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  2. Photography - Wikipedia

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    The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" [2] and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", [3] together meaning "drawing with light". [4] Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently.

  3. Martyr - Wikipedia

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    A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stem μαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant ...

  4. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]

  5. Photography in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The History of Greek photography began with travellers from Canada and Europe to Greece. Pierre Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere (1798–1865, Canadian) and Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892, French) were among the examples of persons who came to Greece and took photographs of Greece (daguerreotypes) in 1830s or 1840s.

  6. Origen - Wikipedia

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    Fragments from Books 3.1 and 4.1–3 of Origen's Greek original are preserved in Origen's Philokalia. [129] A few smaller quotations of the original Greek are preserved in Justinian's Letter to Mennas. [129] The vast majority of the text has only survived in a heavily abridged Latin translation produced by Tyrannius Rufinus in 397. [129]

  7. Longinus - Wikipedia

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    Longinus is venerated, generally as a martyr, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church. His feast day is kept on 16 October in the Roman Martyrology , which mentions him, without any indication of martyrdom, in the following terms: "At Jerusalem, commemoration of Saint Longinus, who is ...

  8. Photograph - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...

  9. Lucian of Antioch - Wikipedia

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    Lucian of Antioch (Greek: Λουκιανός Αντιοχείας c. 240 – January 7, 312), [a] known as Lucian the Martyr, was a Christian presbyter, theologian and martyr. He was noted for both his scholarship and ascetic piety .