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The company debuted the $2.5 million Platinum Plus in 2006. [2] Featherlite is the official luxury coach of NASCAR. [3] Featherlite sponsored the Featherlite Coaches 200 NASCAR race in 2007. [4] Featherlight was a title sponsor for the Featherlight Modified Series from the national tour's inception in 1985 until 2005. [5]
Arete is a significant part of the paideia of ancient Greeks: the training of the boy to manhood. This training in arete included physical training, for which the Greeks developed the gymnasion; mental training, which included oratory, rhetoric, and basic sciences; and spiritual training, which included music and what is called virtue.
Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequently this results in a saddle-shaped pass, called a col. [2] The edge is then sharpened by freeze-thaw weathering , and the slope on either side of the arête steepened through mass wasting events and the erosion of exposed, unstable rock. [ 3 ]
An aretalogy (Greek: Αρεταλογία), from ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy,or aretology [1] [2] (from ancient Greek aretê, "excellence, virtue") in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure's miraculous deeds [3] where a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
Arete learned philosophy from her father, Aristippus, who had himself learned philosophy from Socrates. Arete, in turn, taught philosophy to her son - Aristippus the Younger - and her son was nicknamed "Mother-taught" (Greek: μητροδίδακτος). [2] Arete reportedly took over the leadership of the School of Cyrene upon her father's death.
[4] [2] It is also capable of sub-surface launches from a submarine's vertical launch system. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Lockheed Martin has explored the missile's compatibility with various aircraft types, including electronic and physical fit-checking, on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet , EA-18G Growler , F-16 , F-15 , as well as all three versions of the F-35 ...
Optical relief (usually noted as simply relief) is a visually observable property in optical mineralogy used to identify minerals based on their refractive index.Relief is determined by observing the degree to which grains stand out from a mounting medium of known refractive index, [1] usually either oil or Canada Balsam.
Plato's birth name, Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς), [7] contains kleos as a suffix in the -kles form present in some masculine given names in Ancient Greece (some other notable examples include Heracles and Pericles); combined with the morpheme the former half of the name comprises, aristos, the meaning of the name on the whole translates roughly to "great reputation".