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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

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Macro-Ge languages

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In South American Indian languages: Macro-Ge
Macro-Ge is geographically the most compactly distributed of the big South American language families. Ge proper extends uninterruptedly through inland eastern Brazil almost as far as the Uruguayan border. There are about 10 Ge languages with a total of 2,000 speakers. Most of the…
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In Ge languages
…are now extinct) in a Macro-Ge grouping.
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