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  2. Stasis (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    A stasis / ˈ s t eɪ s ɪ s / or stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless. Overview [ edit ]

  3. Stasis (ancient Greece) - Wikipedia

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    In political history, stasis (Ancient Greek: στάσις in the sense of "faction, discord"; plural: staseis) refers to an episode of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state or polis. It was the result of opposition between groups of citizens, fighting over the constitution of the city or over social and economic problems. [ 1 ]

  4. Stasis - Wikipedia

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    Stasis (from Greek στάσις "a standing still") may refer to: A state in stability theory , in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other Stasis (political history) , a period of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state

  5. World of Ptavvs - Wikipedia

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    The Thrintun are mentioned in the story "The Handicapped".In the novel Protector, protagonist Elroy Truesdale observes the Sea Statue whilst visiting the Smithsonian Institution: "It looked the product of some advanced civilization... and it was; it was a pressure suit with emergency stasis field facilities, and the thing inside was very dangerous.

  6. Geocriticism - Wikipedia

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    Geocriticism frequently involves the study of places described in the literature by various authors, but it can also study the effects of literary representations of a given space. An example of the range of geocritical practices can be found in Tally's collection Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies.

  7. Geography - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks, who were the first to explore geography as both art and science, achieved this through Cartography, Philosophy, and Literature, or through Mathematics. There is some debate about who was the first person to assert that the Earth is spherical in shape, with the credit going either to Parmenides or Pythagoras .

  8. Punctuated equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    The fossil record includes well documented examples of both phyletic gradualism and punctuational evolution. [17] As such, much debate persists over the prominence of stasis in the fossil record. [18] [19] Before punctuated equilibrium, most evolution biologists considered stasis to be rare or unimportant.

  9. Chronotope - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the chronotope has been widely used in literary studies. The scholar Timo Müller for example argued that analysis of chronotopes highlights the environmental dimension of literary texts because it draws attention to the concrete physical spaces in which stories take place.