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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

[SPEC] Receda cube

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:23 am

spaceXplorer

Found a couple of references to Receda meaning 'houses' or 'buildings' in Old English.

See here and also here

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:34 am

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Well, I post because of coincidence.

You mentioned that italy may have something to with it and I was looking up what might have happened in 179BC and saw that Philip V died, and that the Basilica Aemilia in Rome was built in 179 BC.

I also see a Beowulf reference:

"fore-mǣre, adj., _renowned beyond (others)_, prǣclarus: superl. ��t w�s fore-mǣrost foldbūendum receda under roderum, 309."

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:46 am

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Receda.com is very NEW. In game or out of game??? Note that .org, .net, .info are all still available. I would think that they would acquire all such TLD (top level domains) but who knows. . .

Here's the WHOIS from Network Solutions. Note that the Registrant is a proxy service for registering domains without revealing one's identity.

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: RECEDACUBE.COM
Created on: 16-Feb-05
Expires on: 16-Feb-06
Last Updated on: 16-Feb-05

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration RECEDACUBE.COMSPLATdomainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599
Technical Contact:
Private, Registration RECEDACUBE.COMSPLATdomainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160
PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599

Domain servers in listed order:
PARK5.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK6.SECURESERVER.NET

[EDIT: I moved this here so that we could, as Seej suggested, keep the adverts thread somewhat within readable length limits. yanka.]

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:58 am

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**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:10 pm

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THeReVeReND999 · Greenhorn Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

I translated "receda" to mean "withdraw" in Italian... no I don't KNOW Italian... but I used a free translation tool... and it made sense in the context it was used in the sentence I translated...

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:25 pm

POTUS

Thank you!
The building referred to as the "Hall under Heaven" in Beowulf is Heorot. Heorot is the stronghold of king Hrothgar, which was attacked for twelve yearsby Grendel - until Beowulf ripped off one of his arms.

if receda is a building, it would be The Building Cube, which may refer to the Academy itself, or perhaps a stronghold of knowledge/power.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:29 pm

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interesting theory...

one minor point of pedantry is that receda is definitely the plural case rather than the singular. This would make it the Buildings Cube.

I guess this could still refer to the Academy. It definitely rules out the chance that 'building' could be misconstrued as being a verb rather than a noun.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:43 pm

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leakingpen · Decorated Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 187

and its a long day, living in reseda
theres a freeway, running through the yard...

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:54 pm

quetzlcloth

More likely a play on the Latin root:

recedo -cedere -cessi -cessum [to go back , retreat, retire; to disappear].

OH NO! The disappearing cube has disappeared!

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:59 pm

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Someone has suggested that since this is an 'archeological' item, Receda may have been where it was found. Like the rosetta stone, maybe?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:14 pm

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to discover it is a picture of yourself,
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**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:24 pm

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Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:56 pm

Scott

That's what initially came to my mind. knowing there is a town named reseda (near LA, by the way), the fFirst thing which came to mind was Encino man, that pauly shore movie. (and then I too sang the soul coughing song)

However, it could also be a time or era in which was fFound, or which it is believed to be fFrom. as in "a neolithic structure" or "mesozoic fFossils."

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"Receda" what does it mean?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:19 pm

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