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(April 21 - May 20). The fixed earth sign of the Zodiac called "the Bull" because the Babylonians who invented the sign associated the bull with the beginning of spring. It is the Venusian Impulse, the Eros as opposed to Thanatos (Scorpio). In Egypt, Apis the Bull was an avatar of Osiris. The chief characteristics of Taurus are stubbornness, love of the arts and hedonism, which last is no doubt the reason that Gautama Buddha chose this as the sign of his birth with its Karma of Buddhistic renunciation and austerity. As one of the tetramorphs Taurus incorporates the lesson of velle, "to will."

Some famous Taureans are: Adolf Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci, Hirohito, Wm. Randolph Hearst, Fred Astaire, Theodore Roszak, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Freud, Orson Welles, Tchaikovsky, Irving Berlin, Gary Cooper, Eva Peron, Harry Truman, Daniel Berrigan, John Wilkes Booth, Socrates, Machiavelli, Florence Nightingale, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Malcom X.

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All religions and schools of thought have held equanimity to be a great virtue, to be cultivated as a prerequisite to attaining the status of a jivanmukta or realised soul.

The sage-king Bhartrihari defined the man of equanimity: - Let those who are worldly-wise praise or condemn, let riches come or go as they please, let death mow one down now itself, or let it come centuries later Ñ the man of equanimity is not deterred from his determined and steadfast march on the path of righteousnessÓ.

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Role Playing:

(1) A flavor of “modern” psychology, discovered by Aeschylus and Shakespeare, saying that we all wear masks and play various roles as conditions seem to require, even when alone.

(2) A type of game in which the participants cooperate in the creation of a living fantasy novel.

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• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Titles given to Mary
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• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Virgin birth of Jesus
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Theotokos Mother of God
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• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Dormition and Assumption
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Religious attitudes towards Mary
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Veneration of Mary: Divisions Among Christians
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Joint Anglican/Roman Catholic document
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Non-Abrahamic worship of Mary
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Mary and Shakespeare
• Mary, the mother of Jesus - Portrayals
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Capreolinae Cervinae Hydropotinae Muntiacinae A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. A number of broadly similar animals, from related families within the order Artiodactyla, are often also called deer. Depending on the species, male deer are called stags, harts, bucks or bulls, and females are called hinds, does or cows. Young deer are called calves or fawns (not to be confused with fauns, a kind ...

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Cernunnos in Celtic polytheism is the deified spirit of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. As a "Horned God", Cernunnos was one of a number of similar deities found in many ancient cultures. Cernunnos - Origins. Cernunos is known, from archaeological sources such as inscriptions and depictions, to have been worshipped in Gaul, Northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina) and the southern coast of Britain. The earliest known probable depiction of Cernunnos was ...

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• Cernunnos - Origins
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• Cernunnos - Medieval traces
• Cernunnos - Neo-Paganism
• Cernunnos - Wicca

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Aeneas (Greek: Αινείας, Aineías) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus in Roman sources). He was also the cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy, which led to the founding of the city that would one day become Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and history. Aeneas is a character in Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In the Iliad, ...

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Creativity is a human mental phenomenon based around the deployment of mental skills and/or conceptual tools, which, in turn, originate and develop innovation, inspiration, or insight. Creativity - Scope. For some people, the word creativity conjures up associations strictly with artistic endeavours and with the writing of literature. Some other have also linked creativity with moments of sudden scientific or engineering insight since at least the time of Archimedes in Ancient Greece. Pop psyc ...

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• Creativity - Measuring creativity
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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 a type of apparatus. Donkey - Etymology of the name. The word "donkey" (ass) is one of the most etymologically obscure in the English language. Until quite recent times, the standard word was "ass" also known as purvi, which has clear cognates in most other Indo-European languages; no credible cognate for "donkey" has yet been identified, though ...

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• Donkey - Economic use
• Donkey - Wild asses
• Donkey - Burro
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• Donkey - Cultural aspects
• Donkey - abusive meaning
• Donkey - US Democratic Party symbol
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Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, into a wealthy Protestant family; his grandfather was a coal and timber speculator. Music was one of his escapes to get away from the iron hand of his grandfather, J.O. Cole entertained people on boats and got lost in the music, which was his life. His mother started Cole Porter in musical training at an early age, and Porter learned the violin at age 6, the piano at age 8, and he wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at age 10. Cole's mother, Kate Porter, recognized and supported her son's ta ...

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Cibber's comedies Love's Last Shift (1696) and The Careless Husband (1704) are early heralds of a massive shift in audience taste, away from the intellectualism and sexual frankness of Restoration comedy and towards the conservative certainties and gender role backlash of exemplary or sentimental comedy. In particular, Love's Last Shift illustrates Cibber's opportunism at a moment in time before the change was assured: fearless of self-contradiction, he puts something for everybody into his first play, com ...

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Colley Cibber, Colley Cibber - Life, Colley Cibber - Cibber's autobiography, Colley Cibber - Cibber as actor, Colley Cibber - Cibber as playwright, Colley Cibber - Love's Last Shift, Colley Cibber - The Careless Husband, Colley Cibber - Other plays, Colley Cibber - Cibber as manager, Colley Cibber - Cibber as poet, Colley Cibber - Cibber as dunce, Colley Cibber - Pamphlet wars, Colley Cibber - The King of Dunces, Colley Cibber - Plays, Colley Cibber - Literary Trivia

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By the 1800s the pasty had evolved to meet the needs of tin miners, as tin mining was a major Cornish industry at the time. Tradition claims that it was originally made as lunch ('croust' in the Cornish language) for Cornish miners who were unable to return to the surface to eat. The story goes that, covered in dirt from head to foot (possibly including some arsenic often found with tin), they could hold the pasty by the folded crust and eat the rest of the pasty without touching it, discarding the dirty pastry. The pastry they threw away wa ...

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Cornish pasty, Cornish pasty - History, Cornish pasty - Cultural references

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The entire Augustan age's poetry was dominated by Alexander Pope. Since Pope began publishing when very young and continued to the end of his life, his poetry is a reference point in any discussion of the 1710's, 1720's, 1730's, or even 1740's. Furthermore, Pope's abilities were recognized early in his career, so contemporaries acknowledged his superiority, for the most part. Indeed, seldom has a poet been as publically acknowledged as a leader for as long as was Pope, and, unlike the case with figures such as John Dryden or William Wordswor ...

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Augustan poetry, Augustan poetry - Overview, Augustan poetry - Alexander Pope the Scribblerans and poetry as social act, Augustan poetry - Translation and adaptation as statement, Augustan poetry - Sentiment and the poetry of the individual

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The record of pederastic practices, whether as a continuation of the Mediterranean traditions or as independent native traditions, as in China and Japan, expands greatly, due to the better preservation of more recent literary and historical materials. Pederasty - Non-Western examples. Before the 20th century, relationships with a more or less pederastic element were the usual pattern of male same-sex love. In tenth-century China courting male couples consisted of the older ch’i hsiungSee also:

Pederasty, Pederasty - Etymology and usage, Pederasty - The Ancient World, Pederasty - The Greeks, Pederasty - Other venues, Pederasty - Post-classical and modern forms, Pederasty - Non-Western examples, Pederasty - Western models, Pederasty - Modern constructs, Pederasty - Historical pederastic relationships, Pederasty - Proverbs and sayings, Pederasty - Filmography, Pederasty - Footnotes

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This gruesome penalty was first used by King Edward I ('Longshanks') in his efforts to bring all of Great Britain under English rule. It was first inflicted in 1283 on the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd, and on Sir William Wallace two decades later. One of the most savage uses of this method of execution was carried out in September 1586 in the aftermath of the Babington plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I and replace her on the throne with Mary Queen of Scots. On hearing of the appalling agony which the first seven conspirators were su ...

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Hanging drawing and quartering, Hanging drawing and quartering - Details of the punishment, Hanging drawing and quartering - History, Hanging drawing and quartering - Details of the crime, Hanging drawing and quartering - Similar lesser punishments for treason, Hanging drawing and quartering - Class distinctions in its application, Hanging drawing and quartering - Religious considerations, Hanging drawing and quartering - Eyewitness accounts, Hanging drawing and quartering - Mention in literature, Hanging drawing and quartering - France, Hanging drawing and quartering - Notes

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Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator and educationalist. Born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East, the Enderby cycle of comic ...

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• Anthony Burgess - Malaya
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• Anthony Burgess - European exile
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Allusion is a stylistic device in which one implicitly references a related object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context. An allusion is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the reference in question (as the writer assumes the reader has). An eponym is a similar phonomenon where a real or fictional person's name is given to something. Allusion - Examples. Utopian discord A Pearl Harbor sneak-attack All roads lead to Rome (o ...

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The anthropophagi (cannibals) are creatures from English folklore with no heads and a mouth in their chests. Their diminutive brain was located in their groin, and their eyes on their shoulders. While they were made widely known by William Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) and Othello (1605), they were not created out of whole cloth by Shakespeare, and indeed were mentioned as early as the 5th century BC in "the Histories" by Herodotus. Other related archivesEnglish, Herodot

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Anti-intellectualism is a term that in one sense describes a hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. This may be expressed in various ways, such as an attack on the merits of science, education, or literature. Anti-intellectuals often seek to frame themselves as champions of the self-styled 'ordinary people', and as advocates of egalitarianism against elitism, especially what they perceive as academic elitism. These critics argue from a perception that educated people form a social class by v ...

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• Anti-intellectualism - Educational system
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• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in the United States
• Anti-intellectualism - 19th Century culture
• Anti-intellectualism - Right-wing currents
• Anti-intellectualism - Left-wing currents
• Anti-intellectualism - Economic factors
• Anti-intellectualism - In American political discourse
• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in the former Soviet Union
• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in Asia - Maoist China and Cambodia
• Anti-intellectualism - Anti-intellectualism in the classical world
• Anti-intellectualism - A loaded term?

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Anzio (2003 pop. 36,400) is a city and resort on the coast of the Latium region of Italy, about 33 miles south of Rome. Well known for its beautiful seaside harbor setting, it is a fishing port popular with tourists and a departure point for a ferry and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola and Ventotene. The city bears great historical significance as the site of a crucial Allied landing during World War II. Anzio - Roman era. Called Antium in ancient times, it was the capital of th ...

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