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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...505;ְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Tiberian Hebrew]] '''&#...
5: ...age|Persian]] word ''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
9: ...ated, as the [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] name ''Ishtar'' may share a common origin with [[Indo-European ...
12: Esther was the daughter of Abihail, a [[Benjamin|Benjamite]]. She r...
14: ...rful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after t... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...the "[[Evening Star]]", and when it is visible in dark skies it is by far the brightest [[star]]-like ...
5: ...vilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must have been know...
14: ... the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
18: ...ture, listed in the table, refers to cloud tops — the surface temperature is never below 400°...
21: [[Image:Venus globe.jpg|thumb|left|[[Radar]] image of the surface of Venus, centered at 180... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...0 [[Mile|mi]]/110 [[Kilometre|km]] south of [[Baghdad]]). The name is the Greek form of ''[[Babel]],''...
8: The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of [[Sargon of Akkad]] ([[...
10: ...aken over by [[Sennacherib]] and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
14: ...mage:Babylon relief.jpg|right|thumb|Detail of the Ishtar Gate]]
25: ...e palace quarter of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. The Ishtar gate is shown in the top left corner of the image... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...script may precede any other form of writing, and dates to no later than about [[3500 BCE]]
24: ...[millet]], [[wheat]], [[turnip]]s, [[Date (fruit)|date]]s, [[onion]]s, [[garlic]], [[lettuce]], [[leek...
44: ... Food is all about, yet my food is hunger. On the day shares were allotted, my allotted share was suff...
51: ...that were scarce in Mesopotamia. In particular, cedar from Lebanon was prized.
55: ...erian [[pottery|potters]] decorated pots with [[cedar oil]] [[paint]]s. The potters used a [[bow drill... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...r, lasting for fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]...
4: ...lic meaning but also for its position in the calendar; the [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his [[d...
8: ==Date of Easter==
11: ...right: 1.5em;"align=center|'''Dates for Easter Sunday, 2000-2020'''
57: ...[[Easter Monday]], is recognized as a [[legal holiday]] in most countries with a generally Christian t... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: The epithet ''Aphrodite Acidalia'' was occasionally added to her name, after th...
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...
18: ...e goddess of desire had long been worshipped as [[Ishtar]] and [[Ashtaroth]]. It is said that she first t...
22: Alternatively, Aphrodite was a daughter of [[Thalassa]] (for she was born of the Se... - Chaldean mythology (2527 bytes)
2: '''Chaldean mythology''', also called '''Chaldaic mythology''', is the collective name given to '...
6: ... Greece|Greek]] parallels as well; for example, [[Ishtar|Inanna]]'s descent into the underworld strikingly...
11: ...as [[Nanna]]. Sin and [[Ningal]] gave birth to [[Ishtar|Inanna]] (goddess of love and war) and to [[Utu]]... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
3: ...rgon made a pact with the Chaldean [[Merodach-baladan|Marduk-apla-iddin]]. He freed all temples, as we...
6: ... which gained him control of Arpad, Simirra and [[Damascus]]. Sargon conquered [[Gaza]] in [[Palestine...
8: ...re to follow: Kar-[[Nabu]], Kar-[[Sin]] and Kar-[[Ishtar]], all named after Babylonian gods and resettled ...
10: ...been completely annihilated, and the General Qaqqadanu taken prisoner.
12: ...ntelligence service, that unfortunately cannot be dated exactly, but are believed to have been compose... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
6: ...is. Discoveries came quickly, with the temple of Ishtar being discovered in the next month. Mari was cla...
24: ...ought about a complete revision of the historical dating of the ancient Near East and provided more th...
30: The Goddess [[Ishtar]] was worshiped in Mari. The citizens of Mari we...
34: ...he cargo brought through the city grew to include dates, olives, pottery, porcelain, grains, timber, a...
38: ... had an entire temple dedicated to him. As did [[Ishtar]], the goddess of fertility, and [[Shamash]], the... - Wonders of the Ancient World (11560 bytes)
8: ...he scholar [[Callimachus]] of [[Cyrene]] (ca 305–240 BC) at the Museum of [[Alexandria, Egypt|Al...
18: The earliest lists had the [[Ishtar Gate]] as the seventh wonder of the world instead...
20: ...many of the sites were no longer in existence. Today, the only ancient world wonder that still exists...
39: ...odern times or of the greatest wonders existing today. Some of the most notable lists are presented b...
47: ...te Started'''<!--Beginning of Construction-->||'''Date Finished'''<!--Official opening-->||'''Location - Virgo (3620 bytes)
38: ...h nearly every prominent [[goddess]], including [[Ishtar]], [[Isis]], [[Cybele]], and [[Athena]]. Virgo ma...
40: ...the constellation depicts [[Astraea]], the virgin daughter of the god [[Zeus]] and the goddess [[Themi... - Uruk (2699 bytes)
3: ...region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE from [[Baghdad]].
6: ...Eanna]], dedicated to the worship of Inanna, or [[Ishtar]]. Its voluminous surviving temple archive, of th...
14: ...eleucid]] period, which have been published by [[Adam Falkenstein]] and other German epigraphists. - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
8: ...s to [[Sin]], [[Nergal]], [[Nanna]], [[Shamash]], Ishtar, and [[Nabu]] of [[Borsippa]].
30: In the days of the Greek historian [[Herodotus]], [[400 BC]...
38: Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mound...
47: ...ich are the oldest extant documents in the world, dating as far back as probably about the time of [[S...
51: ...work, [[tin]], [[silver]], Phoenician purple; [[cedar]] wood from Lebanon, unassailable by worms; furs...
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