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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. historic thing HistoricTemporalThing The collection of all events, people, objects, periods, etc. which are considered to have historical significance. The membership in this collection depends upon time, place, and culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History most historic more historic more historical historical historic most historical A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rIcwFloGUQdeMlsOWYLFB2w" class="cyc_term">HomoSapiens</a>. Each instance of this collection is a human who has historical significance, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgIISJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Hammurabi</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv6uPRZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pericles</a> and #$CheGuevara. (There is thus considerable overlap between this collection and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjma5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FamousHuman</a>, but they differ in that all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwKQB3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HistoricHuman</a> exerted some real influence on the course of world events). historical figure HistoricHuman The collection of significant periods of history. Examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCL0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TheRenaissance</a>. historic period HistoricPeriod historic event This is the collection of events which are somehow historically significant. HistoricallySignificantEvent A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLjlAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgLGxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HistoricTemporalThing</a>. An <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rN9lf4CTeQdee4PjuZp8BLw" class="cyc_term">HistoricalSite</a> is a location of notable historical interest. HistoricalSite historical site The civilisation created by the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjH1ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EthnicGroupOfMayans</a> in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwDmLT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Yucatan_StateMexico</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViUSpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Honduras</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0XZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guatemala</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViZApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Belize</a>. The mayan civilization flourished from the early part of the first millenium up to the arrival of Cortez and his spanish settlers. Mayan mathematicians introduced the notion of Zero to counting, created a complex calendar system, and a detailed cosmological model of the world. Mayan architects created incredible <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvncZ6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ziggurat</a>/pyramidal structures with ornate stone engravings and stellae. The ancient Mayans mixed culture with warfare and suffering. Ritual blood-lettings were a requirement of being a Mayan king, while captured prisoners from other Mayan tribes were ceremoniously beheaded. According to Mayan creation myths, man was originally molded from <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViaZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CornPlant</a> by the gods. Indeed, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViaZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CornPlant</a> was first introduced by the Mayans via plant husbandry. The classical Mayan civilization ClassicalMayanCivilization RMS-Lusitania-TheShip R.M.S. Lusitania The British luxury liner Lusitania, which was sunk off the Irish coast by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, adding to the escalation of #$WorldWarI. Gettysburg Address MS The manuscript of the Gettysburg Address, handwritten by Lincoln on an envelope. GettysburgAddress-MS Schachnerstueberl An historic building in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvhhMNJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfTrattenbachAustria</a>, in which Ludwig Wittgenstein once rented rooms. Schachnerstueberl historic thing HistoricTemporalThing The collection of all events, people, objects, periods, etc. which are considered to have historical significance. The membership in this collection depends upon time, place, and culture. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a>. This is the collection of all things that have temporal extent or location -- things about which one might sensibly ask "When?". <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalThing</a> thus contains many kinds of things, including events, physical objects, agreements, and pure intervals of time. Major specializations of this collection are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi255wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYjIS5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Situation</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAw5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeInterval</a> (qq.v.). Things that are timeless -- such as mathematical sets, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAzJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Collection</a>s, and numbers -- are of course not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalThing</a> (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rGfrGRkkIQdeI2O3iJCGV3Q" class="cyc_term">AtemporalThing</a>). thing that exists in time TemporalThing historic thing HistoricTemporalThing The collection of all events, people, objects, periods, etc. which are considered to have historical significance. The membership in this collection depends upon time, place, and culture. historic thing HistoricTemporalThing The collection of all events, people, objects, periods, etc. which are considered to have historical significance. The membership in this collection depends upon time, place, and culture. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString historic thing HistoricTemporalThing The collection of all events, people, objects, periods, etc. which are considered to have historical significance. The membership in this collection depends upon time, place, and culture. IntermittentCollection A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwIE23ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeDependentCollection</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> (qq.v.). This is the collection of all collections of which something can be an instance during (and only during) several non-overlapping periods. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjma5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FamousHuman</a> is an intermittant collection, as a person might be famous as a child, fade into obscurity as a young adult, and then become famous again as an older adult. intermittent collection