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Hill of Tara

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Archaeological complex between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland Not to be confused with Tara Hill, County Wexford. Hill of Tara Cnoc na Teamhrach The Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) atop the Hill of Tara, County Meath Highest point Elevation 155 m (509 ft)  [1] Prominence 84 m (276 ft)  [1] Coordinates 53°34′39″N 6°36′43″W  /  53.57750°N 6.61194°W  / 53.57750; -6.61194 Coordinates: 53°34′39″N 6°36′43″W  /  53.57750°N 6.61194°W  / 53.57750; -6.61194   Geography Hill of Tara Cnoc na Teamhrach Location in Ireland Location County Meath, Ireland The Hill of Tara (Irish: Cnoc na Teamhrach , [2] Teamhair or Teamhair na Rí ), located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Ireland. It contains a number of ancient monuments and, according to tradition, was the seat of the High King of Ireland. Contents 1 Features 1.1 Anci...

Kything

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Kything is derived from the Old English kythe, cýðe; a word known from both The Vespasian Psalter (c.825) and the West Saxon Gospels (c.1025). [1] Meaning "to announce, proclaim, declare, tell, to make known in words, to manifest, to make visible", it survived as the Scottish dialect word kythe. The author Madeleine L'Engle used the word kythe to describe a fictional type of communication, in a sense like telepathy, found in several of the books in her Time Quintet. L'Engle reportedly discovered the term in "an old Scottish dictionary" belonging to her grandfather. [2] In the Time Quintet books, Kything is a sort of wordless, mind-to-mind communication in which one person, in essence, almost becomes another, seeing through their eyes and feeling through their senses. In such a frame of mind, the two people intuitively know the meaning of what the other is telling them, disregarding such things as words or pictures. The idea may be based on the con...

Echthroi

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Echthroi (Ἐχθροί) is a Greek plural meaning "The Enemy" (literally "enemies"). The singular form of the word, Echthros (Ἐχθρός), is used in many versions and translations of the Bible for "enemy". Historically used primarily in connection with biblical and classical subjects, [1] the term has more recently been used to refer to a fictitious type of evil being, principally in Madeleine L'Engle's "Time Quartet". A personification of the forces of impersonalization and nihilism, [2] they exist in both the macrocosmic and microcosmic level, counteracted principally by what L'Engle refers to as "Naming", or re-integration of a character with its best-motivated identity ('true self'). [2] These concepts appear in one form or another in a number of L'Engle's books, as part of her recurring themes of good versus evil, interdependency, and the role of the individual in the cosmic scheme of things. Conte...

Time travel

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"Time machine" redirects here. For other uses, see Time machine (disambiguation) and Time travel (disambiguation). Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine . Time travel is a widely-recognized concept in philosophy and fiction. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine . It is uncertain if time travel to the past is physically possible. Forward time travel, outside the usual sense of the perception of time, is an extensively-observed phenomenon and well-understood within the framework of special relativity and general relativity. However, making one body advance or delay more than a few milliseconds compared to another body is not feasible with current technology. [1] As for backwards time travel, it is possible to find solutions in general relati...