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    Acron (Greek: Ἄκρων), son of Zeno of Elea, was a Greek physician born at Agrigentum (Gk. Acragas) in Magna Graecia. The exact dates of Acron is not known;...
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    Crustacea A A Mnd Mx Mx L L L L L Tracheata A x Mnd Mx Mx L L L L     = acron     = segments contributing to the head     = body segments x = lost during...
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    Acronym (redirect from Acronisms)
    Aeronautics and Space Administration, is generally pronounced as a word. Less significant words such as in, of, and the are usually dropped (NYT for The...
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    scientific predecessors in Greek Sicily- Empedocles and Acron. While none of the original works of Acron, a physician, are extant, it is reported that he died...
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    presentations of Socrates as a person. Xenophon's Socrates is duller, less humorous and less ironic than Plato's. Xenophon's Socrates also lacks the philosophical...
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    dedicated by Romulus to commemorate his winning of the spolia opima from Acron, king of the Caeninenses, and to serve as a repository for them. Iuppiter...
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    Pythagoras that stands uncontradicted. But it is possible, from a more or less critical selection of the data, to construct a plausible account. — Walter...
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    the nature of a river consists in the motion and change of parts; tho' in less than four and twenty hours these be totally alter'd; this hinders not the...
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    Crustacea A A Mnd Mx Mx L L L L L Tracheata A x Mnd Mx Mx L L L L     = acron     = segments contributing to the head     = body segments x = lost during...
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  • that which is can be thought; a thing which is, moreover, cannot be more or less, and so the rarefaction and condensation of the Milesians is impossible regarding...
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    had stopped at the threshold. The complete art of logoi embraced nothing less than the whole of philosophy." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hercules...
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    that Socrates was very young, and this is interpreted to mean that he was less than twenty years old. We know the year of Socrates' death (399 BC) and his...
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    Plotinus argues instead that the multiple cannot exist without the simple. The "less perfect" must, of necessity, "emanate", or issue forth, from the "perfect"...
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    divine providence. Their criticisms of popular religion, however, are often less gentle than those of Epicurus himself. The Letter to Pythocles, written by...
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  • Originally at least, the Peripatetic gatherings were probably conducted less formally than the term "school" suggests: there was likely no set curriculum...
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    and mainly above the esophagus. It consists of the fused ganglia of the acron and one or two of the foremost segments that form the head – a total of...
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  • good life with the life of pleasure. He understands eudaimonia as a more or less continuous experience of pleasure and, also, freedom from pain and distress...
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    venture with Acron Group to develop the Albany potash development, in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Following an exploration program, Acron in a June 2014...
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    totals of the same name, was the work of Mind or Reason (νοῦς). Mind is no less unlimited than the chaotic mass, but it stood pure and independent, a thing...
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    clad / In purple garments, in numerous companies / Whose strength was not less than a thousand men / Boasting of hair luxuriously dress'd / Dripping with...
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  • live the best life. Further, the term implies that the pre-Socratics are less significant than Socrates, or even that they were merely a stage (implying...
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    Displacement, belonging and citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor. Acron: ANU Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-76046-237-6. "Cancio Lopes de Carvalho -...
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    all things; and the double principle of Alcmaeon, according to Aristotle, less extended, although he does not explain the precise difference. Since 1950...
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    usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's...
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    garb of the triumphator to Rome's first king Romulus, whose defeat of King Acron of the Caeninenses was thought coeval with Rome's foundation in 753 BCE...
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  • points and edges of the octahedron and icosahedron were blunter and so these less mobile bodies were assigned to air and water. Since the simple bodies could...
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    clouds, water, earth, and finally stone. Rarefaction would make the air less dense as it eventually becomes fire. Anaximenes also developed a model of...
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    descend in winter based on food availability. Diet consists mainly of acrons, berries, and fruits, typically foraging in small flocks. Breeding occurs...
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    grove, which he provided with clear running-tracks and shady walks". Plato (less known as Aristocles) lived almost a hundred years later, circa 427 to 348...
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    B12M / Plaxton Paragon, one B12B / Van Hool Acron T9, four tri-axle B12B(T) / Acrons, two similar B13RT / Acrons and six B9R / Caetano Levante. The Levantes...
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