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Eggplant papoutsaki. Eggplant papoutsaki ( Greek: μελιντζάνα παπουτσάκι) ( Turkish: Patlıcan pabucaki) [1] is an eggplant dish of the Greek cuisine and Turkish cuisine. Papoutsaki is a Greek word meaning, "little shoes." "Papuc" or "papuç" is a Persian word "pâpuš" (پاپوش) that is also used in Turkish and has the ...
Oriental Orthodoxy. Lutheranism. Feast. February 22 [1] Papias ( Greek: Παπίας) was a Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey), and author who lived c. 60 – c. 130 AD [2] [3] He wrote the Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord ( Greek: Λογίων Κυριακῶν Ἐξήγησις) in five books.
www.kifissia.gr. Kifisia or Kifissia (also Kephisia or Cephissia; Greek: Κηφισιά, pronounced [cifiˈsça]) is a municipality and one of the most affluent northern suburbs in the Athens agglomeration, Attica, Greece, mainly accessed via Kifissias Avenue, running all the way from central Athens up to Theseos Avenue in the suburb of Nea ...
Gilgamesh ( / ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /, [7] / ɡɪlˈɡɑːmɛʃ /; [8] Akkadian: 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦, romanized:Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌, romanized:Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.
Pappus (botany) In Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, [1] the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower. It functions as a dispersal mechanism for the achenes that contain the seeds. In Asteraceae, the pappus may be composed of bristles (sometimes feathery), awns, scales, or may be absent ...
Pausanias (/ p ɔː ˈ s eɪ n i ə s / paw-SAY-nee-əs; Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations.
Christian mystic. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( / ræˈspjuːtɪn /; Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn]; 21 January [ O.S. 9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S. 17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended ...
The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, [1] is Bede's best-known work, completed in about 731. The first of the five books begins with some geographical background and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Julius Caesar 's invasion in 55 BC. [2]