Word: greekness
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...teaching fellow at Harvard, West was preparing to give a talk on the Greek tragedy Antigone when one of the students, mistaking West for a janitor, asked him to bring in more chairs. West complied, but when the rest of the class arrived he marched to the lectern. He delivered an impassioned discourse on Antigone's love song "about human beings being so noble on one hand and so cruel on the other...
...Athens spotted something suspicious: a communications officer was stuffing documents into his pockets. The telltale videotaping was part of an investigation that led the FBI to charge Steven Lalas, 40, with espionage. He allegedly sold 240 classified documents containing U.S. intelligence on Greece and the former Yugoslavia to the Greek military. Called back to Washington and arrested, Lalas pleaded innocent. State Department officials first suspected a security breach when a Greek official in Washington blurted out something indicating that he knew the contents of a classified U.S. cable...
...campaign by one people, the Germans, to exterminate another, the Jews. They almost succeeded. They killed 6 million, 2 out of every 3. They annihilated a civilization more than a thousand years old. They even managed to murder a language. Soon Yiddish will go the way of Latin and Greek...
...rage for dinosaurs is hardly new. The British anatomist Richard Owen first coined the term dinosaur (from the ancient Greek deinos, "terrible," and sauros, "lizard") in 1841 to characterize gigantic fossilized bones found several decades earlier. Dinosaur bones and footprints had actually been known for centuries, but were ascribed to dragons or extinct lizards or even giant ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number...
...social birds like penguins do. Though dinosaurs were never thought to be especially cuddly or caring, these creatures clearly nurtured their young, probably feeding them by mouth like baby birds until they were strong enough to leave the nest. Horner and his colleagues named the species Maiasaura -- Greek for "Good Mother Lizard...