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Topic: Greek alphabet

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  Greek    Alphabet  
  Ancient Greek    Greek word  
  Greek English    Greek language  
  Greek New    Letter of the Greek alphabet  
  Greek god    Greek Orthodox  
  Greek history    Greek mythology  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Religion(s):Mormon,  Jewish
Favorite book(s):The Bible
The Koran
Favorite great leader(s):Alexander the Great
Interest(s):Numerology,  Greek mythology,  Latin
Favorite great thinker(s):Ptolemy,  Pythagoras,  Archimedes
Favorite computer game(s):Civilization,  Age of Mythology
Likes to wear:Ancient Egyption
Favorite destination(s):Baghdad,  Israel,  Arabia
Favorite philosopher(s):Plato
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

The creation of the Cyrillic alphabet for the Slavs by Byzantine missionaries, and the preservation of ancient Greek manuscripts and culture by Byzantine scholars were among the most important contributions of the Byzantine Empire to posterity.
The differences as well as the similarities of order between the Latin, the Greek, the Etruscan and Semitic alphabets suggest that the order is neither a random feature nor necessarily an artificial construct.
Hammarstrom pointed to the fact that all alphabets go through stages of development, but Latin and Greek had refined their styles by the time of the runes' emergence and hence would not have imparted certain primitive, unrefined characteristics.
Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom

These Greek alphabets can be embroidered in any two (2) school colors.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

The system uses the Duke Toolkit to display non-standard alphabets on the screen, and has been successfully tested with classical Greek.
Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist

For Embroidered Greek Letters for Fraternities and Sororities see Embroidered Greek Alphabets.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Ancient Greek and Hebrew writings did not use numerals but simply used a letter of their own alphabet and put a tiny mark next to it to show that this was a number rather than a letter.
You can also hear the proper pronunciation of numerous Hebrew and Greek words and alphabets, and see what took place in the cities of biblical times.
Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Likewise, Magnus Hammarstrom has acknowledged the tacit similarities between the Greek, Latin, North Italic and runic alphabets because the former three had descended from Greek.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

It is also possible to have 21 user-defined graphics characters, which will allow Greek or other alphabets to be used.
Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

In the Greek alphabet the last letter is Omega which comes very close to OM.
Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer

They devised an alphabet based on Greek letters in order to write their translations of the Bible and a number of languages such as Russian and Croatian use this 'Cyrillic' alphabet today.
 
 
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mamma
2004-12-02 20:25:36
what does Theta upsilon mean ?
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