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	Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although scholars think it was transcribed later than the other Edda, the language and poetic forms involved in the tales appear to have been composed centuries earlier than their transcription.
		A unique eye-witness account of Germanic human sacrifice survives in Ibn Fadlan's account of a Rus ship burial, where a slave-girl had volunteered to accompany her lord to the next world.
		The story related in Þrymskviða appears to have been unusually resilient, like the romantic story of Hagbard and Signy, and versions of both were recorded in the 17th century and as late as the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norse_Mythology (4218 words)

	Personalities Noble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Several of his books were readily translated into a number of other languages, and, in fact, constituted the university text-books till the l6th century.
		The Mathnavi became known as the interpretation of the Qur'an in the Pahlavi language.
		The list of his known treatises is exhaustive; Brockelmann lists 56 and Sarton 64.
	www.jamil.com /personalities (15221 words)

	Kronos: 0000-0499
		Whichever they were (the two surviving artifacts are simply stag antlers carved in the shape of horses’ heads), they are early examples of compound weapons.
		As the surviving art does not show warriors, and as weapons are rarely found in contemporary graves, the jaguar religion probably did not conquer by warfare.
		However, the surviving texts appear to be gleaned from various sources rather than prepared by one scribe and poet.
	www.ejmas.com /kronos/NewHist0000-0499.htm (19514 words)

	The Thomas Gray Archive : Materials : Biography
		He was the fifth and only surviving child of twelve children born to Dorothy (1685-1753) and Philip Gray (1676-1741).
		Gray, of course, remarked that "[t]he language of the age is never the language of poetry" (letter to Richard West, 8 April 1742), and his poetry has been the subject of much critical debate on poetic diction.
		Lord Bute for the professorship of history and modern languages at Cambridge, founded by George I in 1724, and then vacant by the death of Hallett Turner in 1762.
	www.thomasgray.org /materials/bio.shtml (6273 words)

	Who are the Assyrians
		Although uniting the children of one nation through their ancestral language, the term “Syriac-speaking” also allows much space for them to divide themselves into Assyrians, Chaldeans, Aramaeans, Syriacs, Syrians, Maronites, and the list goes on.
		Esteemed Assyriologist, H.W.F. Saggs, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages of the University College at Cardiff, tells us of the continuity of the Assyrian identity from the fall of the Assyrian Empire and into the Christian era, in his book, The Might That Was Assyria[31].
		In Europe after World War I people who shared the same language and culture were torn apart to constitute different “nations” and people with diverse linguistic and racial characteristics forcefully sandwiched together to form one nation.
	www.nestorian.org /who_are_the_assyrians.html (5201 words)

	The Meme - Excerpts and notes
		We can now begin to take on the "the meme's eye view" and from this perspective the important question is why some memes survive and get copied into many brains or artefacts, while others do not.
		Learning languages and traveling are methods of expanding one's meme pool.
		Memes, like genes, vary in their fitness to survive in the environment of human intellect.
	www.intraspec.ca /meme.php (5710 words)

	Inkwerk: April 2004 Archives
		Ancient Egyptian is not an IE language, by the way, so those of you settling into your airline seats, about to mutter "just coincidence" had better think again.
		Many a language, including English, has polite terms of address in its vocabulary, but Japanese is one of the very few languages to integrate degrees of politeness into its grammar: nouns, verbs and adjectives change form for various poluteness levels, just as they do for number or gender in English.
		It is strongly associated with the rise of language in early humans, though, which makes this discovery more than just a passing connection between a physical and motor traits.
	www.inkwerk.com /Inkwerk/MT/Archives/2004_04.html (16548 words)

	Phedre
		There were three ways for a writer to survive in Racine's day: to attract a royal audience, to obtain an ecclesiastical benefice, or to compose for the theatre.
		The audience's attention is fixed on the interior conflicts of the characters, rather than on exterior events, and language is used for the subtly nuanced and dramatically memorable expression of emotions, not the recital of a plot.
		Their curriculum was similar to that of the Oratorians, though excluding dancing, and was celebrated for its excellence in French language and logic and in foreign languages.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0203/phedre/playnotes.shtml (10183 words)

	The Life of Thomas Paine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was the only Girondist who survived the French Revolution who was able to tell their secret history.
		The letters of this Bishop Herbert, discovered at Brussels, give him an honorable place in the list of Thetford authors; wherein also occur the names of Richard of Thetford, author of a treatise on preaching, Jeffrey de Rocherio, who began a history of the monarchy, and John Brame, writer and translator of various treatises.
		Though not concerned" in it pecuniarily, not yet being editor, his contributions increased the subscription list, and he was at once engaged.
	www.thomaspaine.org /bio/ConwayLife.html (17198 words)

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