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Scripts

Chalcidian alphabet, cyrllic, devanagari, kana, kuffic, hanzi, greek, hieroglyphics, runes,

Some new things added

college, whose website I enjoy looking through. Especially the past exam papers! Additonally, I have new pages on my site that mirror some of those questions; replace [notes] with [latin], [greek], or [economics], if you are interested.

americas

Vasco de Game: Open sea route to India by way of the "Cape of Good Hope"

Columbus: Sailed around the Atlantic in 1492 to find India, and instead found the Americas

Amerigo Vespucci

Magellan sailed around the globe;

AD1215: English Nobles force king to sign Magna Carta

titanic sunk shortly after 1912

Antartica

'Antartica' from 'Antartikos', the name that Artistotle gave to the land whose existence he theorized

afa2

Phoenicia:Canaanites+Philistines; Downfall=333BC (Alexander conquers persia)

Ottomons=Turkish empire, Constantinople-->Instanbul

Virginia Woolf's Four Great Female Novelists

Elles sont Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, et Jane Austen. Elle dit que "The greatest sentences give birth to new ideas"

Eclipse

Eclipse comes from "Ekleipsis", or a forsaking/quitting abandonment. "The sun has abandoned us"

PERSUASION

Ethos(charecter, credibility, ethics)

Pathos(Passion,emotion)

Logos(Logical reasoning, evidence)

Letter/word prediction

q-->qu --> 1) qui 2)que 1)-->quiet 2)-->queen OR qu'est

letter/word frequency, letter/word infliction upon another letter/word

Mediterranean Trio

Wine, Olive, Grain

HELPHELP

What is the greek concept of death during Homeric times? Read around the lines of 690-693 of book 11 in the Odyssey. There are two forms of the same dead?

Fact

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4 1826.

Intra=within; Inter=between

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The greek "Nostos" meaning "Return Home" is, with "Algos", meaning "Pain" or "Sorrow, is the root of the word "Nostalgia"

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LAVENDERS, my DAD has A dog, of the EMPTIEST sort

Propaganda

a) Name calling; Ex: 'Trumpster in the Dumpster','Biden, or what then?'

b)Repetition; Ex: Sort of like when Andrew Tate was everywhere, and so people actually started believing in him

c)Either posting insults of compliments everywhere

d)Testimonial from a well-liked person

e)Plain Talks:Appealing to a certain group by trying to relate to that group

f)Leaving out information that is not beneficial

g)Bandwagon

h)Additionaly: Pathos, Logos, Ethos