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Jun 7, 2024 · What does “utopia” mean? As we know, the word comes from Thomas More’s book Utopia ()—from the Greek u-topos, “nowhere”—describing an imaginary island, where human beings live in a harmonious society—in contrast to the dramatic conditions of the English people at the early sixteenth century, victims of the (capitalist) enclosures.
22 hours ago · Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. [2] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). [3] [4] [5] Humboldt's quantitative ...
22 hours ago · 1985 (9th Session) Hagia Sophia ( lit. ' Holy Wisdom '; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized : Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi ), [3] is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
22 hours ago · The Mosaic of Reḥob ( Hebrew: כתובת רחוב, romanized : k'tovet rechov, also known as the Tel Rehov inscription and the Baraita of the Boundaries ), is a late 3rd–6th century CE mosaic discovered in 1973. The mosaic, written in late Mishnaic Hebrew, describes the geography and agricultural rules of the local Jews of the era.
22 hours ago · Fermat–Catalan conjecture. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many ...
22 hours ago · The Corinthian "Heraia" was a mourning festival. Hera is related to Medea (the wife of Jason) a foreign goddess who was introduced in Greece. In the myth of the Argonauts Hera is the protectress of Jason. The scholiast of Euripides suggests that the cult of Acraea is related to the cult of Adonis.
22 hours ago · The 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia is an official regnal list used by the Ethiopian monarchy which names over 300 monarchs across six millennia.The list is partially inspired by older Ethiopian regnal lists and chronicles, but is notable for additional monarchs who ruled Nubia, which was known as Aethiopia in ancient times.
