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...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...Anatomy Studies 10,000 Engineering Projects (canals, locks, swamps) 20,000 Architecture, Music, Horology 10,000 Maps, Geometry 5,000 Geometry, Hydraul...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e... ... westward side of this table-land was located the city of Tlatlanquitepec, the architecture of which was vastly more imposing than that of any place t... ...refinement fully equal, if not superior, to that found anywhere in Europe. The architecture would rival that of the Moors, who introduced into Spain a... ...y log cabins, but the further one goes to the south the better is the style of architecture, and not very many miles from the mouth of the Yenesei the...

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...R I A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY WHOEVER EXAMINES, W... ...ling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though... ..., been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns. But these disliking their ... ... their beauty, their smell, or their taste. Now, for you and your skill in architecture and other mathematics, I have little to say: in that building ... ...n or assistance from without. Then he dis plays to you his great skill in architecture and improve ment in the mathematics. To all this the bee, as ... ...rute: That present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for our country’s good. She named t...

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...ave been most interested in comparing the culture of Lampang villages with ancient Finnish tradition and changes that have taken place in Finland. It ... ... swidden cultivation and created stable, permanent rice villages. From the ancient centre of the province, habitation spread out towards the mountain... ... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ... REFERENCES With reference to ancient Finnish folk culture, my only source is Finnische Volksüberlieferun... ... 1984. Structural Change in Housing: A Survey in Thailand 1983. Vernacular Architecture, 9–32. Publications of the Finnish National Commission for UN...

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...vil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel battle-field;—much to the disad- vant... ...ettle; not theatre-controver- sies, but a world-controversy: there, in the ancient pigtail mode, or with modern Brutus’ heads, do well-frizzed logi- c... ... wished it. Beloved Brothers! Liberty, one might fear, is actually, as the ancient wise men said, of Heaven. On this Earth, where, thinks the enlighte... ...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ... Human Species at his heels. Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks; Turks, Chaldeans, Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia: behold them all; they have come to claim p... ...ght and trim, with its straight streets, spacious squares, and Stanislaus’ Architecture, on the fruitful alluvium of the Meurthe; so bright, amid the ...

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...t of a Lady which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non residence. S... ...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ... thatched and timbered, past ale houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick ... ... was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather... ...e brightness of a garden where nature itself looked as archaic as the rugged architecture of the palace and which cleared and scented the rooms in reg... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic... ...e of local colour. It had local colour enough, and though he knew less about architecture than about Limoges enamels he could see that the proportions...

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...s not easy to trace how he became possessed of his black vizard, which was anciently made in the resemblance of the face of a cat; but it seems that t... ...r called Wolf ’s Crag, which the public more generally identified with the ancient tower of Fast Castle.] The scraps of poetry which have been in most... ...acter and in structure. They had only to turn their eyes to the history of ancient Greece, although he did not pre- tend to be very deeply versed in i... ...es, and that neglect of economizing space which characterizes old Scottish architecture. But there was far more room than my old friend required, even... ...on Elspat MacTavish, or the Woman of the T ree, as they called her, as the Greeks considered those who were pursued by the Furies, and endured the men...

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...o either of them it reflects no Dishonour on our Blood, which is of a most ancient and unpolluted kind. Bertha (the Mother of Philander) and Agatha (... ... the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman and famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting. It was in the reign of Henry the 7t... ...ter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who has been al- ready mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study ... ...conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidentally passing that way.... ..., each sup- ported by four sticks, gave a striking proof of that taste for architecture and that happy ease in overcoming dif- ficulties which were so...

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...e:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a cell, or place of removal, as some report) to the... ...or Hall, which, with others by the same author, was to be found in Evans’s Ancient Ballads (vol. iv., page 130), to which work Mickle made liberal con... ... 11 Sir Walter Scott The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves... ..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ...fore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are em- 141 Sir Walter Scott ployed for the same purpose. On... ...or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in ex- tent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the l... ...its different fronts magnificent specimens of every species of castellated architecture, from the Conquest to the reign of Elizabeth, with the appropr... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat...

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...po- Formio and saw the white-faced inn at which Napoleon dis- membered the ancient republic of V enice and bartered away this essential part of Italy ... ...unding in old castles and villas, Vicenza is a rich mu- seum of Palladio’s architecture and Bassano is full of irre- placeable painted buildings—one f... ...nch; the English will never think nor talk clearly until the get clerical “Greek” and sham “humanities” out of their public schools and sincere study ... ...per, the English would have fought on passionately to restore her. That is ancient history now. Now the English still feel fraternal and fraternally p... ...hat the English are doing….” “Have I ever told you the story of compulsory Greek at Oxford and Cambridge?” I asked abruptly. “What has that to do with...

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...love of books, both classical and modern. He delighted in music, painting, architecture, and many arts of a more mechanical description; wrote treatis... ...graving, showing how the Young White King obtains instruction in painting, architecture, language, and all arts and sciences, the latter including mag... ... manner, but because his graceful tastes, his love of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the mechanical turn which made him an improver of fire-ar... ...s brother, fencing 182 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest in the hall, learning Greek with the chaplain, reading or sing- ing to his mother, or carving gra... ... vassals of the two houses an obligation that perhaps might override their ancient hatred; and the Baron and his mother gladly submitted to the arrang... ...d, if the former state of things be at an end, the less he takes after the ancient stock the better. But I am an old man now, Stine, though thou look’... ... wait until such time as the much- needed General Council may proclaim the ancient truth, and enable us to avouch it without disunion. Into schism I w...

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...nicked cheerfully, and were happy in the manner of a happiness that was an ancient mode in Nineveh. Eyes were bright, Grubb was funny and almost witty... ...ff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me. “But he was trying to sell his blessed secret abroad. That’s a... ...“But he was trying to sell his blessed secret abroad. That’s all right. No Greek about that! Gollys! Here is the secret!” He tumbled off the seat, ope... ...e world’s plea- sure; and men likened her to the apocalyptic cities of the ancient prophets. She sat drinking up the wealth of a conti- nent as Rome o... ... and her gorgeous plutocracy repeated V enice in the magnifi- cence of her architecture, painting, metal-work and sculp- ture, for example, in the gri... ...e nowadays ‘aven’t no idee of a shop—no idee. Plate-glass winders—it’s all Greek to them. Why, I’ve ‘ad as much as a ton and a ‘arf of petaties to ‘an...

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... of the state windows, where their accoutrements hung drying on the marble architecture, and showing to the mind like hosts of rats who 38 Charles Di... ...terwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for h... ...s and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied and blindfolded moderns were carefully f... ...gar’s Petition over it, as if every individual warrior among them were the ancient Belisarius: and of whom there were so many Legions, that unless the... ... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra...

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...contact 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 Scan...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek ... ...thers. I can then pursue the highest human needs, those of ‗self-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek ... ... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ...slims, Christians and Jews against each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek ... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...

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...me to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more informatio... ... and stand-up paddling equipment. FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, Honolulu-based architecture and design frms have played a key role in creating the lands... ...d around the world. ASTRONOMY World’s best place to study the Universe In ancient times, Polynesian voyagers used navigational knowledge they gaine... ... matter just outside the Milky Way containing about a thousand small and ancient stars. With the greatest collection of ground-based telescopes on ... ...H for Planck’s Constant, multiplied by its frequency, represented by the Greek letter NU, so that HNU describes “the energy of light.” A unit of p... ...d common areas, using a 100 Mbps fber connection and dual-homed network architecture; • simultaneous interpretation rooms, and press rooms that ca...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS................................................ ...MANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 1... ...arles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you ... ...for the destruction of the people, a cer tain terrible composition called Greek Fire, which could not be put out with water, but only burnt the fierc... ...g Edward the Third was rendered memorable in better ways, by the growth of architecture and the erection of Windsor Castle. In better ways still, by t...

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...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ...ght naturally to be favorable to the art of murder, as they were to church architecture, to stained glass, &c.; and, accordingly, about the latter end... ...etters, L.M. This L.M. had directed the people of the house to purchase an ancient cock, and to have him boiled forthwith, in order that Spinosa might... ....e., diving,] “they discoursed of many things relating to the Baths of the Ancients, and the Origine of Springs. When they had in this manner passed a... ...hen, what wandering thoughts I may have had of at- tempting the life of an ancient ewe, of a superannuated hen, and such “small deer,” are locked up i...

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... far behind as one of these clear headed children of the Roman forum and the Greek amphitheatre; and even if they have lost something of the sensation... ... de FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 3 tached from the lingering spell of the ancient shadowy world in which trees and animals talked to each other, an... ...unicipal order and pros perity which partly makes up for the horrors of its architecture and sculpture. But what struck me still more was the extraor... ... to birds and insects because in some remote and perhaps prehistoric past an ancient Gaul once decreed that “blackberries give the fever.” An hour awa... ...innocent self. Yet the blackberry has been condemned untried because of some ancient taboo that the French peasant dares not disregard. FRENCH WAYS A... ...had torn down their cathedrals when they ceased to feel the beauty of Gothic architecture, as the French had ceased to feel it in the seventeenth cent... ...French view of what are eu phemistically called “the facts of life” (as the Greeks called the Furies the “Ami able Ones”) is often spoken of as thou...