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In a similar vein the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 attempted to steer Greek public opinion not only by propaganda but also by inventing new words and slogans such as palaiokommatismos ( old-partyism ), Ellas Ellinon Christianon ( Greece of Christian Greeks ), and Ethnosotirios Epanastasis ( nation-saving revolution, meaning coup d ' état ).
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In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
The campaign continued in a similar vein, lasting for a total of ninety days.
Pagan Publishing has released a series of supplements in a similar vein, by the name Delta Green, that is set in the 1990s ( although later supplements add support for playing closer to the present day ).
The third book continues along a similar vein, condemning cosmetics on the grounds that it is our souls, not our bodies, that we should seek to beautify.
Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.
In 1997, Tom Vanderbilt wrote in a similar vein in The Baffler magazine:
In a similar vein, CBS-backed iWon. com gave away $ 10 million to a lucky contestant on an April 15, 2000 half-hour primetime special that was broadcast on CBS.
In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".
* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.
Another example of Gothic parody in a similar vein is The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett ( 1813 ).
In a similar vein, a " hack " may refer to a math hack, that is, a clever solution to a mathematical problem.
Finnish born nationalist and linguist Kaarle Akseli Gottlund ( 1796 – 1875 ) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to The Iliad, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland.
In a similar vein, there are many similar unique innovations in Germanic, Baltic and Slavic that are far more likely to be areal features than traceable to a common proto-language.
" In a similar vein, C. L ' Estrange Ewen, a specialist in the witch trials, referred to them in 1938 as simple " fancies " that were nothing but " vapid balderdash.
An ancestor to the easy listening format is Beautiful Music, a now-rare format ( though XM features one channel of it, called Sunny ) focusing mostly on smooth jazz or classical arrangements of pop music and original compositions in a similar vein.
In 1970, the act evolved into the Pink Fairies, which carried on in a similar vein.
In a similar vein, all prime numbers bigger than 5, written in the usual decimal system, end in 1, 3, 7, or 9, since even numbers are multiples of 2 and numbers ending in 0 or 5 are multiples of 5.
" Purple Party " is also used as an academic hypothetical of an undefined party, as a centralist party in the United States ( because purple is created from mixing the main parties ' colours of red and blue ) and as a highly idealistic " peace and love " party -- in a similar vein to a Green Party, perhaps.
In a similar vein, some real-life organizations recognize that technical people may be very valuable for their skills but poor managers, and so provide parallel career paths allowing a good technical person to acquire pay and status reserved for management in most organizations.
Curry & Chips set out to satirize racist attitudes in Britain in a similar vein to Speight's earlier creation, the hugely successful Till Death Us Do Part, with Milligan ' blacking up ' to play Kevin O ' Grady, a half-Pakistani / half-Irish factory worker.
In a similar vein, Colts defensive end Bubba Smith would later refuse to wear his Super Bowl V ring because of the " sloppy " play.
In a similar vein, Kofi Annan, at the time United Nations Secretary-General, stated that it is " time to set aside debates on so-called ' state terrorism '.
In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.
Foreign Affairs ( 1977 ) was musically in a similar vein to Small Change, but showed further artistic refinement and exploration into jazz and blues styles.
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It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods ( Greek: νέκταρ, néktar ) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots * nek -, " death ", and -* tar, " overcoming ".
Both are probably derived from the Latin barica, from Greek baris " Egyptian boat ", from Coptic bari " small boat ", hieroglyphic Egyptian < small >< hiero > D58-G29-M17-M17-D21-P1 </ hiero ></ small > and similar ba-y-r for " basket-shaped boat ".
( In contrast, the Greek historian Ctesias refers to a similar father-in-law / general figure named Onaphas.
However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.
The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.
In similar fashion, many of the greatest works of Greek and Roman art were soon to be seen in its squares and streets.
Consistent with his other writing, Clement affirms that philosophy had a propaedeutic role for the Greek, similar to the function of the law for the Jews.
It is shown as a horse with the torso of a man in place of where the horse's head has to be, that is similar to a Greek centaur.
These laments were similar in form to the chorales of Greek drama except that the leader could improvise.
Brubaker argues that the initial expansion of the use of the phrase extended it to other, similar cases, such as the Armenian and Greek diasporas.
In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").
The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.
This is similar to the other Greek titles basileus and autokrator, which, along with despot, have been used at various times to describe everything from a local chieftain to a simple ruler, king or emperor.
* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
There is also a Latin epsilon or " open e ", which looks similar to the Greek lowercase epsilon.
Note that the term " selflessness " is similar in literal meaning ( ego is the Greek word for " I ") but differs in nuance and usage.
Greek scholar Aristotle realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals.
Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters.
Ben E. Perry ( compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables ) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.
Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.
The Greek language ultimately dominated the peninsula and Greece's mosaic of small city-states became culturally similar.
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