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  2. Faun (band) - Wikipedia

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    Faun is a German band that was formed in 1998 and plays pagan folk, darkwave, and medieval music. The originality of their music style is that it falls back to "old" instruments, and the singing is always the center of attention.

  3. Alexander Mosaic - Wikipedia

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    The Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy.. It is typically dated between c. 120 and BC 100 [1] and depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. [2]

  4. Faun - Wikipedia

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    The faun (Latin: Faunus, pronounced [ˈfäu̯nʊs̠]; Ancient Greek: φαῦνος, romanized: phaûnos, pronounced [pʰâu̯nos]) is a half-human and half-goat mythological creature appearing in Greek and Roman mythology.

  5. House of the Faun - Wikipedia

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    The Alexander Mosaic, showing Alexander at left. A copy is displayed in the House of the Faun, where the original was found. The Nilotic scene mosaic depicts exotic animals in the Nile. The House of the Faun was initially excavated in 1830 by the German archaeological institute. Five bodies were found in the house including one woman and three ...

  6. Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia

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    The music changes to a soulful clarinet solo. The sixth nymph who has been left isolated centre stage suddenly notices the faun behind her and runs off to the left, hands in air. [9] The faun and the last nymph are alone on stage as the music changes with a new air of excitement from the woodwind section which builds along with the violins and ...

  7. European emigration - Wikipedia

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    From 1500 to the mid-20th century, 60–65 million people left Europe, of which less than 9% went to tropical areas (the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa). [ 44 ] From 1815 to 1932, 65 million people left Europe (with many returning home), primarily to areas of European settlement in North and South America , [ 45 ] in addition to South Africa ...

  8. Barberini Faun - Wikipedia

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    The life-size [1] ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany. A faun is the Roman equivalent of a Greek satyr. In Greek mythology, satyrs were human-like male woodland spirits with several animal features, often a goat-like tail, hooves, ears ...

  9. Mr. Tumnus - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Tumnus is a faun in The Chronicles of Narnia books written by C. S. Lewis, primarily in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but also briefly in The Horse and His Boy and in The Last Battle. He is the first creature Lucy Pevensie meets in Narnia and becomes her first friend in the kingdom.