TIL: Today I Learned
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Another TIL was that "Cimmeria" apparently is first mentioned in a lost ancient greek epic, dealing with a fight between griffons and a race of one-eyed horse-riders, the Arimaspoi. The cimmerians were displaced by the scythians, who were displaced by the arimaspoi or the griffons. Only people north of the arimaspoi were the hyperborean, which in turn makes "cimmerians" not really that close to being in the over-north.
Herodotos (or someone else) attributes the 'one-eyed' trait to possibly the riders always keeping one eye closed so as to focus in aiming. In amphorae it seems they just have one eye, though i am not sure if it is in the middle as in the cyclopai. (besides, Cyclops doesn't etymologically mean 'one-eyed', it means 'circular eye').
Herodotos (or someone else) attributes the 'one-eyed' trait to possibly the riders always keeping one eye closed so as to focus in aiming. In amphorae it seems they just have one eye, though i am not sure if it is in the middle as in the cyclopai. (besides, Cyclops doesn't etymologically mean 'one-eyed', it means 'circular eye').
sophie
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TIL:
The ancient Greek word γυνή (gyne, "woman"), and the English word queen (OE cwēn) are cognates, both descended from gʷénhₐ ("woman"). The Irish word bena comes from the same source, via PCeltic ben
The ancient Greek word γυνή (gyne, "woman"), and the English word queen (OE cwēn) are cognates, both descended from gʷénhₐ ("woman"). The Irish word bena comes from the same source, via PCeltic ben
Broken_Erika
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Air Fresheners and Cigarettes don't mix. Well actually they do just not in good way...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-41179132
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-41179132
It may be just an issue with Essex. I mean... they have insane smoke detectors in uni dorms there. I am pretty sure i caused the building fire alarm to fire... twice, and from then on had to smoke with the window open and was on the first floor. Peasants
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He's an artiste, man. 
We don't all smoke.He's an artiste, man.
My writing is often fueled by copious amounts of Dr Pepper or root beer (Jones Soda brand these days, since it's harder to get A&W now).
My other artistic endeavors aren't accompanied by anything consumable, since I don't dare risk anything spilling on it, or getting my hands or fingers dirty.
Strictly speaking, neither of us currently fit that definition, unless @Kyriakos has been paid money to write in public. It's been many years since I last sold (and stitched) items at craft fairs.
Source.
Sorry, public readings don't count, since Kyriakos is paid to write, not read (if this is incorrect, I'm willing to be corrected on this point).
I suppose you could stretch it, if his lectures could be considered works of art. Since I've never attended any and wouldn't be able to understand them even if I could have attended (since all I know of Greek is the alphabet and a few words and have zero knowledge of Greek grammar), I have no way of judging whether his lectures could be considered artistic or not.
Now if he were to sit somewhere in public and write drabbles for people and get paid for them, that would qualify him as an artiste, since he would be professionally demonstrating the art of writing really, really short stories (drabbles are stories that are exactly 100 words long - no more and no less).
Just now I realised that as the Sun has a diameter of approximately 110 times the size of Earth, it would mean that if the Sun was the size of a football (about 21 cm in diameter), Earth would be about the length of a single bacterium and thus invisible to the human eye. Even Jupiter, with a diameter about eleven times larger, would only be as large as a single, particularly slender, human hair and thus all but invisible to humans as well.
Moreover, as the Sun's diameter is nearly 110 times smaller than the Sun is from the Earth (1 Astronomical Unit), the football and the bacterium are as far apart as the Luxor Obelisk is tall, whereas as Jupiter is 5.2 times more distant than the Earth, the football and the single human hair are at opposite ends of a football field.
Moreover, as the Sun's diameter is nearly 110 times smaller than the Sun is from the Earth (1 Astronomical Unit), the football and the bacterium are as far apart as the Luxor Obelisk is tall, whereas as Jupiter is 5.2 times more distant than the Earth, the football and the single human hair are at opposite ends of a football field.
sophie
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That's certainly dramatic.
(I also estimated the Earth as being 1000 times smaller than it should be, because clearly I should be sleeping, rather than constructing odd comparisons.)
(I also estimated the Earth as being 1000 times smaller than it should be, because clearly I should be sleeping, rather than constructing odd comparisons.)
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Someone had to find an excuse for an incident of friendly fire.The spike-hairs being shot as arrows may signify some lost beast which was mostly a huge spider
Someone had to find an excuse for an incident of friendly fire.
You won't redeem yourself that easily, m8
Ryika
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Not 100% in line with the thread, but I want to share it and have no other place to put it, so... here is Google Auto Complete giving me some unexpected insight into the mind of Muslims struggling to find harmony between tradition and western goodies:
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