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Augur (other)
An augur is a public official in ancient Rome. Augur may also refer to: People * Christopher C. Augur (1821–1898), American Civil War officer * Helen Augur (died 1969), American journalist * Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), American sculptor and inventor * Jean Augur (1934–1993), British teacher and dyslexia activist Fiction * Augur, the eighth month of the fictional Zork calendar * Augur, a fictional weapon from the '' Resistance: Fall of Man'' video game Other uses * Augur (software), a decentralized prediction market built using Ethereum * Augur buzzard, an African bird of prey * Augur (caste), a sub-group of the Jogi caste in India * ''Eugene Augur'', a countercultural underground newspaper published 1969–1974 See also * Agar (other) Agar is a gelatinous substance with culinary and microbiological uses. Agar may also refer to : Places Asia * Agar, Madhya Pradesh, a city and municipality in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, former capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augur
An augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury, the interpretation of the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds. Determinations were based upon whether they were flying in groups or alone, what noises they made as they flew, the direction of flight, what kind of birds they were, etc. This practice was known as "''taking the auspices''". The augural ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society – public or private – including matters of war, commerce, and religion. Augurs sought the divine will regarding any proposed course of action which might affect Rome's ''pax'', ''fortuna'', and ''salus'' (peace, good fortune, and well-being). Etymology Although ancient authors believed that the term "augur" contained the words ''avis'' and ''gerō'' – Latin for "directing the birds" – historical-linguistic evidence points instead to the root ''auge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher C
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Augur
Helen E. Augur (died 1969) was an American journalist and historical writer. Augur was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and graduated from Barnard College in 1916. She became a journalist in Chicago, leaving for a while after the war to become a correspondent for the ''Chicago Tribune'' in Russia. She began writing for ''McCall's'' in 1932. In 1937 Augur had a "torrid, though short-lived love affair" with her second cousin, Edmund Wilson. Augur wrote several books, including ''Zapotec.'' She died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on September 15, 1969, and was buried in Lowville, New York. Works * (tr.) ''Religious Conversion: A Bio-Psychological Study'' by Sante De Sanctis. London & New York, 1927. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published from 1922 to 1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden by Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hezekiah Augur
Hezekiah Augur (February 21, 1791 – January 10, 1858) was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19th-century American sculptors, did not travel to Europe, but spent his entire career in New Haven. Life Augur was born in New Haven, Connecticut. The son of a carpenter, he learned his trade as a woodcarver, carving table legs and other furniture ornament. Borrowing $2,000 from his father, he was invited to join a grocery store business venture. Three years later he discovered, to his shock and amazement, that not only was his money gone, but that he owed his partners $7,000. While thus engaged he invented a lace-making machine that lifted the financial burdens that he had assumed and thus allowed him to take up carving full-time. Around that time he also invented a machine for carving piano legs. He switched to marble later in his career, being among the first native born Americans to do so. Chauncey Ives studied briefly w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Augur
Jean Florence Augur ( Thomas; 24 March 1934 – 15 August 1993) was a British educationalist, special education teacher, and dyslexia activist. Biography Augur was born on 24 March 1934 in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. She was educated at Stafford Girls' High School and the City of Leicester Teacher Training College. In later life, she undertook a Master of Arts (MA) degree with the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education. She began her career as a primary school teacher, but moved into remedial education after the struggles of her own sons with reading and writing and their subsequent dyslexia diagnoses. She championed the introduction of multisensory teaching into primary schools so that all children could benefit from the methods, and encouraged the teaching of dyslexic children within mainstream schools rather than segregated into remedial schools. She was headteacher of the Staines Remedial Centre from 1982 to 1989, and then education officer of the British Dyslexia A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zork Calendar
''Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz'' is an interactive fiction computer game, written by Steve Meretzky over nearly 18 months and published by Infocom in 1988. Although it is the ninth and last ''Zork'' game released by Infocom before the company's closure, ''Zork Zero'' takes place before the previous eight games (''Zork I'', ''Zork II'', ''Zork III'', ''Enchanter (video game), Enchanter'', ''Sorcerer (video game), Sorcerer'', ''Wishbringer'', ''Spellbreaker'' and ''Beyond Zork''). Unlike its predecessors, ''Zork Zero'' is a vast game, featuring a graphical user interface, graphical interface with scene-based colors and borders, an interactive map, menus, an in-game hints system, an interactive Encyclopedia Frobozzica, and playable graphical mini-games. The graphics were created by computer artist James Shook. It is Infocom's thirty-second game. Previous games by Infocom used a parser evolved from the one in ''Zork I'', but for ''Zork Zero'', they designed a new LALR parser from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
