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Topic: North Picene

	kir\site\tree\picene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Picenes lived on Adriatic coast of Central Italy, and were a non-Indo-European nation who spoke an unknwn language.
		Picenes worshipped the woodpecker as a sacred animal, and that's why were given such a name (as picus means a woodpecker in Latin).
		Picenes suffered strong Umbrian influence, and their language finally became more Italic than not.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/picene.html (208 words)

	Archaic Italy : The Picenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Found in Picene cemeteries are Villanovan bronzes, trapezoidal plates with duck heads in the upper corners that are a Halstatt motif from across the Alps, and bronze fibulae of a type from the Balkans, yet found nowhere else in Italy.
		The fibulae found in Picene gravesites are a mixture of a violin-bow type from the Bronze Age, and a boat-shaped type from a later period, however, without the arc fibulae found elsewhere that denotes the interphase between the final Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
		Several Picene sites show that they lived in communities with mixed cultures, yet their distinguishing feature was that they were very conservative, retaining Bronze Age forms and motifs in both their pottery and fibulae.
	www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Historicum/picenes.php?lang=ne (933 words)

	Picene
		Picenes lived on Adriatic coast of Central Italy, and were a non-Indo-European nation...
		PICENE, ChH1I, a hydrocarbon found in the pitchy residue obtained in the distillation of peat-tar and of petroleum.
		Picene is a colorless crystal in the form...
	www.toprocks.net /MineralList/72/Picene.asp (492 words)

	Casa Vinicola Garofoli - Il Territorio - La Storia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Picene culture is “documented” by numerous necropoli dating from the 9th century BCE.
		Development of the Picene culture was interrupted in the 4th century BCE by the invasions of the Gauls, who occupied the northern sectors of the region.
		The Gauls predominated in the area to the north of the Esino River and the Picenes to the south.
	www.garofolivini.it /GarofoliIng/territorio/storia_i.htm (1433 words)

	Old Italic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cumaean, in turn showed strong similarities to the Phoenician alphabet, lending support to theories of Phoenician influence in the West-Central Mediterranean region.
		Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet.
		Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Etruscan_alphabet (372 words)

	BrownMap: May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was formed in 1833 from part of the historic province of Le�n and is bounded by Portugal and Orense (west), by Le�n (north), by Valladolid (east), and by Salamanca (south).
		The Tsinling Mountains in Shensi Province are the greatest chain of mountains east of the Plateau of Tibet.
		North Asiatic shamanism in the 19th century, which may be taken as the classical
	brownmap.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_brownmap_archive.html (1327 words)

	Hangul [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		North KoreansNorth Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea.
		In Korean, Korea is referred to as "Chosŏn" (조선; 朝鮮) in the North and "Hanguk" (한국; 韓國) in the South.
		Its North Korean equivalent is on January 15January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
	www.wikimirror.com /Hangul (12974 words)

	I . Old Italic alphabet . NATO phonetic alphabet . Morse code . Braille . Binary numeral system . Italy
		The alphabets derive from Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.
		The phrase Cain is for Charlie and Delta is for Cain is repeated, always italicised, to symbolise the messages relayed to the main character during the Vietnam war.
		The nickname "Charlie" used in the Vietnam War to refer to the North Vietnamese is derived from "Victor Charlie", the NATO phoneticism of the North Vietnamese Army s initials VC, for Viet Cong.
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /I (842 words)

	East Italic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Picene may comprise two different languages under the same name.
		Some of the Picene inscriptions extend back to about the VII century BC and are among the earliest written evidence in Italy.
		The southern inscriptions are transparently Indo-European, while the north Picene inscriptions pose far more problems, since there is not a single word in the inscriptions that can confidently be translated.
	users.tpg.com.au /etr/etrusk/po/picene.html (279 words)

	Picene language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Picenes lived on Adriatic coast of Central Italy, and were a non-Indo-European nation who spoke an unknwn language.
		Picenes worshipped the woodpecker as a sacred animal, and that's why were given such a name (as picus means a woodpecker in Latin).
		Picenes suffered strong Umbrian influence, and their language finally became more Italic than not.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/ital/picene.html (208 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Picene
		For the language, see North Picene and South Picene.
		Picene is a hydrocarbon found in the pitchy residue obtained in the distillation of peat tar and of petroleum.
		This is distilled to dryness and the distillate repeatedly recrystallized from cymene.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Picene (159 words)

	ConsciousFeather: December 2004
		Borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England, on the south side of the Thames estuary at its mouth.
		The island is separated from the mainland (south) by The Swale, a branch of the River Medway estuary, which gives its name to the district.
		The era of great conquests had ended, and, on the face of it, Louis's principal preoccupation was his relations with the peoples to the north.
	consciousfeather.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_consciousfeather_archive.html (1385 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
		Lying 90 miles (150 km) north of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, the islands extend for 320 miles (510 km) and have a...
		It lies just southeast of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and is bordered by the River Tyne to the north and the North Sea to the east.
		Bounded by the Chota Nagpur plateau on the south, the Ganges River and the North Bihar Plains on the north, the Ayodhya (Oudh) Plains on the west, and the...
	www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/s/s93.html (1804 words)

	Area GROUP Editore - EDIT2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The railway stations of Jesi (22 Km.) and Macerata, the Falconara airport (40 Km.) and the Port of Ancona are relatively nearby.
		It was probably a Picene town, and towars the year 50 BC it became a municipium thanks to the efforts of Caesar’s lieutenant in Gaul, Titus Labienus - who was born there - who enlarged it and had public buildings built.
		Ancient Cingulum was on the northeast slope of the hill and occupied the place called Borgo San Lorenzo and the area along today’s Via Roma and Via Ferri.
	www.areagroupeditore.it /english/localita.php?idloc=407 (347 words)

	Laputan Logic - Víteliú
		Most famously, perhaps, were the Etruscans a people who developed the largest and most powerful pre-Empire civilization and who spoke a non-Indo-European language that is today only partially understood.
		To the mountainous North were encroaching Celtic tribes and to the South, coastal enclaves of Greek colonists.
		Latin began as a minor Indo-European language and was restricted to only a small area of coastal Central Italy under the control of the Etruscans but it soon broke free to become the language of the Roman Empire and later provide much of the vocabulary of Western Europe's languages.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2002/10/27-83657044.html (259 words)

	Languages (from South America) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The continent is compact and roughly triangular in shape, being broad in the north and tapering to a point—Cape Horn, Chile—in the south.
		A triangular-shaped continent, South America is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the north by the Caribbean Sea.
		It is connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=208311&ct=eb (818 words)

	Latest Buz on Atlantis
		When Hercules is revealed sailing to Erethlyn (now North Wales) in alliance with "gold cup" Helios peoples, it must have been an alliance with the Danaans of Rhodes, since Hercules was himself a Greek Danaan while Rhodes was an island assigned (by myth writers) to Helios.
		In any case, as it’s rather queer to use Asia and Libya together to reveal the size of a kingdom, I think Plato was speaking in code, indicating that Atlantis was a kingdom founded by dragon blood from both Asia and Libya (the eastern portion of the Atlas mountains are in Libya).
		As the Picene Italians were also settled in the Naples region, where the Picenti mountains are found, it supports my conclusion that they are a bee-line peoples.
	www.tribwatch.com /atlantis.htm (6893 words)

	South Picene (from Italic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The South Picene texts, written in a distinctive variety of the Etruscan alphabet...
		These include the Latin, Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, South Picene, and Venetic languages, which have in common a considerable number of features that separate them from the other languages of the same area—e.g., from Greek and Etruscan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=74678 (926 words)

	Picenum
		This region is bounded by the Adriatic sea (to the east), the river Esino (north), the Appennine range (west) and the river Saline (south).
		For the Picene place-name a derivation from the IE root del- 'to split, divide' is possible, since the phonetic feature d>t could be one of the markers of the so-called "Picene" linguistic stratum.
		Conventionally, it will be referred to in the languages' page, as Picene (the so-called Picene alphabets seem to have had aspirated voiceless stops).
	digilander.libero.it /toponomastica/picenum.html (2187 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.04.06
		He first deals with the by now well-known South Picene texts, whose status as poetry has been clear to the scholarly community for at least a decade.
		For it is not the presence of interpuncts alone but the presence of complex or hierarchical punctuation which may sometimes be used for marking verse divisions.
		While I am inclined, both temperamentally and on the basis of the evidence, to agree with Watkins (and Costa) I think that the views of Eichner have been expressed with enough clarity and rigor that they would deserve an explicit refutation in a book such as Costa's.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-04-06.html (1793 words)

	Barracudas Swordfish ,Sailfish, Blowfish and Midshipmen
		In the North Pacific, batch spawning occurs in water warmer than 24 °C from March to July and year round in the equatorial Pacific.
		They can be found worldwide from about 45° latitude north to 45° latitude south, mostly in salt water near coral reefs or the shore, but some species also live in fresh water or brackish water.
		When the midshipman migrate from the deep Pacific waters to the west coast of North America to mate each summer, the intertidal zone becomes a noisy place.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm414778.html (1714 words)

	Runes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Vinland Map purports to be a 15th century map depicting Viking exploration of North America centuries before Columbus.
		He writes that a priest, priestess, or the head of the household would inscribe runes on strips of wood cut from a fruit-bearing tree, then close his/her eyes, turn to the north, invoke the goddesses and gods, and cast the runes on a white cloth.
		Additionally, he writes that he can prove that the first Norwegian runic inscriptions were written in a Semitic language, citing known cult-based erotic texts, many of which included holy depictions of the act of making love.
	www.runewebvitki.com /origins.html (3139 words)

	KindUmbrella: April 2004
		The son-in-law of the Eastern emperor Marcian, Anthemius was appointed to his office by Marcian's successor, Leo I, who wanted help in attacking the Vandals in North Africa.
		The powerful patrician Ricimer, kingmaker of the Western Empire, accepted Anthemius with the stipulation that his daughter, Alypia, marry Ricimer.
		It stretches from the River Thames in the south and the outskirts of London in the southeast across the ridge of chalk upland known as the Chiltern Hills, thence across the fertile Vale of Aylesbury and a low sandy ridge to the valley of the River Great Ouse in the north.
	kindumbrella.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_kindumbrella_archive.html (1181 words)

	MarriedCart
		It lies a few miles south of Welland on the north shore of Lake Erie at the upper entrance of the Welland Ship Canal and opposite Humberstone Lock; at 1,381 feet (421 m) long it is one of the world's largest lift locks.
		Halang is a member of the North Bahnaric subbranch of the Mon-Khmer language family, which is a part of the Austroasiatic stock.
		Other North Bahnaric languages spoken in the region are Sedang, Rengao, Kayong, Monom, and Jeh.
	marriedcart.blogspot.com (446 words)

	Illyrians.org - Etruscans and Veneti
		Illyrian in the north as it was already IE (Terramare Culture).
		Moreover a branch of Paeones dwelt in the Troad.
		The Illyrians were stablished in the north coast of the Adriatic Sea since
	www.illyrians.org /etruscansandveneti.html (2603 words)

	MarriedCart: April 2004
		Also called �American Elk� (species Cervus canadensis), North American deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), considered by some authorities to be of the same species as the red deer (C. elaphus) of Eurasia.
		Once common over most of North America, the elk now is confined to the Rocky Mountains and southern Canada.
		Town, north of the entrance to Hare Bay, on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada, 306 miles (492 km) northeast of Corner Brook.
	marriedcart.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_marriedcart_archive.html (1297 words)

	Open Directory - Science:Social Sciences:Linguistics:Languages:Natural (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Italic: Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian, Picene, Faliscan and Latin
		The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Zealand in the south.
		The Austronesian language family comprises of four main branches: Atayalic, Paiwanic, Tsouic and Malayo-Polynesian, the first three of which are found on the island of Formosa (or Taiwan), and therefore placed beneath the top-level category "Formosan".
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/desc.html (2130 words)

	Accordia Research Papers
		Picene elites in central Italy during the Orientalising period'
		Gadd, D. and Ward-Perkins, B. The development of urban domestic housing in north Italy.
		Eleventh Century Islamic Pottery at Pavia, North Italy: the Torre Civica Bacini, with a report on the mineralogical analyses by Sergio Sfrecola
	www.ucl.ac.uk /accordia/arp.htm (1128 words)

	Old Italic alphabet
		'''Old Italic''' refers to a number of related historical alphabets used on the Italian peninsula which were used for some non-Indo-European languages (Etruscan and probably North Picene), various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene), and a separate Indo-European branch (Messapic).
		The alphabets derive from Euboean Greek used at Ischia and Cumae in the bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.
		The Unicode standard includes support for the Etruscan alphabet (your browser may or may not display the characters properly, if at all):
	www.keywordmage.net /ol/old-italic-alphabet.html (264 words)

	Bambooweb: Ancona
		The ancient town was founded by refugees from Syracuse about 390 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning "elbow"; the harbor to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow.
		Julius Caesar took possession of it immediately after crossing the Rubicon.
		Its harbour was of considerable importance in imperial times, as the nearest to Dalmatia, and was enlarged by Trajan, who constructed the north quay, his architect being Apollodorus of Damascus.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/a/n/Ancona.html (764 words)

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		Italic: Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian, Picene, Faliscan and Latin
		The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Zealand in the south.
		The Austronesian language family comprises of four main branches: Atayalic, Paiwanic, Tsouic and Malayo-Polynesian, the first three of which are found on the island of Formosa (or Taiwan), and therefore placed beneath the top-level category "Formosan".
	www.cafeprogressive.com /cgi-bin/links/pod.cgi?dir=/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/desc.html (1305 words)

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