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  2. Featherlite Coaches - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Arete - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Arête - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. Aretalogy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Arete of Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Mako (missile) - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  8. Optical relief - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Kleos - Wikipedia

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    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".