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- Physiognomy (from the Greek φύσις, 'physis', meaning "nature", and 'gnomon', meaning "judge" or "interpreter") or face reading is the practice of assessing...44 KB (5,056 words) - 09:55, 5 August 2024
- The Qumran Physiognomies was one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a large collection of scrolls and fragments found near the Qumran community. The document labeled...2 KB (336 words) - 01:53, 20 February 2021
- The Face Reader (redirect from Physiognomy (film))The Face Reader (Korean: 관상; RR: Gwansang; lit. "Physiognomy") is a 2013 South Korean period action drama film starring Song Kang-ho as the son of a disgraced...9 KB (672 words) - 18:38, 1 May 2024
- Physiognomonics (redirect from Physiognomics (Aristotle))Physiognomonica) is an Ancient Greek pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on physiognomy attributed to Aristotle (and part of the Corpus Aristotelicum). It is...6 KB (657 words) - 15:30, 18 July 2024
- vegetation physiognomies 1. Forest physiognomies 2. Shrubland physiognomies 3. Savanna physiognomies 4. Grassland physiognomies 5. Man-made physiognomies B. Climatic...14 KB (1,595 words) - 14:32, 26 February 2024
- Johann Kaspar Lavater (section Physiognomy)[citation needed] Lavater is most well known for his work in the field of physiognomy, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe...8 KB (935 words) - 14:49, 29 May 2024
- The Krampus is a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on visits...35 KB (3,556 words) - 08:23, 18 August 2024
- with theories of physiognomy—judgment of character based on the face—described by Aristotle in 4th century BC Greece. Physiognomy remained current through...237 KB (26,567 words) - 09:45, 21 August 2024
- brown eyes. Ironically, despite having Mediterranean or Middle Eastern physiognomies, many Melungeons grew up confident of their ostensibly Northern or Western...19 KB (2,229 words) - 19:43, 22 August 2024
- Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway, c.1789, made for Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy)...36 KB (3,785 words) - 11:27, 8 August 2024
- Mien Shiang (redirect from Chinese physiognomy)(Chinese: 面相; pinyin: miànxiàng meaning face (mien) reading (shiang)) is a physiognomic and fortune-telling practice in Chinese culture and traditional Chinese...6 KB (680 words) - 19:10, 17 September 2023
- Karikal; not only did they modify the social, political and economic physiognomies of the island, but some also went farther, to the West Indies. Indo-Mauritians...11 KB (952 words) - 03:26, 21 August 2024
- Saint Longinus (Bernini) (section Physiognomy)Cesare Ripa published Iconologia, a book dealing with the idea of physiognomy. Physiognomy was a popular concept throughout the early seventeenth century...12 KB (1,548 words) - 21:47, 4 March 2024
- Sea is a unique water body in respect of its overall biogeochemical physiognomy. It exports inorganic nutrients and imports particulate organic carbon...186 KB (18,545 words) - 12:25, 19 August 2024
- each stage a Sufi's soul must attain in its search for Allah. Farasa (physiognomy): which is concerned with knowing the thoughts and conversations of souls...166 KB (19,551 words) - 19:09, 21 August 2024
- hint of anti-Semitism. In 1881, he exhibited two pastels, Criminal Physiognomies, that depicted juvenile gang members recently convicted of murder in...64 KB (7,545 words) - 17:18, 21 August 2024
- Rodden points out the "undeniable conservative features in the Orwell physiognomy" and remarks on how "to some extent Orwell facilitated the kinds of uses...177 KB (21,196 words) - 01:59, 20 August 2024
- were seen as racially or ethnically different in terms of biology or physiognomy. Referring to the sun god Shamash. This phenomenon does not only apply...140 KB (17,052 words) - 12:32, 19 July 2024
- Pearson, who wrote: There is something characteristic about the very physiognomy of the Yorkshireman. He is much more of a Dane or a Viking than a Saxon...190 KB (17,560 words) - 19:10, 22 August 2024
- Irano-Afghan race (section Physiognomy)The Irano-Afghan race or Iranid race is an obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. Some anthropologists...5 KB (618 words) - 06:46, 31 July 2024
- physiognomies plural of physiognomy physiognomise
- a scientific physiognomy based on general physiological principles. The experiments of G. B. A. Duchenne (Mécanisme de la physiognomies humaine, Paris
- Physiognomy (from the Gk. physis meaning "nature" and gnomon meaning "judge" or "interpreter") is the assessment of a person's character or personality
- Töpffer formalised his thoughts on the picture story in his Essay on Physiognomics: "To construct a picture-story does not mean you must set yourself up