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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ... first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments d...
4: ...fore an earthquake levelled it, was the Temple of Hera on [[Samos]], built about [[570 BC]] - [[560 BC]]...
6: ...sided Ionic capital, which became so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually r...
8: ...ollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportio... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
124: ...1930]]. The planet was later found on photographs dating back to [[March 19]], [[1915]]. Tombaugh was ...
126: ...ules]]'', ''[[Icarus (mythology)|Icarus]]'', ''[[Idana]]'', ''[[Odin]]'', ''[[Pax (mythology)|Pax]]'',...
128: ...anet in the [[Times]] newspaper. He asked his grandaughter what she thought would be good name for it....
136: ...s diameter is now known since telescopes using [[adaptive optics]] can resolve its disk.
153: ... among planets in that they are [[Tidal locking|tidally locked]] to each other. This means that Charon... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...8;ρτεμις''') is the daughter of [[Zeus]] and [[Leto]] and the twin siste...
41: ...t she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
61: ...nvinced Orion to walk out into the water and then dared Artemis to try to hit the barely visible speck...
78: ...pease Artemis was to sacrifice [[Iphigenia]], his daughter. According to some versions, he did so, bu...
82: ... and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves ento... - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ... of [[Saint Valentine]], are discussed below. The day's associations with [[romantic love]] arrived af...
3: ...alentines_day_9.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Valentine's Day Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.co...
4: ...aking the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind [[Christmas]]. The associatio...
7: ==History of Valentine's Day==
10: ...ated to the sacred [[marriage]] of [[Zeus]] and [[Hera]]. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
2: '''Zeus''' (descendant of [[Cronus]]is the leader of the gods and [[go...
6: ...do-European religion]], also continued as [[Rig-Veda|Vedic]] '''[[Dyaus Pita]]r''' (cf. [[Jupiter (god...
33: .... With the [[Kouretes]], a band of ecstatic armed dancers, he presided over the rigorous military-athl...
42: ...ro or an underground Zeus. Thus the shrine at Lebadaea in [[Boeotia]] might belong to the hero [[Troph...
50: ...]], but the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] — whose name is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her s... - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: '''Troy''' is a legendary city, scene of the [[Trojan War]], part of whic...
3: ...[[Dardanelles]] under [[Mount Ida, Phrygia|Mount Ida]].
5: ... been referred to by some writers as ''Troia secunda'' ("the second Troy").
10: ...], the parents of [[Dardanus]]. Elektra raised Dardanus in her palace on the island of [[Samothrace]]....
14: ...] that ruled for 505 years until the time of [[Candaules]]. The [[Ionia]]ns, [[Cimmeria]]ns, [[Phrygia... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ... and [[Cythera]], respectively. The island of Cythera was a center of her cult. She was associated wit...
10: ...unterpart was [[`Ashtart|‘Ashtart]] (in standard Greek spelling ''Astarte''); her [[Etruscan myt...
16: ...sion of her origin, by which she was considered a daughter of [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]], who was the...
22: Alternatively, Aphrodite was a daughter of [[Thalassa]] (for she was born of the Se...
25: ...first time, was inflamed with desire to have her—which is Aphrodite's realm. Her domain may inv... - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
3: ...ation]], a [[law]]giver, and lover of [[peace]] — as well as the patron deity of both [[agricult...
16: ...d, perhaps named 'Nysa' to explain the god's unreadable name, as the 'god of Nysa.' [[Apollodorus]] s...
26: ...d in [[Calabria]] ([[1640]]), now at [[Vienna]] — by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throu...
29: ...ne|Libera]]. His festival was the [[Liberia (holiday)|Liberia]], celebrated on [[March 17]].
36: ...ersary of Qingdao Beer. Qingdao Beer Museum, Qingdao city, Shandong province, China.]] - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ... ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a ''hermeneus.'' Hermes giv...
6: As the related word Herma ?a boundary stone, crossing point? would suggest, Hermes is...
13: ...nglish ''Wednesday'' from ''Wodnes d槧' 'Woden's day'.
21: As a crosser of boundaries, ''Hermēs Psychopompos''' ("conductor of...
26: .... The ''hermai'' were used to mark roads and boundaries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], they were pla... - Storks (8536 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordate|Chordata]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = '''Ciconiidae'''}}
24: ...masse if there is a swarm of insects or other abundant prey to feed upon.
35: ** Ardeidae [[heron]]s and [[bittern]]s
36: ** Cochlearidae: [[Boatbill]] - Virgo (3620 bytes)
38: ...)|Callisto]], either as Callisto herself, or as [[Hera]]. [[Persephone]] (who in some mythologies, notab...
40: ...the constellation depicts [[Astraea]], the virgin daughter of the god [[Zeus]] and the goddess [[Themi... - Scorpius (3888 bytes)
6: ... Sco), [[Sargas]] (θ Sco), [[Shaula]] (λ Sco), [[Jabbah]] (ν Sco), [[Grafias]] (ξ S...
14: ...aia (mythology)|Gaia]] (or possibly the goddess [[Hera]]) to kill the hunter [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]]...
18: ...d the constellation [[Eridanus (constellation)|Eridanus]]). Finally, [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] struck ...
20: ..., a powerful but benevolent creature whose rising heralded spring. - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
17: ...ranatus'', meaning 'granular'. The city of [[Granada]] in [[Spain]] became an early centre of cultivat...
43: ...an [[Triple Goddess]] who evolved into Olympian [[Hera]], who is represented offering the pomegranate. S...
47: A pomegranate appears in the shield of Granada.
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