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Oh, Those Hebrews, Romans and Greeks

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 8 Jul 22

Back in 2350 BC marriage became popular with the Hebrews, Romans, and Greeks. It wasn't for love back then. It was so a man could 'own' a woman and this would guarantee that children were his biological heirs. If these wives...

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Have you ever thought? Etymology of the word Disaster

haripriya @Hari101 (1123) • Chennai, India 30 Mar 17

The word disaster was derived from the french word "désastre" and old Italian "disastro" which itself is derived from Greek meaning "Bad star." The syllable Dis means bad and Ster means star. Since in the olden times the Greeks...

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Have you ever read Haruki Murakami's Works ?

ashuli @ashuli (1196) • India 2 Apr 16

I have been reading some of Haruki Murakami's earlier works. In one of those books, he mentions Greeks as a reference for some of the most enduring works of art. To create such masterful works, according to Murakami, the Greeks...

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Heroes fight like Greeks.

katerina @thea09 (18305) • Greece 28 Oct 09

Each year the 28th of October is celebrated with national parades to mark the most important day of the Greek year, OXI day. It is the day in 1940 when Greece entered WW11 when Prime Minister Metaxas issued a resounding no (OXI)to...

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I’m always careful when people praise me

pillusch @pillusch (1147) • Mexico 8 Jun 09

Way back, at the beginning of the eighties, I spent a couple of years in Greece. I was young (well, younger, anyways), had no responsibilities, and took life a day at a time. It was great. I took on casual jobs, picked fruits,...

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weird dream about Greek signs

trishasantos @trishasantos (1296) • Philippines 11 Aug 08

I dreamed about Greek signs, actually that is what is told to me at my dream. So anyway, I am with a group of people, we have this guy as an instructor and he cut the big group to small groups around 5 people each. I know some of...

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The Bible, plagiarizing the Greeks

AliBabuh @AliBabuh (25) • United States 7 Nov 07

Eurydice was bitten fatally by a snake. Her husband Orpheus was paralyzed with grief. Orpheus, the father of songs, took his lyre to the underworld, where he charmed Hades with his grief-stricken song. Hades agreed to release...

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greeks vs romans

anuj291 @anuj291 (574) • India 21 Sep 07

who do u think are the most powerful,,the most civilized ,and the biggest influence on the world there are games about them,,ther are rumours,,there so much excitmnt,,who do u support?? i like the romans...i have always been so...

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300 The Movie

Pmcbride @Pmcbride (1081) 30 Mar 07

I have just recently seen "300" and i just have to say it is one of the best movies that i have seen this year (probably the "best Ever" in its Genre), i loved everything about it, to me (at Least) it is a testosterone fuelled...

Ancient Greek Computer

Riptide @Riptide (2755) • United States 24 Mar 07

In 1901 divers found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The nechanism appears to be a device for calculating the movements of the stars and planets. It consists of a box with dials on the outside and very...

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who do u think was the brave?

magarboyz @magarboyz (568) • Nepal 24 Jan 07

who do u think was brave in battle was it the troyians or the greeks?

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The Trojan War......The Troy

infogan234 @infogan234 (720) • India 12 Jan 07

Hope many of them around here know about the Trojan War. It was a great war between The Trojan's and The Greek's(Sparta) with many great warriors ending their life's. It's all about a girl,a women Helen who was held...

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Italians are most beautiful people-Comment

venkatre @venkatre (190) • India 26 Oct 06

Italians and Greeks are most beautiful people on earth -Comment

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