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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...or its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished... ...t on this theme of the sacraments. He expects that after this “Prelude” the Romans will gird themselves for battle and attack him in force, but he i... ...s later. The first came from the pen of Augustinus Alveld, that “celebrated Romanist of Leipzig,” against whom Luther had fulminated in The Papacy at... ...at is, scriptural. Luther discusses each one of the seven sacraments of the Roman church, but devotes nearly half of the book to the Lord’s Supper a... ...cism. It was the most devastating assault Luther had yet undertaken against Roman teaching and practice. It marked Luther’s final and irrevocable bre... ...Cratippus, a peripatetic philosopher of Mytilene, had taught Cicero’s son at Athens and received the rights of Roman citizenship through the orator’s... ...enship through the orator’s efforts. In addition to instructing the youth of Athens, he wrote on divination and the interpretation of dreams. 9 Rev...

...ins! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heretics and godless schismatics, for you presume upon your figments alone against the clear Scriptures of God. Wash yourself of that, men!”...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...riously, he also said that the Atlantians conquered all the lands of antiquity, bar Athens (which only came into existence in the Neolithic period, ... ...mains be interred in the country that he helped found. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7609/eng/bio.html http://wekker.seagull.net/b... ... "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... ...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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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... 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... ...ter the day of Pentecost, and it was Christ and the resurrection which Paul preached at Athens. And hence it is, that the power of the resurrection i...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...ively by those who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such powe... ...eled:– Cassius of Parma, who had espoused the cause of Marc Anthony, fled to Athens after the battle of Actium. While sleeping in his apartments ... ...rmous piece of rock fell from the height of the capitol , and carried with it a Roman standard bearer, who was on guard, at the opening of the road... ...d seems connected a lusus nature of ashtree bough, resembling the litui of the Roman augurs and the Christian pastoral staff, which still obtains a...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...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... ...Greeke as he seemed to know no other tongue: the other in his travells to Athens and Rhodes had long conversed with the learned Græcians: So he, wri... ...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... ...: 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... ...to bring the greatest of two ship-masts before him, which he had seene in Athens, therewith to frame an engine of batterie: This man under colour of ... ...e attempted against them, but they shall have knowledge of it. The Duke of Athens committed many fond oversights in the establishing of his late tyra... ..., they sought for Law-givers, for Magistrates, and Generals of armies: In Athens men learn'd to say well, but here, to doe well: there to resolve a s...

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Christ's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ...bed; lamps and rugs, hangings VOICES FROM THE PAST 32 and x-shaped Roman chairs, cushions and inlaid boxes brightened the room. Propped on a ... ...t volumes, family treasures. Minerva—I used to think of visiting Rome and Athens. Adar 15 I spoke to a group near the city gate. I was aware that... ...in Jerusalem... Your faith is for the little towns and villages where the Romans have less influence or none at all... “When James was here a month ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...ape victim weaves her revenge King Tereus of Thrace agreed to travel to Athens and escort his wife Procne’s sister, Philomela, to Thrace for a vis... ...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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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ... Rape victim weaves her revenge King Tereus of Thrace agreed to travel to Athens and escort his wife Procne’s sister, Philomela, to Thrace for a vis... ...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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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...eless evident, from his familiarity with the customs, language, and laws of Athens, Alexandria and Rome, that he must have resided at some time in e... ... also that the writer had access to some large library. Alexandria, Rome and Athens are the three places the most probable for selection for such a p... ...ace where it had so long been united with the Empirical School of medicine, Athens would seem the most suitable city for its recontinuance, in the l... ...e because of their outward relations, says in illustration, "as the city of Athens is invisible to us at present." [2] In other places also he cont... ...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...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...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 ... ...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... ...eaker and even more corrupt than the other affluent Greek Polis. They hated Athens mostly because Athens was the richest polis of them all. Peren... ...reek culture. Pericles almost managed to single-handedly improve the life of Athens as a polis…. But he was betrayed, envied, and hated for it; ... ...is…. But he was betrayed, envied, and hated for it; by all of his peers in Athens. They plotted against him; and finally succeeded in destroyin... ...succeeded in destroying him, and destroying all the plans he had for improving Athens as a culture, and as a polis. The same dynamic happened la...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...? P The columns of the temple of Zeus, in Athens, stand white against the moonlit sky. A woman walks among column... ...ose our theatre perspective. Neglates, who used to be a leading actor in Athens, likes to sit with me. He is our best critic. He is always urging m... ... talked: what might have been, what should have been: “If he had gone to Athens, he would have been safe with Solon.” M VOICES FROM THE PAST 62... ... learned his art from a young Alexandrian, a man he met while studying in Athens, who spoke many desert languages. “I’d like to see him again. I’ve... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ...ed; lamps and rugs, hangings VOICES FROM THE PAST 186 and x-shaped Roman chairs, cushions and inlaid boxes brightened the room. Propped on a ... ...in Jerusalem... Your faith is for the little towns and villages where the Romans have less influence or none at all... “When James was here a month ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...clude ever growing segments of the world, conflicts became inevitable. Still, early Roman historians, patriotic to a fault, always describe Roman w... ...hile allies and either conquered or otherwise absorbed them into its body politic. Roman commanders and procurators meddled in the internal affairs... ...attered pockets of Byzantine resistance were eliminated within a decade after 1453. Athens fell to the Turks in 1456-58, and in 1460 the two despots...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p... ...The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong ... ...nically and religiously diverse countries. Slovenia was 91% Slavs and 96% Roman Catholic. Croatia was nearly 80% Croats and nearly 80% Catholic. Bos... ...izen votes on every proposition? Would you call the government of ancient Athens a democracy when only the adult male citizens could vote? ... ...s that all citizens of a certain age can vote. The democracy of classical Athens didn‘t allow most of its inhabitants to vote because most were women... ...o be an age-old curse, because even Aristotle complained of it in ancient Athens. But it‘s far worse today. ―Even in Plato‘s utopian Republic,... ...r purses on the sidewalks can a country support? Venice, Barcelona, Rome, Athens and every other Mediterranean land seems inundated with eager uneduc...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece, France Budget: revenues $2.24 billion, ex... ...tock; 61% Spanish, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman Catholic Language: Catalan (official); many also speak some French ... ...m Branches: Gibraltar Regiment '50km Corfu Sea OfLtmnos Aegean Sea ' SVfc/OS ATHENS V .^g. '*- ' ', * ' Mediterranean Sea r~^\ ^-^-. _n * Srr regional... ...ntary govern- ment; monarchy rejected by referendum 8 December 1974 Capital: Athens Administrative divisions: 51 departments (nomoi) Legal system: new...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ase. We also denote space-time indices in Greek, while spatial indices are Roman. Hence the time term in d’Alembert’s operator =g αβ ∇ α ∇ β will be p... ...otions In Mathematics and Quantum Physics, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, December 21–24, 2000 (see the e-print version in the web site at Y... ...otions In Mathematics and Quantum Physics, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, December 21–24, 2000 (see the e-print version in the web site at Y... ...sorg αβ (space-time indices are Greek α,β=0,1,2,3, while spatial indices — Romani,k=1,2,3). Following this form we consider a particle displaced by ds... ...y in Clifford Spaces April, 2005 PROGRESS IN PHYSICS Volume 1 anisotropy. Athens University Press, Athens, Greece, 2002, 301 pages. See also arXiv: g... ...5, 1985, 347. Pope C. et al. Nucl. Phys., v. B413, 1994, 413–432. Pope C., Romans L., Shen X. Nucl. Phys., v. B339, 1990, 191. Pope C., Romans L., She... ...ty and the SΘ(4)-invariant metrics. Proc. 3rd Panhellenic Congr. Geometry, Athens, 1997, 169. 9. Stavroulakis N. On a paper by J. Smoller and B. Templ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And the nearly u... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m... ...erved, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and... ...eave room for the creation of beauty and truth, like in the Golden Age of Athens. We want to expose our citizens to the best that the various civili...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...? P The columns of the temple of Zeus, in Athens, stand white against the moonlit sky. A woman walks among column... ...ose our theatre perspective. Neglates, who used to be a leading actor in Athens, likes to sit with me. He is our best critic. He is always urging m... ... talked: what might have been, what should have been: “If he had gone to Athens, he would have been safe with Solon.” M VOICES FROM THE PAST 58... ... learned his art from a young Alexandrian, a man he met while studying in Athens, who spoke many desert languages. “I’d like to see him again. I’ve... ...yes a little wild, Telesippa gos- siped about her dressmaker, “the best in Athens,” whose “tattling is incessant.” Libus steered the conversation to ... ...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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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...or the idea of fore- shortening was in those times un- known. In Assyrian, Roman and Grecian art there are very few ex- amples of jievous diseases, al... ...their ooin- luon customs we realize a sense of modernity. In Petronius the Romans have a great humorist. N. Y. Alumni Smoker The Williams College Alum... ... place alongside of the discovery of America and the Christianizing of the Roman Em- pire and the German people. lOilliamstown Press Co. will ba opBH ... ...ts wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, though the Romans recognized the need of sanitation to sonjo ex- tent ns shown by the ... ...ittle headway except in a broken field. NINE NEW INSTRUCTORS Department of Romance Lan- guag:es Gets FourNew Men Nino new instructors have been added ... ...rip to Corfu, Ithaca and Patras, the western terminal of the railroad from Athens. Professor Howes will then speak of the journey to Olympia ami the t... ...d of his trip as far as Patras, the railway center for Southern Greece and Athens. When he sailed from Brindisi in Italy for Greece, his long-cherishe... ...h was visited, with its views surpassed only by those of Delphi. Thence tu Athens the journey led, and soon again on the sea, the island of Delos bein... ... - . - . New York GRECIAN CITADELS Ruins of Ancient Forttesses De- scribed—Athens Visited The third illustrated looturo in the BW'ies un "Travels in (...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...ng many. When Jesus 28 and Paul brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they torture... ...studied ancient Greece as an extracurricular interest were given a trip to Athens, Delphi, Mycenae, Olympia and Troy—which is now in Turkey. We don‘t...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...nson have utilized the method of science to learn more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romant... ...lp my wife develop her fullest potential.‘‖ —―Most people have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romant... ... It was magic. 130 ―Then was experiencing the Sound and Light in Athens... ...30 ―Then was experiencing the Sound and Light in Athens. Sitting on a hill across from the Acropolis I heard Pericles, in pre-Socratic Athens...

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