Bhoodan
Bhoodan A movement in India begun in 1951 by Vinoba
BHAVE with the object of acquiring land for redistribution to landless villagers. At first the object was to acquire individual plots, but from the late 1950s an attempt was made to transfer ownership of entire villages to village councils. The movement had a measure of success in Bihar state.
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THE MANY LIVES OF AMAZING KNOSSOS.(Crete)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the bead shaped like a bull's head? Knossos must have seemed eternal to the people...almost a millennium, and the community of Knossos dates back even further. It was the Stone...settlement in the Aegean Sea region. Life at Knossos (and ancient Crete in general) has been...
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Diversity in diversification: a Cretan caseload.("Knossos: Palace, City, State")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies, vol.2")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Crete: The Vrokastro Regional Survey Project, Sites and Pottery, vol.3")("The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete")("Mochlos IA, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast : The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The sites ")("Mochlos IC, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: the Artisan's Quarter and the farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Small Finds")(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...ELENI HATZAKI & ADONIS VASILAKIS (ed.). Knossos: Palace, City, State (British School at Athens Studies...decades, leading to a diversity of new prospects. Knossos Knossos: Palace, City, State, represents the proceedings...
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Production and exchange of the earliest ceramic vessels in the Aegean: a view from Early Neolithic Knossos, Crete.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...sequence of the Neolithic tell-mound at Knossos attests to the introduction of pottery...cf. Vitelli 1993). In the case of Knossos this ceramic isolation is compounded by...settlements, dominated by an isolated Knossos (e.g. Manning 1999: 470). These...
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Minoans emerging.(Knossos: the South House)(The Pseira cemetery 1: the surface survey)(The Pseira cemetery 2: excavation of the tombs)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...KNAPPETT & O.H. KRZYSZKOWSKA. Knossos: the South House (British School at...should, from the first excavations at Knossos by Minos Kalokairinos in 1878-9, the...volume in the Greek-Swedish series; for Knossos, in north-central Crete, the account...
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Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD-ROM included).(GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, BALKANS, FORMER USSR)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 551 words
; DF221 0-904887-45-6 Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD...centenary of Sir Arthur Evans's excavation at Knossos. The intent of the conference was to reexamine Knossos through time and in wider contexts, and the...
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Knossos; the little palace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 512 words
; 0904887502 Knossos; the little palace. Hatzaki, Eleni M. British...Supplementary; v.38 DF212 The Little Palace at Knossos is the largest house yet found within the Bronze Age town of Knossos in Greece and has been explored in archaeological...
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Making merry about modernity; Greek archaeology.(Sir Arthur Evans's romantic ideas about the Minoans)(Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...started to unearth a prehistoric mound at Knossos in Crete at the turn of the 20th century...goddess. Among those who swallowed the Knossos myth were Sigmund Freud, James Joyce...stylish and original cultural history of Knossos, which slots Evans and the Minoans into...
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AMATEUR NATURALIST From Troy to Knossos, great cities are built by industrious and social animals
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 8/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...strange a place as the ancient Greek city of Knossos must have been. Thousands of black field...reach even than the daily life of ancient Knossos. And yet, somehow it's just as close. At Knossos, there was no electricity, no gasoline...
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Consuming power: Kamares Ware in Protopalatial Knossos.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...first palaces on Crete were constructed at Knossos and Phaistos (for locations see [ILLUSTRATION...Linear B administrative archive of LBA Knossos shows a central authority controlling...the exact size and plan of the palace at Knossos in its original form during Middle Minoan...
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Cracking the knossos code
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; Cracking the Knossos code Sara Paton THE MAN WHO DECIPHERED...his excavation of the Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. The tablets inscribed in Linear...leap: guessing that certain words in the Knossos tablets might be place names, he substituted...
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Knossos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Knossos or Cnossus , ancient city of Crete, on the north...mainland. This marked the end of Minoan culture. Knossos later became an ordinary but flourishing Greek...L. R. Palmer, A New Guide to the Palace of Knossos (1969).
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Knossos culture
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Knossos culture The culture based around the principal city of Minoan Crete, near the port of Heraklion. The area was occupied from neolithic...
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Minoan civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Minoan period the great palaces appeared at Knossos and Phaestus; a pictographic script...and possibly an invasion, destroyed Knossos, but the palace was rebuilt. During...evidence of a new script (Linear B) at Knossos, which argues the presence of Mycenaean...
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Water works, Ancient
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
Water works, Ancient Knossos, approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles...cities of the Aegean and of Europe. Knossos was first inhabited shortly after 6000...water supply and drainage systems of Knossos were most interesting. An aqueduct...
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Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Mediterranean. After the violent destruction of Knossos c.1400 BC, Mycenae achieved supremacy...clay tablets from Pylos, Mycenae, and Knossos, appears to be a form of archaic Greek...of this script, known as Linear B, at Knossos c.1500 BC indicates that Mycenaean Greeks...
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