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  • ...l life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qin Shihuang|publisher=Ministry of Culture, [[People's Republic of China]]| year=2003|url=http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_abou ...t comes from ''hydrargyrum'', a [[Latin]]ized form of the [[Greek language|Greek]] word Ύδραργυρος (''hydrargyros''), which is a compound word mea
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  • ...[[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], who argued that death alone should not render people notable. ...I of the United Kingdom|King George III]]; calling him "the Father of Your People, and enlightened Patron of Arts, Sciences and Literature", Gleig wished
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  • ...hical outlook was [[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic]] and it tried to integrate [[Greek philosophy]] (and especially the [[Dialectic|dialectical reasoning]] and [[ ...uth'') and the Master of the Age (''Sahib al-Zaman'') and the Imam for the people as long as he lives, If he fulfills his mission and accomplishes his allott
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  • '''Homeostasis''' (from [[List of Greek words with English derivatives|Greek]]: ὅμοιος, ''homoios'', "similar"; and ἵστημι, ''histēmi'', ...o function, at a slower rate, even though the body is starving. Therefore, people who deprive themselves of food while trying to lose weight would find it ea
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  • ...o make fall".<ref>{{cite web| last= Liddell| first= Henry George| title= A Greek-English Lexicon ...s likely that the name itself was expressive of this application. From the Greek, the word passed into late Latin, and thence into French ("asphalte") and E
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  • ...the English monk [[Roger Bacon]], or by the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] people (according to [[folklore]] a [[friar]] [[Berthold Schwarz]]), with literary ...<ref name="partingtonquote"/> [[Fathullah Shirazi]] (c. 1582), a [[Persian people|Persian]]-[[History of India|Indian]] [[polymath]] and mechanical engineer
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  • ...inually evolved, and the choices of textiles available have influenced how people carried their possessions, [[clothing|clothed]] themselves, and decorated t ...ton has been spun, woven, and dyed since prehistoric times. It clothed the people of ancient India, Egypt, and China. Hundreds of years before the Christian
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  • '''Asbestos''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ἄσβεστος meaning "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable") is a set ...ish). The ancients already recognized certain hazards of the material. The Greek geographer [[Strabo]] and the Roman naturalist [[Pliny the Elder]] noted th
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  • ...institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ==Institutions named for people associated with the institution==
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  • * [[Laconia]] - an ancient Greek, after whom we name the [[Laconic phrase]] * [[Mentor]] ([[Greek mythology]]) — mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a
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  • ...tered legally as a company. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[Lists of etymologies]]. All of these are named after founders, co-fo ...nstitute]] - health care [[think tank]] named after [[Galen]], a prominent Greek [[physician]]
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  • ...es in the [[United States|United States of America]] which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or t *[[Euclid, Ohio]] &ndash; [[Euclid]] ([[Greek mathematics|Greek mathematician]])
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  • This is a list of '''[[prize]]s''' that are '''named after people'''. ''For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[Lists of etymologies]]''.
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  • ...ace names see [[toponomy]]. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see [[eponym]]. {{main|List of countries named after people}}
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  • .../cartoons.wrap/| archivedate = May 15, 2007}}</ref> Globally, at least 139 people were killed and 823 injured.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2006-03-02| title=Cartoon Professors assert that "Hatred towards people who follow other religions such as Jews and Christians, as well as Hindus a
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  • ...rom the [[Latin]] ''butyrum'', which is borrowed from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''boutyron''. This may have been a construction meaning "cow-cheese" (''b ...ered butter a food fit more for the northern [[barbarian]]s. A play by the Greek comic poet [[Anaxandrides]] refers to [[Thracians]] as ''boutyrophagoi''; "
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  • ...sbn=0-520-24638-1 | pages=.264}}</ref> It was also consumed by [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] tribes.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} ...[[yoghurt]] or kumis, both of which are relatively easily digested even by people who produce little [[lactase]]."</ref>
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  • ...dsway Airport, Isle of Man via [[RAF Walney Island]], Lancashire. All nine people on board were rescued by a [[Trawler (fishing)|trawler]] from [[Port Erin]] ;{{flag|Greece|royal}}: [[Greek Air Force|Hellenic Royal Air Force]]
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