Cúcuta
Cúcuta , city (1993 pop. 459,640), capital of Norte de Santander dept., NE Colombia, near the Venezuelan border, on the eastern cordillera of the Colombian Andes. An industrial city and transportation hub, Cúcuta is the center of a rich coffee, oil, and mineral region. It also has a reputation for contraband. The city was founded in 1733. Simón Bolívar captured Cúcuta in 1813 and set out from there on his march to Caracas . At Cúcuta the constituent congress of 1821 met to draft the constitution of Greater Colombia (present-day Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia). The city was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1875.
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The Ogham Stone. (Anthologies).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2002; 334 words
; The Ogham Stone, edited by Gerald Dawe and Michael Mulreany (IPA, 2001, [pounds sterling]10.00), is a collection of poetry and...
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Must-Have: Unique items available nearby or online
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 4/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...sold separately and cost $12 and $13. Ogham pendant necklace Although Zephyrus jewelry...the heart for pendants, try one of these Ogham wand pendants by Zephyrus. Designed and...Enchantment, translated into the symbolic Ogham alphabet, an alphabet said to have been...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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It's Miller time with 3 wins at Big M Final Four
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/3/2006; ; 590 words
; ...of the four stakes. Miller scored with Ogham in the $432,700 Valley Victory for trotting...locked up the title and did not compete. Ogham rallied to break his maiden and paid $11.40 to win. Trained by Blair Burgess, Ogham is a stablemate to Trotting Triple Crown...
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Did the Irish discover America?
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 9/1/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...First, the carvings were not runic, but ogham, an Old Irish alphabet used from about...only have had to possess a knowledge of ogham, but who would have undertaken the extremely...be leaving Christian messages in Irish ogham. Dr. Fell's translation leaves no doubt...
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ANCIENT MESSAGES ; Even the sun doesn't shed light on the details of hash marks sprinkled among petroglyphs in Picture Canyon
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 9/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...vowelless Celtic form of writing called ogham, used in Ireland between about A.D...was a stretch. To say the rocks showed ogham was to imply that everything we accept...There's not support for the idea of ogham writing." The idea has found more resonance...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Stellenbosch artist invited to Oslo exhibit.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 5/28/2007; 534 words
; ...documentation of one of his land art pieces, and is titled Drawing the Ogham symbol for a Poplar tree in the Tanqua Karoo using black sand, Western Cape, South Africa. The Ogham alphabet (archaic forms of Gaelic and Pictish which have not been...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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REVIEWS.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 11/14/2009; 625 words
; Druids - The Ogham Sacrifice Jean-Luc Istin & Thierry Jigourel (Dalen Books, pounds...through their chests and carving the Nod Cyfrin, the three line mystic Ogham mark of the Druids into their skin. The result is a beautifully illustrated...
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Closing Time On City Streets
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 1/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...won't." Among the most recent victims was jewellery chain Ogham, one of the last remaining independent firms on Princes Street...was Romanes & Paterson (set to reopen April 1) 83, was Ogham Jewellery 124-125, was Zavvi 125a, Cashmere and Kilts Factory...
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Bargains Galore as Shops Toil
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 11/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...little reason to celebrate was Michael Freedman, manager of Ogham Jewellery. His windows advertising a "closing down sale...GBP 89.95 Burton * 25 per cent off all knitwear and shirts Ogham Jewellery * Up to 50 per cent off most items Your Say: 'Don...
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Village signposts way to the past; 'We want people to reclaim their townland names heritage'.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 3/1/2002; 689 words
; ...and details of scenic walks in Irish, Ulster-Scots and Ogham - a language used in the Province before Irish or English...particularly for welcoming people in Irish, Ulster Scots, English and Ogham. We also wanted people to reclaim their townland names heritage...
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ogham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
ogham (ModIr.), ogam , ogum (OIr.), oghum...the now widely accepted interpretation of ogham as an expression of Irish through the Latin...displaces many colourful speculations on ogham's origin: runic alphabet of Scandinavia...
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Irish language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...It has 18 letters: 13 consonants and 5 vowels. The oldest extant Irish texts are inscriptions written in the ogham script (see ogham ). These texts date back to the 5th cent. AD or perhaps earlier and differ as much from the early literary Irish...
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P
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...edible berries; dwarf elder (?); gooseberry (?)] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland. Although thirteenth letter of the early Irish alphabet, P did not exist in the earlier ogham and entered the language through loanwords from Latin (through...
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crane bag
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...vanish. Modern commentators have speculated that the bag contained the letters of the ogham alphabet used in writing before the introduction of Christianity. The ogham ciphers may have been suggested by the legs of flying cranes. The bag has many owners...
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E
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
E. The fifth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by edad, [aspen] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland; edad is the fourth vowel in ogham.
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