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The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and strong timber in their places, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for ...
A regular at the Nag's Head pub, and old friend of Del Boy, Trigger is a road sweeper - looking after a 20 year-old broom that is an example of the Ship of Theseus paradox - and also engages in trading and petty thefts. Trigger speaks in a slow, monotone voice, and is very simple-minded, although affable and warm-hearted.
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S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. Abrams.The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story.It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus (by a fictional author), hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret, plus loose ...
Ship of Theseus page mentions Trigger's Broom and "Trigger" of course links here, but there's no reference to his broom on this page. 147.78.5.38 18:08 ...
Ship of Theseus (Japanese: テセウスの船, Hepburn: Teseusu no Fune) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Toshiya Higashimoto . It was serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Morning from June 2017 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes.
Ship of Theseus, the ship Theseus rode on his trip to kill Minotaur. He set off with a black sail, promising to his father, Aegeus , that if successful he would return with a white sail. Theseus forgot to put up the white sails instead of the black ones, however, so Aegeus, believing his son was dead, committed suicide by throwing himself into ...
The name is Greek (Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda), perhaps meaning 'mindful of her husband': from the noun ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, anḗr, andrós 'man'; and either the verb μέδεσθαι, medesthai 'to be mindful of', from μέδω, médō, 'to protect, rule over', or the verb μήδομαι, mḗdomai 'to deliberate, contrive, decide'.