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- Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
5: ...le]]s, and by kicking the legs to push water away from the body.
13: ...n side-to-side on most swimmers. This reduces the frontal cross-section, reducing drag further, and al...
15: ...he cube of the speed) of an equal amount of torso frontal area.
26: ...ed in [[1873]] by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from [[Native American]]s.
33: ...ice, almost all freestyle events are swum using [[front crawl]]. Events are held at distances of 50&nb... - History of Sumer (5370 bytes)
6: ...is successor, Agga, is said to have fought with [[Gilgamesh]] of [[Uruk]].
8: Some of the earliest monuments from [[Lagash]] mention a certain [[Mesilim]], king ...
10: Another name from the King List, [[Mesannepada]] of [[Ur]] seems ...
14: ... [[Dilmun]] (Bahrain) brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands.
29: ...ed by Entemena to his god is now in the Louvre. A frieze of lions devouring ibexes and deer, incised w... - Literature (25676 bytes)
1: ...sense given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individua...
11: ...ime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
13: Frequently, the texts that make up literature crosse...
15: ... nature of [[romance (genre)|romance]] flourished from the [[Middle ages]] onwards, whereas the [[Age ...
23: ...meria|Sumerian]] ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' (dated from around [[4th millennium BC|3000 B.C.]]), parts ... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
2: ...ir'') formed the southern part of [[Mesopotamia]] from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until t...
5: ...adian language|Akkadian]] which belongs to the [[Afro-Asiatic languages]].
12: ...fare over water rights, trade routes, and tribute from nomadic tribes.
14: ...amesh]] epics. This has led some to suggest that Gilgamesh really was a historical king of Uruk.
18: ...g it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is t... - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
3: ...sarı and Rumelihisarı. The depth varies from 36 to 124 meters in midstream.
5: ...Fatih Sultan Mehmed Bridge over the Bosporus seen from over Rumelihisarı]]
12: [[Image:bosporus_sat.jpg|thumb|300px|Bosporus from space, May 1996]]
16: ...d (river)|ford]]" or "ox passage"; the name comes from a [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] about [[Io (my...
22: ...ck Sea, which at the time was a low-lying body of fresh water. - Mari, Syria (5848 bytes)
2: ...is thought to have passed through Mari on his way from [[Ur]] to [[Harran]].
6: ...started on [[December 14, 1933]] by archaelogists from the Louvre in Paris. Discoveries came quickly,...
8: ...escends, it hasn't proved possible. According to French archaelogist Andre Parrot, "each time a verti...
16: ...uired building materials such as timber and stone from northern Syria, and these materials had to go t...
24: ...state archives were also built during this time. From the archives over 25,000 cuneiform tablets have... - Uruk (2699 bytes)
3: ...anal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles SSE from [[Baghdad]].
4: The modern name of Iraq is derived from the name Uruk.
6: ... walls were said to have been built by order of [[Gilgamesh]] who also constructed, it was said, the famous t...
8: ...lections of these conflicts are embodied in the [[Gilgamesh]] epic, in the literary and courtly form in which...
10: ... preserved in the Sumerian king-list confirms it. From Uruk the center of political gravity seems to h...
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