Stoicism
STOICISM is a philosophy related to the ancient Greek Stoic school, which took its name from the painted "porch" (stoa) on the northern side of the Athenian Agora (now ruins par...
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Aitia
The Greek word aitia (or aition) derives from the adjective aitios, meaning "responsible," and functions as such as early as the Homeric poems. It was originally applied to agents,...
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Hellenistic Thought
The Hellenistic era extends from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the conquest of Egypt by the Romans in 30 BCE. Though defined in terms of political events, it is al...
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Stoicism
Stoicism was a philosophical movement founded in Athens in the late fourth century BCE by Zeno of Citium. Although Stoicism was shaped by many philosophical influences (including the thought ...
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CHENZHOU, China, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Emergency crews struggled
on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked
out for a week by heavy snow as forecasters warned of no quick
end to t...
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Ulrich Muehe, the German actor who captivated movie audiences with his performance as a Stasi agent in the Oscar-winning film "The Lives of Others," has died. He was 54.Muehe died Sunday of stomach...
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All the travel, all the tournaments and all the titles, and not one trip for Pete Sampras to his ancestral homeland _ until now. The retired 14-time Grand Slam champion finally has come to Greece _...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Rafael Nadal has won 77 consecutive games on clay
and he has just lifted the trophies in Barcelona, Monte Carlo and
Rome.
On Wednesday he is s...
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Laszlo KovacsBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) _ Laszlo Kovacs, a Hungarian refugee and master cinematographer whose stylistic inventions transformed cinema with such movies as "Easy Rider" and "Five Easy...
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A second drill slowly bored closer toward the presumed location of six workers trapped after a mine collapse in Utah, the latest in a series of frantic efforts to save the men deep inside a mountai...
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She didn't say a word and she wore big sunglasses, but Suzanne Craig was standing by her man _ conservative Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who at that moment was denying he had propositioned a man in...
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Myint Myint makes little more than a dollar a day as a construction worker. When the ruling junta doubled fuel prices last month in one of the world's poorest countries, she and her children fell f...
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Stoicism
Aitia
WRAPUP 3-China faces weather chaos with stoicism, grumbles
