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  2. Pytheas - Wikipedia

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    Pytheas of Massalia (/ ˈ p ɪ θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born c. 350 BC, fl. c. 320–306 BC) [2] [1] [3] was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France).

  3. Pythia's Oasis - Wikipedia

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    Pythia's Oasis is a cold seep on the ocean floor 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newport, Oregon, United States (1], characterized by a focused stream of highly altered fluid that is approximately 9 °C (16 °F) above normal ocean background temperature

  4. Thule - Wikipedia

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    The Greek explorer Pytheas of the Greek city of Massalia (now Marseille, France) is the first to have written of Thule, after his travels between 330 and 320 BC. Pytheas mentioned going to Thule in his now lost work, On The Ocean Τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ (ta peri tou Okeanou). L.

  5. Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe ...

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    The Knights of Pythias, founded in 1864, did not allow African Americans and so this group formed on its own. [1] The Knights of Pythias of North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceanica was established in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1880 by Thomas W. Stringer, along with Thomas M. Broadwater, A. E. Lightfoot, George A. Place, W. D. Starks, Claybourne Julian.

  6. Pytheas (crater) - Wikipedia

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    Pytheas is a small lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the south of the crater Lambert. It was named after ancient Greek navigator and geographer Pytheas of Massalia.

  7. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    Pytheas is the first known person to describe the Midnight Sun, [Note 2] polar ice, Germanic tribes and possibly Stonehenge. Pytheas also introduced the idea of distant "Thule" to the geographic imagination and his account is the earliest to state that the Moon is the cause of the tides.

  8. Baltia - Wikipedia

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    Pliny the Elder (HN. 4.95; 37.35-36) "Xenophon of Lampsacus tells us that at a distance of three days' sail from the shores of Scythia, there is an island of immense size called Baltia, which by Pytheas is called Basilia."

  9. Knights of Pythias - Wikipedia

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    Knights of Pythias membership certificate, 1890 [a] Knights of Pythias in a parade in Toledo, Ohio, 1890s Knights of Pythias in a parade in Racine, Wisconsin, 1910. The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1864.