hotel, kratke priĉe, 1993, 1994; Slepi putnik, roman, 1994; Evropa pleše, radiofonski ... ...evision. Writes from Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Zagreb. 1991 After a few threats, lives a country. First to Greece, then Germany, Austria, Switzerlan...

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...aradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small gro... ...oate afirma c ă au f ăcut paradoxism în teatru scurt, teatru pentru copii, roman, proz ă scurt ă, nuvele, povestiri pentru copii ori filosofie – ca ... ...i 12 (piesele “P ăcal ă şi Balaurul”, “P ăcal ă, Zmeul şi Extraterestrul), roman 8 , proz ă scurt ă 14 , nuvele 23 (“Diploma”, “Shakespeare Alexand... ...francez ă şi englez ă. 28 Va c ăuta Pachia, probabil, acum: dramaturgi, romancieri ori nuveli şti (c ă Nichita nu se încadreaz ă în mod clar în a... ...ele constituie scânteia curentului paradoxist. De pild ă, citeam recent un roman de Danielle Steel, scriitoare american ă de succes, “The Ring”, ac ... ...e to be understood with a sixth sense. Pi O is an ingeneous pen name of a Greece born “number poet” leaving in Australia. He published the followin...

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...aradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s, where the whole culture was manipulated by a small gro... ...oate afirma c ă au f ăcut paradoxism în teatru scurt, teatru pentru copii, roman, proz ă scurt ă, nuvele, povestiri pentru copii ori filosofie – ca ... ...i 12 (piesele “P ăcal ă şi Balaurul”, “P ăcal ă, Zmeul şi Extraterestrul), roman 8 , proz ă scurt ă 14 , nuvele 23 (“Diploma”, “Shakespeare Alexand... ...francez ă şi englez ă. 28 Va c ăuta Pachia, probabil, acum: dramaturgi, romancieri ori nuveli şti (c ă Nichita nu se încadreaz ă în mod clar în a... ...ele constituie scânteia curentului paradoxist. De pild ă, citeam recent un roman de Danielle Steel, scriitoare american ă de succes, “The Ring”, ac ... ...e to be understood with a sixth sense. Pi O is an ingeneous pen name of a Greece born “number poet” leaving in Australia. He published the followin...

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...e protagonists that populate this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to p... ...s played host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you ... ... answer, Jew-dog!” – he barked shrilly. “My great-great grandfather was the wild, romantic artist type. He had a fling with a German servant-girl ... ... eschatological conflict between ultimate good and unadulterated evil. Theirs was a romantic crusade intended to deliver the maiden Europe from the ... ...diators used in the arena. Other countries gave them different designations: LOK in Greece, P26 and P27 in Switzerland, Absalon in Denmark and so on...

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...y. It may take the form of direct acceptance of what is contemporary, as Greece accepted the Egyptian world; or it may tak~ the form of indirect ac... ...most of our contemporaries believe in a mixture of them, just as the late Romans believed in a mixture of gods. This is made easier by the nature o...

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...ovie, says to Ben-Hur: “You have Messala inside yourself”. Messala is the Roman horseman dressed in black. We have to look at life not as a race ag... ..., May 25 th , 1996. 193 The Iliad talks about a great army that leaves Greece and goes to Troy to conquer it and bring Helen, Menelaus’ wife, ba... ...e created. Life as a work of art is not intended here like Neitzsche or the Romantics intended it. It is the creation of a unified and unifying field...

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...ala rakonto Kraljevie Marko premiita en la lit. konkurso de 1896. Abismoj. Romano originale de Jean Forge. 1923, 150 p. “La kerno de la romano estas ĉ... ...taj libroj trioniĝis. v. Literatura Mondo. Aelita aŭ la Marso formortanta. Romano de Alekseo Tolstoj, el la rusa 11 trad. de L. Pil 1928, 200 p. “La ... ...ujn li verkis por tiu revuo, estis poste eldonitaj en 13 lingvoj. 13 Aiza Roman, hispano, staba kolonelo. Mortis. Dua prez. de Hispana Societo por pr... ...pt 1933). Akademio, la supera komisiono de la Lingva Komitato (v.). Akbar. Romano de Van Limburg Brouwer, trad. el la holanda J. C. kaj J. R. G. Isbrü... ...eshon” anstataŭ association ktp. Anglujo, v. Britujo. Anni kaj Montmartre. Romaneto de R. Schwartz 1930, 128 p. “Mal- gaja aventuro de l’ juna germani... ...ch, Frankrike; Denmark, Dänemark, Danemark, Danimarca, Dinamarca, Danmark; Greece, Griechenland, Grece, Grekland, Hellas; Norway, Norwegen, Norvege, N...

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...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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...ytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...ction. Their commerce extending, they soon carried commodities to Egypt and to Greece, and to other nations occupying territory in the Levant. In the ... ...onsiderable strip of land, as was also Sicily with Italy, and Negro Ponto with Greece; and accounts have been given of the finding of the hulls of shi... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...ehring Strait, through which they sailed, and finally reached Cathay which the Roman soldiers successfully invaded. The Khan was defeated in every bat... ...ed and then destroyed, and lading their vessels with the treasure captured the Romans returned to their own country by the southern route. DESTRUCTION... ...t their progress, and they moved westward, making themselves masters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards embraced Christia... ...ry of the Holy Land. But while a portion of the nation was engaged at war with Greece, Italy and France, other bold spirits had set out on the high se...

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...life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book i...

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...s, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sapp... ... times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by publish... ...to the history of typesetting was substantial. He perfected the design of Roman type: The fonts that he cut beginning in 1531 were recognized as pos... ...the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the well-balanced typeface became popular, and was introduced to th...

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...between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian...

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...ourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...) split geographically along a line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from t... ...nters and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...arning of Muslim culture was unparalleled. Extensive ancient Greek and Roman teachings formed the foundation of the classical tradition, but most... ... but most of it had been lost in the wake of the internal collapse of the Roman Empire and ongoing barbarian invasions. For example, most of Aristotl...

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...sts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Good End XXIV. Of the Roman Greatnesse XXV. How a Man should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of... ...er in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his belove... ...flew out. She faints: at last, with long pause thus she said. Besides the Romane Ladie, that died for joy to see her sonne returne alive from the bat... ...nes: and Talva, who died in Corsica, reading the newes of the honours the Roman Senate had conferred him: It is reported that in our age, Pope Leo t... ...w being dead, seeme to feare them. Verily in like matters by the lawes of Greece, hee that required a dead body of his enemies, with intent to bury ... ...: on something else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane army in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were br... ...that of Leo the Emperor, who fore-spake all the Emperors and Patriarkes of Greece. This have I seene with mine owne eyes, that in publike confusions,... ... in practice by the Law-giver Charondas, and that before him the lawes of Greece were wont to punish those with death, who for feare did run a way f... ...sis King of Egypt tooke to wife Laodice, a very beauteous young virgin of Greece, and he that before had in every other place found and showed himse...

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...ourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...) split geographically along a line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the ... ...nters and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles... ...is early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...learning of Muslim culture was unparalleled. Extensive ancient Greek and Roman teachings formed the foundation of the classical tradition, but most... ... but most of it had been lost in the wake of the internal collapse of the Roman Empire and ongoing barbarian invasions. For example, most of Aristotl...

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...ful or popular appel- lation used as if a real geographical name: (I) Holy Roman Empire, German Empire (-Dmtschw Reich), French Republic (=Rt?pdliq... ... (but: scribe); Epicurean, Stoic, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Sym- bolic school of painters. But do not capita... ... church (=organized Christianity), the Eastern (Greek Orthodox) church, the Roman Catholic church, the estab- lished church (but: the Establishment)... ...tic Gospels, Fourth Gospel, Acts of the Apostles (the Acts), Epistle to the Romans, Pastoral Epistles, Apocalypse (Revelation), Sermon on the Mount,... ....) 33. As a rule, nouns followed by a numeral-particu- larly a capitalized Roman numeral-indicating their order in a sequence: Malzzlal of Style:... ...dsletti has said, . . . ." Deut. 3: 4b [s]. Grote, the great historian of Greece (see his History, I, 204 [second edition]), . . . . 163. Such ph...

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...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...d through the second major influence—the writings and schools of classical Greece—came a new, carefully defined system of Hebraism which can lay claim... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...ally became well known, particularly during the time of the Macedonian and Roman empires. By about 300 BC Buddhism had become a THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSIO... ...ly north. In the first century AD this area was one of the outposts of the Roman Empire. Because this was the site of ma- jor trade routes with Africa... ...government of the Empire as such— and who for the most part lived in Rome, Greece, and Turkey—sought to distance themselves from the public percep- ti... ...tradi- tional Jewish presuppositions. Of all the philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome it was Plato’s teachings, as taught and ex- panded by the A... ... Judaism because the Mystery Religions and the philosophical traditions of Greece and Rome for the most part held a similar view, thus reinforcing the...

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...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...a. To give you a slight inking of the degree of volcanic activity there was: Greece was once buried under 400 feet of volcanic ash drifting over th... ...00 feet of volcanic ash drifting over the Mediterranean from Africa…. Now if Greece was covered under 400 ft of ash as a peripheral effect of volca... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...ns… And after that: they walked around, casually slaughtering members of the Roman crowd while the entire crowd of Romans who outnumbered the invade... ... of the ones who were spared. It was the victors attempt to try to teach the Romans that what they despised most about the Romans was their disgust... ... not feel anything human. The origin of Modern Western Science comes from Greece, 2,750 years ago. 2,500 years ago; Aristotle said in describin... ...enia, a state of mental insanity that had become normal for wealthy Greeks in Greece at that time. He was trying to rationalize and uphold this late...

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...e immediate disciples of Timon, as given by Diogenes, were not men known in Greece or mentioned in Greek writings. c the well-known testimony of Aris... ...n in some centre of philosophical schools and of learning. He never opposes Roman relations to those of the place where he is speaking, as he does i... ... speaking, as he does in regard to Athens and Alexandria. He uses the name "Romans" only three times, [1] once comparing them to the Rhodians, once... ...tions. [2] In the first two of these references, the expression "among the Romans" in the first part of the antithesis is followed by the expressio... ...ch Haas understands to be synonymous. The third reference is in regard to a Roman law, and the use of the word 'Roman' does not at all show that Sex... ... of the laws referred to by Sextus as παξ᾽ ἡκῖλ shows that they were always Roman laws, and his definition of law [3] is especially a definition of... ... without influence on his teachings. Oriental philosophy was not unknown in Greece long before the time of Pyrrho, but his personal contact with the... ...ompare Maccoll Op. cit. After the death of Alexander and Pyrrho's return to Greece, he lived quietly with his sister at Elis, and Diogenes says that...