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-logy: Encyclopedia - -logy
The English suffix -ology or -logy denotes a field of study or academic discipline, and -ologist describes a person who studies that fiel...
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-logy: Encyclopedia Ii - -logy - List Of -ologies
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Acarology, the study of ticks and mites
Acridilogy, the study of Grasshoppers and Locusts
Actinobiology, the study of the...
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-logy: Encyclopedia Ii - -logy - Usage
Although technically incorrect, "-ology" is sometimes used to describe a subject rather than the study of it. Technology is a typical exa...
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Acarology, the study of ticks and mites
Acridilogy, the study of Grasshoppers and Locusts
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Fornjót: Encyclopedia - Fornjót
Fornjót (Old Norse Fornjótr) is an ancient giant in Norse mythology, the father of Kári (a personification of wind), of Logi (a person...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia - Eschatology
Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος meaning "last" + -logy) is a part of theology concerned with the final events in the history o...
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Appeal To Probability: Encyclopedia - Appeal To Probability
The appeal to probability is a logical fallacy, often used in conjunction with other fallacies. It assumes that because something could h...
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Vexillology: Encyclopedia - Vexillology
Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. A person who studies flags is called a vexillologist. The term was coined around 1957 by Dr....
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Existence: Encyclopedia - Existence
There is no universally accepted theory of what the word existence means. The dominant (though by no means universal) view in twentieth-c...
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John Logie Baird: Encyclopedia Ii - John Logie Baird - Television Experiments
In his first attempts to invent television, Baird experimented with the Nipkow disk and demonstrated that a semi-mechanical analogue tele...
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John Logie Baird: Encyclopedia Ii - John Logie Baird - Other Inventions
Baird's numerous other developments demonstrate his particular talent at invention. He developed, in 1928, a primitive video recording de...
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Fornjót: Encyclopedia Ii - Fornjót - Logi
Fornjót - In the Gylfaginning.
Logi appears by that name in the Gylfaginning in the tale of Thor's journey to the halls of Útgard-lok...
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Fornjót: Encyclopedia Ii - Fornjót - More Traditions About Persons Named Frosti And Logi
In the Ynglinga saga the names Logi and Frosti are otherwise connected when it relates that King Agni of Sweden in a raid on Finland kill...
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Fornjót: Encyclopedia Ii - Fornjót - Fornjót In The Texts
Fornjót is mentioned only twice in old verse: in stanza 29 of Ynglingatal where "son of Fornjót" seems to refer to fire and in a citati...
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Vladimir Zworykin: Encyclopedia Ii - Vladimir Zworykin - Biography
Zworykin lived through many historic events. Born in Murom, Russia in 1889 to a family of a prosperous merchant, he studied at the St. Pe...
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Vladimir Zworykin: Encyclopedia Ii - Vladimir Zworykin - Quote
"I hate what they've done to my child...I would never let my own children watch it." - Vladimir Zworykin on his feelings about watching t...
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Fornjót: Encyclopedia Ii - Fornjót - Kári
Kári is mentioned in one of the thulur as a term for wind. Otherwise this personage appears only in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga accou...
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The Block Australian Tv: Encyclopedia Ii - The Block Australian Tv - Nominations
The first and second seasons of the Australian version of The Block was nominated for the Logie Award for the "Most Popular Reality Progr...
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Tv Week: Encyclopedia Ii - Tv Week - History
In 1958, the title was shortened to TV WEEK and circulation expanded to Sydney, then the only other TV market in Australia.
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Adolf Reinach: Encyclopedia Ii - Adolf Reinach - Life And Works
Adolf Reinach studied at the Ostergymnasium in Mainz (where he became at first interested in Plato) and later entered the University of M...
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Yngling: Encyclopedia Ii - Yngling - Family Tree
This is a family tree which is not only based on Historia Norwegiae and Ynglinga saga. It also includes some members who are mentioned in...
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Modal Logic: Encyclopedia Ii - Modal Logic - Formal Rules
There are many modal logics, with many different properties. In many of them the concepts of necessity and possibility satisfy the follow...
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Don't Forget Your Toothbrush: Encyclopedia Ii - Don't Forget Your Toothbrush - Australian Version
The show first aired on August 15, 1995 on the Nine Network, hosted by Tim Ferguson and Wendy Mooney. It was broadcast on Tuesday evening...
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Bbc One: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc One - History
Baird Television Ltd. made Britain's first television broadcast on September 30, 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London via the BBC's ...
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Albertus Magnus: Encyclopedia Ii - Albertus Magnus - Writings
Albertus's writings collected in 1899 went to 38 volumes, displaying his prolific habits and literally encyclopedic knowledge of topics i...
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Hastings: Encyclopedia Ii - Hastings - Noted Residents
Hastings - Former Residents.
John Logie Baird, pioneer of television
Kevin Ball, ex-footballer and now coach at Sunderland A.F.C.
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If And Only If: Encyclopedia Ii - If And Only If - Advanced Considerations
If and only if - Philosophical interpretation.
A sentence that is composed of two other sentences joined by "iff" is called a biconditi...
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Snær: Encyclopedia Ii - Snær - Icelandic Tradition
In the Orkneyinga saga, Snow the Old (Snærr hinn gamli) is son of Frosti 'frost' son of Kári. In the account called Hversu Noregr byggd...
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Bbc Television Drama: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Television Drama - Experimental Broadcasting And The 1930s
Already an established national radio broadcaster, the BBC began test transmissions with the new technology of television as early as 192...
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Baroque Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Architecture - In Italy And France
The sacred architecture of the baroque was mainly influenced by Italy, especially Rome and the paradigm of the basilica with crossed dome...
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Humphrey B. Bear: Encyclopedia Ii - Humphrey B. Bear - Television Show
The show has won Logies for Best Children's Series and the character of Humphrey has received a number of National Awards and Commendatio...
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Modal Logic: Encyclopedia Ii - Modal Logic - Formal Rules
There are many modal logics, with many different properties. In many of them the concepts of necessity and possibility satisfy the follow...
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Palazzo Pitti: Encyclopedia Ii - Palazzo Pitti - The Medici
The building was sold in 1549 by Buonaccorso Pitti, a descendant of Luca Pitti, to Eleonora of Toledo, the luxury-loving wife of Grand Du...
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Palazzo Pitti: Encyclopedia Ii - Palazzo Pitti - Palazzo Pitti Galleries
The palazzo is now the largest museum complex in Florence. The principal palazzo block, often in a building of this design known as the c...
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Flip-flop Electronics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flip-flop Electronics - Uses
The flip-flop can be used to store one bit, or binary digit, of data. The data contained in several such flip-flops may represent the sta...
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Anti-mormonism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-mormonism - Postrational Anti-mormonism
Postrational Anti-Mormonism is a categorization of a variation in the social phenomena of anti-Mormonism, coined by Glen W. Chapman, that...
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Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Variants
Although the 9×9 grid with 3×3 regions is by far the most common, numerous variations abound: sample puzzles can be 4×4 grids with 2×...
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Logi:
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Logi (Icelandic, Scandinavian) Flame; in Norse myths, wildfire, the destructive property of fire, another aspect of it being Loki, who...
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Logi:
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Logi (Scandianvian Norse). Lit., "flame". This giant with his sons and kindred, made themselves finally known as the authors...
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Hler:
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Hler (Scandianvian Norse). The god of the One of the three mighty sons of the Frost-giant, Ymir. These sons were Kari, god of the air ...
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Order:
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ORDER - principle or law governing nature, the universe, and all of life. Dharma-Hindu & Buddhist li-Chinese logis-Greek&nbs...
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Loki:
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Loki (from Danish lys, Swed ljus, Anglo-Saxon leoht, Latin lux light; cf liechan, liuhan to enlighten; Greek leukos white.) In ...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Buddhism
Buddha predicted that his teachings would disappear after 500 years. According to the Sutta Pitaka, the "ten moral courses of conduct" wi...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Buddhism
At the time of the Buddha, he apparently predicted that his teachings would disappear after 500 years. According to the Sutta Pitaka, the...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Hinduism
Hindu traditional prophecies, as described in the Puranas and several other texts, say that the world shall fall into chaos and degradati...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Christianity
Christians in the 1st century AD believed the end of the world would come during their lifetime. Jesus in Mark 13:8 compared the end of t...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Islam
Mohammed Ali Ibn Zubair Ali's Signs of Qiyamah discuss the arrival of the Enlightened One, Imam Mahdi, followed by natural disaster, "The...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Judaism
In Judaism, the end of the world is called the acharit hayamim (end of days). Tumultuous events will overturn the old world order, creati...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism eschatology is the oldest eschatology in recorded history. By 500 BC, Zoroastrians had fully developed a concept of the en...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Native American
Several Native American tribes have similar beliefs concerning the end times.
Eschatology - Hopi.
Tribal leaders of the Hopi tribe, suc...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Christianity
Christians in the 1st century AD believed the end of the world would come during their lifetime. Jesus in Mark 13:8 compared the end of t...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism eschatology is the oldest eschatology in recorded history. By 500 BC, Zoroastrians had fully developed a concept of the en...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Native American
Several Native American tribes have similar beliefs concerning the end times.
Eschatology - Hopi.
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Judaism
In Judaism, the end of the world is called the acharit hayamim (end of days). Tumultuous events will overturn the old world order, creati...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Other Religions
Many Neopagans and Wiccans believe that the entire Universe continues in endless cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.
Some have argued th...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Hinduism
Hindu traditional prophecies, as described in the Puranas and several other texts, say that the world shall fall into chaos and degradati...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Islam
Mohammed Ali Ibn Zubair Ali's Signs of Qiyamah discuss the arrival of the Enlightened One, Imam Madhi, followed by natural disaster, "The...
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Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Eschatology - Other Religions
Many Neopagans and Wiccans believe that the entire Universe continues in endless cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.
The Magic Bills be...
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-logy: Encyclopedia Ii - -logy - Other Words Ending In Ology
Not all words ending in -ology are ologies in the above sense. In some words such as tautology and haplology, the -logy suffix is from th...
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