Sais - Sais Sais was an ancient Egyptian city located in the Nile delta. It was the center of the cult of the goddess Neith. Sais is also the plural of the ninja weapon called a sai. See the singular for an article on it. This is a stub..
Venus (planet) - causes meteors to decelerate as they fall toward the surface, no impact crater smaller than about 3.2 km in diameter can form. Nearly 90% of Venus's surface appears to consist of recently-solidified basalt lava, with very few meteor craters. This suggests that Venus underwent a major resurfacing event recently. The interior of Venus is probably very similar to that of Earth: an iron core about 3000 km in radius, with a molten rocky mantle making up the majority of the planet. Recent results from the Magellan gravity data indicate that Venus's crust is stronger and thicker than had previously been assumed. It is theorized that Venus does not have mobile plate tectonics like Earth does, but instead undergoes massive volcanic upwellings at regular intervals that inundate its surface with fresh lava;.
Jean-Luc Godard - itself. Filmography Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) (segment Dans le noir du temps) Éloge de l'amour (2001) L'Origine du XXIème siècle (2000) The Old Place (1998) For Ever Mozart (1996) Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français (1995) JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre (1995) Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993) Hélas pour moi (1993) Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991) Contre l'oubli (1991) (segment Pour Thomas Wainggai) Comment vont les enfants (1990) (segment L'enfance de l'art) Nouvelle vague (1990) Le Rapport Darty (1989) On s'est tous défilé (1988) Puissance de la parole (1988) Soigne ta droite (1987) Aria (1987) (segment Armide) King Lear (1987) Meetin' WA (1986) Soft and Hard (1986) Détective (1985) Je vous salue, Marie (1985) Prénom Carmen (1983) Passion (1982) Lettre à Freddy Buache (1981) Sauve.
Joual - songwriters such as Robert Charlebois. Common joual words and their standard French equivalent: toé -- toi moé -- moi chu -- je suis ché -- je sais pis -- puis y -- il ouais -- oui y'a -- il y a See also: Quebec, Canada, French language, English language, Quebecois, Montreal, Michel Tremblay, Robert Charlebois..
Johns Hopkins University - of French culture and language by the government of France, one of only four in the United States. The University was designed from the start to marry scholarship and research, and graduate education has always been of key importance. All students at Johns Hopkins are encouraged to pursue original research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins undergrads produce research by the time of graduation. The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, located on campus, is one of the largest on the East Coast, housing nearly 4 million volumes. In addition to graduate education at the schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering, Johns Hopkins also has several prestigious graduate professional schools. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is highly revered, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Johnny Hallyday - love affair with the French actress Nathalie Baye began in 1982, after they met on a television programme. Nathalie gave birth to their daughter, Laura, at the end of 1983. They separated in 1986. He married Adeline Blondiau in 1990. They divorced in 1992. In 1996 he married Laetitia Boudou. Albums His albums include: 100% Johnny - Concert a la Tour Eiffel (2000) Sang pour Sang (1999) Ce Que Je Sais (1998) Allume le Feu - Stade de France 98 (1998) Lorada Tour (1996) Destination Vegas (1996) Lorada (1995) Rough Town (1995) 31 Compilation Albums in 1993 Parc des Princes (1993) Bercy (1992) Ca Ne Change Pas Un Homme (1991) Dans La Chaleur De Bercy (1990) Gang (1986) Rock and Roll Attitude (1985) Johnny Halliday Au Zenith (1984) Live A Pantin.
Heliopolis - worshipped here under the name Mnevis, and was especially connected with Etfim. The sun-god Re was especially the royal god, the ancestor of all the Pharaohs, who therefore held the temple of Heliopolis in great honour. Each dynasty might give the first place to the god of its residence - Ptah of Memphis, Ammon of Thebes, Neith of Sais, Bubastis of Bubastis, but all alike honoured Re. His temple became in a special degree a depository for royal records, and Herodotus states that the priests of Heliopolis were the best informed in matters of history of all the Egyptians. The schools of philosophy and astronomy are said to have been frequented by Plato and other Greek philosophers; Strabo, however, found them deserted, and the town itself almost uninhabited, although priests were.
Gabrielle - of Xena. Gabrielle has learned to defend herself against evil with the use of her trusty staff. She has learned how to use a sword, but she rather to never spread blood. She later learns how to fight with sais, and is known to be very good at using them. She has been known to be in love. One, with Hercules' partner, Iolaus, second with her childhood friend, Perdicas, whom she had married and was later killed by Callisto. And last, as being with her best friend for six years, she has grown a strong bond of love and friendship with Xena. When helping to defend Britannia against Julius Caesar, she has came in contact with an evil cult that had her to kill one its priestess, Meridian. Using her, the.
Grammatical mood - Paul read the book". Paul is not in fact reading the book. Contrast this with the sentence "Paul reads the book", where the verb read has the third person singular ending. The subjunctive mood figures prominently in the grammar of the Romance languages, which require this mood for certain types of dependent clauses. This point commonly causes difficulty for English speakers learning these languages. Negative Mood The negative mood expresses a negated action. In most languages, this is not distinct mood; negativity is expressed by adding a particle before (as in Russian), after (as in archaic or dialectic English: "Thou remembrest not?"), or both (as in French or Afrikaans: "Je ne sais pas.".) Standard English brings in a helper verb, to do usually, and then adds not after it: "I did.
Darius I of Persia - wild nations of the Pontic and Armenian mountains, and extended the Persian dominion to the Caucasus; for the same reasons he fought against the Sacae and other Turanian tribes. But by the organization which he gave to the empire he became the true successor of the great Cyrus. His organization of the provinces and the fixing of the tributes is described by Herodotus (iii. 90 if.), evidently from good official sources. He fixed the coinage and introduced the gold coinage of the Daric (which is not named after him, as the Greeks believed, but derived from a Persian word meaning "gold"; in Middle Persian it is called zarig). He tried to develop the commerce of the empire, and sent an expedition down the Kabul and the Indus, led by the Carian.
Academic art - was election to membership in the Académie française and the right to be known as an academician. Artists petitioned the hanging committee for optimal placement "on the line," or at eye level. After the exhibition opened, artists complained if their works were "skyed," or hung too high. Criticism and Legacy Academic art was first criticised for its use of idealism, by Realist artists such as Gustave Courbet, as being based on clichés and representing fantasies and tales of ancient myth while real social concerns were being ignored. Another criticism of Realists was the "false surface" of paintings--the objects depicted looked smooth, slick, and idealized--showing no real texture. The Realist Theodule Augustin Ribot worked against this by experimenting with rough, unfinished textures in his paintings. This Year Venuses Again... Always Venuses! Honoré.
Ahmose II - to different authors, ca. 570-526 BC or 569-525 BC. His capital was at Sais. During his long rule of approximately forty-four years, Cyprus was added to Egypt and acquired influence in Cyrene thanks to a convenient marriage. This king also repelled an Assyrian invasion led by Nebuchadnezzar. He showed an accurate sense of diplomacy, developing important ties with Greece. Under his reign Egypt prospered, and this was the last period of splendour of the country before the Persian conquest, about a year or two after his death. Other spellings: Ah-mes, Amasis (Greek)..
Amasis II - and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated and taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Momemphis; the usurper treated the captive prince with great lenity, but was eventually persuaded to give him up to the people, by whom he was strangled and buried in his ancestral tomb at Sais. An inscription confirms the fact of the struggle between the native and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the 3rd year of Amasis. Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before. Herodotus.
Atlantis - Portuguese: ante-ilha meaning before/against-island. Proclus, the commentator of "Timaeus" mentions that Marcellus, relying on ancient historians, stated in his Aethiopiaka that in the Outer Ocean (the Atlantic) there were seven small islands dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon. Proclus tells us that Crantor reported that he, too, had seen the columns on which the story of Atlantis was preserved as reported by Plato: the Sais priest showed him its history in hieroglyph characters. Some other writers called it Poseidonis after Poseidon. Plutarch mentions Saturnia or Ogygia about five days' sail to the west of Britain. He added that westwards from that island, there were the three islands of Cronus, to where proud and warlike men used to come.
Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort - at the Collège des Grassins. He worked hard, although he wrote later in one of his most contemptuous epigrams Ce que j'ai appris je ne le sais plus; le peu que je sais encore, je l?ai deviné. His college career ended, Chamfort assumed the dress of a petit abbé. Cest un costume, et eion point un état, he said; and to the principal of his college who promised him a benefice, he replied that he would never be a priest, inasmuch as he preferred honour to honours, j'aime l'honneur et non les honneurs. About this time he assumed the name of Chamfort. For some time he contrived to exist by teaching and as a booksellers hack. His good looks and ready wit, however, soon brought him into notice; but though endowed.
Subjunctive mood - I the President. . . . If I were the President . . . . Be he alive or be he dead. . . In most varieties of English, this subjunctive can be replaced by an indicative when the if form is used: If I was the President. . . . The unmarked, inverted syntax form --- *Was I the President. . . --- does not occur. However, inverted syntax in itself can be the sign of a subjunctive with a few common verbs other than to be: Had we but world enough, and time. . . . Come tomorrow, I will be on that plane. The unmarked subjunctive begins to appear in the sixteenth century, and since that time has expanded until it is at least as common as the.
Paul Wolfowitz - visit to the war-torn country. While he was staying at the Al-Rashid Hotel, several rockets were fired at the building, killing an American colonel and wounding 17 others. Wolfowitz escaped unharmed. --below is from gov site http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/depsecdef_bio.html On February 5, 2001, President Bush announced his intention to nominate Dr. Paul Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is Dr. Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the Pentagon. Dr. Wolfowitz taught previously at Yale (1970-73) and Johns Hopkins (1981). In 1993, he was the George F. Kennan Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. He has written widely on the subject of national strategy and.
Polysynthetic language - together in the same word. Examples of polysynthetic languages include Inuktitut, Mohawk, and numerous other languages of North America and Siberia. Languages with a high degree of synthesis but without being incorporating include Basque and the Bantu languages. According to some linguists French can be classed as highly synthetic: a phrase like je ne le sais pas is all one word because the preceding clitics are actually word inflections. It is structurally similar to a single Bantu word. If this is true, French is thus far and away the most synthetic Indo-European language. The terms synthetic and polysynthetic in this sense were first used by Edward Sapir in the 1920s..
Okinawa weapon - of all okinawa weapons (and effectively one of the earliest of all weapons in the form of a basic staff), and is traditionally made from red or white oak. The sai is a variation on a tool used to create furrows in the ground, it appears similar to a short sword, but is not bladed and the end is traditionally blunt. The two shorter prongs on either side of the main shaft are used for trapping other weapons such as swords or bo. The sai originally reached Japan in the form of the jitte or jutte, which has only a single prong. Both are truncheon-like weapons, used for striking and bludgeoning. Sais are traditionally carried in threes, two are used in combat and the third is used as a precursor to.
National Nature Reserves in Wales - Coed-y-Cerrig Corsydd Llangloffan Craig Cerrig Gleistad Caig y Cilau Cwm Clydach Gower Coast Kenfig Merthyr Mawr and Pant-y-Sais Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Oxwich Pengelli Forest Skomer Island Stackpole Whiteford See also: National Nature Reserve National Nature Reserves in England National Nature Reserves in Scotland National Nature Reserves in Northern Ireland.
