Arcadia
a mountainous region of ancient Greece, traditionally known for the contented pastoral innocence of its people.
any real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity.
a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
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A similar video was captured in Arcadia, California, in September 2019.
How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras | Eileen Guo | September 20, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewBiotechnology company Biogen and financial giant Goldman Sachs, for example, are both working with alternative energy firm Arcadia to help employees switch their homes to wind or solar power.
Working From Home Is Driving Up Our Energy Costs. Should Employers Foot the Bill? | Patrick Lucas Austin | February 26, 2021 | TimeAlok Sharma, the business secretary, tweeted Monday evening that the Arcadia collapse was “incredibly sad news” and the government “stands ready to support those affected during this difficult period.”
COVID-19 chaos: U.K. retail giants Arcadia and Debenhams collapse, threatening 25,000 jobs | David Meyer | December 1, 2020 | FortuneBut, as Arcadia’s businesses were the biggest concession operators in Debenhams’ department stores, JD Sports took Monday’s news as its exit cue.
COVID-19 chaos: U.K. retail giants Arcadia and Debenhams collapse, threatening 25,000 jobs | David Meyer | December 1, 2020 | FortuneArcadia is also seen as a victim of existing weaknesses, such as its positioning in a time of widening income inequality, as well as the pandemic.
COVID-19 chaos: U.K. retail giants Arcadia and Debenhams collapse, threatening 25,000 jobs | David Meyer | December 1, 2020 | Fortune
Ironically, the Nixon era marked a political Arcadia, of sorts.
Lina Viktor: Arcadia is on display through July 11 at Gallery 151 in New York City.
On Labor Day weekend of 1999, Platt informed her mother that she was going with Vafeades to see a relative in Arcadia.
Timothy Vafeades, the Vampire Trucker, Shames the Undead | Michael Daly | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe book was Your Police, which Bratton discovered at the age of nine in the Boston Pubic Library on Arcadia Street.
Can Bill Bratton Solve De Blasio’s NYPD Dilemma? | Michael Daly | December 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTParadise may be unattainable, but Arcadia posits that sympathetic company is necessary to a meaningful life.
Must Read New Fiction: ‘Arcadia,’ ‘Men in Space,’ ‘The O’Briens,’ ‘Hot Pink’ | Chloë Schama, Jacob Silverman, Wendy Smith, Daniel Roberts | March 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is the true Arcadia, where you find refined and cultivated natures busying themselves with the simplest toils.
The Minister's Wooing | Harriet Beecher StoweEven in the second century, when Pausanias visited Arcadia, he found what seem to have been human sacrifices to Zeus.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang“Et ego in Arcadia vixi” would be no empty boast upon my grave.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonThough inclosed by hills, Arcadia was a horse feeding, therefore relatively not a poor country.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 | W. E. GladstoneFrom its rich pastures, Arcadia was originally well adapted for Pelasgian inhabitants.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 | W. E. Gladstone
British Dictionary definitions for Arcadia
/ (ɑːˈkeɪdɪə) /
a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles)
Also called (poetic): Arcady (ˈɑːkədɪ) the traditional idealized rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry and later in the literature of the Renaissance
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