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Some History of Dreams and Their Interpretation

fairydew @fairydew (180) • United States 26 Dec 08

All humans and many animals dream every night. Humans seem to always be fascinated to learn what causes dreams and what they mean. The interpretation of dreams dates back at least as far as 3000-4000 B.C. and were recorded in...

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do you know the history of chewing gum and do you like gum?

annjilena @annjilena (5618) • United States 19 Dec 08

the early 20th century,american chewing gum was invented by thomas adams,ancient greek chewed mastidne-chewing gum made from resin of the mastic tree.the ancient mayans chewed chicle which is the sap from sapodilla tree-pass habit...

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The Biggest Ship

kellys3ps @kellys3ps (3723) • United States 24 Nov 08

Finnish shipbuilders are working on building the world's largest cruise liner. The Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas will be completed within a year before sailing to Miami. The ship has 16 passenger decks with 2,700 cabins and...

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Do you want to dye your hair?

thanujad @thanujad (405) • Sri Lanka 24 Nov 08

To dye or not to dye? It's an aged old question. Bleach-happy Ancient Greek heros reddened their hair into a fiery symbol of courage, while their Roman counterparts used natural dyes to darken their locks. During the 1700s, French...

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Ancient music for my novel

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 22 Nov 08

I am writing a novel, and part of it is when the hero hears a bard tells a saga in a singing manner. So I went to look at the mode music of the Greeks since that would be probably as to how he would tell it, sort of like a...

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Democracy

color210 @color210 (34) • United States 10 Nov 08

Hitler was elected to parliament, and the ancient Greek parliament, which was more representative than what we have today, voted to kill Socrates for teacing young men to think, so is Democracy the best we can do? If people vote...

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Every man is a poet when he is in love

gxnfly @gxnfly (1147) • China 8 Apr 08

Every man is a poet when he is in love,by Plato ancient Greek philosophy. How do you think of this wisdom? I remember when I fell in love the first time,my heart is full with feelings,tender and passionate.I wrote lots of love...

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Has anyone read Omiros? Do you read Omiros?

apaiktos @apaiktos (158) • Greece 10 Mar 08

Omiros was an ancient Greek epic poet. Lived between 700 BC - 800 BC and he wrote Iliad and Odyssey. In Iliad describes the war between Greeks and Troyans which lasted 10 years. All began when the prince of Troy and brother of...

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I like ancient myths

Bluestream @Bluestream (235) • China 26 Feb 08

I always like ancient myths,whether they are ancient Chinese myths or the ancient Greek ones.Sometimes I think maybe one day I can meet such a goddess, a fairy or an immortal. They have great magic power and they can always help...

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What do you consider lucky or good-luck charms?

Betty34 @Betty34 (267) • United States 16 Feb 08

Good morning everyone. I wanted to share something I found last night in Real Simple magazine. This is some folklore behind some of the most well-known symbols of luck. rabbit's foot: several versions of the legend....

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The 300

murciaman @murciaman (441) 11 Nov 07

recently saw the movie 300 and it has stimulated an interest in ancient greek history....how ironic that it can be said a facist state (for thats what esssentially Sparta was)was influential in bringing about modern western...

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birth of the democracy

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Who is your favourite ancient Greek God or Goddess?

Amy @artemis432 (7474) • Abernathy, Texas 13 Oct 07

Is it Ares the God of war - Hercules - half man and half god and played so deliciously by Kevin Sorbot - or perhaps Apollo who chariots the sun across the sky? Is Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, keeper of all...

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Saw this scary show on History channel, what do you think?

dpurchas @dpurchas (91) • United States 8 Oct 07

Ok, so I love watching the History Channel. So many interesting things to see. But this particular show was about the 2012 Mayan Doomsday prediction. In this show they mention the date from the Mayan Calendar predicting the end of...

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Do the Ancient Greek Epic Poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey send you thinking?

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 27 Sep 07

We look at out times and age and we tend to think we humans today enjoy a greater sphistication in the power of thinking than those who lived thousands of yeas ago. When you read the Greek epic poems of the Iliad and odyssey,do...

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Any fellow Pantheists on myLot?

craftcatcher @craftcatcher (3699) • United States 27 Aug 07

I know there are probably many people who have never heard of Pantheism. Though the name has only been around since approximately 1705, the same concepts have been discussed by many ancient Greek philosophers such as Thales and...

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What period in art do you love?

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 14 May 07

I'm rather diverse in tastes..I love Ancient Egyptian art, Ancient Greek, I also love Medieval, Renaissance, particularly Northern Renaissance artists like ver Meer, Celtic art, and love the Hudson River valley painters...yikes...

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Have you ever visited Siracusa? What do you think about it?

chilasher68 @chilasher68 (81) • Italy 20 Apr 07

Hi all, I live in Siracusa, Sicily, a town that has a long history and a lot of beautiful things to visit and discovery: the ancient Greek Theater, The Roman Amphitheater, the baroque part of the town, the medieval Maniace Castle...

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advent of things in the world.

sukumar794 @sukumar794 (5040) • Thiruvananthapuram, India 16 Apr 07

an ancient Greek mused about the meaning of life, and 'philosophy' was born... the first roman decided to build a road through the jungle and 'engineering' came into existence. In olden times , a human being lent to another...

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newer things

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Something Different used to be but its cool changes in the game!

Hitchiker13 @Hitchiker13 (11) • Philippines 5 Apr 07

Who Reads about Greek Mythology? With the recent release of 300 at the box office, Sparta has quickly become the most famous and most blood-thirsty, of the Ancient Greek city-states in that game oki!The world's most merciless...

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Seven wonders in the world...do you know?

vicky19810 @vicky19810 (1600) • China 4 Apr 07

Seven Wonders of the World, works of art and architecture regarded by ancient Greek and Roman observers as the most extraordinary structures of antiquity. In the ancient world there were seven great man-made structures for...

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