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Apollo

a deity among the greeks and romans. He was the god of light and day (the sun god), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc, and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; called also Phebus. The apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

Origin: L. Apollo, -linis, gr.


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Inter species breeding with fertile offspring

... are asking for a theory and who proved it, i believe it was newton originally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation and then later evidenced in apollo 15 by David Scott, with the hammer and the feather, although you are certainly too young to remember that go do something with ur life gamila ...

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by gamila
Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:46 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring
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Re: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring

... are asking for a theory and who proved it, i believe it was newton originally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation and then later evidenced in apollo 15 by David Scott, with the hammer and the feather, although you are certainly too young to remember that go do something with ur life gamila

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by telanerv
Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:18 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring
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Origin of Medicine Symbol

hi, i make some research on this and fin out that mythologically, the Caduceus was the staff Apollo gave Hermes, which had the power of generating accord, or agreement. It was worn by heralds as a mark of their office and was adopted by the medical profession.

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by kiekyon
Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:51 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Origin of Medicine Symbol
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