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The undersea world of Trevor Norton.(Underwater to Get Out of the Rain a Love Affair with the Sea)(Brief article)(Book review)
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May 1, 2006
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Underwater to Get Out of the Rain A Love Affair with the Sea By Trevor Norton Da Capo Press, 2006 Hardcover, 400 pp., $25 www.dacapopress.com
Today, he's a professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool. But as a wee lad, Trevor Norton determined that "the world was seven-tenths salty water and so was I, and the chemical composition of my blood was almost identical to that of seawater. The ocean was truly in nay veins and briefly, when still in the womb, I even had gill slits."
Thus began a lifelong love affair with the sea that turned him from ...
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Mummy wheat; Egyptian influence on the Homeric view of the afterlife and the Eleusinian mysteries.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...influence on the Homeric view of the afterlife and the Eleusinian mysteries. Griffith, R. Drew. Univ. Press of America...then makes the connection from those beliefs to the Eleusinian cult of Demeter that stressed a joyful afterlife...
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WORDS: Mystery
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...called mysterious, but mystery took that much less headline...who invented the word, a mystery was in fact a deeply religious...initiates knew about - the Eleusinian Mysteries involved ceremonies that...a reference to the Greek Mysteries, rather than to the language...hacking and cracking ...
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"Remains" of the Day
Newspaper article from: Seven Days
; ...Center, Stowe. Through November 17. ARTWORK "Eleusinian Mystery of the Quantum Honey Bees" by Cameron Davis PHOTO...Paradise Lost" in Gothic script with gold pigment. "Eleusinian Mystery of the Quantum Honey Bees" is the title of a painting...
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Ivri: naming ourselves.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ...those belonging to certain tribes (such as the Levites in Judaism), families (such as the Eumolpids of the Eleusinian mystery religion of Greece), or castes (such as the Brahmans in Hindu
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Science is for everyone, whatever they try to tell you
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...logical thinking and at the scientific assessment of evidence. For Professor Dunbar, science appears as some sort of Eleusinian mystery in which only the priesthood - the scientists whose innate deficiencies have been overcome by their long, hard...
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Ivri: Naming Ourselves
Magazine article from: Judaism
; ...those belonging to certain tribes (such as the Levites in Judaism), families (such as the Eumolpids of the Eleusinian mystery religion of Greece), or castes (such as the Brahmans in Hinduism), and those initiated into certain professional...
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Millennial rites
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; A Greek Director Updates the Eleusinian Mysteries The Italian restaurant clatters...rehearsing his production of The World Mysteries, which opens at BAM Majestic...The work was inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries. In antiquity, throngs...
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THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS.(Review)
Magazine article from: Whole Earth
; ...ELEUSIS Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann...secret of the kykeon drunk at the Eleusinian Mysteries. While this assertion, as far...strong case on the basis of the Eleusinian texts and Hofmann's chemical...
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Fact, Fiction, and Feel-good History.(evaluating Afrocentrism)
Magazine article from: Women's Quarterly
; ...religion? LEFKOWITZ: Egyptian mystery religion is basically Greco-Roman mysteries, a series of initiation rites. A mystery means initiation. So, it...that people know best is the Eleusinian Mysteries. TWQ: The ancient Greek historian...
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Wail Bones
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; Mysteries... and Smaller Pieces...a recent performance of Mysteries... and Smaller Pieces...relevance. Their latest remount Mysteries... and Smaller Pieces...exercises inspired by both the Eleusinian Mysteries and Antonin Artaud...
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