Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia - Aesop
Aesop, or Æsop (from the Greek Aisopos), known only for his fables, was by tradition a slave of African descent who lived from about 620...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop - Aesop's Fables
Main article: Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop. Aesop's Fables has also be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop - Life
The place of Aesop's birth is uncertain – Thrace, Phrygia, Aethiopia, Samos, Athens and Sardis all claim the honour. Some scholars beli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Main article: Aesop Aesop (from the Greek Aisopos), famous for his fables, was arguably a slave of African descent who had lived from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (circa 620 BC – 560 BC), a slave and story-teller living ...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Quotes: The Little Reed, Bending To The Force Of The Wind, Soon Stood Upright Again When The Storm Had Passed Over.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.   - Aesop   (S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Origins
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were invented by a slave named Aesop who lived in Ancient Greece during the 6th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uncle Remus: Encyclopedia - Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus was a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Description Language: Encyclopedia - Architecture Description Language
Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) are used to describe software architectures. This means in case of technical architecture, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berechiah Ha-nakdan: Encyclopedia - Berechiah Ha-nakdan
Berechiah ha-Nakdan, (1200s CE) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, and translator; his name means "Berechiah the Punctuato...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moral: Encyclopedia - Moral
A moral is a one sentence remark made at the end of many children's stories that expresses the intended meaning, or the moral message, of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biernat Of Lublin: Encyclopedia - Biernat Of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin (Polish: Biernat z Lublina, 1465? – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist and physician. He was one of the first Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Appleseed: Encyclopedia - Appleseed
Appleseed TV, Appleseed Movie 2 For the Aesop Rock album, see Appleseed (album). Appleseed (Japanese: アップルシ－ド Appurushiid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The North Wind And The Sun: Encyclopedia Ii - The North Wind And The Sun - Use In Phonetic Demonstrations
The fable is made famous by its use in phonetic descriptions of languages as an illustration of spoken language. In the Handbook of the I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses Mendelssohn: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses Mendelssohn - Support For Judaism
So far, Mendelssohn had devoted his talents to philosophy and criticism; now, however, an incident turned the current of his life in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunshine Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunshine Policy - Overview
The term sunshine policy originates in one of Aesop's fables. In the fable, the sun and the wind compete to remove a man's coat. The wind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bugs Bunny: Encyclopedia Ii - Bugs Bunny - History
Bugs Bunny - A suggested early influence. A number of animation historians believe Bugs to have been influenced by an earlier Disney ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod. Early Greek lyric poetry,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fox: Encyclopedia Ii - Fox - Cultural Connotations
In many cultures, the fox is a familiar animal of folklore, a symbol of cunning and trickery. Some well-known stories involving foxes are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Description Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Description Language - Characteristics
There is a large variety in ADLs developed by either academic or industrial groups. Many languages were not intended to be an ADL, but th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Description Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Description Language - Introduction
The following reasons would be better served if there were a standard notation (ADL) for representing architectures: Mutual communicatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felix The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Felix The Cat - Creation
On November 9, 1919, Master Tom, a character resembling Felix, debuted in a Paramount Pictures short entitled "Feline Follies". Produced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felix The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Felix The Cat - Unprecedented Popularity
When distribution from Paramount expired in 1922, Sullivan began distributing his cartoons through Margaret J. Winkler. Under Winkler, Fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felix The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Felix The Cat - From Silent To Sound
With the advent of The Jazz Singer in 1927, Educational Pictures, who distributed the Felix shorts at the time, urged Pat Sullivan to mak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Other Forms
A large body of fables survive in Old French; these include (mostly anonymous) literature dealing with the recurring trickster character ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felix The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Felix The Cat - The Cat's Comeback
In 1953, Official Films purchased the Sullivan-Messmer shorts, added soundtracks to them, and distributed to the home movie and televisio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fox: Encyclopedia Ii - Fox - Cultural Connotations
In many cultures, the fox is a familiar animal of folklore, a symbol of cunning and trickery. Some well-known stories involving foxes are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
Main article: Greek literature The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Stuttering And Society
For centuries stuttering has often featured prominently in both popular culture and in society at large. Because of the unusual-sounding ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greeks - Writers
List of Greeks - Writers. List of Greeks - Ancient period. Aeschylus, (525-456 BC), dramatist. Aesop, (c. 620-560 BC), writer of Fable...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exploding Toad: Encyclopedia Ii - Exploding Toad - Exploding Amphibians In Fiction
In a story titled "The Frog and the Ox" of the Aesop's Fables, a frog, seeing an ox walking by, wanted to become as large and powerful as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greeks - Writers
List of Greeks - Ancient period. Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), dramatist. Aesop (c.620–560 BCE), writer of fables Antimachus (c.400 BCE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Terrytoons: Encyclopedia Ii - Terrytoons - History
Terrytoons - Before Terrytoons. Terry first worked for Bray Studios in 1916, where he created the Farmer Alfalfa series. He then would ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E.t.a. Hoffmann: Encyclopedia Ii - E.t.a. Hoffmann - Work
Hoffmann wrote novels and short stories, and he composed music, including an opera. However, when reading the original text of E.T.A. Hof...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cartoonists: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cartoonists - Notable Cartoonists
Notable cartoonists include: Pete Abrams, Sluggy Freelance Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere Mur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Berechiah Ha-nakdan: Encyclopedia Ii - Berechiah Ha-nakdan - His Fox Fables
Berechiah is known chiefly as the author of a set of over a hundred fables, called Mishle Shualim. Manuscripts exist at the Bodleian (Neu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism, a form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similar to prosopopoeia (adopti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia - Donkey
The donkey, a.k.a. Annes (Equus asinus, hence also ass), is a domesticated animal of the horse family, Equidae. The word also applies to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia - Stuttering
Stuttering (known as stammering in parts of the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the normal flow o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aesop's Fables: Social Studies Dictionary - Aesop's Fables
Definition and meaning of Aesop's Fables   Aesop's Fables A group of stories attributed to the Greek storyteller Aesop which ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aesop's Fables: Social Studies Dictionary - Aesop's Fables
Definition and meaning of Aesop's Fables   Aesop's Fables A group of stories attributed to the Greek storyteller Aesop which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legend: Encyclopedia - Legend
A legend (Latin, legenda, "things to be read") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take pl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allegory: Encyclopedia - Allegory
An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of repr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fox: Encyclopedia - Fox
A fox is a member of any of 27 species of small omnivorous canids. The animal most commonly called a fox in the Western world is the Red ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jataka: Encyclopedia - Jataka
The Jataka is a voluminous body of folklore and mythic literature, primarily associated with the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as written...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fable: Encyclopedia - Fable
In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panchatantra: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Panchatantra
Panchatantra: (Sanskrit) The collection of animal stories used by sage Vishnu Sharma to teach the king's sons the "art of practic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panchatantra, Pancatantra: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Panchatantra, Pancatantra
Panchatantra pancatantra (Sanskrit) [from pancha five + tantra book]   A collection in five books of philosophical and moral inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Cultural Aspects
The long history of human use of donkeys means that there is a rich store of cultural references to them, including: The ass was a symbo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Art And Architecture
The art and architecture of ancient Greece have greatly influenced Western art through the present day. Byzantine art and architecture al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Cultural Aspects
The long history of human use of donkeys means that there is a rich store of cultural references to them, including: The ass was a symbo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - History
Slavery - Europe and the Mediterranean. See also: Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean; Slavery in Abrahamic religions. Slavery in the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fox: Encyclopedia Ii - Fox - General Characteristics
With most species roughly the size of a domestic cat, foxes are smaller than other members of the family Canidae, such as wolves, jackals...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bard Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Bard Soviet Union - Types Of Songs
Bard Soviet Union - Tourist song. During the Brezhnev era of stagnation in the history of the Soviet Union, camping, especially its ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - Common Usage
It is a common tendency for people to think of inanimate objects as having human-like characteristics. Few, if any people, believe this t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Old English Literature
Main Article: Anglo-Saxon literature The earliest form of the English language developed after the settlement of the Saxons and other Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Big Bad Wolf: Encyclopedia Ii - Big Bad Wolf - Origins
The origin of the Big Bad Wolf lies in European folk tales and mythologies based on the deep ambiguity of human attitudes to the wolf. Wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Characteristics
Stuttering - Fluency. Speech fluency consist of three variables: continuity, rate, and ease of speaking. Continuity refers to speech th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Music
There have been excellent composers and performers in all kinds of music but traditional Greek music is noted as a mixture of influences ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Philosophy, Science And Mathematics
Main article: Greek philosophy The tradition of philosophy in Ancient Greece also added to the literary works. Greek learning has had a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Cuisine
Main article: Greek cuisine Greeks are reputed for their healthy Mediterranean diet. The cuisine of Greece has influences from Italian, B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod. Early Greek lyric poetry,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Religion
Main articles: Greek religion, Eastern Orthodoxy The relimala khanna ... See also:Culture of Greece, Culture of Greece - Art and archit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Art And Architecture
The art and architecture of ancient Greece have greatly influenced Western art through the present day. Byzantine art and architecture al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Sports
Greek culture was and is more than cerebral. The Panhellenic Games and especially the Olympic Games originated in Greece in ancient times...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Burro
The Spanish brought burros to North America beginning in the late fifteenth century. These burros were used as pack animals, but also for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Relationship To Horses
A male donkey (jack) can be crossed with a female horse to produce a mule. A male horse can be crossed with a female donkey (jennet or je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Economic Use
Domestication of the donkey circa 4000 BC is credited to predynastic Egypt (see Domestication). In particular, the donkey has been cited ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Wild Asses
With domestication of almost all donkeys, few species now exist in the wild. Some of them are the African Wild Ass (Equus africanus) and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Philosophy Science And Mathematics
Main article: Greek philosophy The tradition of philosophy in Ancient Greece also added to the literary works. Greek learning has had a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Cuisine
Main article: Greek cuisine Greeks are reputed for their healthy Mediterranean diet. The cuisine of Greece has influences from Italian, B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Literary Prizes
Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the isles include Rudyard Kipling (1907), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Music
There have been excellent composers and performers in all kinds of music but traditional Greek music is noted as a mixture of influences ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Religion
Main articles: Greek religion, Eastern Orthodoxy The relimala khanna ... See also:Culture of Greece, Culture of Greece - Art and archit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Economic Use
Domestication of the donkey circa 4000 BC is credited to predynastic Egypt (see Domestication). In particular, the donkey has been cited ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Wild Asses
With domestication of almost all donkeys, few species now exist in the wild. Some of them are the African Wild Ass (Equus africanus) and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donkey: Encyclopedia Ii - Donkey - Relationship To Horses
A male donkey can be crossed with a female horse to produce a mule. A male horse can be crossed with a female donkey (jennet or jenny) to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Onset And Development
Like most other speech disorders, stuttering begins in early childhood, when a child is first developing his or her speech and language s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Apologies
In June 1997, Tony Hall, a Democratic representative for Dayton, Ohio proposed a national apology by the U.S. government for slavery. Thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Reparations
As noted above, there have been movements to achieve reparations for those held in involuntary servitude, or sometimes their descendants....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Economics Of Slavery
According to the Anti-Slavery Society, "Although there is no longer any state which recognizes any claim by a person to a right of proper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Potential For Total Abolition
Those 2.7 million people produce a gross economic product of US $1.4 billion. This is also a smaller percentage of the world economy than...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Abolitionist Movements
Slavery's origins are prehistoric. So, too, are movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves. Moses led Israelite slaves from anc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - How Do People Become Slaves?
Historically, slaves were often those humans of a different ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex or race than the dominant or aspiration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Causes
There is no known cause for stuttering. Theories about the causes of stuttering can be divided into three categories. Stuttering - Genet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Treatments
There are many treatments for stuttering, none of which is 100% effective. Traditional speech therapy reduces the frequency and severity ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fox: Encyclopedia Ii - Fox - Ecobalance
In some countries, such as Australia, with no strong competitors, imported foxes quickly devastate native wildlife and become a serious i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavery - Definitions
The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - In Religions And Mythologies
In religion and mythology, "anthropomorphism" refers to the attribution of a human body or of human qualities generally, to God or the go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - In Rhetoric
Anthropomorphism in the form of personification consists of creating imaginary persons who are the embodiment of an abstraction such as D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature From 1660 To The Late 18th Century
The position of Poet Laureate was formalised in this period. The early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures From The 16th Century To The 19th Century
As the Norman nobles of Scotland assimilated to indigenous culture they commissioned Scots versions of popular continental romances, for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - 19th Century English Language Literature
British literature - The Romantics. Major political and social changes at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly the French Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature Since 1900
The major lyric poet of the first decades of the 20th century was Thomas Hardy, who concentrated on poetry after the harsh response to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Early Modern English Literature To 1660
The sonnet form and other Italian literary influences arrived in English literature. The sonnet was introduced into English by Thomas Wya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Other Medieval Literatures
For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches, and especial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - In Literature
Anthropomorphism is a well established device in literature, notably in books for children, such as those by C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropomorphism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropomorphism - Opposite View
While anthropomorphism is the practice of giving animals human qualities, Zoomorphism is the practice of giving humans animal qualities. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Late Medieval Literature In England
Latin literature circulated among the educated classes. Following the Norman conquest, the development of Anglo-Norman literature in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures Since 1900
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Welsh literature began to reflect the way the Welsh language was increasingly becoming a politic...   » Read the article