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Surveying from National Encyclopedia 1884 by Andy Brill

Surveying Equipment.

A two-page steel plate engraving fromThe National Encyclopedia 1884 - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge.

Published by William Mackenzie, London; 18 Vols. Brown gilt cloth boards 20cm x 17cm.

Hussaini Encyclopedia by Hussaini Encyclopedia دائرة المعارف الحسينية

Hussaini Encyclopedia

AL - ABUTHIYAH POETRY

volume 2

Dr Muhammad Sadiq Karbasi;

دائرة المعارف الحسينية

ديوان الابوذية

الجزء الثاني

دائرة المعارف الحسينية لمؤسسها ومؤلفها سماحة المحقق آية الله الدكتور محمد صادق محمد الكرباسي

Sushi to Go! Wholefoods Organic store London by tedesco57

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Whole Foods" redirects here. For the type of food, see Whole food. For the food cooperative, see Whole Foods Co-op.

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Headquarters in Downtown Austin

TypeSubsidiary

Industry

Grocery store

Health food store

FoundedSeptember 20, 1980; 42 years ago

FoundersJohn Mackey, Renee Hardy-Lawson, Mark Skiles, Craig Weller

HeadquartersAustin, Texas, U.S.

Number of locations500+

Areas served

United States

Canada

London, United Kingdom

Key people

John B. Elstrott (Chairman)

Jason Buechel (CEO)

Whole Foods Market, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.[5] A USDA Certified Organic grocer in the United States, the chain is popularly known for its organic selections.[6] Whole Foods has more than 500 stores in North America and seven in the United Kingdom As of March 4, 2019.[3][7]

Amazon acquired the company for $13.7 billion on August 28, 2017.[8]

History

Early years

In 1978, John Mackey and Renee Lawson borrowed $45,000 from family and friends to open a small vegetarian natural foods store called SaferWay in Austin, Texas (the name being a spoof of Safeway). When the two were evicted for storing food products in their apartment, they decided to live at the store. Because it was zoned for commercial use, there was no shower stall, so they bathed using a water hose attached to their dishwasher.[9][10][11]

Two years later, Mackey and Lawson partnered with Craig Weller and Mark Skiles to merge SaferWay with the latter's Clarksville Natural Grocery, resulting in the opening of the original Whole Foods Market, which included meat products. At 10,500 square feet (980 m2) and with a staff of 19, the store was large in comparison to the standard health food store of the time.[12]

On May 25, 1981, the most damaging flood in 70 years devastated Austin. Whole Foods' inventory was ruined, and most of the equipment was damaged. The loss was approximately $400,000, and Whole Foods Market had no insurance. Customers, neighbors, and staff assisted in repairing and cleaning up the damage. Creditors, vendors, and investors assisted in the recovery, and the store reopened 28 days later.

International expansion

Whole Foods Market in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Whole Foods entered the Canadian market in 2002 in Toronto.[37] In 2013, Whole Foods said it would open around 40 more stores in Canada over time. At the time, there were 9 Whole Foods in Canada.[38] By January 2017, Whole Foods had 467 stores, all of which were in the United States except 9 in the United Kingdom and 12 in Canada. In January 2017, Whole Foods announced it was canceling plans from 2015 and 2016 to open stores in Calgary and Edmonton.[39] Among the twelve were five each in Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, and one each in Ottawa and Victoria.[39] In March 2020 there were 487 stores in the US, 14 in Canada and 7 in the UK.[7]

In 2004, Whole Foods Market entered the UK by acquiring seven Fresh & Wild stores.[16][40] In June 2007, it opened its first full-size store, a total of 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) on three levels, on the site of the old Barkers department store on Kensington High Street, West London and currently their largest store in the world. Company executives claimed that as many as forty stores might eventually be opened throughout the UK.[41] However, by September 2008, in the wake of Whole Foods Market's financial troubles, Fresh & Wild had been reduced to four stores, all in London. The flagship Bristol branch closed because it had "not met profitability goals."[42] In the year to September 28, 2008, the UK subsidiary lost £36 million due to a large impairment charge of £27 million and poor trading results due to the growing fears of a global recession.[43] However, in 2011, global sales grew +8% each financial quarter as shoppers returned to the chain.[44] A first Scottish store was opened on November 16, 2011, in Giffnock, Glasgow, which was closed in November 2017 along with the company's Cheltenham store as part of a rationalization plan.[45][46] Whole Foods Market Inc. currently operates seven different Whole Foods locations: in Camden Town, Clapham Junction, Kensington, Piccadilly Circus, Richmond, Stoke Newington and Fulham. Wikipedia

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIBRATION by lore vanelslande

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Encyclopedia 8 by ed

[UP15699]

Encyclopedia Britannica 9th & 10th Editions by Nick

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Also Index and Maps volumes.

Taken with Pentax K-01 and S-M-C Takumar 50mm f1.4 lens at f2

Encyclopedia Mysteriosa by William L. DeAndrea by Kay

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A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in Print, Film, Radio and Television.

Cover design by Michael J. Freeland. Macmillan paperback (1997).

038 by Nathalie Babineau

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My First (and only) encyclopedia collection. Mom bought them for me when I was just a little girl. I remember using these quite a bit for school projects in school.

Otaku Encyclopedia by Pietro Zuco

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I just wonder who is her. I didn't ask her name or contact... If you see this pic, drop me an email :)

Encyclopedia of Dressmaking by Angela Robinson

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I love the illustrations in thi book

Hussaini Encyclopedia by Hussaini Encyclopedia دائرة المعارف الحسينية

Hussaini Encyclopedia

AL - ABUTHIYAH POETRY

volume 8

Dr Muhammad Sadiq Karbasi;

دائرة المعارف الحسينية

ديوان الابوذية

الجزء الثامن

دائرة المعارف الحسينية لمؤسسها ومؤلفها سماحة المحقق آية الله الدكتور محمد صادق محمد الكرباسي

The Stage, Aspendos Roman Theatre by tedesco57

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Roman Theatre of Aspendos

View of the Roman Theatre of Aspendos in 2011

Roman Theatre of Aspendos is located in TurkeyRoman Theatre of Aspendos

Shown within Turkey

LocationAspendos, Turkey

Coordinates36°56′20″N 31°10′20″E

TypeRoman theatre

Width96 metres (315 ft)

History

BuilderZenon

Founded161 a.D - 180 a.D

AbandonedNo

PeriodsAncient Rome

CulturesRoman

Site notes

ConditionAlmost intact

Public accessYes

The Roman theater of Aspendos is a Roman theater in the ancient city of Aspendos in Turkey. It was built in the 2nd century and is one of the best preserved ancient theaters of the Greco-Roman world.[1]

Description

With a diameter of 96 metres (315 ft), the theatre provided seating for 7,000/13,000 people. The theatre was built in 155 AD by the Greek architect Zenon, a native of the city, during the rule of Marcus Aurelius. It was periodically repaired by the Seljuks, who used it as a caravansary, and in the 13th century the stage building was converted into a palace by the Seljuks of Rum. Technically the structure is a theatre not an amphitheatre, the latter being fully round or oval shaped.

History

The theater was built during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180). An inscription lists the brothers Curtius Crispinus and Curtius Auspicatus as commissioners and Zenon as architect. The cavea is partly built against the slope of the hill, which provides a natural foundation. The rest of the stand rests on stone arcades. The cavea has 41 rows of benches, providing seating for 12,000 spectators. The stage wall is completely intact, only the original eight-meter-deep wooden ceiling has disappeared. Around the theater, 58 holes have been found where there used to be poles, which could be used to stretch a large velarium over the grandstand to protect the spectators from the sun.[2]

In the 13th century, the stage building was converted into a palace for the Seljuks.

In modern times, the theater has been restored to its original state. It is an important tourist attraction for the region. In spring and summer, opera and ballet performances are held there.

Children's Encyclopedia by Mathew Turton

linda on encyclopedias by Natalie Edwards

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I found a complete set of old encyclopedias, and then linda found them. They are her throne.

Metempsychosis..... referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death by Hughes Songe

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Metempsychosis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Greek concept of the transmigration of the soul. For the general concept, see Reincarnation.

A section of Metempsychosis (1923) by Yokoyama Taikan; a drop of water from the vapours in the sky transforms into a mountain stream, which flows into a great river and on into the sea, whence rises a dragon (pictured) that turns back to vapour; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Important Cultural Property)[1]

Metempsychosis (Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. Generally, the term is only used within the context of ancient Greek philosophy, but has also been used by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer[2] and Kurt Gödel;[3] otherwise, the term "transmigration" is more appropriate. The word plays a prominent role in James Joyce's Ulysses and is also associated with Nietzsche.[4] Another term sometimes used synonymously is palingenesis.

Contents [hide]

1Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers

2In Greek philosophy

3In literature after the classical era

4See also

5References

6External links

Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers[edit]

It is unclear how the doctrine of metempsychosis arose in Greece. It is easiest to assume that earlier ideas which had never been extinguished were utilized for religious and philosophic purposes. The Orphic religion, which held it, first appeared in Thrace upon the semi-barbarous north-eastern frontier. Orpheus, its legendary founder, is said to have taught that soul and body are united by a compact unequally binding on either; the soul is divine, immortal and aspires to freedom, while the body holds it in fetters as a prisoner. Death dissolves this compact, but only to re-imprison the liberated soul after a short time: for the wheel of birth revolves inexorably. Thus the soul continues its journey, alternating between a separate unrestrained existence and fresh reincarnation, round the wide circle of necessity, as the companion of many bodies of men and animals." To these unfortunate prisoners Orpheus proclaims the message of liberation, that they stand in need of the grace of redeeming gods and of Dionysus in particular, and calls them to turn to God by ascetic piety of life and self-purification: the purer their lives the higher will be their next reincarnation, until the soul has completed the spiral ascent of destiny to live for ever as God from whom it comes. Such was the teaching of Orphism which appeared in Greece about the 6th century BC, organized itself into private and public mysteries at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.[5][6][7]

In Greek philosophy[edit]

The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros;[8] but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent. Pythagoras is not believed to have invented the doctrine or to have imported it from Egypt. Instead he made his reputation by bringing the Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia, and creating societies for its diffusion.

The real weight and importance of metempsychosis in Western tradition is due to its adoption by Plato.[citation needed] In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the myth how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world. After death, he said, he went with others to the place of Judgment and saw the souls returning from heaven, and proceeded with them to a place where they chose new lives, human and animal. He saw the soul of Orpheus changing into a swan, Thamyras becoming a nightingale, musical birds choosing to be men, the soul of Atalanta choosing the honours of an athlete. Men were seen passing into animals and wild and tame animals changing into each other. After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth. There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, the Phaedrus, Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus and Laws.[citation needed] In Plato's view the number of souls was fixed; birth therefore is never the creation of a soul, but only a transmigration from one body to another.[9] Plato's acceptance of the doctrine is characteristic of his sympathy with popular beliefs and desire to incorporate them in a purified form into his system.[citation needed] The extent of Plato's belief in metempsychosis has been debated by some scholars in modern times. Marsilio Ficino (Platonic Theology 17.3–4), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.

In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.). In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius,[10] who in his Calabrian home must have been familiar with the Greek teachings which had descended to his times from the cities of Magna Graecia. In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist. II. i. 52). Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid (vv. 724 sqq.). It persists in antiquity down to the latest classic thinkers, Plotinus and the other Neoplatonists.

In literature after the classical era[edit]

"Metempsychosis" is the title of a longer work by the metaphysical poet John Donne, written in 1601.[11] The poem, also known as the Infinitati Sacrum,[12] consists of two parts, the "Epistle" and "The Progress of the Soule". In the first line of the latter part, Donne writes that he "sing[s] of the progresse of a deathlesse soule".[12]

Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story "Metzengerstein".[13] Poe returns to metempsychosis again in "Morella" (1835)[14] and "The Oval Portrait" (1842).[15]

Metempsychosis is referred to prominently in the concluding paragraph of Chapter 98, "Stowing Down and Clearing Up", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (Chinese: 《莊子》).[16] The use of this term is contested by Hans Georg Möller, though, who claims that a better translation is “the changing of things”.[17]

Metempsychosis is a recurring theme in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922).[18] In Joycean fashion, the word famously appears in Leopold Bloom's inner monologue, recalling how his wife, Molly Bloom, apparently mispronounced it earlier that day as "met him pike hoses."[19]

In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 premiere novel V., metempsychosis is mentioned in reference to the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" by Morey Bernstein, and also later in chapter eight.

Metempsychosis is referenced in Don DeLillo's 1982 novel The Names.

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis is a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

Guy de Maupassant's story "Le docteur Héraclius Gloss" (1875) is a fable about metempsychosis.

In Marcel Proust's famous first paragraph from In Search of Lost Time, the narrator compares his separation from the subject of a book to the process of metempsychosis.

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