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It was a Greek explorer called Pytheas who first wrote about Thule.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It was a Greek explorer called Pytheas who first wrote about Thule.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The Arctic's future is vital to the human race, as a clutch of new books suggests In his account of his travels to the far north, the ancient Greek explorer Pytheas recalled encountering a wall of ice and dense fog, probably in waters around Iceland.
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What Pytheas and his men were probably experiencing was the forming of pancake ice, in which the sea is slowly covered in a mushy, freezing crust.
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They were obviously fond of each other, they shared a great many things, and they loved each other in the way that Damian and Pytheas and David and Jonathan did.
Think Progress » Hastert Tries To Shift Blame To Staff, Raises Prospect of ‘Cover Up’ 2006
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The U.S. has also got in on the act, naming its air base in northern Greenland Thule, though no one has ever suggested that Pytheas made it that far west.
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Pytheas, an explorer in the fourth century B.C., claimed to have reached Thule, six days' sail from northern Scotland.
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It's a stretch, but the reasoning goes like this: Accounts of Pytheas' voyage note that "the barbarians showed him the place where the sun went to rest"; a gigantic prehistoric meteor struck the island of Saarema; tuli means "fire" in Estonian.
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Pytheas the Massilian, that the fulness of the moon gives the flow, the wane the ebb.
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Pytheas kept on fighting until his entire body bore vicious wounds.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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