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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...u;ρα θεά φιλοπάτωρ, [[December]...
6: ..., brother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with h...
9: ...she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
11: ...). After a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolem...
13: ... boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead. - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...graphy.malmesbury.bible.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display i...
2: ...is the art of decorative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
4: ...ncient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and palaeographers.
6: == East Asian calligraphy ==
8: ...ot have to know Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ... years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
15: ... was the language both of [[Archaic]] and [[Classical]] periods of Greek civilisation. It has been stu...
17: ...blished in the city of [[Rome]] and Koine Greek became a first or second language in the [[Roman Empir...
21: ...directly from [[Koine Greek]], '''Modern Greek''' can be traced in the late [[Byzantine]] period (as e...
25: ''The historical stages of the Greek language that are placed pri... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ... Treatise"). It was preserved, like most of Classical Greek science, in Arabic manuscripts (hence its ...
7: ...ogue]], which is probably an updated version of a catalogue created by Hipparchus. Its list of 48 [[co...
11: ...p;longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
14: ...m the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a...
18: ... must be added that his original topographic list cannot be reconstructed: the long tables with number... - Nile (13738 bytes)
2: ...5|1 134|2 830|3 400 000|[[Africa]]|the [[Mediterranean]]||[[Uganda]] - [[Sudan]] -...
4: ...;نيل ''an-nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on ...
8: ...mes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
12: ...s far less water than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its ha...
18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the River Nile]] - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...f the [[Earth]], its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shap...
3: ...es]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[silica]], as well as elements such as [[sulfur]], [[chlo...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic principles to other bodies of the...
7: ...istinguish between earthly and [[Theology|theological]] jurisprudence.
10: ...of [[fossil]] [[animal shell|shell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
5: ...a second word for ''papyrus'', βύβλος ''bublos'' (said to derive from...
13: ... the roll's length were on one side, all the vertical fibres on the other. Greek texts were written on...
15: ...[[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been partially excavated.
17: ...the codex form, and in the Gr棯-Roman world it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls in orde...
19: ...cularly in moist climates, and the fact that they can be manufactured anywhere. The latest certain da... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian c...
4: ...ndered Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z...
6: ...the names of the temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in the city.
10: ==Important archaeological sites in Thebes==
27: ...nstitut fran硩s d’arch鯬ogie orientale du Caire. (Reprinted Osnabr?tto Zeller Verlag, 1975). 7... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...r the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian capital and national library.
6: ....” After twelve years of constant military campaigning, Alexander died, probably of [[malaria]]...
11: ... his father descended from [[Heracles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] t...
14: ...|Pausanias]]), who held a grudge against Philip because the king had ignored a complaint he had expres...
16: ...ial rivals and marched south with his armies in a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront ... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
10: ...fic importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism...
12: ... later. Although he wrote dialogues early in his career, no more than fragments of these have survive...
14: ...rature]] and [[poetry]]. His combined works practically comprise an [[encyclopedia]] of Greek knowledg...
17: ...l]] holding his ''Ethics'': detail from the [[Vatican]] [[fresco]] ''[[Raphael Rooms|The School of Ath... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
19: [[16-bit application]] --
34: [[32-bit application]] --
102: [[America Online]] --
113: [[Arithmetic and logical unit]] --
156: [[Cache]] -- - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...e electrical effects are discussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism]].
6: ...ge|Greek]] ''ēlektron'' = "[[amber]]", which came from an old [[root (linguistics)|root]] ''ē...
8: ...been alleged to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
10: ...[Leyden jar]], a type of [[capacitor]] for electrical energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Le...
16: ...d by society, in that fundamental units of electrical measurement are named after them. - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
1: ...020 inches or less. The [[shutter]] of a pinhole camera usually consists of a hand operated flap of s...
2: ...use of the small aperture; typical exposure times can range from 5 seconds to more than an hour.
4: ...Ds are sometimes used for [[surveillance]] work because of their small size.
8: ...ss of the material in which it is punched, significant vignetting at the edges of the image will resul...
10: ... have access to [[Laser]] etching, but a hobbiest can still produce pinholes of sufficiently high qual... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...974;μη'' in Greek), but that name never came into common use.
3: ...ple), where most gold coins circulating in Europe came from and were associated with.
5: ...that divided Christianity into [[Catholic|Western Catholicism]] and [[Eastern Orthodoxy]]. Third, the...
7: ...l 12), and then re-captured by [[Nicaean Empire|Nicaean]] forces under the command of [[Michael VIII P...
9: ...public of [[Turkey]] was founded in [[1923]], the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]; Constantinople was ... - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
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14: {{Elementbox_heatcapacity_jpmolkat25 | (Cl<sub>2</sub>)<br />33.949 }...
22: {{Elementbox_atomicradiuscalc_pm | [[1 E-11 m|79]] }}
30: {{Elementbox_cas_number | 7782-50-5 }}
33: {{Elementbox_isotopes_decay | mn=36 | sym=Cl | na=[[synthetic radioisotope|s... - Helium (36603 bytes)
20: | [[Chemical series]]
34: | [[Melting point]] (at 2.6 [[megapascal|MPa]])
40: | [[Specific heat capacity]]
87: ! [[decay mode|DM]]
88: ! [[decay energy|DE]] <small>([[electron volt|MeV]])</smal... - Selenium (9236 bytes)
26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
37: | [[Atomic radius]] (calc.)
58: ...an="2" align="center" bgcolor="#a0ffa0" | '''Physical properties'''
79: | 0.695 [[Pascal|Pa]] at 494 K
87: | 2.48 ([[Pauling scale]]) - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
3: ...izi''') is an arm of the [[Mediterranean Sea]], located between the Greek peninsula and [[Anatolia]] (...
9: ...e belonging to [[Turkey]] on the Aegean Sea: [[Bozcaada]] and [[G?ada]] . The current status of many s... - Molar (tooth) (1877 bytes)
3: '''Molars''' are the rearmost and most complicated kind of [[tooth]] in most [[mammal]]s. In many...
8: ... ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
9: ...mbdodont''': Like zalambdodont, but there are two lambdas on one tooth.
14: ...uth. The third (rearmost) molar in each group is called a [[wisdom teeth|wisdom tooth]]. It is the l... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
2: ...ος'') (circa [[190 BC]] – circa [[120 BC]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[astronomer]]...
4: ...ooks, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later c...
10: ... strong tradition that Hipparchus was born in [[Nicaea]] (Greek ''Νικαί&alpha...
14: ...pparchus must have lived some time after 127 BC because he analyzed and published his latest observati...
20: ...ccurately depicting the constellations: the globe carried by the [[Farnese Atlas]] [Schaefer 2005].
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