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    Physiognomy (from the Greek φύσις, 'physis', meaning "nature", and 'gnomon', meaning "judge" or "interpreter") or face reading is the practice of assessing...
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  • The Face Reader (Korean: 관상; RR: Gwansang; lit. "Physiognomy") is a 2013 South Korean period action drama film starring Song Kang-ho as the son of a disgraced...
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  • The Qumran Physiognomies was one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a large collection of scrolls and fragments found near the Qumran community. The document labeled...
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    [citation needed] Lavater is most well known for his work in the field of physiognomy, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe...
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  • Physiognomonica) is a Ancient Greek pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on physiognomy attributed to Aristotle (and part of the Corpus Aristotelicum). It is...
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    Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway, c.1789, made for Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy)...
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    The Krampus is an old Christian character[citation needed] from old world Catholic Christmas traditions[citation needed]. The Krampus is one of the variations...
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    Cesare Ripa published Iconologia, a book dealing with the idea of physiognomy. Physiognomy was a popular concept throughout the early seventeenth century...
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    eyebrows above the nose. The procerus muscles cause the nose to wrinkle. In physiognomy and phrenology, the shape of the forehead was taken to symbolise intellect...
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    The Dinaric race, also known as the Adriatic race, were terms used by certain physical anthropologists in the early to mid-20th century to describe the...
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  • with theories of physiognomy—judgment of character based on the face—described by Aristotle in 4th century BC Greece. Physiognomy remained current through...
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  • (Chinese: 面相; pinyin: miànxiàng meaning face (mien) reading (shiang)) is a physiognomic and fortune-telling practice in Chinese culture and traditional Chinese...
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  • a famous judge of horses. Bole was the legendary inventor of equine physiognomy ("judging a horse's qualities from appearance"). Sun Yang, with the surname...
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    The Irano-Afghan race or Iranid race is an obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. Some anthropologists...
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  • The Indid race was a supposed sub-race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races which was developed originally...
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  • The Armenoid race was a supposed sub-race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races which was developed originally...
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    Phrenology (category Physiognomy)
    craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features. Phrenology is a process that involves...
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    above normal in scholarly undertakings”.   The other principal way in physiognomy is to determine one's fate through his or her hands, particularly palms...
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    sampling. He had previously compiled a review of biome classifications. Physiognomy: sometimes referring to the plants' appearance; or the biome's apparent...
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    Hellenistic portraiture was one of the most innovative features of Hellenistic art. Spurred on by an increased interest in realism, Hellenistic sculptors...
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    recognise the meaning of groups of) about three words at once and the physiognomy of the eye, which means the eye tires if the line required more than...
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    scientists from the late 18th century onwards to record variations in human physiognomy. The life mask was also increasingly common at this time, taken from...
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    Swain, Simon, ed. (2007). Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Oxford University Press....
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    The Sierra Nevada subalpine zone refers to a biotic zone below treeline in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, United States. This subalpine...
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    oˈɲomi.e]; The Book of Physiognomy) is a work by the Scottish mathematician, philosopher, and scholar Michael Scot concerning physiognomy; the work is also...
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  • inclusion of the animal element. Other concepts similar to vegetation are "physiognomy of vegetation" (Humboldt, 1805, 1807) and "formation" (Grisebach, 1838...
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    "Female patient suffering from erotomania", from Alexander Morison's The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases Specialty Psychiatry  Symptoms False attraction Duration...
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    pseudoscience that tried to link personality and character to head shape, and physiognomy, which tried the same for facial features. However, these fields have...
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    special effects as she introduced ideas about the relationship between physiognomy and perception. Her varied career in the early 1990s included voice-acting...
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    were seen as racially or ethnically different in terms of biology or physiognomy. Referring to the sun god Shamash. This phenomenon does not only apply...
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