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A Colour Symphony
A Colour Symphony, Op.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.
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Accession day
An Accession Day is usually the anniversary of the date on which a monarch or executive takes office.
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AES+F
AES+F is a collective of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova (born 1955), Lev Evzovich (born 1958), Evgeny Svyatsky (born 1957), and Vladimir Fridkes (born 1956).
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Altar of Saturn
The altar of Saturn (Ara Saturni) is an archaic altar dedicated to the god Saturn.
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Apocolocyntosis
The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally The Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, probably written by Seneca the Younger.
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Armageddon (Armageddon album)
Armageddon was the only album released by British/American hard rock group Armageddon in 1975.
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Athenian festivals
The festival calendar of Classical Athens involved the staging of a large number of festivals each year.
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Aulus Plautius
Aulus Plautius was a Roman politician and general of the mid-1st century.
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Aulus Sempronius Atratinus
Aulus Sempronius Atratinus was a Roman Republican politician of the gens Sempronia during the beginning of the 5th century BC.
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Baal Hammon
Baal Hammon, properly Baʿal Ḥammon or Ḥamon (Phoenician: baʿal ḥamūn; Punic), was the chief god of Carthage.
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Bacchanalia
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia.
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Bal des Quat'z'Arts
Bal des Quat'z'Arts ("Four Arts Ball") was a Parisian annual ball, the first held in 1892 and the last in 1966.
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Bestia (family)
Bestia is the name of a family in ancient Rome, of which the following were the most distinguished.
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Bookbinding
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.
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Britannicus
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (c. 12 February AD 41 – 11 February AD 55), usually called Britannicus, was the son of Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina.
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Brumalia
Brumalia (Brumalia,, "winter festivals") was an ancient Roman, winter solstice festival honouring Saturn/Cronus and Ceres/Demeter, and Bacchus in some cases.
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Calennig
Calennig is a Welsh word meaning "New Year celebration/gift", although it literally translates to "the first day of the month", deriving from the Latin word kalends.
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Canisius College
Canisius College was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius.
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Carnival
Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.
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Carnival in the Netherlands
Carnival (Carnaval; also called "vastenavond" – eve of the fasting or "vastelaovend") is a festival held throughout the Netherlands, mainly in the Southern regions, with an emphasis on role-reversal and suspension of social norms.
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Cauda Pavonis
Cauda Pavonis are a British deathrock band founded in 1998, by Su Farr (later Wainwright) and Dave Wainwright.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Christmas and holiday season
The Christmas season, also called the festive season, or the holiday season (mainly in the U.S. and Canada; often simply called the holidays),, is an annually recurring period recognized in many Western and Western-influenced countries that is generally considered to run from late November to early January.
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Christmas cracker
Christmas crackers—also known as bon-bons in some regions of Australia—are part of Christmas celebrations primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Christmas gift
A Christmas gift or Christmas present is a gift given in celebration of Christmas.
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Christmas in Romania
Christmas in Romania (Crăciunul în România) is a major annual celebration, celebrated on 24/25 of December, as in most countries of the Christian world.
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Christmas tree
A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.
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Codex
A codex (from the Latin caudex for "trunk of a tree" or block of wood, book), plural codices, is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials.
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Colindă
Colindă (pl. colinde; also colind, pl. colinduri) are traditional Romanian Christmas carols.
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Compitalia
In ancient Roman religion, the Compitalia (Latin: Ludi Compitalicii) was a festival celebrated once a year in honor of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways meet.
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Congius
In Ancient Roman measurement, congius (pl. congii, from Greek konkhion, diminutive of konkhē, konkhos, "shellful") was a liquid measure that was about 3.48 litres (0.92 U.S. gallons).
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Cronus
In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (or from Κρόνος, Krónos), was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth.
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Culture of Brazil
The culture of Brazil is primarily Western, but presents a very diverse nature showing that an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period involving mostly Indigenous peoples of the coastal and most accessible riverine areas, Portuguese people and African people.
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Dasius of Durostorum
Dasius of Durostorum (Дазий Доростолски, Δάσιος ο μάρτυρας) is a Christian martyr of the early 4th century AD.
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Date of birth of Jesus
The date of birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC.
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Dave Catching
David Catching (born June 7, 1961) is an American musician and producer from Memphis, Tennessee.
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De Legibus
The De Legibus (On the Laws) is a dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of the Roman Republic.
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December
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and is the seventh and last of seven months to have a length of 31 days.
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December 17
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Dionysian Mysteries
The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.
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Eubulides
Eubulides (Εὑβουλίδης; fl. 4th century BCE) of Miletus was a philosopher of the Megarian school, and a pupil of Euclid of Megara.
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Feast of Fools
The Feast of Fools (festum fatuorum, festum stultorum) is the name given to a specific feast day celebrated by the clergy in Europe, initially in Northern France, but later more widely.
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Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.
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Festive ecology
Festive ecology explores the relationships between the symbolism and the ecology of the plants, fungi and animals associated with cultural events such as festivals, processions, and special occasions.
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Focale
The focale (plural focalia), also known as a sudarium ("sweat cloth"), was a woolen or linen scarf worn by ancient Roman military personnel.
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G. Dem. Teodorescu
Gheorghe Dem Teodorescu (25 August 1849 – 20 August 1900) was a Wallachian, later Romanian folklorist, literary historian and journalist.
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Geta (emperor)
Geta (Latin: Publius, or Lucius, Septimius Geta Augustus;In Classical Latin, Geta's name would be inscribed as PVBLIVS SEPTIMIVS GETA AVGVSTVS. 7 March 189 – 26 December 211) was Roman emperor with his father Septimius Severus and older brother Caracalla from 209, when he was named Augustus like his brother, who had held the title since 198.
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Gladiator
A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
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Glossary of ancient Roman religion
The vocabulary of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized.
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Green
Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum.
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Greg Wieczorek
Greg Wieczorek (aka G. Wiz) is a New York City based drummer, percussionist, vocalist and songwriter.
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Heaven Upside Down
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017 by Loma Vista Recordings and Caroline International.
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Henry Wirz
Heinrich Hartmann Wirz, better known as Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865), was a Swiss-born American officer of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
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Hermaea (festival)
The Hermaea (Greek: Ἔρμαια) were ancient Greek festivals held annually in honour of Hermes, notably at Pheneos at the foot of Mt Cyllene in Arcadia.
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History of candle making
Candle making was developed independently in many places throughout history.
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Histriomastix
Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, or Actor's Tragedy is a critique of professional theatre and actors, written by the Puritan author and controversialist William Prynne.
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Ilex aquifolium
Ilex aquifolium (holly, common holly, English holly, European holly, or occasionally Christmas holly), is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia.
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Imperial cult of ancient Rome
The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State.
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Index of religion-related articles
Many Wikipedia articles on religious topics are not yet listed on this page.
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Janus
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (IANVS (Iānus)) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.
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Jesus in comparative mythology
The study of Jesus in comparative mythology is the examination of the narratives of the life of Jesus in the Christian gospels, traditions and theology, as they relate to Christianity and other religions.
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Jupiter (mythology)
Jupiter (from Iūpiter or Iuppiter, *djous “day, sky” + *patēr “father," thus "heavenly father"), also known as Jove gen.
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Kalenda
Kalenda may refer to.
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King cake
A king cake (sometimes shown as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings cake) is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season; in other places, it is associated with the pre-Lenten celebrations of Mardi Gras/Carnival.
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Kronia
The Kronia was an Athenian festival held in honor of Cronus (Kronos) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion, the first month of the Attic calendar and roughly equivalent to the latter part of July and first part of August.
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Lake of Cutilia
Lake Cutiliensis (modern Lago di Paterno) is a lake located in the municipality of Castel Sant'Angelo, near the ancient Reate, now Rieti.
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Lares
Lares (archaic Lases, singular Lar), were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion.
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Larissa
Larissa (Λάρισα) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region, the fourth-most populous in Greece according to the population results of municipal units of 2011 census and capital of the Larissa regional unit.
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Latin declension
Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined, or have their endings altered to show grammatical case and gender.
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Leges regiae
The leges regiae ("royal laws") were early Roman laws, which classical historians, such as Plutarch, mentioned had been introduced by the Kings of Rome.
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List of coin collectors
The first coin collector is said to have been Augustus.
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List of fictional robots and androids
Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction.
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List of geological features on Vesta
This is a list of named geological features, of various kinds, on 4 Vesta.
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List of multinational festivals and holidays
A very wide variety of multinational festivals and holidays are celebrated around the world, whether within particular religions, cultures, or otherwise.
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List of works by Lucian
A list of works by Lucian of Samosata (c. AD 125 – after AD 180), who wrote in Ancient Greek.
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Lists of holidays
Lists of holidays by various categorization.
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Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.
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Lord of Misrule
In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools.
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Ludi
Ludi (Latin plural) were public games held for the benefit and entertainment of the Roman people (''populus Romanus'').
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Macrobius
Macrobius, fully Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, also known as Theodosius, was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, at the transition of the Roman to the Byzantine Empire, and when Latin was as widespread as Greek among the elite.
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Marcus Minucius Augurinus
Marcus Minucius Augurinus (Latin, Marcus Minucius Augurinus) was a Roman Republican politician of the patrician gens Minucia during the beginning of the 5th century BC.
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Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
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Mask
A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment.
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Massacre of the Innocents
The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical account of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews.
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Matronalia
In ancient Roman religion, the Matronalia (or Matronales Feriae) was a festival celebrating Juno Lucina, the goddess of childbirth ("Juno who brings children into the light"), and of motherhood (mater is "mother" in Latin) and women in general.
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Mince pie
A mince pie is a sweet pie of British origin, filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called "mincemeat", that is traditionally served during the Christmas season in the English-speaking world, excluding the USA.
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Minucia (gens)
The gens Minucia was a Roman family, which flourished from the earliest days of the Republic until imperial times.
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Montol Festival
The Montol Festival is an annual festival in Penzance, Cornwall, UK, held on the 21st of December each year since 2007.
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Municipal year
The municipal year is a period used by local government in the United Kingdom.
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Nardoqan
Pomegranate(in Turkish: Nar) thematic table in Nardugan Nardoqan or Nardugan (Turkish: Nardoğan or Nardugan, Azeri Turkish: Narduqan) was a Turkic holiday concept that originated before Sumerian tradition.
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National Invitation Tournament
The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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Nova Roma
Nova Roma is an international Roman revivalist and reconstructionist organizationStrmiska, Michael: Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, pp.
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Numismatics
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.
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Opal
Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3 to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6 and 10%.
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Outline of ancient Rome
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC.
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 122
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 122 (P. Oxy. 122 or P. Oxy. I 122) is a letter to a praefect, written in Greek and discovered in Oxyrhynchus.
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Pebbly Arkose Formation
The Pebbly Arkose Formation is a Triassic geologic formation found in southern Africa.
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Plebs (TV series)
Plebs is a British television series broadcast on ITV2.
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Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.
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Pornotopia
Pornotopia is a fantasy state dominated by universal sexual activity, such as the idealized, imaginative space of pornography.
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Publicia (gens)
The gens Publicia, occasionally found as Poblicia or Poplicia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.
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Pythagoras (freedman)
Pythagoras, a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, was married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride.
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Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (before 103 BC or c. 100 BC – 59 BC) was a consul in 60 BC and son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, or, according to some, the son of Tribune Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer while the latter is the son of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos.
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Religion in ancient Rome
Religion in Ancient Rome includes the ancestral ethnic religion of the city of Rome that the Romans used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Roman rule, in so far as they became widely followed in Rome and Italy.
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Religious festival
A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion.
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Revelry
Revelry may refer to.
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Revolutionary Mass Festivals
Revolutionary Mass Festivals (in Russian массовые праздники), or Mass Spectacles, were participatory, staged cultural events held in the Soviet Union.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Roman festivals
Festivals in ancient Rome were a very important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican and Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar.
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Roman jokes
Ancient Roman jokes, as described by Cicero and Quintilian, are best employed as a rhetorical device.
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Saturn (disambiguation)
Saturn is a planet in the Solar System.
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Saturn (mythology)
Saturn (Saturnus) is a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in myth as a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation.
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Saturna
Saturna may refer to.
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Saturnalia (Davis novel)
Saturnalia is a 2007 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the 18th book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series.
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Saturnalia (disambiguation)
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival in honor of the god Saturn.
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Saturnalia (PBM)
Saturnalia was one of the first single-character sword and sorcery fantasy Play-by-Mail role-playing games run in the United Kingdom.
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Saturnalia Fossa
Saturnalia Fossa is the largest of the series of parallel Veneneian troughs in the northern hemisphere of the giant asteroid 4 Vesta.
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Seasonal beer
A seasonal beer is a beer that is typically brewed during or for a particular season, holiday or festival period.
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Sighișoara Clock Tower
In every fortification system there is one fortress that dominates the others: the master-tower.
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Sigillaria (ancient Rome)
In ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia.
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Silvae
The Silvae is a collection of Latin occasional poetry in hexameters, hendecasyllables, and lyric meters by Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45 – c. 96 CE).
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Slavery in ancient Rome
Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy.
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Sol Invictus
Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") is the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers.
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Solstice
A solstice is an event occurring when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.
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SPQR series
The SPQR series is a collection of historical mystery stories by John Maddox Roberts, published between 1990 and 2010, and set in the time of the Roman Republic.
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Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (c. 45c. 96 AD) was a Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature).
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Strenna
Strenna or Strenna di Natale is a gift that is usual to make or receive in Italy at Christmas time.
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Symphosius
Symphosius (sometimes, in older scholarship and less properly, Symposius) was the author of the Aenigmata, an influential collection of 100 Latin riddles, probably from the late antique period.
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Synthesis (clothing)
The synthesis (Greek for something "put together"), probably synonymous with cenatoria, "dinner clothes" (from Latin cena, "dinner"), was a garment or outfit worn in ancient Rome for dining or special occasions such as the Saturnalia.
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Temple of Saturn
The Temple of Saturn (Latin: Templum Saturni or Aedes Saturni; Tempio di Saturno) was an ancient Roman temple to the god Saturn.
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Terminalia
Terminalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Terminus, who presided over boundaries.
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The Art of Donald McGill
"The Art of Donald McGill" is a critical essay first published in 1941 by the English author George Orwell.
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The House of the Vestals
The House of the Vestals is a collection of short stories by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 1997.
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The Lollipop Shoes
The Lollipop Shoes is a 2007 novel by Joanne Harrisa sequel to her best-selling Chocolat.
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The Slave-Girl from Jerusalem
The Slave-Girl from Jerusalem is a children's historical novel by Caroline Lawrence.
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The Taming of the Shrew on screen
There have been numerous on screen adaptations of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
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The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina is a children's historical novel by Caroline Lawrence, published on June 19, 2003.
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The Whim
The Whim was a play written and published by Eglantine Wallace in 1795.
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Tiberius Claudius Narcissus
Tiberius Claudius Narcissus (fl. 1st century) was one of the freedmen who formed the core of the imperial court under the Roman emperor Claudius.
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Toga
The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States.
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Twelve Days of Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, is a festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
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Under the Eagle
Under the Eagle is the first book in the Eagles of the Empire series, by Simon Scarrow and is his debut novel, introducing the characters of Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro.
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Vasilopita
Vasilopita (Βασιλόπιτα, Vasilópita, lit. '(St.) Basil-pie' or 'king pie', see below) is a New Year's Day bread or cake in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe and the Balkans which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver, like the Western European king cake.
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Winter solstice
The winter solstice (or hibernal solstice), also known as midwinter, is an astronomical phenomenon marking the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year.
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Yule
Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time") was and is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples.
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497 BC
Year 497 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
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Feast of Saturnalia, Kalenda (festival), Saturna (festival), Saturnale, Saturnalia Gifts, Saturnalia and christmas, Saturnalian, Saturnalicius.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
