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A scythe (/ s aɪ ð /, rhyming with writhe) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing. The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia.
Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.
But when the colonists arrived at Locri, Scythes and the Zanclaeans were engaged in hostilities against the Sicels. Meanwhile, the Samians were persuaded by Anaxilas of Rhegium to take advantage of Scythes' absence, and occupy the city of Zancle itself. In response, Scythes asked for the assistance of his ally, Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela.
Targitaos or Scythes, was the ancestral god of the Scythians according to Scythian mythology. The ancient Greeks identified him with their own hero Hēraklēs.
2023 Ne bom se več drsal na bajerju Lado Kralj (27 March 1938 – 12 December 2022) was a Slovene writer, theatre critic and literary historian. From 1987 to 2005 he worked as a professor in comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana .
"Un fragment de l'épopée scythe: "le cheval de Colaxaïs" dans un partheneion d'Alcman" [A Fragment of the Scythian Epic: "the Horse of Colaxais" in a Partheneion of Alcman]. Ktèma: Civilisations de l'Orient, de la Grèce et de Rome antiques [Ktèma: Civilisations of the Ancient Orient, Greece, and Roma]. 27: 257– 264. doi:10.3406/ktema ...
Scythemen, also known as scythe-bearers [a] is the term for soldiers (often peasants and townspeople) armed with war scythes. [1] First appearing in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794, scythemen quickly became one of the symbols of the struggle for Polish independence and for the emancipation of the serfs.
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