abominable snowman,yeti- a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas doppelganger- a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart sea serpent- huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon ...
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. —John F. Kennedy 45 He is the richest who is content with the least. —Socrates 40 God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the arch...
Much of Greek medical thought opted for practicality in the treatment of wounds, and injuries; cleaning and bandaging wounds would have been more logical than putting another talisman about the neck. That said, let us not forget the aspect if divine intervention when it came to some aspects of...
There were no convenient devices for taking notes and early Greek orators (演说家) delivered long speeches with great (28) ___because they learned the speeches using Mnemonic systems.The Greeks (29)___that human memory is largely an associative process-that it works by linking things together...
Olympian Zeus - a seated statue of the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology created for the temple at Olympia; the statue was 40 feet tall and rested on a base that was 12 feet high Great Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt, Pyramid - a massive monument with a square base and four triangular ...
Going to be a fun spread over at our Greek friend’s place. Anyway, it is going to be a busy month. I even have to travel for work, something I try to avoid but have to do a couple of times a year. That is the price for being otherwise full time work from home. Expect some...
Greek mythology identified them as the twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, aka The Gemini, from the Latin word for twins. The name Castor comes from the Greek Καστωρ (Kastor) and means “to excel, to shine.” The name Pollux comes from the Roman form of the Greek Πολυδε...
Sadly for Aristarchus, the idea wasn’t popular during his lifetime, and it was only when Copernicus made the same claim 1800 years later that it gained any ground. Another ancient Greek, a mathematician and geographer named Eratosthenes, was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth ...
75 The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and, crawling in under the mats, throw it on the red-hot stones, where it smoulders and sends up fumes that no Greek vapor-bath could surpass. (2) The Scythians howl for joy at the vapor-bath. This serves them instead of bat...