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  • According to the author of Wealth Odyssey, Larry R. Frank Sr., wealth is what sustains you when you are not working. It is net worth, not income ...
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  • Robert Hessen (ed.), Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey ... * Hessen, Robert (ed.). Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual ...
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  • phrases to Fischerspooner's third album, Odyssey. The first volume of Sontag's journals are expected to be published in 2008 or 2009 ...
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  • series on Playstation 1&2. The very rare Sky Odyssey is yet another example of console flight simulators. Due to the restrictive nature of a game ...
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  • Sonja Bullaty reproduced Sudek's description of his odyssey as follows: When the musicians ot the Czech Philharmonic told me: "Josef ...
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  • Homer, Odyssey 5: 125-128; Apollodorus 3.12.1; Simpson, in his notes on Apollodorus's text (18, 189-190), argues that the mythographer misrepresents ...
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  • html The Unfinished Revolution The Odyssey of the Black Loyalists,] The American Revolution. Retrieved June 20, 2007. == New York == ...
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  • verses), the Greek Iliad (over 15,000 verses ) and Odyssey (12,000 verses), and the Indian Ramayana (18,000 odes with two verses each) and Mahabharata ...
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  • Homer, Odyssey. 11.488. ===Cult of Hades=== When the Greeks propitiated Hades, they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear ...
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  • of the islands and their people. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177700 * Doe, D. Brian. 1970. Socotra; an archaeological reconnaissance in 1967 ...
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  • Coates. Nabokov's blues: The scientific odyssey of a literary genius. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071373306 (very accessibly written) ...
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  • for enhanced financial aid packages called Odyssey Scholarships, which will eliminate student loans entirely among students whose annual family ...
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  • the lost city of Troy using Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as guides, it became clear that classical sources once regulated to mythology may actually ...
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  • woven of rope, plays a role in the Odyssey. A similar bed can be seen at the St Fagans National History Museum in Wales. Odysseus also gives ...
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  • Nicholas Schaffner. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. ... * Schaffner, Nicholas. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey ...
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  • works of Greek literature, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Wrestlers were also depicted in action on many vases, sculptures, and coins, as well as in other ...
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  • *Pauly, Thomas H, An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. ISBN 0877222967 ...
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  • and poems, including Oedipus Rex and both the Odyssey and the Iliad) and his wife, Sally, in Redding, Connecticut. In 1951 she was diagnosed with ...
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  • violence. Citing Greek mythology, specifically the Odyssey, they argued that the story illustrates the tragic outcome of reason. The myth describes Odysseus’s ...
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  • Since the release of the film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1993 ... | title = Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. | url = | medium = Film and DVD ...
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  • Stanley Kubrick's influential 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 and A Clockwork Orange in 1971, as well as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1982 ...
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  • produced such classics as the Iliad and the Odyssey by condensing long-standing Greek myth, legend, and tradition into a structured narrative. Virgil ...
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  • epic in the vein of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The first version of Lönnrot's compilation, Kalewala, taikka Wanhoja Karjalan Runoja ...
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  • * A Chinese Odyssey by Stephen Chow. * A Chinese Tall Story: 2005 live action movie starring Nicholas Tse as Xuánzàng. * Heavenly Legend: A ...
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  • * In Adventures in Odyssey episode 297: "Blackbeard's Treasure," two main characters discover Blackbeard's treasure while ...
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  • Garden of Eden in the Indian Ocean. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177522. * Cutter, Charles Hickman. 2006. Africa, 2006. Harpers Ferry, WV: Stryker ...
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  • Bertram David Wolfe, Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey ... * Wolfe, Bertram David. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual ...
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  • *Tiresias from the Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, and other Greek myths *Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh ====The Trickster==== *Agu Tonpa in Tibetan ...
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  • *Schwab, Gerald 1990. The day the Holocaust began: the odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0275935760. *Sherman, A. J. Island ...
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  • include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. ...
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  • *Wells, Spencer. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 069111532X *Wickens, G.M. What the West Borrowed ...
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  • This work, explicitly modeled on Homer's Odyssey but in a German setting, was an attempt, as Goethe put it, to "produce a Greece from within ...
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  • Yangtze River Chongqing to Wuhan. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177743 * Yang, Shaoquan. 2002. New Chongqing City. [Chongqing, China]: Chongqing ...
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  • quot; eaten by the Lotus-Eaters in the Odyssey and Narkissos. According to Ruck, Eyan, and Staples, the familiar shamanic entheogen that the Indo ...
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  • that receives some attention in both the Odyssey and the Iliad. Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore ...
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  • 1999. A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa, 1686 the Odyssey of Ok-khun Chamnan. Treasures from the past. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books. ISBN 9789747100952 ...
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  • 9171,965540,00.html A Long and Winding Odyssey] TIME, September 21, 1987. Retrieved October 15, 2020. In 1982 Bork was appointed to the US Court ...
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  • *Lindsey, Hal. There's a New World Coming; "A Prophetic Odyssey." Santa Ana, CA: Vision House Publishers, 1973. ISBN 978-0884490012 ...
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  • *Brown, Mick. The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief. Bloomsbury USA, 1998. ISBN 158234034X ...
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  • a young child then, followed the family in this odyssey. Cao eventually settled in the Western suburbs of Beijing where he lived through the larger part ...
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  • mother's death was the impetus for her "odyssey from virtuous daughter to revolutionary heroine" as it introduced her to death and sacrifice ...
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  • Myanmar: An Illustrated History and Guide to Burma. Odyssey Books & Maps, 2012. ISBN 978-9622178328 * Kyi, Aung San Suu. Letters from Burma ...
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  • #039;s personal items after successfully suing Odyssey Auctions in 1994 to prevent the sale of items which were withheld by Monroe's former business ...
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  • /india_sb1.html A Testament to an Odyssey, A Monument to a Failure Set in stone: Sri Lanka]. TIME Asia, August 2001, 158 (781). Retrieved January ...
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  • world (roughly 10 times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey taken together) and continuous recitation would take close to two weeks. ...
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  • A natural history guide. Hong Kong: Odyssey, 2004. ISBN 9622177425 * Foley, Erin L. and Leslie Jermyn. Ecuador. Cultures of the World series. ...
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  • Mikovič, and Ivan Kučma. Slovakia: A Photographic Odyssey. Wauconda, IL, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0865165173 * Schuster, Rudolf ...
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  • 6/Lawrence.html The Revolutionary Odyssey of John Lawrence], What Next. Retrieved July 28, 2016. The Secretariat organized a Fifth World Congress ...
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  • *Chambers, Whittaker (1987). Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley Jr. 1954-1961. Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0895265672. ...
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  • * American Odyssey: Letters and Journals 1940-1947 (posthumous). (1999). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374104360 ==Notes== ...
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  • government tried to introduce the Deccan Odyssey along the Konkan route, but proved less successful than the Palace on Wheels. The Samjhauta ...
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  • * MacShane, Denis. François Mitterrand, a Political Odyssey. New York: Universe Books, 1983. ISBN 978-0876634189. * Mitterrand, François, and ...
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  • of a Latin version of Homer's Odyssey by the Renaissance scholar Andreas Divus. Using the meter and syntax of his 1911 version of the Anglo ...
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  • Robert Timberg John McCain, An American Odyssey (Simon and Schuster, 1999 ... * Timberg, Robert. John McCain: An American Odyssey. New York: Touchstone ...
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  • her down.Keith Gallasch, Dancefilm: Spiritual Odyssey, RealTime 80, August-September 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2007. Allen puts the film’s narrative ...
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  • Merry Pranksters, an LSD–fueled American bus odyssey. Television Heaven, [http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/mmt.htm Magical Mystery Tour.] Retrieved ...
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  • the standard 3-minute rock song into a longer odyssey of sound: "Our trip with the Acid Test was to be able to play long and loud. We could ...
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  • favorably in literature. In Homer's Odyssey (written around 800 to 600 B.C.E.) the hero's dog Argos is the only one to recognize him ...
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  • this point using the Greek myth, The Odyssey. For Adorno, the Enlightenment had an element that led to its self-destruction, and consequently ...
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  • * 1993: Odyssey: A Stage Version * 1997: The Capeman (book and lyrics, both in collaboration with Paul Simon) * 2002: Walker and The Ghost Dance ...
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  • the first home video game system, the Magnavox Odyssey. He was the first celebrity to promote a video game console. After a lifetime of supporting ...
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  • lines, is 20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey and one of the longest epics in the world, is a patriotic work recounting the exploits of Manas ...
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  • Venus. In his 1997 novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke postulated humans steering cometary fragments to impact Venus, the resulting ...
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  • *Cook, Erwin F. The Odyssey in Athens: myths of cultural origins. Myth and poetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. ISBN 0801431212 ...
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  • * Sculley, John, and John A. Byrne. Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple : A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future. Harpercollins, 1987. ISBN 978-0060157807 ...
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  • * Fenno, Richard F., Jr. The Presidential Odyssey of John Glenn. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0871875679 * Glenn, John H., and Nick ...
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  • science fiction film The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey portrays a group of fourteenth century English villagers who dig a tunnel to twentieth century ...
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  • *Sculley, John, and John A. Byrne. Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future. New York: Harper & Row., 1987 ...
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  • English novel. Other genres include saférnāma (odyssey, travel story), mazmoon (essay), sarguzisht, inshaeya, murasela, and khud navvisht (autobiography). ...
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  • * Lindqvist, Sven. Exterminate All the Brutes: A Modern Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness. NY: New Press, 1996. ISBN 9781565840027 ...
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  • , 549. Periklutos occurs in The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Hesiod`s Theogony. ===Ascetic literature=== Jesus is widely venerated in Muslim ascetic ...
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  • is named Freedom 7 and the yearbook is entitled Odyssey. Blue Origin's suborbital space tourism rocket, the New Shepard, is named after Shepard.Dominic ...
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  • * Wells, Spencer. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0812971469. * Zvebil, K. The Smile of Murugan: ...
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  • * Jordan, William John. Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. ISBN 0292764693 * Kaufman, Burton Ira, and Kaufman, Scott. The ...
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  • the script for an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, being filmed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang. Lang was asked and agreed to play himself ...
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  • it from the ground, and showed me its nature.) Odyssey 10.302-3 (ed. A. T. Murray). The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one ...
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  • * Catton, Bruce. Mr. Lincoln's Army: The Odyssey of General George Brinton McClellan and the Army of the Potomac. Doubleday & Company, 1962. ...
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  • songs were placed within his heart by the gods (Odyssey 22.347-8). Plato taught that the poet breaks through to the world of divine apprehension and ...
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  • Soviet war, When God Looked the other way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption. University of Chicago Press, 2004. * Mongeon, A. [http://home ...
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  • ) first appears in Homer's Odyssey. Book 14, line 199; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon Its etymology is unknown ...
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  • dashing of hopes and death. In his epic poem the Odyssey, written in the eighth century B.C.E., Homer describes the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero ...
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  • Forever (1956), Arthur C. Clarke's 2061: Odyssey Three (1988), F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big As the Ritz" (1922), and ...
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  • quot; On the other hand, verse epics, including the Odyssey and Aeneid, had been recited to select audiences, though this was a more intimate experience ...
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  • * Brook-Shepherd, Gordon. The Austrians: A Thousand-year Odyssey. London: HarperCollins, 1997. ISBN 978-0006382553 * Jelavich, Barbara. Modern ...
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  • *first=Leanne|last=Boepple|year=1995|title=Scream: Space Odyssey, Jackson-Style. (video production; Michael and Janet Jackson video)|volume=29 ...
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