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-0 / +2By the way, for some clarification, the "H" is formed from the first two letters plus the last letter of his name in Greek "eta".— Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Æetes or Æeta, the king, having been forewarned by an oracle, that a stranger should deprive him of his crown and life, had established a custom of sacrificing all strangers found in his dominions.— The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
A quadrant taken from the zenith to the eastern horizon passes close to the last star ([eta]) of the Great Bear's tail, through [beta], a star in Bootes' head, near [beta] Herculis, between the two "Alphas" which mark the heads of Hercules and Ophiuchus, and so past [beta] Ophiuchi, a third-magnitude star near the horizon.— Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
The village is clearly labeled "eta," an old word for Japan's outclass of untouchables known as "burakumin."— Foucault blog
(2001) DNA polymerase eta is an A-T mutator in somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable genes.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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