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Elea

[ ee-lee-uh ]

noun

  1. an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.


Elea

/ ˈːɪə /

noun

  1. (in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“There’s been a lot of work, a lot of meetings that went into it, and when we finally pulled it off, we had no idea how it would go,” said Columbia graduate student Elea Sun.

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For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West.

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Around 435 BC, he conspired to overthrow the tyrant of Elea, Nearchus.

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Lucie Zellner, 23 — who organizes Stormy Shot, along with her sister, Elea, 21 — said that the group often practices between 9 and 17 hours per week.

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"I went everywhere looking for them, I even went to the hospital morgue, they showed me bodies of dead children," she said as she cuddled her four-year-old daughter Elea.

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