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	MESSENGER: Mercury and Ancient Cultures
		The world's peoples have long observed the sky, fascinated by the rising and setting of the Sun, the phases of the Moon, and the paths of the stars and the visible planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
		In some early cultures the motions of astronomical objects were carefully recorded, so that by constructing accurate calendars, human futures might be predicted.
		Yet we know from their records that many ancient cultures kept watch on Mercury, noting its swift movement in the sky and often associating with it a messenger god, or a god of wisdom and knowledge.
	btc.montana.edu /MESSENGER/elusive_planet/ancient_cultures.htm (234 words)

	Japanese name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Middle names are not recognized in Japan; at least not in the western sense, in which there is a clear differentiation from the given name.
		Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters), although some names use hiragana or even katakana, or a mixture of kanji and kana.
		Family names are sometimes written with idiosyncratic characters, called ateji, that relate indirectly to the name as spoken.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_name (4101 words)

	Name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A common name is a name for a plant or animal in a locale's native language, often describing the item's appearance.
		Common names are also poorly suited to the precise usage needed by scientists, since by their nature common names evolve through linguistic processes.
		A human name is an anthroponym; a toponym is a place name; hydronym is a name of a body of water; an ethnonym is name of an ethnic group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Names (1983 words)

	EAWC: Conclusions
		But these generalizations do not allow for minority opinions within the cultures, nor, most likely, do the generalizations say much about the people who were not gifted writers, powerful politicians, influential artists, successful interpreters of their social circumstances.
		Mikhail Bakhtin looks at cultures as heterogeneous groups of people whose conversations -- the record of their poetry, their discord, and their babble -- become an on-going dialog in a constantly changing, adaptive language.
		To the British the ritual was perverse, anti-woman; yet it was an accepted ritual, with a long history and a logic appertaining to a world-system different from that of the British (busy, it must be said, with colonizing and imposing their world-system on others).
	eawc.evansville.edu /sypage.htm (440 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: The Venus Mappers Handbook - Appendix C - Rules for Naming Venus Features
		Names of persons prominent in any living religion or political or military figures of the 19th and 20th Centuries are disallowed.
		Names proposed for Venusian features must be selected from the proper category; otherwise, they are likely to be rejected.
		Name proposals should be submitted to the USGS in Flagstaff, as the Branch of Astrogeology has been charged by the IAU with the responsibility of maintaining a record of all planetary name requests, as well as managing, updating, and distributing data from the nomenclature master files.
	astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/PlanetaryMapping/VenusMappers/AppendC.html (493 words)

	World Mysteries - Articles by Gary A. David
		Although many cultures around the world have associated Taurus with the bull or wild ox, this zodiacal constellation was also universally connected with the concept of water.
		The name of this creator god means "to mold" or "to model," and he is sometimes depicted as seated at a potter’s wheel fashioning humans out of clay.
		The name of this city state is derived from the Greek ta b blia, which means “the book,” or “bible.” Indeed, the invention of a Phoenician alphabetic phonetic script occurred here and eventually spread to the Greek world.
	www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_gd1.htm (10255 words)

	Andre Norton's Witch World \| Cultures of the Witch World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Simon Tregarth first enters the Witch World, he is challenged to learn the language spoken by the beautiful woman he rescues (Jaelithe, his future wife).
		Despite the absence of a linguistic perspective on Witch World, Norton provides the curious reader with a vast collection of anecdotes, asides (usually provided by the characters in their own thoughts), and historical data which flesh out the world.
		The Sulcar originally entered the Witch World through a gate in the far northern seas, but they appear to have dispersed in the course of their wanderings and lost contact with one or more groups.
	www.xenite.org /witch-world/cultures.htm (2664 words)

	WORLD CULTURES 120
		World Cultures 120 will examine some of the movements and ideas that emerged since the end of the Renaissance and Reformation, and how some of these events have set the tone for present world conditions.
		Not I. WC 120 is designed and assessed by a World Cultures coordinator and a committee of faculty members.
		A frequent exercise in faculty workshops both at UE and other institutions (and we have a couple of them yearly for World Cultures) is to distribute a set of student papers culled from various courses; the names of the students are blanked out.
	faculty.evansville.edu /pt4/WC120.htm (4798 words)

	Period Mongolian Names
		Eurasian culture is not as richly researched in omonastics as the cultures of Western Europe.
		The period time in which a name can be called 'Mongol' is therefore between the 7th century and the end of our time period, with most names dating between the 12th and 14th centuries, this being the period of the extensive conquest.
		The exception to this are names of this pattern that consist of a given name and and epithet.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/mongol.html (2357 words)

	Names -- Not (Just) to Mention Things: Social Indexing, Implicit Mentioning, and Problems of Reference
		Other names, even though not chosen for their descriptive value (e.g., "Dweezil", "wall", or "gizmo"), end up serving as descriptions in a rather subtle way: to wit, they describe, self-referentially, how people conventionally denote the objects that the names belong to.
		This implicit mentioning confers upon a name some excess semantic baggage -- part of the sense of the name -- that is harmless in ordinary situations, but just weighty enough to cause confusion whenever unusual circumstances cause the reference for the name to be unclear.
		Both references are removed from the real world (and are now located in a platonic realm of counterfactuals populated by "might have beens" that differ in various ways from their counterparts in reality).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/KVC/names.htm (4488 words)

	Sumerians
		For the great experiment of the Sumerians was civilization, a culture transformed by the practical effects of urbanization, writing, and monarchy.
		The very first states in human history, the states of Sumer, seemed to have been ruled by a type of priest-king, called in Sumerian, a ; among their duties were leading the military, administering trade, judging disputes, and engaging in the most important religious ceremonies.
		Like all human cultures, the Sumerians were struck by the wondrous regularity of the movement of the heavens and speculated that this movement might contain some secret to the intentions of the gods.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/MESO/SUMER.HTM (1864 words)

	Amazon.ca: World Of Baby Names Revised And Expanded: Books: Teresa Norman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Vietnamese first name usually represents a person economic or family educational background; for example, muoi is rather a word than a common Vietnamese name; One may see this name from the countryside person or from someone with a lower economic background.
		As for the girl names, 'mieu' doesn't mean 'salt', 'mieu' means 'shrine'; 'muoi' on the other hand means either 'salt' or 'ten' because it depends on where the diacritical mark lands on the vowels.
		Here's our case: my wife and I wanted to name our baby with a beautiful name (how original, huh?) that is not repeated anywhere near (family and close friends) and that plays well both ways, in English AND Spanish without anyone needing to twist their mouths to pronounce it.
	www.amazon.ca /World-Baby-Names-Revised-Expanded/dp/0399528946 (1350 words)

	Color names: More universal than you might think
		COLUMBUS, Ohio -- From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages.
		Lindsey and Brown used data from the World Color Survey, a collection of color names supplied by 2,616 people of 110 mostly unwritten languages spoken by mostly preindustrial societies.
		The researchers used the survey because it included many people from preindustrial societies whose color names are thought to be relatively uncontaminated by contact with highly industrialized cultures whose color names closely resemble those found in English.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-10/osu-cn101806.php (682 words)

	African Names - for you and Baby an African Identity, Heritage and Culture Site
		One naming system that is more or less unique is that of the Gikuyu people in Kenya who always name children after their relatives in a strict system.
		Third borns and beyond are named after their parents brothers and sisters again alternating between the maternal and paternal sides in the same way.
		The rule of thumb is that the name should be important enough in all its aspects, to inspire you to cahnge your outlook and conception of yourself in a major respects.
	www.namesite.com /namesite/faq.html (1353 words)

	EGYPT, PREHISTORY, AND THE "OTHER ANCIENTS" - PART I of the Amazing Ancient World - Premier Ancient Civilization Web ...
		Akhenaton was the world's first revolutionary, and he was fully convinced that he might entirely recast the world of religion, thought, and life by the invincible purpose he held.
		The workers put their names and the names of their work teams on the insides of the blocks of stones, and they were allowed to build their own tombs within sight of the Pyramid, which was quite an honor.
		From Hittite and Assyrian to Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cultures.
	www.omnibusol.com /anegypt.html (9443 words)

	eHRAF Tutorial: Browse Cultures
		In this A-Z index, the alpha-numeric code to left side of a culture name is the OWC culture code (Figure 2) and is derived from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC), an extensive culture classification system.
		In Browse Cultures by Region the cultures are organized by regions and by countries.
		You may not find a culture or country for a particular region, but please be aware that this culture list changes in the spring of each year (usually April) as more cultures are added.
	www.yale.edu /hraf/ehraftutorial_bc.htm (1021 words)

	LESSON PLANET - Many 'World Cultures' related lesson plans reviewed by teachers.
		Students consider what was valued by these cultures and compare the cultures' values to their own.
		The World of Puppets - Students create and use hand puppets to learn about how puppets are used in different cultures.
		Explorers of the New World: Learning About Major Explorers of the New World - Students investigate the principal explorers of the New World and the contributions that they made to the European knowledge about America, the development of rivalries, and the effects on Native American cultures.
	www.lessonplanet.com /search/Geography/World_Cultures (446 words)

	myss.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To understand the religions and spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples of the world, we probably first ought to try to understand how their mindset differs from that of industrial and technological societies like our own.
		From there it isn't a far leap to the personification and naming of deities who dwell within or regulate crucial aspects of life and nature, such as the Mother Goddess, the sun, earth, harvest, or sexual love.
		A further distinction was made between the spirits inherent in animate and inanimate objects and other spirits that roam the earth and have been identified in most of the world's cultures with names such as jinn, genies, asuras, faeries, daemons, and the little people.
	www.myss.com /worldreligions/Primal.asp (883 words)

	Ocicats.net: Creative Cat Name Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Human Baby Name Sites - Most of these sites are geared for choosing the perfect name for a human child, but many of them offer very diverse and unusual names --many of them perfect for our Fur Children.
		Names by Origin - Lists of modern and historic names for those who are looking for names associated with a particular culture or nationality.
		Iranian/Persian Names - Alphabetical index of male and female names from Iran (with pronunciation guide) Includes names of Arabic, Indian, Kurdish, and Turkish origins that are used in Iran as well.
	www.ocicats.net /catnames.html (1204 words)

	Dispatches from the Vanishing World.Com
		Millions of species of animals and plants around the world are going extinct at an ever-accelerating rate, many of them before they can even be identified or their existence is even known.
		The world’s cultural and biological diversity is under assault as never before in recorded history.
		The modern culture with its hunger for resources, its technology and seductive lifestyle— what Claude Levi-Straus calls “progress with a little p and in the plural,” the journalist Simon Elegant calls “the cancer of modern life” and the Persian intellectual Ahmad Fardid calls “Westoxication”—is wreaking no less havoc on ecosystems and traditional societies.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com (586 words)

	Nations Online Project :: A Destination Guide to Countries and Nations of the World
		Use the maps for a voyage of discovery of countries, nation-states, areas, territories and remote provinces.
		In passing increase your knowledge by all the facts and learn that you're really not alone, that there are people and cultures which may enrich your live.
		World countries and areas from A to Z (with
	www.nationsonline.org (302 words)

	Baby names suggestions from around the world
		In the culture we live in the name is not just something to identify a person, but it can do much for first impressions of others.
		Make sure that the name you choose is one that the child will happily carry as an expression of themselves and even take pride in.
		The name should be one that is not too extravert but at the same time not one that fades into the background.
	www.wecantthinkofaname.com /babiesnames.htm (202 words)

	Satalla:::the Temple of World Music
		Satalla's mission is to foster an awareness of the world's cultures among our diverse clientele.
		Satalla is an environment to pursue this quest with the positive, joyous healing power of the world's ancient and modern musical traditions.
		Our desire is to transport our guests to a world where the beauty of music and the communication of different cultures is all that is important.
	www.satalla.com /html/contact.html (257 words)

	The Name Scrolls
		Read on if you are looking for name listings; if you are interested in their historical and sociological aspect, here is a series of articles I wrote about issues of names and naming.
		Names are placed according to their origin, not their present use.
		This means that the name came into existence as a Male/Female pair, unlike names where the Female version was derived from the Male later on.
	www.cedarseed.com /air/names.html (565 words)

	E-BUSINESS IN THE ENTERPRISE - A study in XML culture and evolution
		Their cultural preference is a direct result, I believe, of the impossibility of allocating unique names for things in richly complex hierarchical structures.
		In the relational database culture that many XML data-heads emanated from, unique naming was of paramount importance.
		It is a name in the sense that "Sean McGrath" is a name (i.e.
	www.itworld.com /nl/ebiz_ent/03252003 (1098 words)

	Color Names: More Universal Than You Might Think
		From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world’s languages.
		So obviously all cultures will group colors the same way, unless they have a significant difference in color encoding mechanisms which would be very unlikely.
		I seem to recall hearing that there are folks in some cultures who don't respond to orange cues on traffic lights because they don;t have a name for this color.
	www.physorg.com /news80414593.html (1084 words)

	World Cultures
		What is the name of the German military plan that called for Germany to be the aggressor in a war and fight the war on two fronts by first attacking France and then withdrawing and attacking Russia?
		Name the famous temple commissioned by Pericles to house a 39-foot statue of Athena.
		The name of that bloodless revolution that forced James II from the throne is known as the:
	www.montoursville.k12.pa.us /searl/WCrevfin.htm (2782 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Theosophical Perspectives on World Spiritual Traditions is a collection of articles from Sunrise Magazine, many of which deal with mythology from all over the world.
		Washington State University's World Cultures course presents a summary of the New Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh by Sin-eqi-unninni.
		The Egyptian Culture Reflected in Worship presents an overview of Egyptian religion and mythology for Exploring Ancient World Cultures.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	Its a Long Way to Tipperary - World Cultures European
		One of the most popular songs among the British, German and Russian armies during World War I, it sold a million copies in 1914 and was later recorded by John McCormack.
		On November 11, 1998, a monument to those Irishmen who fought and gave their lives in World War I was unveiled by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and the King and Queen of Belgium.
		As their memories disappeared into history, they left their names, their songs and poems, their letters and battle accounts - and their photographs - to remind them of their passing and allow us to walk part of the way with them.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACalend/VetsTiperary.html (1520 words)

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