Word: greeks
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...periods of visibility, the researchers report in the journal Nature, they were able to identify Sirius, which Gregory called Rubeola or Robeola, meaning "red" or "rusty." They point out that because Gregory did not use the classical names of the stars, he was probably unaware of Roman and Greek astronomy. Therefore, the Ruhr team concluded, Sirius looked red no more than 1,400 years ago. Yet only 400 years later, when the Arab astronomer Al Sufi categorized all the stars named by Ptolemy, he did not list Sirius among the red ones. Sometime during that interval, the Ruhr team believes...
...family vacation. Juan Carlos recalls his father shut in his Paris studio for weeks after the accident, inconsolable. Even now, 31 years on, Botero can hardly bear to discuss his loss. Botero says the tragedy destroyed his relationship with Pedro's mother - he is now married to the Greek sculptor Sophia Vari - and drove him into a depression, alleviated only by his incessant painting, including several portraits of Pedro. "Several times in my life I have reconstructed my life through painting," Botero says. "That is why painting is so sacred to me. It saves me in my worst moments...
Thirty percent of Cornell undergraduates go Greek, while just under half of Dartmouth students are in a fraternity or sorority...
...Dartmouth, there’s this common perception that the social life revolves around the Greek system, particularly fraternities, and I would say that’s pretty accurate,” Dartmouth junior Amanda M. Morris says...
...There’s an incredibly strong presence of the Greek system,” says Mark P. Coombs, a freshman at Cornell...