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The Etymology of the Names Pipunculus Latreille and Dorilas Meigen (Diptera, Pipunculidae) [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) There are at least two good reasons for understanding the etymology of scientific names. The first is to satisfy the natural curiosity about the history of the terms we use, and to gain an entree into the mind of the man ~.ho fist used a name ...
Cameron, H. D.
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Ausgestorbene Meeresküstenungetüme τροχοί resp. rotae
Erga-Logoi, 2019 The paper discuss Claudius Aelian’s testimony concerning mysterious sea monsters called τροχοί (NA XIII 20). According to Aelian, these gigantic but timid animals swim in droves close to the shore.
Elwira Kaczynska +2 more
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The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections on the Johannine Dialectical Situation
, 2013 Among the paradigm-making contributions in Johannine studies over the last half century, one of the most significant is the sketching of “the community of the Beloved Disciple” by Raymond E. Brown (Brown 1979). Extending beyond Johannine studies, Brown’s
Anderson, Paul N.
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The decreasing level of Toshka Lakes seen from space [PDF]
, 2011 Toshka Lakes are lakes recently formed in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, by the water of the Nile, conveyed from the Nasser Lake through a canal in the Toshka Depression.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Circling Round Vitruvius, Linear Perspective, and the Design of Roman Wall Painting
Arts, 2019 Many scholars believe that linear perspective existed in classical antiquity, but a fresh examination of two key texts in Vitruvius shows that 1.2.2 is about modularity and symmetria, while 7.Pr.11 describes shading (skiagraphia).
Jocelyn Penny Small
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Zaplecze inwencyjne Spitamegeranomachii Jana Achacego Kmity
Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2015 This paper offers a detailed analysis “Spitamegeranomachia” by Jan Achacy Kmita on the backgroundof his work and in the broader context of the inventio-doctrine of the Polish Renaissance.The first Polish mock-heroic poem is presented in the ...
Aleksandra Goszczyńska
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Foreword to John\u27s Gospel in New Perspective
, 2015 Over the last half century or more of Johannine scholarship, three issues have been of primary critical concern. One subject of interest has been the literary origin and composition of the Fourth Gospel.
Anderson, Paul N.
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Pliny’s “Role models of both sexes”: gender and exemplarity in the Letters [PDF]
, 2016 PublishedArticleThe Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity.
Langlands, Rebecca
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, 2019 Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
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Myrsilus of Methymna and the Dreadful Smell of the Lemnian Women [PDF]
, 1990 published or submitted for ...
Jackson, Steven
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