Even the grocery is done up to look as if it partook of some hoary antiquity. |
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The huge fireplace with its Dutch tiles furnishes further evidence of the antiquity of this chamber. |
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The latest trend in interior design seems to suggest that there is nothing like a dash of antiquity to lend beauty and elegance to a room. |
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To the westward, but on their left instead of their right, tombs of great antiquity passed by their gaze. |
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Tradition, in fact, takes back the antiquity of the temple, not by centuries, but by aeons. |
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Among the greatest works of western art, these sculptures drew on Bernini's knowledge of antiquity and Michelangelo. |
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But this synonymy between the female lips was used to woman's disadvantage in antiquity. |
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Our modern wind harps, with their soothing, ethereal tones and contemporary designs, are in fact based on principles that date back to antiquity. |
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Recognition of the relationship between psyche and soma dates back to antiquity and is captured in written records and historical accounts. |
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A glass bowl full of water had been used as a magnifier and burning glass in antiquity. |
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With its mixture of antiquity, regality and aloofness, it is both royal and ancient in ways no other Scottish burgh will ever be. |
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As times passed, times changed and, though many relicts of the ancients disappeared, this memorial became prized for its beauty and antiquity. |
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Simplicity and antiquity of green algae have long been accepted as evidence of their apparent ancestry to land plants. |
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He considers attitudes to antiquity and to change in general terms, and looks at perceptions of old traditions and proverbial lore. |
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Shamanism is the ancient religion of animism and nature-spirit worship and its origins in Korea are lost in antiquity. |
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Like the Sphinx of antiquity, I left him standing there staring at my mysterious, leonine face. |
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He painstakingly gathered and published in The African Past a rich collection of little-used documents dating back to antiquity. |
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Thus, the spirit of the age in antiquity is in direct conflict with modern perceptions of the period. |
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They also suggest a common geographic origin in antiquity, with a range of variation between cultures in time and space. |
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There are 56 original works by the artist and 36 from different historical periods ranging from antiquity to the 19th century. |
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His 37-volume Natural History is the longest work on science in Latin that has survived from antiquity. |
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In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths. |
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Three factors fed into the transformation of the Mediterranean economy of antiquity into the European economy of the Middle Ages. |
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The graveyard dates back nearly 200 years and due to the antiquity of the graves, many of them were not marked. |
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Archaeological discoveries not only provide evidence for the antiquity of this masking tradition, but also add credence to a Niger Delta origin. |
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Historians continue to debate the antiquity and plausibility of his discovery. |
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A look at the old ledgers is enough to convince one of the antiquity of the bank. |
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A third instance is that paleontological evidence seemed to push the antiquity of life back to the earliest Archaean times. |
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It is an unwritten code that wherever possible churches with antiquity would be preserved. |
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I am lucky to have been able to savour the antiquity of the town in its relatively pristine state. |
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Another aspect that deserves attention is the relationship between the antiquity of a gene and its evolutionary rate. |
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As a consequence of the antiquity and relatively short duration of mining, little was known of the mineralogy of the Pittsville iron deposits. |
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It's not just the antiquity of the towns, but also the way people there think about urban life. |
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They present perhaps the most archaeologically precise re-creation of classical antiquity ever attempted in painting. |
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Indeed, the possibility that it was originally a Luwian loanword hints at its much greater antiquity. |
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The motive was mainly ascetic, but was in part connected with the greater authority which, in antiquity, attached to such renunciation. |
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One section is devoted to the assimilation and exploration of the philosophical and scientific heritage of late antiquity. |
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The sages astounded him with an account from hoary antiquity about the lost Atlantean civilization. |
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He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring. |
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Gradually, cereals became the basic food of most of the civilizations of antiquity. |
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Interest in the development of the visual arts goes back to classical antiquity. |
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In antiquity Greek manuscripts were written in what we call capital letters, without any gaps between letters. |
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Only the works of art, the durable white marbles, have outlasted antiquity to become part of the museum collections of modern Rome. |
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To many readers, however, the finest discoveries of the book would be priceless nuggets of information about the marvels of nature and antiquity. |
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Emerald, a green transparent variety of beryl, was one of the most highly prized gemstones in antiquity. |
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He also claimed that the pyramid was 35,000 years old and was used in antiquity to transmit radio messages to the Grand Canyon. |
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Isoperi metric problems have been a source of important mathematical ideas and techniques since classical antiquity. |
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This way of thinking was made explicit only when critics such as Vincenzo Borghini were put on their mettle to defend the Baptistery's antiquity. |
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A helmet in a display case at the British Museum is not just a priceless piece of antiquity. |
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Modern Persian, a part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, is a language of great antiquity. |
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That the origin of the garden goes back well beyond oriental and classical times to distant antiquity is beyond doubt. |
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This type of marginality can be illustrated easily in antiquity in relation to hierarchy, or vertical social ranking. |
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No author, excepting Pope, has done so much to endenizen the eminent poets of antiquity. |
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Doubts about the consciousness of animals occasionally surfaced even in classical antiquity. |
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Every thing coming to us from antiquity enjoys, according to its nature, a certain degree of venerableness. |
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History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. |
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No other land sale in Scotland has relied on a charter of such antiquity for its sale. |
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The history of chewing and smoking tobacco, and of taking snuff, is of great antiquity. |
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The effigies of antiquity were created to perpetuate the memory of the deceased as he or she looked while alive. |
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She focuses exclusively on narrative representations of female heroines from classical antiquity. |
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Carvings adorn the walls, mostly Celtic crosses, but it's difficult to make out those of antiquity from more modern graffiti. |
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The flowing, unemphatic full-length lines which had characterized the dress of both sexes since late antiquity were gradually abandoned. |
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Diplomatic immunity dates from antiquity when the Greek Government extended special status to foreign envoys. |
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He usually wore an Inverness cape of strange pattern and manifest antiquity, and carried an ancient handbag. |
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Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation. |
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Europe meets Asia and antiquity meets a young, throbbing, vibrant city as hell-bent on enjoyment and innovation as any city in the West. |
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The notion of children with divinely inspired speech is not unparalleled in Greco-Roman antiquity. |
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Laced outer garments to shape the body existed from antiquity, but laced undergarments date from the end of the sixteenth century. |
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There, drawn in ink that had purpled in antiquity like a bruise, was the Headless symbol. |
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Since antiquity, rules for deportment have guided the behaviour of the more privileged classes and those who served them. |
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Besides the Homeric epics, his works represent the best manuscript tradition from Classical antiquity. |
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In reality, of course, it is a continuum and with origins that go way back into antiquity. |
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Regardless of their antiquity or state of dilapidation, there was a constant demand for such books. |
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Feasting can be either an inclusive or an exclusive activity, as we know from many sources from classical antiquity and modern ethnography. |
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This liquid storax has been confused with the storax of antiquity which came from the bark of the Styrax officinalis, a Mediterranean shrub. |
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Many believe that the bond between man and animals, known from great antiquity, includes extrasensory perception. |
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Yet after the war modernists and their allies seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their own designs. |
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Some archaeologists, even until quite recent times, have mistakenly supposed that depth below ground level is itself an indication of antiquity. |
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This position requires no formal qualifications beyond antiquity and a willingness to amuse and provoke in equal measure. |
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The Hera is described by Pausanias, but no secure copies of her survive, presumably because antiquity rated her inferior to the great chryselephantine statues of Phidias. |
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A curious amalgam of straight history and political pamphlet, it was relatively little read in antiquity, and its modern status has declined in recent years. |
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The origin of palmistry lies shrouded in the mists of antiquity. |
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Figurative scenes taken directly from, or inspired by, Roman wall paintings and marble friezes are framed with elaborate borders of motifs and symbols derived from antiquity. |
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So I wrote to the author, complimenting him on the well-written article, and then challenging him on his statements about the antiquity of horseshoe crabs. |
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She is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, working on the relationship between paideia and visual culture in late antiquity. |
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And we're climbing on board the odyssey today with two medical historians who have dug deep into the texts of the ancients to explore ideas from antiquity about the psyche. |
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Greek fondness for resinated wine originated in antiquity when goatskin wine bags and later wooden barrels were sealed with resin to prevent leakage. |
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Romanians have a variety of traditions and lore dating back to antiquity. |
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In antiquity, sceptics attacked the possibility of knowledge, but still needed to give some account of how they regulated their lives and opinions. |
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The point is that the name's history fades into the mists of antiquity. |
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Discovered in August 1989, this tomb's main chamber had been robbed in antiquity, and yet its antechamber yielded the richest finds in terms of gold. |
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I was bowled over by the energy of the Seventh Symphony which has a lovely transition in the First Movement and a dreamy Allegretto reminding one of hallowed antiquity. |
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Even in antiquity, and by the Babylonians and Assyrians themselves, the destruction of cultural property was understood as an act of psychological warfare. |
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Like most of the terms that refer to major conceptual anchors of the western intellectual tradition, its origins may be traced to classical antiquity. |
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Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution. |
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One might conclude, as some did in antiquity, that Arcesilaus therefore had a hidden objective of undermining Stoic or Epicurean empiricism in favor of Platonic doctrine. |
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Clay and glaze recipes from antiquity to present times abound which call for exotic ingredients such as finely sifted beach sand, ash of bog moss, ash of wine lees, etc. |
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In order to appreciate the Nile's position in antiquity, we should see it through ancient eyes, remembering the ancient distinctions between the divine and the human. |
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Similarly, no scribe in antiquity could have worked with such a typology, for every variation in the objects could never be registered in bureaucratic discourse. |
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The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. |
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Although generally Italianate, it could also borrow from Romanesque prototypes that preserved the round arches and the basic vocabulary of parts familiar from antiquity. |
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A New York Friends of French Opera group that had been putting on one-nighters at Carnegie Hall for 20 years raised sponsorship to have this expensive antiquity put on record. |
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Despite the seemingly perfect formal design of the capital in its canonic form, there has been subtle but significant variation in the details of this order since antiquity. |
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Despite their antiquity, living terebratulids are advanced organisms, able to out-perform molluscan bivalves in filter feeding efficiency under certain conditions. |
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It has been the practice in Ipswich from antiquity that no tenant of tenements in the town held by free burgage do homage or fealty for them to the property's chief lord. |
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Archaeology can show that Britain since antiquity has been a diverse, multi-ethnic and multicultural nation, something that needs remembering more than ever today. |
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Of particular interest are the remains of the presses used for the extraction of olive oil, which was produced on a large scale in the region in antiquity. |
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Cereals include wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, maize, millet, and sorghum, all of which have been used as food since prehistoric times, and cultivated since antiquity. |
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The healing power of water has been known since antiquity, and in Valais tourists can recover their lost energy and get back in shape in thermal springs or health spa centres. |
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Graphic granite as a decorative stone has been used since antiquity. |
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Based on her hagiographical work, she has put together a single volume which contains forty biographical sketches of female saints from antiquity to the present. |
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Dr. Nolan said the antiquity of the family alone gives the book credence. |
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Still, the tradition of a hero with a younger, or everyman, acolyte stretches back to antiquity. |
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The danger of the 300 series is that it denies the same dimensionality to Greek antiquity. |
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The quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity. |
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Montesquieu, Smith and Tocqueville were forced to theorize about the antiquity of the institutions and culture which underlay modernity and its origins in England. |
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He has noted that population size is an important element in determining population diversity which is usually assumed to derive from the antiquity of a population. |
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Last year, as I began to conceive a novel, set in shadowy Istanbul, about the sale of a gray market antiquity worth millions. |
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The wisdom of great sages of antiquity comes to us mainly through the aural tradition, and so has almost certainly suffered distortion through intermediaries. |
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But only recent advances in scientific dating techniques, the latest using accelerator mass spectrometry, have enabled their true antiquity to be revealed. |
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Now some writers question the antiquity of the rabbinic moser laws. |
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Aside from the intrinsic fascination for knowing the antiquity of a given species or clade, accurate date estimation is important for advancing evolutionary theory. |
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It would reign omnipotent over all the other inestimable, ageless, treasures of antiquity that thirty seven ruthless years of deep intrigue and immense wealth had brought him. |
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The issue for me is closely associated with the antiquity of the earth. |
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The Englishman's Castle is situated on a midden of great antiquity. |
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It's been known for some time that birds are descended from dinosaurs, with Archaeopteryx representing one strong link between avians and antiquity. |
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Western collectors of Benin art are obsessed with antiquity. |
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The collection of a regalia for coronation purposes added to the solemnity and antiquity of the occasion and seems to have been begun by the monks of Westminster abbey. |
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The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity. |
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These scientists are calculating the antiquity of the various genes we share, not attempting to reconstruct the complete family tree of the people who carry them. |
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It originated in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. |
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The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. |
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A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters. |
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And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity. |
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For Germanic women of later antiquity, marriage obviously had its appeal given their reduced status otherwise. |
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The nascent belief in a German ethnicity was subsequently founded upon national myths of Germanic antiquity. |
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The historian was not much read in late antiquity, and even less in the Middle Ages. |
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In the United Kingdom, the Classical Association encourages the study of antiquity through various means, such as publications and grants. |
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The works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission are collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum. |
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The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity through Medieval manuscript transmission. |
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The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity and their borders are geologically arbitrary. |
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It was in the Early Modern period that Avebury was first recognised as an antiquity that warranted investigation. |
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Of the seven metals known in antiquity, only gold occurred regularly in native form in the natural environment. |
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By late antiquity, separate stair towers were constructed adjacent to the main buildings, as in the Basilica of San Vitale. |
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Little of Jesus' childhood is recorded in the canonical gospels, although infancy gospels were popular in antiquity. |
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Renaissance artists were not pagans, although they admired antiquity and kept some ideas and symbols of the medieval past. |
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Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with classical antiquity was not complete. |
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The Vikings were often depicted with winged helmets and in other clothing taken from Classical antiquity, especially in depictions of Norse gods. |
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This event of 476, usually marks the end of Classical antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages. |
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In antiquity the Gaels traded with the Roman Empire and also raided Roman Britain. |
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In classical antiquity, a notable school of sculptural Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art developed in the Pala Empire and the Sena dynasty. |
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The antiquity of this form of writing extends before the invention of paper around the year 100 in China. |
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It contains 15,000 artefacts, from antiquity to the 20th century, representing almost all aspects of the history of science. |
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Of the cars, the most popular was the carrus, a standard chariot form descending to the Romans from a greater antiquity. |
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No sources survive to confirm what the wall was called in antiquity, and no historical literary source gives it a name. |
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In addition, Cicero's personal letters are considered to be one of the best bodies of correspondence recorded in antiquity. |
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Although the young woman's coffin was robbed in antiquity, the other remained in situ and undisturbed, and is now on display at the site. |
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The rebirth of classical antiquity and Renaissance humanism also resulted in many Mythological and history paintings. |
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Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. |
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Romeo and Juliet borrows from a tradition of tragic love stories dating back to antiquity. |
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We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. |
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This distinction between full citizenship and other, lesser relationships goes back to antiquity. |
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In classical antiquity, the Phoenicians, Illyrians and Tyrrhenians were known as pirates. |
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Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. |
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Key scientific ideas dating back to classical antiquity had changed drastically over the years, and in many cases been discredited. |
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In antiquity, the territory was part of the Land of Punt and then Sabean and Axumite rule. |
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Banks of classical antiquity typically kept less in reserves than the full total of customers' deposits. |
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Vitruvius's book De Architectura, the only complete work on architecture to survive from antiquity, also belongs to this period. |
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Prominent Latin poets of late antiquity include Ausonius, Prudentius, Claudian, and Sidonius. |
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In reply, it was proved that the Advocates' library at Edinburgh contained Gaelic manuscripts 500 years old, and one of even greater antiquity. |
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It is used in BDSM for splaying out a bound person, not unlike the crucifix of antiquity. |
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Socialist models and ideas espousing common or public ownership have existed since antiquity. |
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Some European king and queen's crowns were made of gold, and gold was used for the bridal crown since antiquity. |
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The seven heavenly bodies known to the ancients were associated with the seven metals known in antiquity, and Venus was assigned to copper. |
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As one of the seven metals of antiquity, silver has had an enduring role in most human cultures. |
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Silver was one of the seven metals of antiquity that were known to prehistoric humans and whose discovery is thus lost to history. |
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In antiquity, some began to ascribe it to Paul in an attempt to provide the anonymous work an explicit apostolic pedigree. |
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Skene rejected the antiquity of the prose account and thought the poem reflected the history of the north country during the Irish incursions. |
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Indigenous in Europe, the wild populations of the parent species had been known since antiquity. |
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As far back as antiquity, people have gone to live in foreign countries, whether as diplomats, merchants or missionaries. |
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Throughout antiquity, scallops and other hinged shells have symbolized the feminine principle. |
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Literary production of the antiquity includes the Cypria, an epic poem, probably composed in the late 7th century BC and attributed to Stasinus. |
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Humanist historian Leonardo Bruni also split the history in the antiquity, Middle Ages and modern period. |
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Sweden and Gothia were two separate nations long before that into antiquity. |
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The Upper Rhine was a significant cultural landscape in Central Europe already in antiquity and during the Middle Ages. |
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The division between these two was enhanced during Late antiquity and the Middle Ages by a number of events. |
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Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. |
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Amber used in antiquity as at Mycenae and in the prehistory of the Mediterranean comes from deposits of Sicily. |
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With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about his life and doings beyond in his work. |
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In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans. |
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During antiquity, Greek was a widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world and many places beyond. |
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This teleological view of nature was common in antiquity and is crucial to the understanding of the Natural History. |
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The New Testament speaks of the importance of maintaining orthodox doctrine and refuting heresies, showing the antiquity of the concern. |
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Their boundaries as defined by Ptolemy and other geographers of antiquity were drawn along the Nile and Don rivers. |
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A global ocean has existed in one form or another on Earth for eons, and the notion dates back to classical antiquity in the form of Oceanus. |
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The Histories were occasionally criticized in antiquity, but modern historians and philosophers generally take a positive view. |
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Generally, however, he was regarded as reliable in antiquity, and is especially so today. |
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In antiquity, the Greeks applied the Iliad and the Odyssey as the bases of pedagogy. |
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The HTLV virus genome has been mapped, allowing identification of four major strains and analysis of their antiquity through mutations. |
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To the contrary, the spherical shape of the Earth had been known to scholars since antiquity, and was common knowledge among sailors. |
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In science, classical authorities like Aristotle were challenged for the first time since antiquity. |
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Other rope in antiquity was made from the fibres of date palms, flax, grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair. |
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From classical antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Balkan Mountains were called by the local Thracian name Haemus. |
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Since antiquity, monarchy has contrasted with forms of democracy, where executive power is wielded by assemblies of free citizens. |
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The following is a list of all known references to the battle from the literary sources of classical antiquity. |
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At least 13 references to Gaulish speech and Gaulish writing can be found in Greek and Latin writers of antiquity. |
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Historically, the runic alphabet is a derivation of the Old Italic scripts of antiquity, with the addition of some innovations. |
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Although the Geographica was rarely utilized in its contemporary antiquity, a multitude of copies survived throughout the Byzantine Empire. |
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Although a native speaker of Greek, Claudian is one of the best Latin poetry stylists of late antiquity. |
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The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become. |
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However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual. |
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For instance, many of the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs were looted during antiquity. |
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In highest antiquity Sabine tribes shared the area of what is today Rome with Latin tribes. |
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The concept of a German ethnicity is linked to Germanic tribes of antiquity in central Europe. |
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The most notable nations of antiquity in western North Africa are Carthage and Numidia. |
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Aristotle of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher the title of the greatest philosopher of antiquity. |
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Some of the most enduring images of the classical antiquity portray the power and feats of its military leaders. |
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There was, however, a great deal of fluidity as to whom was counted among their number in antiquity. |
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Somewhat different lists of accepted works continued to develop in antiquity. |
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The Church preserved the intellectual developments of classical antiquity, and is the reason many of them are still known today. |
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Since classical antiquity, sport has been an important facet of Western cultural expression. |
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It desired for a return to the simplicity, order and 'purism' of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and Rome. |
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The Greek schools of philosophy in antiquity provide the basis of philosophical discourse that extends to today. |
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These tactics had been used since antiquity, for example, in the Granada War, the conquest of the Canary Islands and conquest of Navarre. |
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The writings of Classical antiquity were cultivated and extended in Byzantium. |
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Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known and used in antiquity for commerce in the Eastern World. |
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In antiquity, the Berber people adhered to the traditional Berber religion, prior to the arrival of Abrahamic faiths into North Africa. |
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Stories of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, legendary and otherwise, have been reported since classical antiquity. |
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Saltwater crocodiles were present within the Pearl River estuary during antiquity. |
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Iran ranks seventh among UNESCO's list of countries with the most archaeological ruins and attractions from antiquity. |
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It has been famed since antiquity for its pearl fisheries, which were considered the best in the world into the 19th century. |
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The nature of export markets in antiquity is well documented in ancient sources and archaeological case studies. |
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Although merchant halls were known in antiquity, they fell into disuse and were not reinvented until Europe's Medieval period. |
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Dried ground pepper has been used since antiquity for both its flavour and as a traditional medicine. |
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Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church have the same malankara antiquity and heritage. |
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Analogy has been studied and discussed since classical antiquity by philosophers, scientists, theologists and lawyers. |
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Steel was known in antiquity, and possibly was produced in bloomeries and crucibles. |
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Chains of buckets to raise water was a Roman technology had been used in various guises since antiquity. |
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Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world. |
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They were invaluable throughout antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and into modern times where roads are nonexistent or poorly maintained. |
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For constitutional principles almost lost to antiquity, see the code of Manu. |
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Encyclopedias have progressed from written form in antiquity, to print in modern times. |
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However, the Lexicon Technicum neglects theology, antiquity, biography, and poetry. |
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Although lead has not been used for writing since antiquity, lead poisoning from pencils was not uncommon. |
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According to historian Miriam Griffin, such bogus and romantic claims to antiquity were not uncommon at the time. |
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The period of late antiquity after Roman rule saw Cumbria organised as the native British kingdom of Rheged. |
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In Korea, a huge Buddhist bell of even greater antiquity still exists. At about 72 tonnes, it is the third largest ringable bell in the world. |
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The recurved bow design originated in antiquity when the longbow, or selfbow, made entirely from wood, was reinforced with animal sinew. |
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The Sling is also a weapon of great antiquity, formerly in high estimation among the ancients. |
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The likely antiquity of this pot further adds to its prestige and thus its suitability as an aspersorium. |
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Certainly it says how foolish we should be if we simply tried to repristinate late antiquity. |
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The somewhat taxonomic flavor that ensues can be gleaned from her survey of the topic in antiquity. |
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In fact, apart from its Georgian cousin dialect, Mingrelian, it seems to be a unique relic of antiquity. |
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The 100-meter long Nysa Bridge, a tunnel-like substruction, was the second largest of its kind in antiquity. |
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The analysis focuses on Conti's reactivation of the humoralism of classic antiquity in the context of Enlightenment philosophy. |
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The motif of a prophet, theurgist, or holy man seeking an immortal, often by ascending to heaven, in order to receive esoteric knowledge is one common in late antiquity. |
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Burke's intention is to comprehend more fully Paul's use of familial language in 1 Thessalonians by an investigation of such terminology in antiquity. |
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In antiquity bees and honey had a very special significance. |
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Aksum invaded South Arabia several times during late antiquity, the invasions of 518 and 525 in the reign of the Aksumite king Kaleb being the main focus of this dissertation. |
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I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity. |
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Recent archaeological investigations have suggested that Sri Lanka also supported innovative technologies for iron and steel production in antiquity. |
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The process by which the master plane gages were produced dates back to antiquity but was refined to an unprecedented degree in the Maudslay shop. |
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In addition to wells, there are areas of the sea north of Bahrain where fresh water bubbles up in the middle of the salt water as noted by visitors since antiquity. |
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In antiquity, Sri Lanka was known to travellers by a variety of names. |
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Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria are studied as one of the earliest organisms due to their phylogenic antiquity and ability to metabolize iron and sulfur using light energy. |
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Haifa's patented process, which turns freshly quarried stone into one that has the look of authentic antiquity, is what separates Haifa from its competitors. |
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There were many different ways that spices were used in antiquity. |
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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. |
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Thus, much of the learning of classical antiquity was slowly reintroduced to European civilisation in the centuries following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. |
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In addition to the countless images of military leaders in heroic poses from antiquity, they have been an enduring source of inspiration in war literature. |
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For Germanic women of later antiquity, marriage obviously had its appeal since it offered greater security and better placement in their social hierarchy. |
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In classical antiquity, the Pontic Steppe was known as Scythia. |
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It has been an integral part of Egyptian culture since antiquity. |
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By the 2nd century BC, the number of Germans During antiquity these Germanic tribes remained separate from each other and did not have writing systems at that time. |
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Similarly, in the esotericism of late antiquity silence is linked to the decline of the word and the senses as they give way to a sort of immediate awareness of truth. |
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Historically, from antiquity onward, hysteria and hypochondriasis were regarded as diseases that were without organic causes, with somatic and psychic symptoms. |
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During this time, neoclassicism, a building style influenced by the architecture of antiquity, became a predominant influence in Roman architecture. |
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In antiquity, Moldova's territory was inhabited by Dacian tribes. |
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In antiquity, the river was considered one of the principal rivers of European Sarmatia, and it was mentioned by many Classical geographers and historians. |
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Homer is usually assumed to have lived in the 8th or 7th century BC, and his lifetime is often taken as marking the beginning of classical antiquity. |
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Copper harpoons were known to the seafaring Harappans well into antiquity. |
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From Egypt the use of rowing vessels, especially galleys, were extensively used in naval warfare and trade first in the Mediterranean from classical antiquity onwards. |
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Gordon believed that Phoenicians and other Semitic groups had crossed the Atlantic in antiquity, ultimately arriving in both North and South America. |
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Its boundaries were known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. |
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It was usually attributed in antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta. |
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With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets, dramatists, musicians and artists. |
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The tulip is not mentioned by any writer from antiquity, therefore it seems probable that tulips were introduced into Anatolia only with the advance of the Seljuks. |
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The British surveyor Charles Vallancey was one of many antiquarians who argued that Ireland was Thule, as he does in his book An essay on the antiquity of the Irish language. |
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Together with the Latin texts and traditions of the Roman world, the study of the Greek texts and society of antiquity constitutes the discipline of Classics. |
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The two great writers of the 14th century, Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, sought out and imitated the works of antiquity and cultivated their own artistic personalities. |
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Cuttlebone has been used since antiquity to make casts for metal. |
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For southern European painters of the 17th century, a pipe was much too modern to include in the preferred motifs inspired by mythology from Greek and Roman antiquity. |
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The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. |
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Since antiquity, varieties of quartz have been the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings, especially in Eurasia. |
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Students in the history of art master's programme have to choose a specialisation ranging from antiquity to early modern to global contemporary artwork. |
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Small sculpted fittings for furniture and other objects go well back into antiquity, as in the Nimrud ivories, Begram ivories and finds from the tomb of Tutankhamun. |
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A wooden flaggon, called a meather or mether, implying acid drink, is still to be found in this country, and is considered a relic of high antiquity and veneration. |
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Their painting developed independently of Early Italian Renaissance painting, and without the influence of a deliberate and conscious striving to revive antiquity. |
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Those of Shakespeare's plays that seem to display the unities, such as The Tempest, probably indicate a familiarity with actual models from classical antiquity. |
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One of the portraits was of Lais of Corinth, mistress of Apelles, the famous artist of Greek antiquity after whom Holbein was named in humanist circles. |
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