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- Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...r]] with [[dust]] and various [[mineral]] aggregates mixed in.
5: ...ost all their [[volatile]] materials may come to resemble asteroids.
9: ... the comet (called the ''nucleus'') is generally less than 50km across, the coma may be larger than th...
11: ...ayeux Tapestry]], which records the [[Norman conquest]] of [[England]] in [[1066]].{{hnote|Reading Mus...
15: ...metary surfaces allows them to absorb the heat necessary to drive their outgassing. - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...utions are needed to participate in water activities.
5: ... [[density]] as water. Thus, staying afloat requires only a slight propelling of water downward relati...
7: ...converts directly into distance, the same techniques that improve speed also aid one to move farther w...
11: ...asing speed. This is an effect long used by boat designers, and unconsciously used by "naturally good ...
13: ... improvements are possible by orienting the narrowest direction of head, hands, legs and arms into the... - History of Sumer (5370 bytes)
1: {{Ancient Mesopotamia}}
3: ...have been authenticated through archaeology. The best-known dynasty, that of Lagash, is not listed the...
5: ==Earliest city-states==
6: ...cessor, Agga, is said to have fought with [[Gilgamesh]] of [[Uruk]].
8: ...g-engur]], high priest of Lagash, and the high priest of a neighbouring town, [[Umma]]. - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...tive and often controversial or dubious, but it does not interfere with the above definition.
5: ...ssey]]'' and the [[Constitution of the United States]], all fall within this definition of a kind of l...
7: ...ationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature.
9: ...posed of letters, or other narrowly defined examples of symbolic written language ([[hieroglyph]]s, fo...
11: ... all literate people perceive the works of [[Charles Dickens]] as "literature", whereas many tend to l... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
2: ...ipt may precede any other form of writing, and dates to no later than about [[3500 BCE]]
5: ...dian]] which belongs to the [[Afro-Asiatic languages]].
10: ...ho was intimately tied to the city's religious rites.
12: ...ights, trade routes, and tribute from nomadic tribes. - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
3: ...uhisarı and Rumelihisarı. The depth varies from 36 to 124 meters in midstream.
6: ...stanbul]] (population at least 11 million) straddles it.
16: ...ford (river)|ford]]" or "ox passage"; the name comes from a [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] about [[Io ...
18: ... today as [[Gallipoli]], and the Cimmerian Chersonesus, known today as the [[Crimea]].
20: ...gh: several international treaties have governed vessels using the waters. including the [[Montreux Co... - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...''Tell Hariri''', on the western bank of [[Euphrates]] river. It is thought to have been inhabited si...
6: ...he beginning of excavations, over 25,000 clay tables in [[Akkadian language]] written in [[cuneiform]]...
8: ...ries were made that horizontal digging had to be resumed".
11: [[Image:Ishiqmari.jpg|thumb|A small statue representing a third millennium BCE ruler of Mari]]
16: ...ch as timber and stone from northern Syria, and these materials had to go through Mari to get to Sumer... - Uruk (2699 bytes)
1: {{For|uses in the fiction of Tolkien|Uruk-hai}}
2: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
3: ...t Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE from [[Baghdad]].
6: ...ily might dedicate children to the temple as oblates.
8: ...ns of these conflicts are embodied in the [[Gilgamesh]] epic, in the literary and courtly form in whic...
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