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    Greeks (redirect from Grecian)
    emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes (r. 1221–1254) claimed to have received the gift of royalty from Constantine the Great, and put emphasis on his "Hellenic"...
    227 KB (20,526 words) - 21:14, 7 November 2024
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    lunch with the Grecian year and their parents. Lastly they move to Big School to hear the Senior Grecian's oration and witness the Grecian prize-giving...
    39 KB (4,599 words) - 16:10, 22 October 2024
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    that property. However, a woman could acquire rights over property through gifts, dowry and inheritance, though her kyrios had the right to dispose of a...
    32 KB (3,883 words) - 03:32, 11 November 2024
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    develop "The Grecian Ideal" as a formula for the "perfect physique". Sandow built his physique to the exact proportions of his Grecian Ideal, and is...
    30 KB (3,034 words) - 00:59, 6 November 2024
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    prevented the Thracian invasion. Similarly, he bought off the Paionians with gifts in exchange for their withdrawal from Macedon. Philip may also have concluded...
    141 KB (17,838 words) - 03:46, 14 September 2024
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    Tennyson dedicated his poem to the classical scholar Benjamin Jowett as "a Grecian tale retold" and in his Memoirs (ii.386) credited it with being "even more...
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    door itself is covered by an elaborate portico, which is supported by Grecian columns. The roof of this po As early as 1854 a town had been planned for...
    195 KB (69 words) - 14:20, 10 September 2024
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    Cassie Ainsworth, in the television series Skins Cassandra Alexandra, Grecian character from the Soul series of fighting games Cassie Cage, Mortal Kombat...
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    such men as Hegel, Fichte and Spinoza to take up the labors of the old Grecian philosophers and speculate upon the One Substance—the Deity, the Divine...
    20 KB (2,310 words) - 08:02, 25 October 2024
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    York Governor and Daughter of Surgeon Have Brilliant Wedding. BRIDE IN A GRECIAN GOWN 500 Members of Society and Political Notables at Ceremony in Brookline...
    15 KB (1,569 words) - 14:21, 3 June 2024
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    figures are the oldest of all his representations. During the best period of Grecian art he was represented as a vigorous man with a beard, and is characterized...
    56 KB (5,789 words) - 17:19, 7 November 2024
  • been argued that its origins were in heterodox Judaism or Oriental and Grecian philosophies. The alleged connection with Jewish Christianity would have...
    20 KB (2,114 words) - 20:07, 31 October 2024
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    wood; the crosspiece is referred to as a ha, which translates to tooth Grecian sandal, sandals from Greece and Salento (Italy), a (generally flat or low)...
    20 KB (2,229 words) - 07:42, 30 October 2024
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    caused her some distress and hastened her death. "I intend to build a Grecian temple in Frideswide's honour...I intend to build it on the edge of a cliff...
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    inspired by ancient Indo-Persian gardens, in which are found a small Grecian-style open-air amphitheater with two opposing sphinxes crouching atop paired...
    23 KB (2,839 words) - 16:56, 2 August 2024
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    the Frist displays the works of local and regional artists. Located in a Grecian Moderne-style marble building that previously housed a historic U.S. post...
    38 KB (4,088 words) - 04:52, 11 November 2024
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    seems to suggest it may have been the "carved ivory horn" obtained as a gift from Harun al-Rashid, who also gave Charlemagne the live elephant Abul-Abbas...
    110 KB (11,330 words) - 02:05, 7 November 2024
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    Online version by Bill Thayer. Dwight, Mary Ann, and White, Andrew Dickson, Grecian and Roman mythology, New York, Putnam, 1849. Internet Archive. Fontenrose...
    40 KB (3,481 words) - 07:59, 29 October 2024
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    Waiting for the Dance 1889 Callirhoe Grecian Reverie A Greek Girl Head of a Roman Woman: 172–176  Ianthe His Birthday Gift Waiting For An Answer 1890 A Pompeian...
    15 KB (1,030 words) - 10:43, 27 August 2024
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    maps of these vases outside of Greece, though this could not account for gifts or immigration. Only the existence of a second hand market could account...
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