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  2. 75 Seneca Quotes About Life, Wisdom and Greatness - AOL

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    These 75 quotes by Seneca capture some of his best works and offer plenty of wisdom for going through daily life. Related: 75 Epictetus Quotes on Life, Philosophy and Empowerment. 75 Seneca Quotes. 1.

  3. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    The dating of an oral tradition mentioning a solar eclipse yields 1142 AD as the year for the Seneca joining the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Some recent archaeological evidence indicates their territory eventually extended to the Allegheny River in present-day northwestern Pennsylvania, particularly after the Iroquois destroyed both ...

  4. Seneca mythology - Wikipedia

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    Most Seneca stories were transmitted orally, and began to be written down in the nineteenth century. The ethnologist Jeremiah Curtin began transcribing stories in 1883. [1] In 1923, Arthur C. Parker published Seneca Myths and Folk Tales. Parker identified eleven factors characterizing Seneca folklore: [2]: pp.3–5 Spirits pervade all nature

  5. Handsome Lake - Wikipedia

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    With the help of Handsome Lake’s relatives, his visions were written down and published in 1850. The Code of Handsome Lake remains practiced among the Seneca and is considered to be a traditional Indian way of life. Beginning in the 1820s, it became traditional for the Code to be recited every September at Tonawanda in the Seneca Nation.

  6. De Brevitate Vitae (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    After the introduction (§1), Seneca reviews (§2–3) the distractions which make life seem short, and explains that people are great wasters of time. He then offers (§4–6) three examples of famous Romans ( Augustus , Cicero and Livius Drusus ) who, in various ways, were victims of the engrossed life.

  7. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Alongside Seneca's apparent fortitude in the face of death, for example, one can also view his actions as rather histrionic and performative; and when Tacitus tells us that he left his family an imago suae vitae (Annales 15.62), "an image of his life", he is possibly being ambiguous: in Roman culture, the imago was a kind of mask that ...

  8. Tonawanda Band of Seneca - Wikipedia

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    The Tonawanda Seneca Nation (previously known as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians) (Seneca: Ta:nöwö:deʼ Onödowáʼga꞉ Yoindzadeʼ) is a federally recognized tribe in the State of New York. They have maintained the traditional form of government led by sachems (hereditary Seneca chiefs) selected by clan mothers .

  9. What to know about 'It's a Wonderful Life' celebration in ...

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    Among this year's highlights: On Friday, the documentary “The Real Bedford Falls – It’s a Wonderful Life” will be shown at 11 a.m. Trinity Church, 27 Fall St.