An Ancient Observer is the 8th album by Tigran Hamasyan released 31 March 2017. Two of the tracks on the album are developments of traditional Armenian...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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companion work to his 8th album An Ancient Observer, which was released the year before. Similarly to An Ancient Observer, this work is mostly solo piano...
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Ancient Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/ KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially...
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Magic (supernatural) (redirect from Magic in the ancient world)
as katadesmoi (binding spells), described as magic by modern and ancient observers alike, scholars have been compelled to abandon this viewpoint. The...
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lent precision to pinpointing the midsummer and winter solstices for ancient observers. These three stones are considered the most spectacular set of megalithic...
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(Naïve) 2014: Liberetto II with Lars Danielsson (The Act Company) 2015: Ancient Mechanisms with LV (Brownswood) 2016: Atmosphères with Arve Henriksen,...
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Sirius (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Gregory had been referring to Arcturus. It is notable that not all ancient observers saw Sirius as red. The 1st-century poet Marcus Manilius described...
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Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ˈmæsɪdɒn/ MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later...
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Uranus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
visible to the naked eye, but it was never recognised as a planet by ancient observers because of its dimness and slow orbit. William Herschel first observed...
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Griffin (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
points. Mayor argues that Protoceratops and other fossils, seen by ancient observers, may have been interpreted as evidence of a half-bird-half-mammal...
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rational case for ancient India's ingenuity". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 24 December 2024. William Dalrymple Explains | The ancient history behind...
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Thailand (category Observer states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation)
there were unsuccessful rebellions in the ancient Patani area, Ubon Ratchathani, and Phrae in opposition to an attempt to blunt the power of local lords...
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Celestial sphere (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
astronomy to specify the position of an object in the sky without consideration of its linear distance from the observer. The celestial equator divides the...
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Ankara (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
historically known as Ancyra and Angora. Serving as the capital of the ancient Celtic state of Galatia (280–64 BC), and later of the Roman province with...
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included in the list of states with limited recognition. Sovereign states and observer states within the United Nations are shown in bold text. The column headings...
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believed to have been used by ancient Romans. Musk stated he was considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420 a share, an alleged reference to marijuana...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Ancient Roman Empire)
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. pp. 252–254. ISBN 978-1-1346-6525-9.; Bard, Kathryn A. (2015). An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. John...
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Milky Way (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
no other than a certain effect arising from the observer's situation, ... To a spectator placed in an indefinite space, ... it [i.e. the Milky Way (Via...
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Iraq (category Countries and territories where Arabic is an official language)
dominated Mesopotamia and much of the Ancient Near East during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The Iraq of antiquity was an innovation stronghold, producing early...
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Satire (redirect from Ancient Greek satire)
have tried to censor, ostracize and repress satire. Teasing (sfottò) is an ancient form of simple buffoonery, a form of comedy without satire's subversive...
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China (category Countries and territories where Chinese is an official language)
Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back to the Sanskrit word Cīna, used in ancient India. "China" appears in Richard Eden's 1555 translation of the 1516 journal...
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Mercenary (redirect from Greek mercenaries in ancient India)
Stephanus of Byzantium recorded the existence of an ancient city called Daedala or Daidala (Ancient Greek: Δαίδαλα) in India, which he described as Indo-Cretan...
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art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt; paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters; and an extensive collection of American...
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Santorini (redirect from Ancient history of Santorini)
11 April 2023. "Santorini information". Retrieved 11 April 2023. An early observer of this was Theodore Bent in January 1884: "[At] Santorin they always...
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Is 'Game of Thrones' Inspired by Real-Life Battles? An Expert Weighs In". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved...
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35–39. Llewellyn-Smith, Caspar (September 18, 2005). "Flash-back". The Observer. London. Retrieved June 17, 2012. "The day Bob Dylan dropped by for coffee"...
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Ouroboros (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
/ˌʊərəˈbɒrəs/) is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography...
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2019. "David Bowie – The man who could have been a movie star". Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November...
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History of alcoholic drinks (redirect from Alcoholic beverages in ancient Greece)
men for an evening of conversation, entertainment and drinking typically ended in intoxication. However, while there are no references in ancient Greek...
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