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Poseidon – Worship of Poseidon

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Poseidon was a major civic god of several cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance, while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis. In his benign aspect, Poseidon was seen as creating new islands and offering calm seas. When offended or ignored, [...]

Morya – The Red-letter Mahatma

Several of the physical and mental traits that typify 19th-century depictions of Master Morya appear in an account by the theosophist Charles Johnston of a conversation he had with Madame Blavatsky. In speaking of the handwriting of the Mahatma Letters shown him by Sinnett, Johnston quotes himself as telling Blavatsky, “‘There were two: the blue [...]

Genetically modified tomato – Examples

Delayed ripening Tomatoes have been used as a model organism to study the fruit ripening of climacteric fruit. To understand the mechanisms involved in the process of ripening, scientists have genetically engineered tomatoes. In 1994, the Flavr Savr became the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. A [...]

Anthony Rudd – Life

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He graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1567, and M.A. in 1570. He became Dean of Gloucester in 1584, and Bishop of St. David’s in 1594. In 1596 he preached a celebrated sermon before Elizabeth I at Richmond Palace, in which he made extensive allusions to her approaching old age (she was 63 in [...]

Nereus – Introduction

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Nereus (Νηρεύς), in Greek mythology, was the eldest son of Pontus (the Sea) and Gaia (the Earth), a Titan who (with Doris) fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea. In the ”Iliad” the Old Man of the Sea is the father of Nereids, though Nereus is not directly named. He was [...]

She dwelt among the untrodden ways – Introduction

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She dwelt among the untrodden ways” is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in ”Lyrical Ballads”, 1800, a volume of Wordsworth’s and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement. The poem [...]

Wysall – Foot Race Extraordinary in 1847

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”The Derby Mercury, Wednesday 18 August, 1847” On Thursday the 5th instant, at the quiet village of Wysall, a somewhat remarkable foot-race took place – remarkable, not for the distance run, nor for the speed of the runners, but for the fact that each of them has been running a race with old Time for [...]

James Prescott Joule – Honours

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Adapted from the Wikipedia article James Prescott Joule, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Citrus – Cultivation

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Citrus trees hybridise very readily – depending on the pollen source, plants grown from a Persian Lime’s seeds can produce fruit similar to grapefruit. Thus all commercial citrus cultivation uses trees produced by grafting the desired fruiting cultivars onto rootstocks selected for disease resistance and hardiness. The colour of citrus fruits only develops in climates [...]

Principate of Iberia – Introduction

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Principate of Iberia is a conventional term applied to an aristocratic regime in early medieval Caucasian Georgia that flourished in the period of interregnum between the sixth and ninth centuries, when the leading political authority was exercised by a succession of princes. The principate was established shortly after the Sassanid Iranian suppression of the local [...]

Crossing of the Rhine – Introduction

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31 December 406, is the often-repeated date of the crossing of the Rhine by a mixed group of barbarians that included Vandals, Alans and Suebi. The Rhine-crossing transgressed one of the Late Empire’s most secure ”limines” or boundaries, a climacteric moment in the decline of the Roman Empire that initiated a wave of destruction of [...]









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