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Thracian town known for the foolishness of its inhabitants.
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If I choose to add support for these kinds of links in Abdera, I don’t want to have to support two different types of link elements.
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As a Byzantinist, I had long known of Synaxis 'excavator, Charalambos Bakirtzis, director of Byzantine antiquities for eastern Macedonia and Thrace, who has excavated the region's major sites such as Abdera, Maroneia, and Didymoteichon.
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He crossed the river Nestos just west of the Greek city of Abdera, once home to the philosopher Democritus, who had first proposed that all matter was composed of indestructible particles called atoms.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He crossed the river Nestos just west of the Greek city of Abdera, once home to the philosopher Democritus, who had first proposed that all matter was composed of indestructible particles called atoms.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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And so, contra your assertion that there is intentionality inherent in everything, according to my view of reality intentionality is an emergent property of a universe in which (to quote Democritus of Abdera once again) "all things are the fruit of chance and necessity" and there is no empirically detectable intentionality in anything, except for those active entities which have encoded programs that guide their behavior.
Against Darwinism 2009
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He crossed the river Nestos just west of the Greek city of Abdera, once home to the philosopher Democritus, who had first proposed that all matter was composed of indestructible particles called atoms.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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There's open source support from infrastructure-level implementations like Apache Abdera to application implementations as in Movable Type and interoperability testing as made possible by The Ape.
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Copenhagen was like travelling from Abdera to Athens, and to find a species of Sophocles in J.A. Heiberg, who had since 1849 been sole manager of the Royal Theatre.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Copenhagen was like travelling from Abdera to Athens, and to find a species of Sophocles in J.A. Heiberg, who had since 1849 been sole manager of the Royal Theatre.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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Burtons alter ego is Democritus Junior, in honour of the philosopher Democritus of Abdera.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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