Month: April 2021
apogee (n.)
“point at which the moon is farthest from the earth,” 1590s, from French apogée or directly from Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion (diastema) “(distance) away from the earth,” from apogaion, neuter adjective, “from land,” here in a specialized sense “away from the earth,” from apo “off, away” (see apo-) + gaia/ge “earth” (see Gaia).
Figurative sense “climax, culmination” is from 1640s. A term from Ptolemaic astronomy, which regarded the earth as the center of the universe and applied the word to the sun and planets; for these bodies it was displaced in the Copernican system by aphelion. Adjective forms are apogeal, apogean, apogeic.
Lunar Perigee and Apogee
The Moon’s orbit around Earth is elliptical. The point of the orbit closest to Earth is called perigee, while the point farthest from Earth is known as apogee.
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint, is the earliest extant Koine Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible, various biblical apocrypha, and deuterocanonical books. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, were translated in the mid-3rd century BCE; they did not survive as original-translation texts, however, except as rare fragments
Beth = House of Bread (Mother)
Feminine Principle
Corpus delicti
Corpus delicti is a term from Western jurisprudence referring to the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property has been stolen
Foreign Corporate Entity Registration Number
Doing business is North America.
94-3904 Tracy J. Martinez v. Union Pacific RR
Res judicata
Res judicata or res iudicata, also known as claim preclusion, is the Latin term for “a matter decided” and refers to either of two concepts in both civil law and common law legal systems: a case in which there has been a final judgment and is no longer subject to appeal; and the legal doctrine meant to bar relitigation of a claim between the same parties
28 U.S. Code § 1332 – Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs
(a)The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and is between—(1)citizens of different States;(2)citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state, except that the district courts shall not have original jurisdiction under this subsection of an action between citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States and are domiciled in the same State;(3)citizens of different States and in which citizens or subjects of a foreign state are additional parties; and(4)a foreign state, defined in section 1603(a) of this title, as plaintiff and citizens of a State or of different States.
[abridged]
[source] = Constitution