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    the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί)...
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    Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi. Her title was also historically glossed in English as the Pythoness...
    59 KB (8,153 words) - 12:54, 10 July 2024
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    Global 2000 was 80. The company sells database software (particularly the Oracle Database) and cloud computing. Oracle's core application software is a...
    118 KB (11,505 words) - 07:28, 9 July 2024
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    impossible by refusing to share System R's error codes. The initial release of the Oracle Database in 1979 was called Oracle version 2; there was no Oracle version...
    83 KB (7,337 words) - 21:48, 15 August 2024
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    rebellions. The earliest records are the oracle bones inscribed during the reigns of the Shang kings from Wu Ding. The oracle bones do not contain king lists...
    63 KB (7,107 words) - 12:12, 31 July 2024
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    absence at the land of the hyperboreans and the time for consulting the oracle". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. 16 (2): 184. Bibcode:2013JAHH...
    89 KB (10,930 words) - 04:10, 13 July 2024
  • problem does not have to be computable; the oracle is not assumed to be a Turing machine or computer program. The oracle is simply a "black box" that is able...
    15 KB (2,014 words) - 05:07, 1 April 2024
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    Shang royal family. These divinations took the form of scapulimancy where the oracle bones were exposed to flames, creating patterns of cracks that were then...
    32 KB (3,813 words) - 23:06, 10 August 2024
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    son is born, he consults an oracle as to his fortune. To his horror, the oracle reveals that Laius "is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son." Laius...
    54 KB (6,949 words) - 01:37, 6 August 2024
  • MR0535395 "The Oracle of Bacon". oracleofbacon.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14. "From Noam Chomsky to Paul Erdős in four papers". csauthors.net. "The Oracle of Bacon"...
    26 KB (2,246 words) - 10:40, 1 August 2024
  • The Oracle of Reason, or Philosophy Vindicated was the first avowedly atheistic periodical to be published in Britain. It was founded by Charles Southwell...
    9 KB (1,242 words) - 14:45, 11 August 2023
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    increasingly written with brushes and cinnabar ink, which degraded over time. The oracle bones bear the earliest known significant corpus of ancient Chinese writing...
    44 KB (6,061 words) - 11:29, 10 August 2024
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    Hecate. According to myth, she was the original owner of the site of the Oracle of Delphi before gifting it to her grandson Apollo. Her name, meaning...
    17 KB (1,259 words) - 11:54, 9 August 2024
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    region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige. Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to...
    32 KB (3,992 words) - 03:55, 27 July 2024
  • Bellucci, Lambert Wilson, and Mary Alice who replaced Gloria Foster as the Oracle following Foster's death in 2001. The film was released simultaneously...
    32 KB (3,276 words) - 00:51, 2 August 2024
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    were supported by their own priesthood; for example, the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona, and so on. Although these oracles were...
    44 KB (4,117 words) - 12:20, 7 March 2024
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    world's leading corporate conglomerates. He has been referred to as the "Oracle" or "Sage" of Omaha by global media as a result of having accumulated...
    158 KB (15,218 words) - 10:48, 7 August 2024
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    Zweig, a feuilletonist for the newspaper, called the Neue Freie Presse "the oracle of my fathers and the temple of the high priests," and described its role...
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    to the oracle, and the oracle responds in kind. The text's standard construction of the inquirer then is one who has come from a foreign place to the oracle...
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    Thebans to found Claros. Their heir was the seer Mopsus. Thus the origin of the oracle at Clarus was remembered by Greeks of the Classical period as Minoan-Mycenean...
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