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Pyrkon
Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon (pol. ''Festiwal Fantastyki Pyrkon'') (commonly known as Pyrkon) is a Polish fan convention held annually in Pozna艅 on the first weekend after the spring equinox and dedicated to an integration of Science fiction fandom and a promotion of science-fiction/fantasy literature, comics, film, television, video games, RPG, LARP, board games, collectible card games and miniature wargaming. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe (over 55,000 people in 2022). History Pyrkon has been held by the Second Age Science Fiction Club (''Klub Fantastyki "Druga Era"'') every year since 2000, except 2005 when they held Polcon. (In 2011 they organised both Pyrkon and Polcon.) Pyrkon has been a non-profit convention from its beginning, and all organizers, lecturers and gofers are volunteers. Initially Pyrkon was held at the D臋biec district of Pozna艅 in the following placesElementary School nr 21 in Pozna艅 000鈥 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon (pol. ''Festiwal Fantastyki Pyrkon'') (commonly known as Pyrkon) is a Polish fan convention held annually in Pozna艅 on the first weekend after the spring equinox and dedicated to an integration of Science fiction fandom and a promotion of science-fiction/fantasy literature, comics, film, television, video games, RPG, LARP, board games, collectible card games and miniature wargaming. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe (over 55,000 people in 2022). History Pyrkon has been held by the Second Age Science Fiction Club (''Klub Fantastyki "Druga Era"'') every year since 2000, except 2005 when they held Polcon. (In 2011 they organised both Pyrkon and Polcon.) Pyrkon has been a non-profit convention from its beginning, and all organizers, lecturers and gofers are volunteers. Initially Pyrkon was held at the D臋biec district of Pozna艅 in the following placesElementary School nr 21 in Pozna艅 000鈥 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon (pol. ''Festiwal Fantastyki Pyrkon'') (commonly known as Pyrkon) is a Polish fan convention held annually in Pozna艅 on the first weekend after the spring equinox and dedicated to an integration of Science fiction fandom and a promotion of science-fiction/fantasy literature, comics, film, television, video games, RPG, LARP, board games, collectible card games and miniature wargaming. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe (over 55,000 people in 2022). History Pyrkon has been held by the Second Age Science Fiction Club (''Klub Fantastyki "Druga Era"'') every year since 2000, except 2005 when they held Polcon. (In 2011 they organised both Pyrkon and Polcon.) Pyrkon has been a non-profit convention from its beginning, and all organizers, lecturers and gofers are volunteers. Initially Pyrkon was held at the D臋biec district of Pozna艅 in the following placesElementary School nr 21 in Pozna艅 000鈥 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon (pol. ''Festiwal Fantastyki Pyrkon'') (commonly known as Pyrkon) is a Polish fan convention held annually in Pozna艅 on the first weekend after the spring equinox and dedicated to an integration of Science fiction fandom and a promotion of science-fiction/fantasy literature, comics, film, television, video games, RPG, LARP, board games, collectible card games and miniature wargaming. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe (over 55,000 people in 2022). History Pyrkon has been held by the Second Age Science Fiction Club (''Klub Fantastyki "Druga Era"'') every year since 2000, except 2005 when they held Polcon. (In 2011 they organised both Pyrkon and Polcon.) Pyrkon has been a non-profit convention from its beginning, and all organizers, lecturers and gofers are volunteers. Initially Pyrkon was held at the D臋biec district of Pozna艅 in the following placesElementary School nr 21 in Pozna艅 000鈥 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Multigenre Fan Convention Pyrkon (pol. ''Festiwal Fantastyki Pyrkon'') (commonly known as Pyrkon) is a Polish fan convention held annually in Pozna艅 on the first weekend after the spring equinox and dedicated to an integration of Science fiction fandom and a promotion of science-fiction/fantasy literature, comics, film, television, video games, RPG, LARP, board games, collectible card games and miniature wargaming. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe (over 55,000 people in 2022). History Pyrkon has been held by the Second Age Science Fiction Club (''Klub Fantastyki "Druga Era"'') every year since 2000, except 2005 when they held Polcon. (In 2011 they organised both Pyrkon and Polcon.) Pyrkon has been a non-profit convention from its beginning, and all organizers, lecturers and gofers are volunteers. Initially Pyrkon was held at the D臋biec district of Pozna艅 in the following placesElementary School nr 21 in Pozna艅 000鈥 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek and Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables). It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the ''Iliad'', ''Odyssey'' and ''Aeneid''. Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, Ovid's ''Metamorphoses,'' and the Hymns of Orpheus. According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by Phemonoe, daughter of Apollo and the first Pythia of Delphi.Pliny the Elder, 7.57 __TOC__ Classical Hexameter In classical hexameter, the six feet follow these rules: * A foot can be made up of two long syllables (鈥 鈥), a spondee; or a long and two short syllables, a dactyl (鈥 蠀 蠀). * The first four feet can contain either one of them. * The fifth is almost always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee. A short syllable (蠀) is a syllabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gofer
A gofer, go-fer or gopher is an employee who specializes in the delivery of special items to their superior(s). Examples of these special items include a cup of coffee, a tool, a tailored suit, or a car. Outside of the business world, the term is used to describe a child or young adult who is learning how to do tasks and is sent to fetch items. A similar job is that of peon in Commonwealth countries. Etymology Gofer is a linguistic simplification of the two words 'go' and 'for'. Simplified, in English, it means 'go for this' or 'go for that' and reflects the likelihood of instructions to ''go for'' coffee, dry cleaning, or stamps, or to make other straightforward, familiar or unfamiliar procurements. The term ''gofer'' originated in North America. Career opportunities Likewise, ''gofer'' may refer to a junior member of an organisation who generally receive the most vexing and thankless work. Law firms with a top-heavy management structure, having not enough junior lawyers to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liceum Og贸lnokszta艂c膮ce
A general education liceum (Polish: ''Liceum og贸lnokszta艂c膮ce'' ) is an academic high school in the Education in Poland, Polish educational system. They are attended by those who plan to further their academic education upon graduation from Education in Poland, szko艂a podstawowa (compulsory education) through a path other than Technikum (Polish education), Technikum or Vocational school (since it's impossible for one to be at the age of 18 or more upon graduation from Education in Poland, szkola podstawowa, thus education is still mandatory for them one has to pick one of the three). Before graduating from liceum, students take a final exam called a "matura" (equivalent to the A-Level). It's a tradition for students of graduating grades and school staff to host and attend a prom called "studni贸wka" about a 100 days before the exams. There are several types (ages of students in brackets): * General Liceum (15-19) * Specialized Liceum (15-19) * Supplementary Liceum (17-20, opti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylight Saving Time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typically by one hour) during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring ("spring forward"), and to set clocks back by one hour in the fall ("fall back") to return to standard time. As a result, there is one 23-hour day in early spring and one 25-hour day in the middle of autumn. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by U.S. polymath Benjamin Franklin. In a satirical letter to the editor of ''The Journal of Paris'', Franklin suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize on candle usage; and calculated considerable savings. In 1895, New Zealand entomologist and astronome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias ( /p蓴藧藞se瑟ni蓹s/; grc-gre, 螤伪蠀蟽伪谓委伪蟼; c.鈥110 鈥 c.鈥180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his ''Description of Greece'' (, ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. ''Description of Greece'' provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology. Biography Not much is known about Pausanias apart from what historians can piece together from his own writing. However, it is mostly certain that he was born c.鈥110 AD into a Greek family and was probably a native of Lydia in Asia Minor. From c. 150 until his death in 180, Pausanias travelled through the mainland of Greece, writing about various monuments, sacred spaces, and significant geographical sites along the way. In writing ''Description of Greece'', Pausanias sought to put together a lasting written account of "all things Greek", or ''panta ta hellenika''. Living in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaia (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Gaia (; from Ancient Greek , a poetical form of , 'land' or 'earth'),, , . also spelled Gaea , is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother鈥攕ometimes parthenogenic鈥攐f all life. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants; as well as of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. Etymology The Greek name 螕伪峥栁 (''Gaia'' or ) is a mostly epic, collateral form of Attic (''G膿'' ), and Doric (''Ga'' ), perhaps identical to (''Da'' ), both meaning "Earth". The word is of uncertain origin. Beekes suggested a Pre-Greek origin. Robert S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, pp. 269鈥270 (''s.v. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delphic Sibyl
image:Michelangelo - Delphic Sibyl.jpg, Michelangelo's rendering of the Delphic Sibyl on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel The Delphic Sibyl was a woman who was a prophet associated with early religious practices in Ancient Greece and is said to have been venerated from before the Trojan Wars as an important oracle. At that time Delphi was a place of worship for Gaia (goddess), Gaia, the mother goddess connected with fertility rituals that are thought to have existed throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. As needed to maintain the religious tradition, the role of sibyl would pass to another priestess at each site. The Delphic Sibyl was dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias in his writings from the second century AD about local traditions. This Sibyl would have predated Pythia, the oracle and priestess of Apollo during the period of the religious traditions of Archaic Greece, who is dated to the eighth century BC. Throughout the an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poseidon
Poseidon (; grc-gre, 螤慰蟽蔚喂未峥段) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136鈥139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. He also had the cult title "earth shaker". In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however, it seems that he was originally a god of the waters.Seneca quaest. Nat. VI 6 :Nilsson Vol I p.450 He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related to the word horse.Nilsson Vol I p.450 His Roman equivalent is Neptune. Poseidon was the protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided by lot among Cronus' three sons; Zeus w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
