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Oobleck may refer to: Oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid suspension of starch in water Bartholomew and the Oobleck, a Doctor Seuss novel, after which oobleck is named; Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck, an RWBY character; Theater Oobleck, a theater company in Chicago, US
When the main letter is capitalized, the iota can be written alongside instead, as in Ἅιδης (Háidēs) "Hades"; this is known as iota adscript. It is a convention in Ancient Greek texts that a capital letter is not written at the beginning of a sentence (except in some texts to indicate the beginning of direct speech).
The section "Titles" is creating significant problems as to the capitalization of military titles when used in a sentence. For example someone edited Eric Shinseki to change Chief of Staff of the Army to chief of staff of the army - correct according to the section "Title" however not valid according to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
To capitalize "Archaic Greece" and "Classical Greece" shows clearly that the phrase refers to something that can be more or less dated and defined in accordance with usage in modern scholarship; lowercase would be more ambiguous as to whether "archaic" and "classical" were being used loosely as synonyms for "ancient."
If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...
"In a list, if each item of the list is a complete sentence, then it should be capitalized like any other sentence. If the list items are sentence fragments, then capitalization should be consistent – sentence case should be applied to either all or none of the items. See WP:Manual of Style § Bulleted and numbered lists."
Rhetorical device in which the most important action is placed first, even though it happens after the other action. The standard example comes from the Aeneid of Virgil (2.353): Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus "Let us die, and charge into the thick of the fight".