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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...l name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...ly '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra w...
9: ...lowing the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 ...
10: ...ge:The-cleopatra2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ... seeking sanctuary, Ptolemy had him murdered in order to ingratiate himself with Caesar. Caesar was so... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...ecorative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
4: ...d [[epigraphy]]. Epigraphy is a branch of the broader study of ancient handwriting in more general ter...
8: ...dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout [[China]] to this day. Alt...
10: ...34269;, all meaning "the way of writing") is considered an important art in [[East Asia]] and the most...
12: ...he Prime Minister [[Li Si]] drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for t... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
9: '''Modern Greek'''
13: ...story of some 3,000 years. It is symbolically divided in four historical periods:
17: ...n the armies and conquered territories of [[Alexander the Great]], but after the [[Hellenistic]] colon...
21: ...poken by approximately 15 million speakers worldwide, most of whom live in [[Greece]].
32: ... since the [[2nd millennium BC]]. The earliest evidence of this is found in the [[Linear B]] tablets d... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ... manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cr...
7: ...modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole sky.
11: ...ar circle). He put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Isla...
13: ...|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
14: ...f latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he kne... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...mes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
12: ... River|Amazon]] still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reaso...
24: ...lthough the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the other [[Great Lakes (Africa)|G...
26: ...Abyad, or the [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [...
32: ...[[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]] - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
3: ...d [[uranium]]. Additional economic interests include minerals such as [[asbestos]], [[perlite]], [[mic...
7: ...ween earthly and [[Theology|theological]] jurisprudence.
10: ...f the [[mountain]]s and by [[Deposition (geology)|deposition]] of [[silt]].
12: ...ks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authoritative for mi... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
2: ...asty of Egypt|First dynasty]]), but it was also widely used throughout the [[History of the Mediterran...
5: ...eta;λος ''bublos'' (said to derive from the name of the [[Phoenicia|Phoencian]] ...
7: ...lit., "that which is of [[Pharaoh]]"), apparently denoting that the Egyptian crown owned a monopoly on...
10: ...g, the sheet of papyrus is polished with some rounded object, possibly a stone.
11: ...eft|350px|A section of the Egyptian [[Book of the Dead]] written on papyrus]] - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ... the seat of government moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking...
4: ...of Zeus" ([[Zeus]] being the god whom the Greeks identified with [[Amun]]).
6: ...he name ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece w...
20: *[[Deir al-Madinah]] (workers' village) - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''. - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
93: [[Addressing mode]] --
119: [[Atlas Autocode]] --
143: [[Blue screen of death]] --
166: [[Code and fix]] --
167: [[Code Red worm]] -- - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...s law]]. Some electrical effects are discussed under [[electrical phenomenon]] and [[electromagnetism...
8: ...ian]] walls, such as the [[Dendera light]]. Other devices discovered in Egyptian and other archaeologi...
10: ...tist)|William Watson]], experimenting with the Leyden jar, discovered in [[1747]] that a discharge of ...
11: ...:Electricity clipart.jpg|thumb|250px|Clipart provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
12: ... frequently) or [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who created the conventi... - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
1: ...e [[aperture]] has to be a small pinhole on the order of .020 inches or less. The [[shutter]] of a pi...
4: ...cura]]), or can expose film or a [[charge coupled device]] (CCD). Pinhole cameras with CCDs are somet...
8: ...f the hole for light coming in at other than a 90 degree angle.
10: ...hole is perfectly round (to minimise any higher-order diffraction effects off irregularites), and in a...
12: ...e & rotating the pin as it glides in and out in order to produce a smooth circular hole. - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...re]] on [[May 11]], AD [[330]]. It was first founded as a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] colony with the na...
5: ... Asia beyond Constantinople, allowing the east to develop relatively unmolested, while Rome and the we...
7: ...e-captured by [[Nicaean Empire|Nicaean]] forces under the command of [[Michael VIII Palaeologus]] in [...
9: ...he city. When the Republic of [[Turkey]] was founded in [[1923]], the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]...
15: * [[Golden Horn]] - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
1: {{Elementbox_header | number=17 | symbol=Cl | name=chlorine | left=[...
18: ...mn;'''1''', 3, 5, 7 <br />(strongly [[acid]]ic oxide) }}
24: {{Elementbox_vanderwaalsrad_pm | [[1 E-10 m|175]] }}
33: ...r|y]] | dm=[[beta emission|β<sup>-</sup>]] | de=0.709 | pn=36 | ps=[[argon|Ar]] }}
34: ... [[year|y]] | dm=[[electron capture|ε]] | de=? | pn=36 | ps=[[sulfur|S]] }} - Helium (36603 bytes)
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4: {| align="center" border="0"
26: | [[Density]]
35: | 0.95 [[Kelvin|K]] (-272.2 °[[Celsius|C]])
38: | 4.22 [[Kelvin|K]] (-268.93 °[[Celsius|C]]) - Selenium (9236 bytes)
2: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
5: {| align="center" border="0"
26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
43: | [[van der Waals radius]]
52: | [[Oxidation state]]s ([[Oxide]]) - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
1: ...of the Aegean Sea from Rhodes, Greece. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...n Pelagos''; [[Turkish language|Turkish]]: '''Ege Denizi''') is an arm of the [[Mediterranean Sea]], l...
7: ...e Aegean was the site of the original [[democracy|democracies]], and it allowed for contact between se...
9: ...valleys and plains. There are two islands of considerable size belonging to [[Turkey]] on the Aegean S... - Molar (tooth) (1877 bytes)
1: ...1009_19.jpg|right|thumb||300px| Teeth, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...m one species to another, so there are many terms describing them:
4: ...wers look like two peaks and a third off to the side.
6: ... The cusps, instead of being sharp peaks, are rounded hills.
7: *'''Hypsodont''': There is a lot of enamel and dentine above the gumline and the top of the pulp. T... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...chus. However, his synthesis of astronomy superseded Hipparchus's work: although Hipparchus wrote at ...
8: ...eographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural History|Naturalis histor...
10: ...cient history|ancient]] district [[Bithynia]], (modern-day [[İznik, Turkey|İznik]] in provin...
14: ...was calculated by [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre|Delambre]], based on clues in his work. Hipparchus ...
16: ...ts. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia that bear his name and ...
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