According to the Suda, the massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, he was the son of Socles, but was adopted by Lycus of Rhegium.

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The World Book is marketed as a " family " encyclopedia for readers above 15 years of age.

* Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, an encyclopedia of music, originally edited by Sir George Grove, above

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that he personally had an IQ of 141 and was currently reading the Mushr to Ozon volume of the encyclopedia.

His combined works constitute a virtual encyclopedia of Greek knowledge.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

* Medieval Iberia: an encyclopedia, Ed.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

After 90 years of effort, the University of Chicago has published an Assyrian Dictionary, whose form is more encyclopedia in style than dictionary.

* In Mass Effect the Codex ( an in-game encyclopedia ) explains that Earth is composed mainly of Arcology buildings.

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Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

Instead, users looking for information about subnational areas are referred to " a comprehensive encyclopedia " for their reference needs.

The Corpus Juris Secundum is an encyclopedia whose main content is a compendium of the common law and its variations throughout the various state jurisdictions.

Considerable fragments of two other works, On Providence and Divine Manifestations, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the Suda.

* The Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era, compiled by Gautama Siddha, is a Chinese encyclopedia on astrology and divination.

Diderot stated within this work, " An encyclopedia ought to make good the failure to execute such a project hitherto, and should encompass not only the fields already covered by the academies, but each and every branch of human knowledge.

* HyperDiscordia – hypertext Discordian encyclopedia.

An encyclopedia ( also spelled encyclopaedia or encyclopædia ) is a type of reference work – a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.

Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands.

The modern encyclopedia evolved out of dictionaries around the 17th century.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

It consists in a complete encyclopedia of classical erudition.

The first Christian encyclopedia were the Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum of Cassiodorus ( 543-560 ), which were divided in two parts: the first one dealt with Christian Divinity ; the second one described the seven liberal arts.

Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.

The encyclopedia has 448 chapters in 20 volumes, and is valuable because of the quotes and fragments of texts by other authors that would have been lost had they not been collected by Saint Isidore.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

Hebden's Concertos are in the baroque style, and in them he adheres to the 18th century convention of writing happy music in sharp keys and sad music in flat keys.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

This adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

The basic tenet to which she adheres is based on logic, probability, and completion of her mission above all else.

The design shown above is an example of that design: the etched glass is semi-transparent, while the opaque wall adheres to what the synagogue requires as the minimum height requirement.

The work briefly reviewed above adheres to a closed form, comparative statics manner of thinking.

he adheres to its dictates as faithfully as he can.

The largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population.

The reason for chlorhexidine effectiveness is that it strongly adheres to surfaces in the mouth and thus remains present in effective concentrations for many hours.

An adhesive is a material, typically liquid or semi-liquid, that adheres or bonds items together.

The vast majority of companies covered by the Act have hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control.

Although she lives the life of a warrior, she adheres strictly to the moral codes and traditions of the patriarchal society she lives in.

The largest party in Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia adheres to the principles of social conservatism and Australian conservatism.

Later empiricism referred to a theory of knowledge in philosophy which adheres to the principle that knowledge arises from experience and evidence gathered specifically using the senses.

The FDP adheres to a classical liberal ideology, advocating liberalism in both the economic sphere and social sphere.

Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.

In turn, zinc hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to yield a thin, impermeable, tenacious and quite insoluble dull gray layer of zinc carbonate which adheres extremely well to the underlying zinc, so protecting it from further corrosion.

As of 2005, though, Samsung adheres to the less restrictive ISO 13406-2 standard.

Hydrophobic ink, which is repelled by the water and only adheres to the emulsion of the image area, is then applied by the inking rollers.

The majority of the population adheres to traditional beliefs or Christianity.

Further, the data composed via the sequenced MIDI recordings can then be saved as a Standard MIDI File ( SMF ), digitally distributed, and reproduced by any computer or electronic instrument that also adheres to the same MIDI, GM, and SMF standards.

Switzerland, although not a member of the European Union, adheres to the same principle, stating that " neither a political unit needs to be recognized to become a state, nor does a state have the obligation to recognize another one.

Namibia's road network is regarded as one of the best on the continent ; road construction and maintenance adheres to international standards.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

According to religious Judaism, any non-Jew who adheres to these laws is regarded as a < i > righteous gentile </ i >, and is assured of a place in the World to Come ( Olam Haba ), the final reward of the righteous.

Orthodox Judaism is the approach to religious Judaism which adheres to the interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin (" Oral Torah ") and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.

Like other forms of evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the inerrancy of scripture and the necessity of accepting Christ as personal lord and savior.

This usually requires a liquid " resist stripper ", which chemically alters the resist so that it no longer adheres to the substrate.

Presbyterianism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that adheres to the Calvinist theological tradition and whose congregations are organized according to a Presbyterian polity.

Pencils create marks via physical abrasion, leaving behind a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.