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  • proper noun Greek mythology A Titan, the embodiment of divine order, law and custom. She was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus.

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From Ancient Greek Θέμις.

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  • Hi everyone, i am stamatis from greece and Themis is my best friend, we grow up together in the same neiberhood (sorry about my english) in piraeus (kaminia) i know him 27 years and i am very proud for him and for what he did and for what he is going to do in the future!!!

    NJ Dining: A Taste of Greece 2.0 (UPDATED) 2009

  • I can see that Themis is hard working and has been pleasing above and beyond all his customers.

    NJ Dining: A Taste of Greece 2.0 (UPDATED) 2009

  • Themis is extremely accommodating to special requests (such as low-carbing the entrees) and is himself a health and fitness nut.

    18 « April « 2009 « Off The Broiler 2009

  • Themis is extremely accommodating to special requests (such as low-carbing the entrees) and is himself a health and fitness nut.

    April « 2009 « Off The Broiler 2009

  • Themis is extremely accommodating to special requests (such as low-carbing the entrees) and is himself a health and fitness nut.

    NJ Dining: A Taste of Greece 2.0 (UPDATED) 2009

  • Thus he quotes approvingly a derivation of the name Themis from an assumed verb them, "to speak," whereas it is notoriously derived from, as statute comes ultimately from stare.

    Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

  • However, due to a similarity in orbital characteristics to a family of asteroids known as the Themis family, suggesting they may have resulted from the same break up of a larger body that created this group.

    Comets Posing as Asteroids (or is the the other way around?) | Universe Today 2009

  • Half the population here have names as unchristian quite – Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes – my housemaid is called Themis – but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Theodora Goss 2009

  • She was the daughter of randy Zeus and Themis a.k.a.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

  • She was the daughter of randy Zeus and Themis a.k.a.

    HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000

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