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Reference | Course | Link |
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Odyssey, Chapter 10 (Circe) | COSC 311 WI06 | Chapter 10, adventure with Circe |
Part of Georgian epic Knight in the Panther's Skin | COSC 311 WI06 | Introduction and some tales of Rosthevan, King of Arabia |
Part of Armenian epic David of Sassoun, 3rd cycle (Shalian) | COSC 311 WI06 | David Punishes the Tax Collectors of Msrah Melik |
Part of David of Sassoon, 3rd cycle (Toumanian) | COSC 311 WI06 | David punishes tax collectors of Msrah Melik |
Part of David of Sassoun, 2nd cycle | various 311 courses | Medz Mher Finds a Wife and Discovers He Owes Taxes |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner | COSC 231 FALL 2011 | here |
The phrase "durance vile" | COSC 231 FALL 2011 | here |
"By the way, who were the Picts?" | COSC 231 FA13 (see code at http://emunix.emich.edu/~haynes/231/fa13/Lecture/1028.html ) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts |
Mondrian art work | COSC 231, FA13 In class assignment: make a table that mimics the style of Mondrian |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian |
Hiawatha: "By the shores of Gitchee Goomee, by the shining big sea water" This is from the epic (and romantic) poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855) by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, retelling the legends of the North American Woodland Indian Gitchee Gumee refers to our Lake Superior |
COSC 231 WI14 | From Internet Archive
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big- Sea- Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them ; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, |
The actual definitions of 'polygyny', 'polygamy', 'polyandry' in the context of discussing an extension to 'The Stable Matching Problem' (Gale Shipley algorithm) | COSC 511 FA14 | See wikipedia definitions, especially for multiple husbands. |