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  AGORA - Home
The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.
AGORA provides a collection of 849 journals to institutions in 69 countries.
AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.
www.aginternetwork.org /en   (195 words)

  
 Athens Agora
The Agora was the physical place where every Athenian citizen gathered to conduct their business, participate in their city's governance, decide judicial matters, express their opinion for all who cared to listen, and elect their city officials.
The buildings of the Agora were destroyed in 480 BC by the invading Persians, only to be rebuilt again in the subsequent years of the 5th century BC when Athenian culture flourished into a superpower with immense cultural, political, and military influence.
The Agora of Athens emanates a serenity which permeates once time grinds on ancient stones year after year until a millennium or two later the stones are rubbed smooth and shapeless, and begin to distance their form from the intentions of the original creator.
www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/athens_agora.html   (913 words)

  
 agora. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In early Greek history the agora was primarily used as a place for public assembly; later it functioned mainly as a center of commerce.
Usually in a readily accessible part of the city, it was often surrounded by the public buildings, such as the royal palace, the law courts, the assembly house, and the jail.
One of the highest honors was to be granted a tomb in the agora.
www.bartleby.com /65/ag/agora.html   (154 words)

  
 Cleveland Agora Theater and Ballroom
In the years that followed, the Agora (which at one point encompassed a chain of thirteen clubs nationwide), played a major role in developing the music and entertainment industry in Cleveland and the nation by booking thousands of local, national and international groups to perform on Agora stages.
The Agora was voted the number one rock club in the country by Billboard Magazine, and was given the same distinction by author and Rolling Stone editor Dave Marsh in his best seller Book of Lists.
But, the Agora is more than a rock club; it is a significant part of music history that will continue the tradition for many years to come.
www.clevelandagora.com /info/history.asp   (630 words)

  
 The Ancient Agora of Athens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
he Agora was the heart of ancient Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social activity, the religious and cultural centre, and the seat of justice.
In order to uncover the whole area of the Agora it was necessary to demolish around 400 modern buildings covering a total area of ca.
The temple, known as the "Theseion", is Doric, peripteral, with a pronaos and opisthodomos.
www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21101a/e211aa03.html   (791 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Agora
Agora is a fine little tile game in the Hip Pocket series, featuring the unique mechanic that you can play a card anywhere on the table and in any orientation.
Since you are trying to establish market dominance in the Agora (Greek marketplace), you want to place it in such a way as to create high income markets for you, and limit, or shut down the income production from other players' markets.
Agora is part of their Hip Pocket line, and truly does come packaged in a small plastic bag that can easily fit in ones back pocket.
www.funagain.com /cgi-bin/funagain/12856?;;GBBG   (2448 words)

  
 Agora
The Agora or Marketplace was a civic and commercial center of ancient Athens, located northwest of the Acropolis.
The people in the Agora would have been predominantly male with the exception of women of the lower classes who had to help their family make a living and performed menial tasks (like getting water from one of the two fountain houses) alongside slave women from richer families.
To spend much idle time in the Agora was considered the mark of a bad character.
depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/agorapln.htm   (180 words)

  
 ----- Athens, Ancient Agora -----
Since Agora means 'market' in Greek, the ancient and the modern use of the place are not far apart.
But, in ancient years, the Agora was the political, cultural and religious center as well.
The Roman Agora was a single architectural complex consisting of a vast rectangular court surrounded by colonnades.
www.dilos.com /region/attica/athens_agora.html   (450 words)

  
 Welcome to TechWerks - Makers of Agora
AGORA Training and Education Manager automates the entire process of managing the courses, schedules, instructors, students, locations, registrations, resources, training materials and financial information necessary for training organizations and educational institutions to be successful.
AGORA Training and Education Manger was the one solution that offered Wharton everything we needed.
As an organization we are more efficient because AGORA gives us access to the data we need to make the right decisions and AGORA makes us more effective in the use of our time due to the ease in which we are able to take registrations, market new courses, and manage our existing curriculum.
agora.techwerks.net /case02.aspx   (1083 words)

  
 Agora Publishing, Inc. - Who We Are / Our History
For the ancient Greeks, the center of social activity was the Agora, a lively marketplace where people came not only to buy and sell goods but also to meet to exchange news and ideas.
Agora, Inc., a holding company of various international publishers of financial, health, travel and special interest books and newsletters, seeks to serve as a modern marketplace for news and breakthrough ideas.
While they encourage their customers, partners and friends to stay in touch with us over the internet, they also make use of conferences, seminars and old-fashioned group meetings to facilitate, enliven and enrich the process of sharing ideas and information.
www.agora-inc.com /history.html   (729 words)

  
 In the Agora :: About ITA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In the Agora (ITA) is a weblog by six writers, typically one of the top 100 most linked-to blogs in the world.
The Agora, the civic center and marketplace, was one of the most important parts of an ancient city of Greece.
In addition to being a place where people gathered to buy and sell all kinds of commodities, it was also a place where people assembled to discuss all kinds of topics: politics, business, current events, or the nature of the universe and the divine.
www.intheagora.com /about.html   (390 words)

  
 Agora Ministries - Home Page
Agora establishes partnerships between Lutheran congregations and immigrant worshiping communities.
"Agora" is a word meaning "marketplace." In the early church, Christianity spread from person to person, group to group.
Today this Agora ministry meets people in their daily lives, drawing them closer to each other, to Jesus Christ and to the Church.
www.agoraministry.org   (172 words)

  
 Holy Land Photos
The Greek agora of Athens was located northwest of the acropolis and has been extensively investigated.
This is the “market place” (Greek agora) mentioned in Acts 17:17 where the apostle Paul would “reason” with those present on a daily basis.
The “Areopagus” is located at the southern end of the agora.
www.holylandphotos.org /browse.asp?SiteID=116   (123 words)

  
 New Agora Corporation - Products and Services
Agora provides a suite of tools for complete conference management, from on-line registration to handling submissions through grading, scheduling, personalized-itinerary creation and conference evaluation.
Agora's publishing environment, Metacast® has been developed, refined and continually tested through daily client use since 1996.
Agora also offers custom programming for highly-specialized demands such as collaborative publishing or submission management.
www.agora.com   (571 words)

  
 FAO : Online scientific information on food and agriculture for poorest countries
While students are unable to access the literature and acquire the knowledge they need, researchers and academics are confronted with mounting difficulties in publishing their findings in peer-reviewed journals, updating their teaching curricula and identifying funding.
Founding publishers of AGORA are : Blackwell Publishing ; CABI Publishing ; Elsevier ; Kluwer Academic Publishers ; Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; Nature Publishing Group ; Oxford University Press ; Springer Verlag ; and John Wiley and Sons.
The AGORA website has been developed in close cooperation between FAO and Cornell University, with funding provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, based on tools and systems developed by WHO for a similar service in health called HINARI.
www.fao.org /english/newsroom/news/2003/23019-en.html   (479 words)

  
 Agora (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up Agora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The ancient Agora of Athens is the most well-known agora, located in Athens, Greece.
the ancient Greek town of Agora in the Gallipoli peninsula, in modern Turkey
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agora_(disambiguation)   (135 words)

  
 The Ancient City of Athens: The Agora
The Agora of Athens, where ancient Greek democracy first came to life, provides a wonderful opportunity to examine the commercial, political, religious, and cultural life of one of the great cities of the ancient world.
Thompson, H.A., and Wycherley, R.E. The Athenian Agora 14: The Agora of Athens, Princeton.
Wycherley, R.E. The Athenian Agora 3: The Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia, Princeton.
www.stoa.org /athens/sites/agora.html   (472 words)

  
 Agora   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
AGORA is a £2.7 million project, part-funded by the European Social Fund's Equal programme that is aimed at reversing economic decline by ensuring the centre is run for and serves the needs of all its local stakeholders.
This community-led approach will build on the experience of existing town centre management schemes to develop innovative models of place management that ensure local people have a vital input into the regeneration of their local centres.
To create an AGORA observatory that measures and builds understanding of place management with specific reference to the role of social enterprise.
www.agora.uk.net   (267 words)

  
 Agora Publications Inc. - Publishers, Translators and Performers of Original Works in Philosphy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The historical Socrates brought philosophy down from the heavens to thrive in the streets of the agora — the marketplace.
Agora Publications offers dramatic performances of the dialogues of Plato and David Hume to help recapture this valuable Socratic tradition.
We begin by revising the texts to make them more accessible to contemporary readers and listeners while leaving them unabridged and striving to be faithful to their original meaning.
www.agorapublications.com   (369 words)

  
 Agora Arts Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Agora Arts features art and fine craft created by over 200 American artists and craftspeople.
Agora Arts is located in the newly renovated Hotel Winneshiek, an historic hotel in the heart of downtown Decorah.
Decorah is nestled in the beautiful bluffs of northeastern Iowa, and is home to Luther College, Seed Savers Heritage Farm, small organic family farms, The Loft on Water Street, and the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum.
www.agoraarts.com   (436 words)

  
 B4-U-EAT - Agora in Houston Texas Restaurant & Dining Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
MY REVIEW: if you happen to drop by agora chances are that we will be there sitting up stairs on the couches(you must be friends with owners to sit)or perhaps downstairs in the corner by the bar.
The employee that served me wasn't tooo enthusiastic, but it was late and she didn't like make a face at me or anything.
Overall, Agora is an awesome place to hang out and talk with pals.
www.b4-u-eat.com /houston/restaurants/reviews/rsv2189.asp   (1708 words)

  
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From Agora version 0.8e it is possible to split long commands using a trailing backslash '\'.
Agora originally had the limit of 5000 lines, but Arthur Secret told me that this was an arbitrary figure.
The idea is to make sure that the server serves a locality, and that people outside will be encouraged to set up servers which are more local to them, and therefore spread the load over the world.
www.eng.dmu.ac.uk /Agora/Help.txt   (1454 words)

  
 Agora -- Documents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Agora (ISSN 1496-9580) is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal of graduate and senior scholarship.
Implicit in the journal name, and forming the journal focus, is a public forum of debate and dialogue that addresses issues of critical scholarship regarding the literary arts, the public sphere, the nature of communication, and the humanities, as they relate to the academic and general community.
Agora is an ICAAP affiliated resource and is archived in Library and Archives Canada.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca /agora/Documents.cfm?DocNo=101   (111 words)

  
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Yes it is. Agora is able to send binary data by uuencoding.
Agora checks header of a received mail and determines whether the mail is a request, an error mail, or a bounced error mail.
When agora does not determine the mail as a request, it forces to exit.
www.dna.affrc.go.jp /htdocs/Agora/Help.txt   (1862 words)

  
 Agora
In celebration of the historic McCarren Park pool site, a 50,000 square foot pool in Williamsburg, abandoned for the last 20 years, Noémie Lafrance is creating a site-specific dance performance that invites the community to re-experience a moment in movement of this monumental public space.
Agora is a site-specific dance performance inspired by the McCarren pool site and performed by 30 dancers to a multi-channel score with theatrical lighting transforming the 50, 000 square foot pool into a vast staging area.
Performed inside the large pool, the overlapping narratives of Agora will produce the illusion of travel through the different layers of visceral urban experiences and explore the phenomenon of agoraphobia as a social and physical reaction to urban architecture.
www.sensproduction.org /current/agora.php   (165 words)

  
 The Last Days of Socrates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Agora originally meant "gathering place" but came to mean the market place and public square in an ancient Greek city.
It was the political, civic, and commercial center of the city.
Socrates spent most of his time at the agora in Athens discussing the serious issues of the day with anyone who was willing.
socrates.clarke.edu /aplg0203.htm   (279 words)

  
 Agora Gallery - Information for Artists
Established in 1984, Agora Gallery is located in SoHo at 415 West Broadway, and in Chelsea at 530 West 25th Street.
Considered by many as "The United Nations of the Art World" Agora Gallery offers artists from every country in the world the opportunity for representation.
Although every precaution is taken, the gallery is not responsible for any loss of or damage to material sent in for gallery review.
www.agora-gallery.com /infoForArtists.asp   (343 words)

  
 Agora: A Search Engine for Software Components
Agora is a software prototype being developed by the Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Systems Initiative at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
Agora combines introspection with Web search engines to reduce the costs of bringing software to, and finding components in, the software marketplace.
This report describes Agora's role in an emerging component industry and the features and capabilities provided by Agora.
www.sei.cmu.edu /publications/documents/98.reports/98tr011/98tr011abstract.html   (137 words)

  
 Agora :: UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diéne calls Danes Racists, Xenophobes :: March :: 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Agora posts an informative update regarding the UN special rapporteur Doudou Diéne, who calls Danes “racists and xenophobes”.
Agora has an incredible collection of information on the subject.
The report has yet to be released to the general public, but Politiken and Jyllands-Posten have copies of it and have posted excerpts of it.
agora.blogsome.com /2006/03/21/un-special-rapporteur-doudou-diene-calls-danes-racists-xenophobes   (3556 words)

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