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The Metéora (, " suspended rocks ", " suspended in the air " or " in the heavens above "-etymologically similar to " Meteorite ") is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos.
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The Metéora is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria I, II, IV, V and VII.
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In 1344, Athanasios Koinovitis from Mount Athos brought a group of followers to Metéora.
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They were the first people to inhabit Metéora.
By the end of the 12th century, an ascetic community had flocked to Metéora.
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The Buran (,, Snowstorm or Blizzard ) program was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project that began in 1974 at TsAGI and was formally suspended in 1993.
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In Greek mythology, the Planctae (, Planktai, " Wanderers ") or Wandering Rocks were a group of rocks, between which the sea was mercilessly violent.
The River Dargle (, so called with reference to the prevailing tint of its rocks ) rises in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland on the northern slopes of Djouce Mountain and flows over the highest waterfall in Ireland, falling 121m ( 398 feet ) at Powerscourt Waterfall.
There are a few offshore rocks along the northern coast, like Ship Rock (, north of northernmost point ) and Ross Rocks (, from the shore ).
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Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (, polytonic, " defender ", cf.
In that paper Faraday explained that when an electrolytic cell is oriented so that electric current traverses the " decomposing body " ( electrolyte ) in a direction " from East to West, or, which will strengthen this help to the memory, that in which the sun appears to move ", the anode is where the current enters the electrolyte, on the East side: " ano upwards, odos a way ; the way which the sun rises " (, reprinted in ).
The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.
Afyonkarahisar (, " poppy, opium ", ' kara ' " black ", ' hisar ' " fortress ") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province.
Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.
A bokken (, bok ( u ), " wood ", and ken, " sword ") ( or commonly as bokutō in Japan ), is a Japanese wooden sword used for training.
The Chupacabra or Chupacabras (, from chupar " to suck " and cabra " goat ", literally " goat sucker ") is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas.
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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (, Tsentralniy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoi Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza – TsK KPSS ), abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, " Tse-ka ", was de jure the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) between Party Congresses.
Some people called Rasputin the " Mad Monk ", while others considered him a " strannik " ( or religious pilgrim ) and even a starets (, " elder ", a title usually reserved for monk-confessors ), believing him to be a psychic and faith healer.
The punishments in hell includes adhab, " pain or torment inflicted by way of chastisement ; punishment ", a very painful punishment ( see, ); khizy, " shame, disgrace, ignominy " (, ).
The Society of the Muslim Brothers (, often simply:, " the Muslim Brotherhood ", transliterated: ) is the Arab world's most influential and one of the largest Islamic movements, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states.
The full official name is Makkat al-Mukarramah (, or ), which means " Mecca the Honored ", but is also loosely translated as " The Holy City of Mecca ".
A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
Ideal for this state was the HRR ; the legend arose that Germany were " un-defeated when unified ", especially after the Franco-Prussian War (, lit.
A stalactite (, ; from the Greek stalasso, ( σταλάσσω ), " to drip ", and meaning " that which drips ") is a type of speleothem ( secondary mineral ) that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves.
Following the example of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka, it is divided into three dong (, " caves ", " grottoes ").
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The Great Tribulation (, thlipsis megalē ) refers to tumultuous events that are described during the " signs of the times ", first mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet discourse.
Tantra (, " loom, warp "; hence " principle, system, doctrine, theory ", from the verbal root " stretch, extend, expand ", and the suffix " instrument "), anglicised as tantrism or tantricism, is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth century CE, and which came to influence all forms of Indian religious expression to a greater or lesser degree.
* Psie Pole (, " Dogs ' Field ", named so after the alleged Battle of Hundsfeld or poor quality of the fields )
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The Brazilian Air Force (,, also known as FAB, or ) is the biggest air force in South America.
Along with scientist William Ramsay at University College, London, Lord Rayleigh theorized that the nitrogen extracted from air was mixed with another gas, leading to an experiment that successfully isolated a new element, argon, from the Greek word (, " inactive ").
Aer Lingus Group Plc (, ) ( an anglicisation of the Irish Aer Loingeas meaning " air fleet ") is an airline and the flag carrier of Ireland.
The Hellenic Air Force ( HAF ) (, Polemikí Aeroporía, literally " Military Aviation ") is the air force of Greece.
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (, BFU ) is the German federal agency responsible for air accident investigation.
An Israeli version called Ktsarim (, literally shorts ) has been on the air since 2004.
Channel 7 (, literally Royal Thai Army Colour Television Channel 7 ), also referred to by the initials of its broadcaster, Bangkok Broadcasting & TV, as BBTV Channel 7, is a national free to air TV station in Thailand.
MAKS (,, transliterated as Mezhdunarodnyj aviatsionno-kosmicheskij salon, " International Aviation and Space Salon ") is an International Air Show held near Moscow, Russia on Zhukovskiy LII air field.
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Mixcoatl (, " cloud serpent "; ), or Camaxtli, was the god of the hunt and identified with the Milky Way, the stars, and the heavens in several Mesoamerican cultures.
In Psalm 139, David says, " If I go up to the heavens, you are there ; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there " (, NIV ).
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The extra light is called a shamash (, " attendant ") and is given a distinct location, usually above or below the rest.
El Pont de Suert (, ) is the capital of the comarca of Alta Ribagorça, in the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain, located at 838 metres above the sea, by the river Noguera Ribagorçana, a tributary to the Segre.
A Herma (, pl ἑρμαῖ " hermai "), commonly in English herm is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height.
The Afsluitdijk (, Frisian: Ofslútdyk ; ) is a major causeway in the Netherlands, constructed between 1927 and 1933 and running from Den Oever on Wieringen in North Holland province, to the village of Zurich ( in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân ) in Friesland province, over a length of and a width of 90 m, at an initial height of 7. 25 m above sea-level.
The high plateau area of Ramat HaNegev (, The Negev Heights ) stands between 370 metres and 520 metres above sea level with extreme temperatures in summer and winter.
The heliacal rising (, ) of a star ( or other body such as the moon, a planet or a constellation ) occurs when it first becomes visible above the eastern horizon for a brief moment just before sunrise, after a period of time when it had not been visible.
In 1948, the South adopted the provisional government's name of Daehan Minguk (, ; see above ), known in English as the Republic of Korea.
A related syllable structure found in some languages, such as the Mon – Khmer languages, is the sesquisyllable, consisting of a stressed syllable with approximately the above structure, preceded by a simpler, unstressed syllable consisting only of a consonant, a schwa (, and possibly a nasal consonant ( usually homorganic to the following consonant ).
Along and above the Smederevski put, it was named after kafana of the same name (, meaning " summerhouse ").
Banyeres de Mariola (, ) is a settlement in the north of the province of Alicante ( Spain ), 860 metres above sea level, with a population of 7, 500.
* Brahman ( a ) (, also sometimes " brahmin " not to be confused with above ) is a Vedic Sanskrit word for " priest ": see Vedic priest.
Arsuf (, ) also known as Arsur or Apollonia, was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a cliff above the Mediterranean Sea.
The coat of arms of Bulgaria (, ) consists of a crowned golden lion rampant over a dark red shield ; above the shield is the Bulgarian historical crown.
Thus at each step one can either go down ( append a (, 1 ) to the end ) or go right ( add 1 to the last number ) ( except the root, which is extra and can only go down ), which shows the correspondence between the infinite binary tree and the above numbering ; the sum of the entries ( minus 1 ) corresponds to the distance from the root, which agrees with the 2 < sup > n − 1 </ sup > nodes at depth n − 1 in the infinite binary tree ( 2 corresponds to binary ).
The Three Pagodas Pass (, ;,, ) is a pass in the Tenasserim Hills on the border between Thailand and Burma ( Myanmar ), at an altitude of above sea level.
The Grossglockner (, ) is, at 3, 798 m above sea level, Austria's highest mountain and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass.
Über (, sometimes romanized as ueber or uber ) is a German language word meaning " above ", " over " or " across.
Snowdon (, ) is the highest mountain in Wales, at an altitude of above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside Scotland.
The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner (,,, ), is a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, where the finest representatives demonstrate the haute école or " high school " movements of classical dressage, including the highly controlled, stylized jumps and other movements known as the " airs above the ground.
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo (, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi ) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, 20 km south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 m above the river.
Saint Mary above Minerva (, ) is one of the major churches of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans.
The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (, official name The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Гла ́ вная ( Пу ́ лковская ) астрономи ́ ческая обсервато ́ рия Росси ́ йской акаде ́ мии нау ́ к ), the principal astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located 19 km south of Saint Petersburg on Pulkovo Heights ( 75 m above sea level ).
Mount Liang (, often referred to as ) is a mountain in Liangshan County, Shandong province, China which rises to 197. 9 m above sea level.
Orava Castle (,, ), is situated on a high rock above Orava river.
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