The Battle of Greece ( also known as to the Wehrmacht as " Operation Marita ", or Unternehmen Marita ) pitted Greek and British Commonwealth forces on one side against German, Italian and Bulgarian forces.

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The term somatic ( from the Greek ) means ' of the body ' - relating to the body.

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** Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch is the direct successors of the See, and through its offshoots, the Melkite and Maronite Churches have a claim to succession, and -

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Its name derives from the Latin verb servo, meaning " to watch over " and it was given by the Romans, approximately during the 2nd century A. D., replacing what is thought to be the ancient name of the town " Phylacae " ( Greek: Φυλακαί ) from the Greek verb ' φυλάσσω ' - to watch over.

" Aam " ( 1526 ) from the Greek ' άμη ' - bucket ; Dutch / German-cask measuring 35-41 gallons ( 157. 5-184. 5L )

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• Economics is the rules governing material things in the marketplace, derived from the Greek words ' oikos ' - house ( and by extension material things ), and ' nomos ' - custom or law.

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Stegoceras (' horned roof ' - Greek stego -/ στεγο-meaning ' roof ' and ceras / κέρας meaning ' horn ') is a genus of plant-eating pachycephalosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous period.

An further interpretation is that the name may mimic that of the earlier Gaels ( Greek, Keltoi ; Roman, Galli ), a grouping of peoples who spoke a proto-Latin language, and who ranged from Galatia ( Turkey ), to Gaul ( France ), Galicia ( Spain ), the British Isles ( the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland, and ' pays de Galles ' - Wales ).

Sordariomycetes are also known as Pyrenomycetes, from the Greek πυρἠν-' the stone of a fruit ' - because of the usually somewhat tough texture of their tissue.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

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 ''.

Greek civilization was swirling toward its great revolution, in which the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook were suddenly to break forth.

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.

Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

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.

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.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

Passing through the hail of arrows launched by the Persian army, protected for the most part by their armour, the Greek line finally collided with the enemy army.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

The plan failed as the Greek ships quickly broke contact, while at the same time the Mecidiye came under attack by the Greek submarine Delfin, which launched a torpedo against it but missed ; the first such attack in history.

On, a Greek Farman MF. 7, piloted by Lt. Moutousis and with Ensign Moraitinis as an observer, carried out an aerial reconnaissance of the Ottoman fleet in its anchorage at Nagara, and launched four bombs on the anchored ships.

In 1988, the Greek archaeologist Dora Katsonopoulou launched the Helike Project to locate the site of the lost city.

In 1931 the British Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

The ballista ( Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα-ballistra and that from-βάλλω ballō, " throw "), plural ballistas, was an ancient missile weapon which launched a large projectile at a distant target.

The story of the fierce ambush launched by the icamiabas, that nearly destroyed the Spanish expedition, was narrated to the king, Charles I, who, inspired by the Greek legend of the Amazons, named the river the Amazon.

He has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.

In response to Greek guerrilla attacks on his forces in the Peloponnese, Ibrahim launched a scorched earth campaign which threatened the population with starvation and deported many civilians into slavery in Egypt.

George Canning, British foreign secretary 1822-7 and prime minister April – August 1827, architect of the Treaty of London, which launched European intervention in the Greek conflict

A Russian nationalist and Orthodox crusader, he prodded Britain into giving naval assistance to the Greeks and then launched the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-9, which finally secured Greek independence and Russian hegemony in the Black sea region

and Aldington launched the Poets ' Translation Series, pamphlets of translations from Greek and Latin classics.

The plan failed as the Greek ships quickly broke contact, while at the same time the Mecidiye came under attack by the Greek submarine Delfin, which launched a torpedo against it but missed ; the first such attack in history.

On, a Greek Farman MF. 7, piloted by Lt. Moutousis and with Ensign Moraitinis as an observer, carried out an aerial reconnaissance of the Ottoman fleet in its anchorage at Nagara, and launched four bombs on the anchored ships.

The Greek army was exhausted and faced logistical difficulties but resisted strenuously and launched local counter-attacks.

On the eastern flank, the Greek army launched an counterattack towards Mehomia through the Predela pass.

In April 2012 the Greek Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity launched an investigation into the disability benefits for the blind.

In 2009, Greek Telecommunications giant OTE launched IPTV service called Conn-x TV which will initially be available in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larisa & Iraklion.

Greek broadband provider Hellas On-Line also launched an IPTV platform called hol tv.