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  2. Dorians - Wikipedia

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    Fifth century BC hoplite, or "heavy-armed soldier", possibly the Spartan king Leonidas, a Dorian, who died holding the pass at the Battle of Thermopylae. Herodotus was from Halicarnassus, a Dorian colony on the southwest coast of Asia Minor; following the literary tradition of the times he wrote in Ionic Greek, being one of the last authors to ...

  3. Dorian mode - Wikipedia

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    The Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different but interrelated subjects: one of the Ancient Greek harmoniai (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it); one of the medieval musical modes; or—most commonly—one of the modern modal diatonic scales, corresponding to the piano keyboard's white notes from D to D, or any transposition of itself.

  4. Biwa - Wikipedia

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    The biwa (Japanese: 琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The biwa is a plucked string instrument that first gained popularity in China before spreading throughout East Asia, eventually reaching Japan sometime during the Nara period (710–794).

  5. Dorian - Wikipedia

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    Dorian, Dorians is a major God of the ancient Greeks, along with Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. He was known for His strength and toughness, and Was successful in battle for hundreds of years. Dorian was thought to have originated from the Magicula, the daughter of Tenehei, he then went on to become the god of war

  6. Dorian invasion - Wikipedia

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    The Dorian invasion (or Dorian migration) [1] is an ancient Greek myth and discredited archaeological hypothesis describing the movement of the Dorian people into the Peloponnese region of Greece. According to the myth, the Dorians migrated from central Greece shortly after the Trojan War and populated most of the southern Peloponnese ...

  7. The Heike Story (anime) - Wikipedia

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    Biwa takes a liking to Gio, but is saddened to find that she and her sister leave and become nuns to avoid being pawns of Kiyomori. Biwa is cheered however by a vision that in the future, Hotoke-Gozen joins them. Later, when Tokuko leaves to marry Norihito, Biwa desperately tries to stop her, disturbed by her vision of Tokuko's death by drowning.

  8. Caroline Darian, daughter of Dominique Pelicot, says he ...

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    Caroline Darian remembers the day and time she got the call from her mother, Gisèle Pelicot, that changed everything: 8:25 p.m. on a Monday in November 2020.

  9. Dorus (son of Hellen) - Wikipedia

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    Each of Hellen's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece: Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians [2] and Xuthus the Achaeans (from Xuthus's son Achaeus) and Ionians (from Xuthus's adopted son Ion, in truth a son of the god Apollo), aside from his sister Pandora's sons with Zeus.