The Spanish word “fallas” derives, according to the dictionary of the “Real Academia de la Lengua”, from the Latin “facula”, which means “torch”. The “Fallas” are undoubtedly the most important festivals in the Spanish Levante, which revolve essentially around the destructive and purifying fire and they held between 15 and 19 March, the feast of Saint Joseph.
Ring finger and medical finger
Each of the fingers has a name formed from its position, its size or function. So This the strongest is called thumb, index the second, middle the third, fourth ring and pinky the fifth and smaller.
Cyclopean, colossal, Herculean, gigantic, titanic, pharaonic, monstrous, huge, great work, work of Roman
The man before “sapiens” was “faber”, “man doing (at first crude stone tools), who builds, who produces, who manufactures …”. So we took on earth many thousands of years doing construction generally of adequate proportions to forces and limited capacity of man.
War destroys everything, including culture and art
The war is the domain of the adversary first by destroying the people, whom it kills without mercy, and then everything that gets (although not opposed) passing. The most valuable losses are people, of course. Then an irreparable loss is the art and culture sometimes accumulated over centuries and millennia, that some “warriors” qualify euphemistically of “collateral damage”.
He proposed (Alexander) to model Mount Athos with his effigy
Alexander the Great, at the age of 32 years ( he only reigned for 12 years) had conquered a huge empire; he had taken over all Greece and the Persian Empire and he had arrived to India; he had conquered Asia Minor and Egypt; he had founded dozens of cities, which he named Alexandria, the most famous was that one in Egypt. He had become a mythical being, about whom dozens of biographies and stories, some true and some fantastic, were written.
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The uchronía is an utopia in time and it is applied to something when, knowing that it did not exist, we suppose to exist.
A very ancient modern fantastic creatures
The action of the film Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron and released in 2009, is developed on Pandora, moon of the planet Polyphemus. Pandora and Polyphemus are two well known characters from Greek mythology
“There is no beauty without a regular proportion”. (Plato, Timaeus 87c)
To be exact the phrase of Plato says: “Everything that is good is beauty, and beauty is not without relations or regular proportions.” Also in Philebus 64c he says: “The measure (metron) and proportion (Symmetria) performed everywhere beauty and perfection “
Animals that are gods: an example of religious fanaticism
The Greeks and Romans are familiar in their mythology with the coexistence of animals with the gods. Moreover, they conceived their gods as men, which allowed to conceive some men as gods
“The Gods in Council” of Lucian of Samosata, an early example of irony, humor and freedom of expression
Does the right to freedom of expression have limits? The great majority of people advocate general right to freedom of expression, but not everyone understands it in the same way. There is a particularly confusing area in which the agreement seems impossible; it is the field of religious beliefs.