Recent questions tagged greek

Description : Is there a suffix meaning "art of" in Greek?

Last Answer : Short answer The suffix you are looking for is -logy (sort of). Long answer Leaving all of the messy realities of natural language aside, the suffix -ic means related to, pertaining to, or in the manner ... that -logy is used for the art of in addition to being used for the study of.

Description : Was yogurt made by the Greeks?

Last Answer : Only Greek yogurt.

Description : Why were NASA moon mission crews named after Apollo?

Last Answer : answer:I'll beat Gail to it and tell you it is Apollo. The answer is on this link under Background. The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by ... for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

Description : Were can I buy junk bonds for practice?

Last Answer : answer:You're in Canada, right? You need to talk to a Canadian broker. And you will have to pay a commission. Don't confuse bonds with stock. Bonds are debt, and stock is ownership in companies. ... is nothing you can invest in, anyone that would sell you anything in Bre X would be commiting fraud.

Description : What can a country in debt sell or trade example a (territory) as payment?

Last Answer : Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the US to finance his wars. Russia sold the US the area that is now the states of Washington and Oregon. Pissed you guys off to no end. Plenty of precedents for this.

Description : Buddha vs Zeus... who would win in a fight?

Last Answer : I’d have to go with Zeus on that one.

Description : Do you have customs that go accompanied with welcoming the new year?

Last Answer : Gettin’ drunk. Lord I feel like a redneck today!

Description : What song is playing at the end credits of "Greek"?

Last Answer : That seems to be the million dollar question. I think it was written by John Swihart though. Can’t find the name of the music.

Description : Should I move from Greece to San Francisco and How?

Last Answer : You also may want to apply to business (in that field)/visit…..before you move there….just to get the ball rolling… though I’ve never moved to another country before….But I have moved from one province to another….and always had a job waiting for me before I moved…and some helped pay for the move

Description : Do you know what you don't know?

Last Answer : I know I don’t understand why I feel so strongly about some things that intellectually I shouldn’t care about at all.

Description : How would I make an isosceles triangle according to Euclid?

Last Answer : answer:More information needed But there is a fairly easy way with a compass and straight edge. 1) Draw a line AB 2) Use a compass and put one end on A and one end on B and trace out an arc (with A at the ... 3) Connect A to any point on the arc (call it C) making a line AC. 4) Connect B to C.

Description : Is human existence in the shadow of a nanny state conductive to "Aristotelian happiness"?

Last Answer : Are you implying that we are heading toward a nanny state? Is that what’s behind this question?

Description : What is the purpose of lower-case letters?

Last Answer : I'm not sure of the actual answer, but my guess is that they, in part, help us to break up words and phrases, making them easier to read. Think about Latin during the Roman Empire: no spaces between ... eyes to more easily identify words. that and it helps us know who's an a-hole on the internet.

Description : What is Apollonian, really?

Last Answer : For more background, I ask because I heard someone use it to mean "formal." Why is the sun god formal?

Description : Who does the statue Colossus of Rhodes depict?

Last Answer : it’s Helios, the sun god.

Description : What is a greek prayer for the dead?

Last Answer : I have a translator on my mac, if you can give it to me in english, I can try and convert it for you. give me it in greek, or english

Description : Polemonium - Greek Ladder, Jacob's Ladder (Polemo'nium)

Last Answer : DESCRIPTION: This group of perennials and annuals are mostly natives to North America. They grow 1 to 2 feet in height and produce pretty flowers during the spring and summer. P. caeruleum, Jacob's ... pauciflorum (needs a fairly mild climate outdoors); P. Richardsonii & var. pulchellum; P. flavum.

Description : Greek Potato Salad with Olives

Last Answer : Greek Potato Salad with Olives 1 1/2 lb potatoes 5 cup water Purple onion rings 1/2 cup coarsely chopped cucumber 5 cherry tomatoes, halved 1 sm clove garlic 1/4 cup plain yogurt ... to reserved potato mixture; toss gently to coat. Garnish with parsley, olives and onion rings if desired.

Description : GREEK FACTS

Last Answer : Root words from Greek are very often the beginning of words in other languages such as Russian, English, Hebrew and many more! Mother-in-laws are a favorite butt of many Greek jokes, but so are ... or spoken in Greek has 78 syllables and 171 letters, it is hated by actors and actresses alike.

Description : Greek letter symbols

Last Answer : Greek alphabet