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• Catapult
  *1: an [[ancient]] [[military]] device for hurling missiles ...were invented by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks ancient Greeks].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult]
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• Obelisk
  ...describe them, and this word passed into Latin and ultimately [[English]]. Ancient obelisks are monolithic; that is, they consist of a single stone. Apart fro
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• Barbarism
  ...l Latin barbarinus, from [[Latin]] barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient [[Greek]] word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is [https://en.wikipe ...arbarízein) in ancient Greek meant imitating the [[linguistic]] sounds non-Greeks made or making [[grammatical]] errors in [[Greek]].[https://en.wikipedia.or
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• Palestine
  ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...id_Empire Persians], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.wikipedi
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• Aristocracy
  ...was assumed that the armies were being led by "the best". From the ancient Greeks, the term passed on to the European [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_A As in ancient Greece, this was a class of [[privilege]]d men whose military role allowed
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• Mnemonic
  ...mnemonic" is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), [[meaning]] "of memory, or Ancient Greeks and Romans distinguished between two types of memory: the "[[natural]]" mem
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• Patriotism
  ...cessarily considered an [[inherent]] part of patriotism. Among the ancient Greeks, patriotism consisted of notions concerning [[language]], [[religious]] [[t ...and denouncing excessive penal laws were all considered patriotic. In both ancient and modern visions of patriotism, [[individual]] [[responsibility]] to fell
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• Hades
  ...le crops, from the soil come the metals and so on), c. 5th century BCE the Greeks started referring to Hades as Πλούτων, Ploutōn, a name that is an a ...ncient_Greek Ancient Greek] Ἅιδης/ᾍδης, Hāidēs; Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas) was the ancient Greek god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld underworld
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• Autonomous
  ...e's own rule. Though the notion of ''autonomism'' was alien to the ancient Greeks, whose society was not an all-[[inclusive]] one, the concept is indirectly '''Autonomy''' (Ancient [[Greek]]: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos
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• Kairos
  ...eans weather in both ancient and modern Greek. The plural, καιροί (kairoi (Ancient Gk. and Mod. Gk.)) means ''the times''.
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• Occident
  ...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E
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• Macrocosm and Microcosm
  ...parts of the ordered universe both large and small. Philosophically, the Greeks were concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw the repeti ==Ancient thought==
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• Classic
  ...f or relating to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] or their [[culture
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• Gymnasium
  ...alizing and engaging in [[intellectual]] pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BD%CF%8C ...e than [[exercise]]. This [[development]] arose through recognition by the Greeks of the strong relation between athletics, [[education]] and [[health]]. Acc
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• Eloquence
  The [[concept]] of eloquence dates to the ancient [[Greek]]s, [[Calliope]],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemo ...ade others to a point of view. Petrarch encouraged students to imitate the ancient writers, from a language [[perspective]], combining clear and correct speec
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• Classics
  ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• 90:4 Medicine Under the Shamans
  90:4.1 The entire life of [[ancient]] men was prophylactic; their [[religion]] was in no small measure a [[tech ...h]] required to get well under the foolish ministrations of one of these [[ancient]] [[shamans]] was, after all, not materially [[different]] from that which
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• Hubris
  ==Ancient Greek origin== In ancient Greece, hubris ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ancient Greek] ὕβρις) referred to [[actions]] that [[shame]]d and humiliated
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• Euphemism
  ...s a euphemism by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks], [[meaning]] "to keep a [[holy]] [[silence]]" (speaking well by not speaki
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• Meander
  ...key and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet,
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• Planet
  The term ''planet'' is an ancient one, with ties to history, science, myth and religion. The planets were ori ...f Greek]] for the transcription scheme meaning "wanderers", by the ancient Greeks, and it is from this that the word "planet" was derived. [https://www.m-w.c
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• Great Pyramid of Gizeh
  ...ramid was built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and
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• Formal Sciences
  ...From then on different cultures such as the [[History of India|Indian]], [[Greeks|Greek]], [[Islamic]] made major contributions to mathematics.
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• Psyche
  ...e self, encompassing the modern [[ideas]] of [[soul]], self, and mind. The Greeks believed that the soul or "psyche" was responsible for behaviour.[2][3] ..., Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality Among the Greeks, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1925; reprinted by Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0
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• 85:4 Worship of the Elements
  ...ceremonial]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon], and the [[Greeks]] [[practiced]] the annual [[ritual]] bath. It was easy for the [[ancients] ...n India it is a [[devil]] because it brings dust and causes drought. The [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouins Bedouins] believed that a [[natur
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• Panic
  ...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] credited the [[battle]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon Maratho
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• 90:3 Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death
  90:3.1 Since [[ancient]] man regarded himself and his [[material]] [[environment]] as being direct ...Viewed in this [[light]], much of the inexplicable and irrational in the [[ancient]] [[cults]] is understandable. The [[ceremonies]] of the [[cult]] were [htt
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• Public speaking
  ...experience of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[ The art of public speaking was first developed by the ancient Greeks. Greek oration is known from the works of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl
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• Panicked
  ...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks] credited the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon battle of M
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• India
  ...Indus,’ also ‘the region around the Indus’ (compare with Sindhi). Both the Greeks and the Persians extended the name to include all the country east of the I Home to the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation Indus Valley Civil
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• 90:2 Shamanistic Practices
  ...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help, 90:2.2 [[Ancient]] [[Occult|black art]], both religious and secular, was called white art wh
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• 95:3 Evolution of Moral Concepts
  ...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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• Watchers
  ...ia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft] where the Grigori are said to come from ancient stellar lore. References to angelic Grigori appear in the [[books]] of [htt ==Eventually the Greeks reduced the Watchers to the gods of the four winds==
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• Kaleidoscope
  Known to the ancient Greeks, it was reinvented by Sir David Brewster in 1816 while conducting [[experim
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• Progress
  Historian J. B. Bury argued that thought in ancient Greece was dominated by the theory of world-cycles or the doctrine of etern ...sbet and Gertrude Himmelfarb have attributed a notion of progress to other Greeks. Xenophanes said "The gods did not reveal to men all things in the beginnin
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• Christmas
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice winter solstice],[7] which in ancient times was marked on December 25.[10] In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst ...cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html "Bruma"], Seasonal Festivals of the Greeks and Romans Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18:59
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• 2003-11-25-Reconciliation Of Such Importance
  ...hrough the ages. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] note them to be "[[hermaphrodites]]," and truly physically [[androgynous]]
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• 89:6 Evolution of Human Sacrifice
  ...[[Hebrews]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the ba ...[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of ad
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• Philanthropy
  It is generally agreed that the [[word]] was coined 2500 years ago in ancient [[Greece]], by the playwright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus Aesc The [[Greeks]] adopted the “love of humanity” as an [[educational]] [[ideal]], whose
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• Western Philosophy
  ...indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Aristotle]]'s works, along with many other ancient and medieval [[philosophers]]. ...t of as elements or branches of Western philosophy. To some of the ancient Greeks, these fields were often one and the same. Thus, philosophy is an expansive
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• Paper 90 - Shamanism, Medicine Men and Priests
  ...of the women hysteric, and these two types accounted for a good deal of [[ancient]] [[inspiration]] as well as spirit and [[devil]] [[Possessed|possession]]. ...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help,
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• 124:3 The Eleventh Year (A.D. 5)
  ...] [[city]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], the ancient [[Hebrew]] [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethshean Beth-shean] ...r]] allude to the [[games]] and other [[athletic]] [[activities]] of the [[Greeks]] as long as his [[father]] lived.
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• Philistine
  ...[[Persian people|Persians]], [[Jew]]s ([[Hasmonean|Hasmonean Kingdom]]), [[Greeks]] ([[Seleucid Empire]]), [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and subsequent empires. ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[
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• Automatons
  ===Ancient=== The Ancient Greeks created some remarkably advanced automatons and mechanical special effects
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...t. The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with "o" added). and [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialectal]] forms '''Belphoi''' - [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolian]] f ...[[Mount Parnassus]], and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient [[Oracle]]. This semicircular spur is known as [[Phaedriades]], and overloo
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• Paper 98 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[ ==98:1. THE SALEM RELIGION AMONG THE GREEKS==
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• Archives
  ...ere well developed by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolutio
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• Letters VIII-XVI: Life
  returning humans forward into a new ancient form of communal learning, today being called a Communiversity. ...alerno, Italy to study the medical practices and principles of the ancient Greeks. There followed universities in Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge. In
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• Immortal
  * Several men and women whom the ancient Greeks considered historical figures, like [[Menelaus]], [[Helen]], [[Achilles]], # While Mount Olympus actually exists, the Greeks understood a distinction between the Olympus of the Gods and the part that
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• Catastrophism
  ...tory was "stated in scientific methods with surprising frequency among the Greeks", an example being Plutarch's account of the Ogygian flood.[1] Earth's hist # Sivin, Nathan (1995). Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing
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