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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...der: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]...
2: ... [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky [[Tuscan order]] and the ri...
4: ... Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...ek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality...
8: ... of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollo... - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
5: <br/><small><font color="white">'''Brightness map of Pluto'''</font></small>
65: | [[1 E13 m2|1.795×10<sup>7</sup>]] [[square kilometre|km<sup>2</sup...
68: | 7.15×10<sup>9</sup> [[cubic kilometre|km<sup>3</sup>]]...
71: | [[1 E22 kg|1.25]][[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>22</sup> [[kilogram|kg]]<br>(0.0021 Eart...
79: !align="left"| [[Escape velocity]] - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...[Roman mythology]], she was known as [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]. In [[Etruscan mythology]], she took t...
7: ...ventually supplanted [[Selene]] as the [[moon goddess]] to complement her twin's identification with a...
9: Her priestesses were addressed with the title [[Melissa]].
11: ...ll him with a bough, picked from a tree in the forest.
13: ...clude [[Brauronia]], held in [[Brauron]] and the festival of [[Artemis Orthia]] in [[Sparta]]. - St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
1: ...romantic love]] arrived after the High [[Middle Ages]], during which the concept of romantic love was ...
3: [[Image:Valentines_day_9.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Valentine's Day Clipa...
4: ... purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
9: ===February fertility festivals===
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...
6: ...din]] as the supreme god among the [[Germanic tribes]] and they did not identify Zeus/Jupiter with eit...
8: ...erives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such as the [[scept...
12: ===Role and Titles===
13: ...upreme [[culture|cultural]] artifact; in some senses, he was the embodiment of Greek [[religion|religi... - Troy (22846 bytes)
1: ...y, scene of the [[Trojan War]], part of which is described in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', an epic poem ...
3: ...northwest [[Turkey]], southwest of the [[Dardanelles]] under [[Mount Ida, Phrygia|Mount Ida]].
5: ...radually during [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] times. The Roman city of Celeia (now [[Celje]] in [[Slo...
7: ...tite language|Hittite]] texts; ''Ilion'' (which goes back to earlier ''Wilion'' with a [[digamma]]) is...
10: ...]. [[Pestilence]] comes and the sea monster snatches away the people of the plain. - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
1: ...sea-foam") is the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] [[goddess]] of [[love]] and [[beauty]].
4: ...a center of her cult. She was associated with [[Hesperia]] and frequently accompanied by the [[Oread]...
6: ...nth]]. In Corinth, intercourse with her priestesses was considered a method of worshipping Aphrodite.
8: ...ate]]s and [[Lime (Citrus aurantifolia)|lime]] trees.
10: ... mythology|Etruscan]] equivalent was [[Turan (goddess)|Turan]]. - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
3: ... wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. He is viewed as the promoter of [[civilization]]...
9: ...g new life. His own rites the [[Dionysian Mysteries]] were the most secretive of all (See also [[Maen...
13: [[Herodotus]], (in ''Histories'' 2:146) was aware that the worship of Dionysus a...
14: ...ned the names of these two gods later than the names of all the others, and trace the birth of both to...
16: ...anguage ("Nesili") was "Nesi," however. The Hittites' influence on early Greek culture is often unappr... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
1: ...age:Hermes_12.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Statute of Hermes. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com C...
3: ...ries with strangers is a ''hermeneus.'' Hermes gives us our word "[[hermeneutics]]" for the art of int...
6: ...transitions in one?s fortunes, with the interchanges of goods, words and information involved in trade...
9: ...as born in a cave on Mt. [[Cyllene]] in [[Peloponnesus]], between [[Achaia]] and [[Arcadia]]. His ori...
11: ...er to a syncretic god combining elements from Hermes and the [[Egypt]]ian god [[Thoth]]. - Storks (8536 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[bird|Aves]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Ciconiiformes]]}}
18: ...ode of stork communication at the nest. Many species are [[bird migration|migratory]]. Storks eat [[fr...
20: ...(10.5 ft) wingspan shares the distinction of "longest wingspan of any landbird" with the [[Andean Cond...
22: ...otography|photographs]] of storks inspired the [[design]] and [[engineering]] of [[aviation]] [[pionee... - Virgo (3620 bytes)
17: *[[Bo�tes]]
18: *[[Coma Berenices]]
27: notes=}}
28: ...d the [[Libra]] to the east, it is one of the largest constellations in the sky. It can be easily foun...
30: ==Notable features== - Scorpius (3888 bytes)
2: ...''Scorpio'''". It lies between [[Libra]] to the west and [[Sagittarius]] to the east. It is a large c...
4: ==Notable features==
6: ...t]] (σ Sco), [[Alniyat]] (τ Sco) and [[Lesath]] (υ Sco)(υ Sco).
14: ...suggested that this was a divine precaution to forestall the heavenly continuation of the feud.
18: ... became scared when they encountered the great celestial scorpion with its sting raised to strike, and... - Pomegranate (4637 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Myrtales]]}}
12: ...vision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Species}}
17: ...gious reasons. Its species name ''granatum'' derives from the [[Latin]] adjective ''granatus'', meanin...
20: The [[leaf|leaves]] are opposite or sub-opposite, glossy, narrow ob...
26: ...rs in having pink (not red) flowers and smaller, less sweet fruit.
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