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Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.
Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the Greek peasantry.
Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives.
Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done.
Some think the myth even indicates that the ancient Greeks knew about the liver ’ s remarkable capacity for self-repair.
In the article “ Bellum Philippicum: Some Roman and Greek Views Concerning the Causes of the Second Macedonian War ”, E. J. Bickerman writes that “ the causes of the fateful war … were vividly debated among both Greeks and Romans ”.
Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.
Some of the surviving sculptures at the British Museum include fragments of statues and many slabs of the frieze showing the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons.
Some substantial immigration from Europe ( a good number were Basques and Andalusians from Spain, with Croats, Greeks, Italians, and of Occitan-French and Galician / Portuguese descent ), the Middle East ( esp.
Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.
Some Georgian scholars ( including R. V. Gordeziani and M. G. Abdushelishvili ) connect the Pelasgians with the Iberian-Caucasian cultures of the prehistoric Caucasus, known to the Greeks as Colchis.
Some mistakenly believe that Turkish oriental dancing is known as Çiftetelli due to the fact that this style of music has been incorporated into oriental dancing by Greeks, illustrated by the fact that the Greek belly dance is sometimes mistakenly called Tsifteteli.
Some Gypsies ( See The Roma in Plovdiv ), Turks, Armenians, Jews and Greeks form minority groups.
Some research has shown that ancient Greeks believed semen to be the source of knowledge, and that these relationships served to pass wisdom on from the erastes to the eromenos.
Some regions in Greece, such as Attica, Euboea and central Crete, recovered economically from these events faster than others, but life for the poorest Greeks would have remained relatively unchanged as it had done for centuries.
Some also link Simon himself with the " men of Cyrene " who preached the Gospel to the Greeks in Acts 11: 20.
Some Greeks, however, reserve the latter term only for the fast version of the dance.
Some historians further connect Tabal and Tubal with the tribe on the Black Sea coast later known to the Greeks as Tibareni, though this identification is uncertain.
Some Slovenians historians said the Aromanian population, also pejoratively called as Tzintars by Greeks, the original population of the Balkans, created the Cașcaval.
Some groups, especially the Italians and Greeks, saw themselves as temporary migrants who planned to return to their home villages with a nest egg of cash earned in long hours of unskilled labor.
Some Greek sources claim that the Greeks ( Achaeans ) departed from the lowest points of the mountain to Greece and so did the late Dorians.
Some Greeks either became New Martyrs, such as Saint Efraim the Neo-Martyr or Saint Demetrios the Neo-martyr while others became Crypto-Christians ( Greek Muslims who were secret practitioners of the Greek Orthodox faith ) in order to avoid heavy taxes and at the same time express their identity by maintaining their secret ties to the Greek Orthodox Church.
Some Roman ethnographers proposed a connection between Dardani of the Balkans and the Dardans of Troy, having a group of Dardan colonists settle in the Balkans and subsequently degenerate into a state of barbarism, but the Romans considered them to be Greeks as a whole, which contradicts modern scholarship.
Some Greeks have imagined them with some animal parts, like hairy bodies, horse legs, or boar tusks, sometimes enormous, other times diminutive.

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Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.
Some recreation features, such as scenic values and water interest, also have greater overall value than other interests.
Some areas may provide archeological values such as ancient Indian village sites or hunting areas, caves, artifacts, etcetera.
Some vocational training schools provide such training, but the current need exceeds the facilities.
Some such youngsters rarely smile, or they try to speak with the mouth closed.
Some anthropologists, such as Lloyd Fallers and Clifford Geertz, focused on processes of modernization by which newly independent states could develop.
Some, such as the spadefoot toads, have strong biting jaws and are carnivorous or even cannibalistic.
Some of these have specific adaptations such as enlarged teeth for biting or spines on the chest, arms or thumbs.
Some salamanders adopt defensive poses when faced by a potential predator such as the North American northern short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ).
Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.
Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.
Some alphabets today, such as the Hanuno ' o script, are learned one letter at a time, in no particular order, and are not used for collation where a definite order is required.
Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.
Some are no more than a widening of a stream valley ; others, such as the Konya Ovasi, are large basins of inland drainage or are the result of limestone erosion.
Some of these churches are known as Anglican, such as the Anglican Church of Canada, due to their historical link to England ( Ecclesia Anglicana means " English Church ").
Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into.
Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.
Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.
Some sects, such as the Universalists, believe in universalism that all souls will ultimately be saved and that there are no torments of hell.
Some, such as Francis Crick in 1994, have attempted a " scientific search for the soul ".
Some of these beliefs, such as Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism ( see below ) are not considered to be within Arminian orthodoxy and are dealt with elsewhere.
Some Arminians, such as professor and theologian Robert Picirilli, reject the doctrine of open theism as a " deformed Arminianism ".

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