Ketubbah
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Ketubbah. Jewish
marriage document. The ketubbah sets out the financial obligations of the husband towards the wife. In the event of a divorce, it is stated that the woman will be given a certain amount of money.
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Cyprus trades Santa Claus for mythical Europa to pitch new currency to kids
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/22/2007; ; 608 words
; ...euro. Taking his place will be Europa, a character in Greek mythology, seduced by Zeus after he had transformed himself into a bull. Europa bore him three sons, and he...the euro on Jan. 1. Why not Europa? Why does it always have to...
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Galileo probe finds big fault on Europa.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/21/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...violently past each other. But Europa doesn't have this system...fault is called. (In Greek mythology, Astypalaea was the sister of Europa.) Randy Tufts of the University...from Galileo's view behind Europa's southern edge. The fault...
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Theseus and the Minotaur.(Greek mythology)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Once upon a time, Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, saw a beautiful maiden named Europa picking flowers in a meadow and decided that he wanted her. He changed himself into a bull and enticed her to ride upon his back...
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Integration, Subversion, and the Rape of Europa: Heinrich Böll's "Er kam als Biefrahrer"
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of quizzical maidens like Europa. The integral tenability of...find a turn to Greco-Roman mythology during this iconoclastic period...obliquely retells the "Rape of Europa." The collection, edited...place? Bll's version of the Europa story fully respects the
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Sendung und Dichtung: Adam Mickiewicz in Europa.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Sarmatian Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...underdog. As opposed to this, German Romanticism, first expressed as a "completion of the enlightenment through a new mythology" (144) in the works of Schiller, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel (144-53), became transformed in the works of Fichte...
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Civilization and its discontents
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly; 4/30/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...II carries the title THE RAPE OF EUROPA. The classical allusion seems...and more appropriate: In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess carried...the engrossing film The Rape of Europa that is unambiguously appalling...
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 "Pretoria News (South Africa)")
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Nandipha Mntambo doesn't take any bull.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa); 12/9/2008; 700+ words
; ...fighter and the animal herself. Europa, currently part of disturbance...The coincidental link with Greek mythology - Europa was seduced by Zeus who was disguised...fascination with Minotaurs. "Europa became a queen of some island...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Question Time.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 8/15/2006; 328 words
; ...from? Peter Colley Hayling Island, Hants A IN Greek mythology Europa was a Phoencian princess abducted by Zeus, king of...Later in Greek history mainland Greece was known as Europa and by 500BC that had extended to the lands to the north...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Meet Auntie Sam.(Lexington)(Column)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/14/1996; 700+ words
; THE British have Britannia, the French have Madeleine, and all Europeans may turn to the beautiful Europa, who in Greek mythology was abducted by Zeus posing as a bull. Americans, by contrast, have a masculine symbol for their collective...
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The death penalty: a European view. (International).
Newspaper article from: Corrections Compendium; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; According to Greek mythology, Europa, the Phoenician princess loved by Zeus, gave Europe its name. It is also possible that Europe's name came from the Phoenician...
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Europa
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Europa in Greek mythology, a princess of Tyre who was courted by Zeus in the form of a bull. She was carried off by him to Crete, where she bore him three...
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Minos
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Minos In Greek mythology, the son of Europa and Zeus , king of Crete. He was consigned at his death to Hades to judge human souls. He angered Poseidon who, in revenge, caused his wife, Pasiphaë, to give birth to the monstrous Minotaur .
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Cadmus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Cadmus in Greek mythology, the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia. He killed a dragon which guarded a spring, and when (on Athene's advice) he...
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Rhadamanthus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rhadamanthus , in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Europa. Renowned for his justice on earth, the gods made him one of the judges of the dead.
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Elisabetta Sirani
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...painter Lavinia Fontana, Sirani tended to focus on bold, outstanding female subjects. From classic mythology, she chose the rape of Europa, which she produced on oversized four-by-five foot canvas. In 1664, Sirani painted a languorous...
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