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  1. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
    4: ...opatra" is [[Greek language|Greek]] for "father's glory"; her full name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" m...
  2. Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
    1: ...1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand written in Belgium, by Ger...
    2: ...m [[Greek language|Greek]] καλλος ''kallos'' "beauty" + γ&r...
    14: ...a, katakana is more angular and relies on sharp angles. Written Japanese uses both scripts along with ...
    24: ! bgcolor="#EEEAE1" | English name
  3. Greek language (35285 bytes)
    3: ...n Italy]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yugloslav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [...
    17: ...the [[Roman]] conquest of Greece, an unofficial diglossy of Greek and Latin was established in the cit...
    38: ...ek origin]]'', and ''[[List of Greek words with English derivatives]]''.
    162: ! [[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
    188: | align="center"| [[Voiceless glottal fricative|h]]
  4. Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
    3: ...;; [[c.]] [[85]] – c. [[165]]), known in English as '''Ptolemy''', was a [[Hellenistic civiliza...
    5: ...]''' (in Greek ''Η μεγάλη Σύνταξι&sig...
    11: ...phic features he knew, in a grid that spanned the globe. Latitude was measured from the equator, as i...
    14: ...ll aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe.
    18: ...coordinates by converting measured distances to angles, his maps get distorted. So his values for the...
  5. Nile (13738 bytes)
    8: ...mes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
    12: ...ighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the [[Atbara ...
    85: *[http://www.photoglobe.info/spc_nile_delta.html Nile Delta from Space...
  6. Geology (12007 bytes)
    1: ...Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
    24: ...ist)|William Smith]]'s stratigraphic studies on England and Scotland.
    26: ... is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged ther...
    28: ...] and [[continental drift]] illustrated on relief globe of the [[Field Museum]] ]]
    40: ...ults are younger than the rocks they cut; accordingly, if a fault is found that penetrates some format...
  7. Papyrus (5819 bytes)
    5: ...g surface. This latter usage finds its way into English in such words as ''bibliography'', ''bibliophi...
    10: ...e hammered together, mashing the layers into a single sheet. The sheet is then dried under pressure. A...
  8. Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
    4: ...ndered Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z...
    27: ... noms g鯧raphiques contenus dans les textes hi鲯glyphiques''. Vol. 3 of 7 vols. Cairo: Imprimerie de...
  9. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    4: ...lytonic|Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρο&sigma...
    23: ... capital of [[Gordium]], Alexander "undid" the tangled [[Gordian knot]], a feat said to await the futu...
    45: ... into Macedonian units. Alexander executed the ringleaders of the mutiny, but forgave the rank and fil...
    89: ...icle titled "A Mysterious Death" in the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'', volume 338:1764-1769,...
    95: ... (which acts as a preservative) and interred in a glass [[coffin]]. According to Aelian (''Varia Histo...
  10. Aristotle (37648 bytes)
    3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
    12: ...edge gained from the senses and would correspondingly be better classed among modern empiricists (see ...
    21: ...been lost, some since Classical times. There is a glimpse of what we have lost in the praise given by ...
    133: ...r goodness, good deeds will result from that struggle, making the person virtuous and therefore happy.
    228: ...ibrary]]'' (hardbound; publishes in Greek, with English translations on facing pages)
  11. List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
    43: [[3GL]] --
    52: [[4GL]] --
    60: [[5th Glove]] --
    375: [[Lambda calculus]] --
    636: [[UnLamda programming language|UnLambda]] --
  12. Electricity (13894 bytes)
    10: ...k word for "amber", which soon gave rise to the English words ''electric'' and ''electricity''. He wa...
  13. Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
    8: ...e for light coming in at other than a 90 degree angle.
    12: ...the burrs on either side & rotating the pin as it glides in and out in order to produce a smooth circu...
    17: <math>d=1.9\sqrt{f.\lambda}</math>
    19: ...stance from hole to photographic film) and <math>\lambda</math> is the wavelength of light.
    33: ...ilm closer to the pinhole will result in a wide angle field of view and a shorter exposure time.
  14. Constantinople (4125 bytes)
    1: ...a;&nu;&tau;&iota;&nu;&omicron;&#973;&pi;&omicron;&lambda;&eta;) is the former name of the city of [[Istanb...
  15. Chlorine (10751 bytes)
    18: ..._oxistates | &plusmn;'''1''', 3, 5, 7 <br />(strongly [[acid]]ic oxide) }}
    39: ...ely disagreeable suffocating odor, and is exceedingly [[poison]]ous. It is a powerful [[oxidation|oxid...
    58: Chlorine ([[Greek language|Gr.]] &chi;&lambda;&omega;&rho;&omicron;&sigmaf;, greenish yellow) w...
  16. Helium (36603 bytes)
    114: ...osphorus]] when it is subjected to an [[electric glow discharge]], through electron bombardment or is...
    120: ...xpands. The rate of expansion decreases below the lambda point until about 1 K is reached; at which point ...
    125: Liquid helium below its lambda point begins to exhibit very unusual characteris...
    128: ...elium II. In this model, liquid helium below the lambda point is viewed as containing a proportion of hel...
    130: ... II, the helium II moves along the surface, seemingly against the force of [[gravity]]. Helium II wil...
  17. Selenium (9236 bytes)
    189: ...mpart. It also can be used to give a red color to glasses and enamels. Selenium is used to improve the...
    194: ...lenium ([[Greek language|Greek]] &sigma;&epsilon;&lambda;&#942;&nu;&eta; ''selene'' meaning "Moon") was di...
    208: ...lays a role in the functioning of the [[thyroid]] gland. Dietary selenium comes from cereals, meat, f...
  18. Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
    3: ...iota;&gamma;&alpha;&#943;&omicron;&nu; &Pi;&#941;&lambda;&alpha;&gamma;&omicron;&sigmaf;''', ''Aigaion Pel...
  19. Molar (tooth) (1877 bytes)
    5: ...other species. Four cusps are arranged in a rectangle; there may be a fifth.
    8: ... ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
    9: ...mbdodont''': Like zalambdodont, but there are two lambdas on one tooth.
  20. Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
    4: ...tric]] table, which allowed him to solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his nume...
    16: ...Bithynia that bear his name and show him with a [[globe]]; this confirms the tradition that he was bor...
    20: ...lobe accurately depicting the constellations: the globe carried by the [[Farnese Atlas]] [Schaefer 200...
    32: ...er by "the Chaldeans", and by himself. However Kugler found that the periods that Ptolemy attributes ...
    63: ... [[trigonometric function|sine]] of half of the angle, ''i.e.'':

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