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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...40;τρα θεά φιλοπάτωρ, [[D...
6: ...ll these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
21: ...this, when she ordered the second course — only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of... - Heart (10132 bytes)
3: ...ge|Greek]] ''kardia'' (καρδια) for "heart".
17: ...sure. As the right ventricle needs to pump blood only to the lungs, it requires less muscle.
28: ...[[Heart sound|beating sounds of the heart]], commonly referred to as the "lub-dub" sound. - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
46: ...]] word Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of...
57: ...used as a susceptor in microwave furnaces, a commonly used abrasive, and as a refractory material.
112: ...r]]s, etc. The specialized formulations most commonly used in electronics are detailed in the book "Ta...
127: ...aliber [[rifle]] fire. Such plates are known commonly as [[small-arms protective insert]]s (SAPI). Ver... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in many ot...
269: ...e" instead of the correct "give me", and it certainly is not an obligatory phonological rule of the Gr...
293: [[Iota|Ι ι]],
315: ...|ʝa}}/ (informal, literally "health"), you only say this to people that you know well. When you ...
329: *generic toast: εις υγείαν! /... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...Arabic manuscripts (hence its familiar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard...
7: ...tral to the modern system of constellations, but unlike the modern system they did not cover the whole...
9: ...]] in the Roman empire at his time. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of...
14: ...frica; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe.
16: ...scripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...ings from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing how a piece is to be ...
4:
8: ... mundana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only the last - musica instrumentalis - referred to m...
17: ...or Jarawa. Many other languages have terms which only partly cover what Europeans mean by the term "mu...
19: In Czech, ''hudba'' is instrumental music and only by implication vocal music. Some languages in We... - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: ...("Earth") and ''γραφειν'' ("to write," as in "to describe").
5: [[Geographer]]s not only investigate what is where on the Earth, but also...
104: ...erical methods peculiar to (or at least most commonly found in) geography. In addition to [[spatial a... - Pan pipes (2209 bytes)
2: ...] ([[Greek language|Greek]] συριγξ) has long been popular as a folk inst...
4: ...emporary makers of panpipes will use a wax - commonly [[beeswax]] - to tune their new instruments. - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπτος), whic...
30: ...e Nile originates from Ethiopia, but this runoff only happens in summer, when the great rains fall on ...
36: After the Blue and White Niles merge, the only remaining major tributary is the [[Atbara River]...
52: ... a number of others, Brown and Scaturro were the only ones to remain on the expedition for the entire ...
86: *[http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/river-nile-facts.html Facts About The Nile... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...|Greek]] ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a...
6: ...thern Land") go back to antiquity, the first commonly accepted sighting of the continent occurred in [...
40: ...nd]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the only Antarctic claim area that is not a sector, a Nor...
46: ...; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
101: * [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s ''Antarctica'' ([[1997]]) - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: '''Thebes''' [Θηβαι ''Thēbai''] is the [[Greek language|Greek]]...
4: ...Delta;ιοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Zeus]] ...
6: The name ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a c... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
1: ...h;[[456 BC]]; [[Greek language|Greek]]: '''Αισχυλος''') wa...
9: ...e chose to commemorate his military achievements only. It read:
19: ...or and the [[Greek chorus]]. This invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however.
21: ...eschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of which remain extant: - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
4: ...ha;νου). It has not survived; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later ...
8: ...kade, he may have stuck close to land and sailed only at night. It is also possible he took advantage ...
12: ... made a drink out of [[cereal|grain]] and honey. Unlike the people from southern Europe, they had [[ba...
14: ... sleep, and he noted that the night in Thule was only two to three hours. One day further north the co...
25: ...f information to later periods, and possibly the only source. The astronomical author [[Geminus of Rho... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...stotle''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Αριστοτέλη&sig...
8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Boë´¨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΗΣ, '''Arkhimêas'...
8: ...s and very close to shore for them to ignite, an unlikely scenario during a battle.
12: ...nd 3 + 10/71. He was the first, and possibly the only, [[ancient Greece|Greek]] mathematician to intro...
24: ...les, [[paraboloid]]s, and [[hemisphere]]s. Using only [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[geometry]], h...
28: ...ysis]] had been carried out successfully. We can only speculate about the effect that the "method" wou... - Platypus (21900 bytes)
14: ..., and one of the four extant [[monotreme]]s, the only mammals that lay [[egg (biology)|eggs]] instead ...
30: ... Although the platypus has two separate ovaries, only the left one is functional. The other is primiti...
41: ...ed, wet leaves. After the eggs hatch, the mother only leaves the burrow for short periods of time to f...
49: ...orth as the base of the [[Cape York Peninsula]]. Inland, its distribution is not well known: it is ext...
72: ...in captivity. This is a very difficult task, and only a few young have been successfully raised since ... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...untry with a drifting sheet of ice. It is highly unlikely that there were any humans in the country at...
25: ...s of size and importance. They are distributed mainly throughout the north and east of the country, th...
39: ...s 370 tonnes of copper during the Bronze Age. As only about 0.2% of this can be accounted for in excav...
70: ...ta;και νησοι) by at least [[500s BC|500 BC]]. It is also poss...
79: ...;''; ''Ιουερνια'' and possibly also the Latin ''Hibernia'... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...or Κωνσταντινούπολη) is...
3: ...h culturally and economically. [[Bezants]], the only gold coin minted in Europe until the 13th centur... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
3: ...gean Sea''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: '''Αιγαίον Πέ&lamb...
9: ...re actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland. One chain extends across the sea to [[Chios]]... - Democracy (24363 bytes)
4: ...e people," plus κρατειν meaning "to rule," and the suffix �mp;alph...
10: ...nd foreigners being excluded from the franchise. Only an estimated 16% of the total population had the...
66: ...n [[Uganda]] or [[Iran]], of countries that have only been able to sustain democracy in a limited form...
73: ...oesn't encroach on the other. This system is commonly called [[Mixed Member Proportional]].
81: ...t controversial: representative democracy is the only used system of government in countries generally...
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