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  Archon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
During this period Archon Eponymous was the chief magistrate, the Polemarch was the head of the armed forces, and the Archon Basileus was responsible for the civic religious arrangements.
In the Dungeons and Dragons multiverse, archons are an angelic race indigenous to Mount Celestia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archon   (698 words)

  
 Archon of Athens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous, the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi), and the archon basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy).
The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ecclesia, the ancient Athenian assemblies.
Note that the term of an archon covered two of our years, beginning in the spring or summer and continuing into the next spring or summer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archons_of_Athens   (630 words)

  
 Archon :: d20srd.org
Archons generally prefer to meet a foe head-on if it is prudent to do so, but if outmatched, they do what they can to even the odds (usually by employing hit-and-run tactics or standing off and engaging a foe with magic before moving into melee).
A hound archon’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as good-aligned and lawful-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
The hound archon hero is a mighty champion of justice, devoted to the pursuit and destruction of evil in all its forms.
www.d20srd.org /srd/monsters/archon.htm   (1656 words)

  
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Archon of Equipment Management- This officer shall be in charge of the management and oversight of all club funds, equipment (glow sticks) and resources.
Section 2 To hold any office within the club, one must be an UW student and have been an active member of the club for at least four consecutive months.
Section 2 To conduct a club meeting, a quorum of Three (3) of the Five (5) officers is required, with at least one (1) Archon in attendance.
students.washington.edu /capture/Constitution.doc   (1081 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Hall Of Fame: Archon
Archon was one of those games that came along at exactly the right time.
Archon, one of the most original and successful games that EA released in 1983, blended strategy, action, chess, fantasy monsters, and magic spells in a surprising and delightful way.
Archon, designed by Jon Freeman and Paul Reiche III, and programmed by Anne Westfall of Free Fall Associates, was a chess game at heart, but something happened in 1977 that must have transformed this convention for them even as it transformed all of us: Star Wars.
archive.gamespy.com /halloffame/september01/archon   (328 words)

  
 Archon RCC
The Archons are relatively unintelligent and only created to serve as living weapons to use against the enemies of the Protoss.
The Archons never advance in rank and never command other troops and they allow themselves to be ordered by other Templar, but they recognize the chain of command and will not recognize an order that countermands one given by a higher-ranking Templar.
Archons are not affected by pressure or extremely cold temperatures and can survive in space and on the bottom of the ocean floor with no problems.
homepage.mac.com /cheethorne/Starcraft/archonrcc.htm   (926 words)

  
 ARCHON ULTRA from Free Fall Productions
Archon Ultra is also not versatile enough in that games will often be played the exact same way many times.
Although I personally have never played Archon II, I know that many people felt that the developers fell short by not including it with their remake of Archon I. Archon Ultra is not a spectacular game.
Overall, Archon Ultra is the just as good as the original Archon, with the addition of fine graphics, a bit of sound support, mouse support, and modem support.
www.ibiblio.org /GameBytes/issue18/greviews/archon/archon.html   (2465 words)

  
 StarCraft Compendium: Protoss Strategy - Archon Unit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If an Archon does happen to get hit with EMP Shockwave, the best means of survival is to get to a Shield Battery as quickly as possible and recharge the Archon's shields.
The Archon is immune to or at least not much affected by many of the special abilities found in StarCraft.
In island warfare, Archons can be extremely useful as mobile anti-air defense and if you have enough Vespine gas to produce the High Templar needed to summon Archons, you can easily deter any "drop" tactics or aerial assaults.
www.battle.net /scc/protoss/units/archon.shtml   (882 words)

  
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From 2 Cor 3:15 to Heb 8:5 to 1 Cor 10:11 (with John 4:24), we see that only Christ at his coming showed the truth of what was veiled, of what was previously only hinted at in copies and shadows and figures.
In Peri Archon’s theological picture, the Jews distort even the legitimate meanings of the “bodily sense” of scripture; what is more, since the true promises of scripture deal with spiritual and not historical realities, the Jews never have been the true heirs to these promises.
In Alexandria, especially in Peri Archon, the rhetorical opposition between Israel according to the flesh and Israel according to the spirit functions primarily, I have argued, to rescue the “Old Testament” from Marcionite dismissal and Gnostic distortion.
www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/religious_studies/SBL2001/clements.doc   (7350 words)

  
 Threat to Native and Exotic Palms in Mediterranean Countries
In France, Paysandisia archon is presently localized in the Department of Var, between Toulon and Hyères (Fig.
The remains of the chrysalis are often attached to the exit hole of the gallery for a while.
archon was reported to attack native palms such as Trithrinax campestris and Butia yatay, as well as occasional exotic species such as Latania, Chamaerops or Phoenix canariensis (Bourquin 1993).
www.palms.org /palmsjournal/2002/palmthreat.htm   (1699 words)

  
 Professor Nick Jennings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ARCHON (ARchitecture for Cooperative Heterogeneous ON-line systems) was Europe's largest ever project in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI).
Two of these applications, electricity transportation management and particle accelerator control, have been run successfully on-line in the organisation for which they were developed (respectively, Iberdrola an electricity utility in the north of Spain and CERN the European Centre for high energy physics research near Geneva).
Secondly, the ARCHON framework is described - with a special emphasis being placed upon the implementation architecture.
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~nrj/archon/test_1.html   (507 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism
It is the merit of recent scholarship to have proved that Gnostic eschatology, consisting in the soul's struggle with hostile archons in its attempt to reach the Pleroma, is simply the soul's ascent, in Babylonian astrology, through the realms of the seven planets to Anu.
Occasionally one meets with the Archon Esaldaios, which is evidently the El Shaddai of the Bible, and he is described as the Archon "number four" (harithmo tetartos) and must represent the Sun.
Justin's anti-Gnostic treatise on the Resurrection (Peri anastaseos) considerable fragments are extant in Methodius' "Dialogue on the Resurrection" and in St. John Damascene's "Sacra Parellela".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06592a.htm   (10663 words)

  
 Archons of Athens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Archons of Athens were the supreme council of the Athenian Republic during the Classical Age.
There were nine Archons, this list details the chief archon (and hence the constitutional Head-of-State of the Republic).
Over time, the power of the Archons waned - the Polemarch lost control of the army to the ten tribal Strategoi in 501 BCE, and the others suffered a similar winnowing away of real function, as the nature and circumstances of the Athenian state shifted.
www.hostkingdom.net /Archons.html   (688 words)

  
 Athens
The reforms of Solon, who was Archon in 594-593 and had to deal with land ownership problems and the fate of those who had to make themselves slaves to pay their debts, and who refused to redistribute the land but wiped out all debts and set all citizens free in order to avoid civil war.
The nine Archons, including the Archon Eponymus, who gave his name to the year (hence his title "eponymus") and was sometimes simply called the Archon without other qualification, the King-Archon, or simply King (basileus), the War-Lord (polemarchos) and six "Lawgivers" (thesmothetai), and the secretary of the Lawgivers.
The former was made up of all former Archons still alive and had lost most of its power after the reform of Ephialtes.
www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/athens.htm   (5201 words)

  
 Quarterfinals: Kai Budde vs. William Jensen
Budde had a Severed Legion, a Nantuko Husk, and a Cabal Archon, but the Disciple was keeping him from winning the damage race.
He had enough land untapped to reveal his Fallen Cleric in response and sacrifice it to the Archon, bringing Huey to 10.
The Archon drained Huey for two just as it died, and then Kai had to go for it.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=sideboard/ptchi03/qf3   (814 words)

  
 Gamepage :: Dark Archon Invasion - Review by Game Tunnel
Dark Archon was one of BC Soft's action titles that has been reviewed here, and Dark Archon Invasion is not so much a new game but just the old one revamped.
Dark Archon 2 is going to be a completely different game, but until it is released, you can enjoy the original with new tweaks in graphics, music, and gameplay.
Dark Archon was a great game, but its earlier levels were sometimes too difficult for a new player to get into easily.
www.gametunnel.com /gamespace.php?id=70&tab=3   (1023 words)

  
 Unofficial Newsletter Archives
Fatima can be raised to aid the Clan in the form of the title of Archon.
Also, this card when combined with the Clan's ability to pinpoint with accuracy their victims, and then retrieving their just reward from the Silsila, will cook up some mighty interesting plays.
Whereas the other deck rushes with Archon, this one goes for the throat with Tap+CC+provision+Anathema combo.
www.thelasombra.com /newsletter/assamite_january_2004.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Josh Duffin's Unofficial Deck Archive
2 Weather Control might not be worth having, it's pretty dubious for example that it would ever kill the retainer I want to kill (an Infernal Familiar) without sucking otherwise.
The Archon Investigation, cheesy trump card that it is, saved my ass a couple times when the "Meet my unblockable Return to Innocence" deck came over to bleed me for 11 or more.
I was lucky enough to have it in hand at the right time, and so I got its benefit (even though, at least once, that just got Basilia with her two skill cards turned into some IC member via the old Soul Gem), which was of course tremendous.
www.thelasombra.com /decks/josh.htm   (4439 words)

  
 Dark Archon - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com
Play as one of four races (each having their own set of levels created to challenge their unique strengths and weaknesses) fighting to stay alive in an interstellar battle for survival.
Dark Archon features 3D graphics, 3D sound, and a variety of cool particle weapons and effects.
Gain experience and power up your ship as you play through various level scenarios from racing to protecting your AI team mates from your enemies to supply collection missions to leading and uniting over 100 AI team mate ships in huge galactic battles against hundreds of enemies.
www.download.com /Dark-Archon/3000-2095_4-10196023.html   (224 words)

  
 Tea Leaves: Wrath Unleashed
Archon, for those of you who have never heard of it, is on every old computer game player's list of The Greatest Games Ever Made.
Archon itself is a remake in a manner of speaking, being clearly inspired by the "chess game" in the original Star Wars movie.
The game mechanics are nearly the same as those of Archon 2, down to letting your "wizards" cast spells in addition to sending your pieces in to combat.
tleaves.com /weblog/archives/000388.html   (1410 words)

  
 Round 4: David Humpherys vs. Nicolas Labarre
Rotlung began swinging and Nicolas dropped the combo-licious Cabal Archon.
Dave came out smoking with a morphed Krosan Colossus that was Smothered and a turn four Baloth followed by another two turns later.
Cabal Archon and a Rotlung traded for one Baloth but Dave Infested the tokens away after he played a Krosan Tusker.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=sideboard/ptven03/fm4a   (792 words)

  
 Archon
And they were, almost uniquely, personal - they dared to put their programmers in the spotlight, in magazine ads as slick as Rolling Stones articles, or in the actual packages as neat as vinyl gatefold sleeves that even carried their mugshots and biographies.
While Archon became an instant classic on many 8-bits (including Japanese micros) after its release in '83, it really was a title cut out for an earlier favorite platform of EOA's: the Atari 8-bits, with its variable color luminance (still a rare gift today) and Player-Missile Graphics (simple sprites).
Perhaps because of EOA's early involvement in the Amiga's development (when the OS specs were still in motion), or because of their deep knowledge of the machine, or perhaps a bit of both?...
www.angusm.demon.co.uk /AGDB/DBA1/Archon.html   (1045 words)

  
 Dawn of War Files - Archon IV Info
Contact with the holy city of Archon IV has been lost.
2 - There is only 1 Relic (yes 1).
This means players have the option of going straight for the relic in the cathederal (and trying to hold it) OR skirting around it and building up an army large enough to crush whoever is in there.
dawnofwar.filefront.com /file/Archon_IV;36168   (914 words)

  
 Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
2), and the writing of Anaximenes was simple and unaffected (D.L. Other philosophers who were credited with written works, who worked on topics similar to those of Thales, and who may have provided material for later writers, are Heraclitus of Ephesus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Alcmaeon, Hippo of Samos, and Hippias of Elis.
Any clues that may have helped to provide an answer to the question of whether there were bridges in the time of Croesus are now submerged by the hydroelectric plants which have been built in the area.
Diogenes recorded that 'Thales was the first to receive the name of Sage in the archonship of Damasias at Athens, when the term was applied to all the Seven Sages, as Demetrius of Phalerum [born.
www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm   (9340 words)

  
 Archon - AtariAge Forums
Theres was also another Archon remake for DOS Once, it was Archon Ultra i think it was called.
I used to have a game Archon 2 when I was little, not much memory of it.
To avoid this, you have to make sure that not one of your Adepts is wounded even once, since that causes all of the enemy Adepts to hopefully attack him and you can't concentrate on capturing the magic points.
www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=30456   (1108 words)

  
 Fan Fiction Inspired by Halo
Shadows of Archon II (part 2) - A Night on the Town
Shadows of Archon II (part 17) - The Return of the Forerunners
Shadows of Archon II (part 33) - Farewell to the Spartan
halosn.bungie.org /fanfic?author=Wado   (1343 words)

  
 Reader Comments - Wrath Unleashed Preview - Xbox
Archon was THE game to have way WAY back in the day.
I can't remember if there was an Archon 2, or if Archon was in fact the sequel to another game of the same genre.
Yup, I had Archon for my C64 and it was a lot of fun.
previews.teamxbox.com /comments/549/Wrath-Unleashed   (312 words)

  
 Battle #28: Battle Chess VS. Archon
As well, Announcer #2 will also help out tonight as the result of plot lines and stupid script writers.
Announcer #2: In the next thirty minutes we will entertain you and make your mind grow by making you watch the intellectual simulating bout between the Chessmasters, Battle Chess and Archon.
Announcer #2: Archon, Demon of Hell to E2.
www.nesdays.com /battle28.html   (229 words)

  
 Commodore 64 - Archon Page
For 1 or 2 players, Archon is best described as “interactive chess”.
When 2 pieces meet on the board, they fight to the death in an arena.
The various pieces (such as Basilisk, Banshee and Valkyrie) have different weapons and are lead by a wizard who can cast spells.
homepages.tesco.net /~parsonsp/html/archon.html   (71 words)

  
 Game Players Network
He will be able to generate infinite zombies due to the Unholy Grotto and Oversold Cemetery (I smell a zombie stew).
I only placed 2 because having 3 or 4 copies in play would still have the same effect.
With this enchantment, you rely on Cabal Archon and Cabal Therapy to put creatures in your graveyard.
www.gameplayersnetwork.com /card/decks.asp?gm=mtg&id=4394   (788 words)

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