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Cartoon in Punch magazine: 28 July 1920. Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others and to put them at ease. It is a culturally defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in another cultural context.
Politeia is derived from both the root word polis meaning "city" or "state", [5] and from the verb politeuomai that means "I am living as an active citizen of the polis". People living in a Greek city/state were not necessarily citizens. A person that was ostracized from the active matrix of the city was an example of such.
Polites was a member of Odysseus's crew. [1] Odysseus refers to him as his dearest friend, though he is only mentioned twice. It is unclear whether he was killed by Scylla or by the lightning bolt that Zeus hurled at Odysseus's ship.
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When used in conjunction with a knife to cut and consume food in Western social settings, two forms of fork etiquette are common. In the European style, which is not uniform across Europe, the diner keeps the fork in the left hand, in the American style, the fork is shifted between the left and right hands.
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A Young diagram representing visually a polite expansion 15 = 4 + 5 + 6. In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers.
William Richard Henry Hanson (born 2 September 1989) is a British etiquette coach, a twice Sunday Times bestselling author, [1] and host of podcasts Help I Sexted My Boss and Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast from Bristol, England.