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Cryptozoology ( from Greek κρυπτός, kryptos, " hidden " + zoology ; literally, " study of hidden animals ") refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven.
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" Cryptozoology ", Gee said, " the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold.
The journal Cryptozoology was published from 1982 to 1996.
Cryptozoology and zoology
Cryptozoology is not a recognized branch of zoology or a discipline of science.
Cryptozoology and ;
The International Society of Cryptozoology ( ISC ) was founded in 1982 in Washington, D. C. to serve as a scholarly center for documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified animals ; that is, animal species or forms which have been reported in some manner but which have not been scientifically proven to exist.
Cryptozoology and study
The study of such animals is known as cryptozoology, and Cryptozoology was also the title of its journal.
Coleman continued his study of Tom Slick in 2002 with Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology.
Cryptozoology and animals
Cryptozoology has been criticised because of its reliance on anecdotal information and because some cryptozoologists do not follow the scientific method and devote a substantial portion of their efforts to investigations of animals that most scientists believe are unlikely to have existed.
According to the journal Cryptozoology, the ISC served " as a focal point for the investigation, analysis, publication, and discussion of all matters related to animals of unexpected form or size, or unexpected occurrence in time or space.
Cryptozoology and for
The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen by Henry Morton Stanley in his travelogue of exploring the Congo, later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.
Additionally, in an article for Cryptozoology, A. C. Thomas notes that even if there were some truth to the story, it could be explained rationally as an encounter with a walrus or similar creature that had swum up the river.
After examining American cheetah skulls, however, J. Richard Greenwell of the International Society for Cryptozoology ( ISC ) concluded by 1986 that the onza was not to be identified with it.
* Show Eight – Cryptozoology provides the theme for this episode.
Cryptozoology and has
Cryptozoology. com has an account of this story with the events taking place in the state of Texas.
Cryptozoology and .
The okapi was adopted as an emblem by the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.
Cryptozoology 12, 1-18.
Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers.
* Loren Coleman included this animal in Cryptozoology A to Z.
* Cryptozoology. com glossary description of Trunko
Cryptozoology A To Z. Fireside ( 1999 )
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While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.
They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.
It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.
After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.
The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.
Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.
Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.
Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani
The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period.
The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.
The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.
According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.
Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.
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Cryptorchidism ( derived from the Greek κρυπτός, kryptos, meaning hidden and ὄρχις, orchis, meaning testicle ) is the absence of one or both testes from the scrotum.
Krypteia or crypteia ( Greek: κρυπτεία / krupteía, from κρυπτός / kruptós, “ hidden, secret things ”) was a tradition involving young Spartans, part of the agoge ( classical Greek ) regime of Spartan education.
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