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- Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
1: ... sea-foam") is the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] [[goddess]] of [[love]] and [[beauty]].
4: ...epithet ''Aphrodite Acidalia'' was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe ...
6: ...orinth, intercourse with her priestesses was considered a method of worshipping Aphrodite.
8: Aphrodite was associated with, and often depicted with [[dolphin]]s, [[dove]]s, [[swan]]s, [[...
10: ...n mythology|Etruscan]] equivalent was [[Turan (goddess)|Turan]].
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- Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Isis (20790 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
3: '''Isis''' is a goddess in the [[Egyptian mythology|Egyptian belief]]. ...
5: .... [[mortal]], and she may simply have represented deified, real, [[Queen regnant|queen]]s.
7: ...f many other goddesses. It eventually spread outside [[Egypt]] throughout the [[Middle East]] and [[Eu...
12: ...uption by English speakers. The Ancient Greeks tended to add a terminal 's' at the end of foreign name... - Hathor (11883 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
4: ...athor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least [[2700 BC]], during the 2nd dyna...
6: ...the fate of the newborn, and [[midwife|midwives]] delivering them.
8: ...aid she arose from from Ra's tears, and thus was identified as the ''[[Eye of Ra]]''.
10: ...n [[hippopotamus]], which the Egyptians also considered quite motherly creatures, and sometimes as an ... - Alcamenes (1026 bytes)
3: ... a [[Hephaestus]] and an [[Aphrodite]] "of the Gardens" were conspicuous.
5: ...Mittheilungen'', 1904, p. 180). As, however, the deity is represented in an archaistic and convention...
7: ...ich he must almost certainly have taken a share under the direction of Pheidias. - April (9790 bytes)
7: The name is derived from the [[Latin]] ''aprilis'', either from ...
15: Poets identify April with the end of winter, but they don't...
24: ::Modernized for ''The Norton Anthology of English Liter...
28: :Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
29: :Memory and desire, stirring - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]]. A [[terrestrial...
5: ...r: a circle with a small cross underneath ([[Unicode]]: ♀).
7: ...m [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives include ''Venerean'' and ''Veneran''.
14: ...ficantly between the night and day sides of Venus despite its extremely slow rotation (less than one r...
16: ...quite similar to Earth. A common conceptual misunderstanding regarding Venus is the mistaken belief t... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
1: [[Image:Zeus_god.jpg|thumb|250px|Zeus, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...leader of the gods and [[god]] of the sky and thunder in [[Greek mythology]].
6: ...d among the [[Germanic tribes]] and they did not identify Zeus/Jupiter with either Tyr or Odin, but wi...
8: ...ndo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the culture...
13: ...]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity. - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: ...9th century BC|9th]] century BC, but containing older material (''Iliad'' means "about Ilion").
2: ...0px|"Trojan Horse" at the site of Troy|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ...st [[Turkey]], southwest of the [[Dardanelles]] under [[Mount Ida, Phrygia|Mount Ida]].
5: ...til the establishment of [[Constantinople]], and declined gradually during [[Byzantine Empire|Byzanti...
7: ...tity is disputed, the site has been successfully identified with the city called '''''Wilusa''''' in [... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
1: ... sea-foam") is the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] [[goddess]] of [[love]] and [[beauty]].
4: ...epithet ''Aphrodite Acidalia'' was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe ...
6: ...orinth, intercourse with her priestesses was considered a method of worshipping Aphrodite.
8: Aphrodite was associated with, and often depicted with [[dolphin]]s, [[dove]]s, [[swan]]s, [[...
10: ...n mythology|Etruscan]] equivalent was [[Turan (goddess)|Turan]]. - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
3: ... lover of [[peace]] — as well as the patron deity of both [[agriculture]] and the [[theater]].
5: ...he [[Greek mythology|Olympian tradition]] he is made to be the son of [[Zeus]] and [[Semele]]; other v...
9: ...us rites]], such as those practiced in honor of [[Demeter]] and [[Persephone]] at [[Eleusinian Mysteri...
11: ...nysus is a [[syncretism]] of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from [[Thrace]] or [[P...
15: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|Statute of Dionysos. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - Eros (mythology) (4590 bytes)
1: ...ythology|Roman]] equivalent was '''[[Cupid]]''', "desire", also known as '''Amor''', "love". He was of...
5: ...mythology)|Gaia]], Earth, and [[Tartarus]], the underworld; according to [[Aristophanes]]' play ''[[Th...
9: ...ous, mischievous and charismatic. In his ancient identification with Protogones and Phanes he was ador...
13: ...uncommon in early Greece, but eventually became widespread. He was fervently worshipped by a fertility...
19: ...rn from the underworld made her an object of some devotion, like Dionysus and [[Persephone]]. She was... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|left|300px|Statute of Hermes. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ..."[[hermeneutics]]" for the art of interpreting hidden meaning.
6: ...es of goods, words and information involved in trade, interpreting, oratory, writing, with the way in ...
11: ...wallet of the goods of life, later absorbed the [[Dei Lucrii]], early gods of commerce and wealth, and...
13: ...s to English ''Wednesday'' from ''Wodnes d槧' 'Woden's day'. - Copper (13595 bytes)
1: ... of data; skip past it to edit the text. -->{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
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25: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
42: | [[van der Waals radius]]
51: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ... [[1876]]. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief center of...
7: ...s was shown to be untrue. The Aegean civilization developed three distinctive features.
11: ...ipt, but an earlier script [[Linear A]] remains undeciphered.
21: ...ater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ype see [[Crete]]. In spite of many comparisons made with [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]]... - Geese and Ducks (6827 bytes)
18: ...to the family [[Anatidae]]. This family also includes the [[swan]]s, which are mostly larger than gees...
22: This article deals with the true geese in the subfamily ''[[Anser...
24: ...owever, escapes and introductions have led to resident feral populations of several species.
26: ... centuries. In the West, farmyard geese are descended from the [[Greylag Goose|greylag]], but in Asia ...
47: * [[Bar-headed Goose]] ''A. indicus'' - Rock formations (10410 bytes)
7: ...ken off other rocks by wind or water erosion, and deposited by wind, ice, or water. [[Erosion]] later ...
13: Geologists have created a number of terms to describe different rock structures in the [[landscap...
39: *Wave Rock, Hyden, [[Western Australia]]
40: *Murphy's Hay Stacks, Nullarbor Desert, [[Western Australia]]
43: *Pinnacles Desert, Nambung National Park, Western [[Australia]] - Pisces (2984 bytes)
6: ... brightest star, η Piscium, is only of magnitude 3,6. α Piscium is called Alrisha, "the knot...
10: ==Notable deep-sky objects==
16: ...y the constellation [[Piscis Austrinus]] was considered to be a fish.
18: ...he monstrous [[Typhon]]. The two fishes are often depicted tied together with a cord, to make sure the...
20: ..., and thus considered to represent being in the underworld, and that one of the figures (the one on th...
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