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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - Thoth (5655 bytes)
7: ...appeared as the main character in a tale where he plays [[dice]] with the moon itself, winning 1/72nd ...
20: ... online community environment oriented towards people interested in the arts & sciences [[Thothica]] d...
22: The name of the main Orbital Frame in the Playstation 2 game "The Zone of the Enders" is calle...
28: ...ast Revelation. Central to the teachings is the explanation of the 7 seals as described in the Book of...
41: ...don: Oxford University Press. (Reprinted Chicago: Ares Publishers inc., 1979) - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
19: ... consuls, initially patrician but later opened to plebeians, were elected officials who exercised exec...
21: The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, mostly related ''Ital...
25: ...e of the senators, however, and was murdered in a plot organised by [[Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Lon...
27: ... any bloodshed (or even much resistance), thus completing Octavian's (now renamed [[Augustus]]) projec...
33: .... After [[395 AD]] the empire became permanently split into a western and an eastern part. - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...ssilia]] (today Marseille). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern [[Europe]] around 325 [[Co...
4: ...e could never have funded. His story is, however, plausible. The trip may have been underwritten by a ...
6: ...le in succession to Bordeaux, Nantes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Icel...
8: ...porary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he travelled.
10: ...ni'' or ''Priteni'', 'Painted?' or 'Tattooed?' people, a term Romans Latinised as ''Picti'' ([[Picts]]... - Mars (27704 bytes)
2: ...t|North Polar region with icecap. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)]]
4: ... This feature also earned it the name of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([...
8: Mars has always fascinated people. Its red, fiery appearance is caused by Iron Oxi...
13: ...o become uniformly distributed in the atmosphere. Plans are now being made to look for other 'companio...
15: ...] and large [[cirrus cloud]]s [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20041213a/merb... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ... complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the [[sun god]]. Artemi...
19: ...Slaves could ask for and receive asylum in her temples.
25: ...ratum beneath that of their conquerors. It seems plausible that the association of Diana worship with...
33: ...her chest. They were formerly believed to be multiple breasts but are now known to have represented bu...
37: ...was sometimes known as [[Cynthia]], from her birthplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She someti... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
6: ...nic]] and [[Norse mythology]]. Tyr was however supplanted by [[Odin]] as the supreme god among the [[G...
13: Zeus played a huge role in the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] O...
15: The various titles applied to Zeus emphasized different aspects of his wi...
17: ... all the Hellenes') to whom [[Aeacus]]' famous temple on [[Aegina]] was dedicated.
25: ...tance, could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain mo... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
4: ... {{Greek myth (Olympian)}}after her alleged birth-places in [[Cyprus]] and [[Cythera]], respectively. ...
16: ...s the original oracular goddess ("Dione" being simply "the goddess," etymologically an equivalent of "...
18: ...ntatively came ashore at [[Cytherea]], a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Pe...
20: ...respectively (homosexuality being more divine for Plato).
25: ...[[Troy]] to [[Paris]], but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time,... - Eros (mythology) (4590 bytes)
5: ...ccording to [[Aristophanes]]' play ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'', he burgeons forth from an egg l...
7: ...r "Fire." In some myths, he is portrayed as being playful, frequently causing trouble for gods and mor...
13: ...rshipped by a fertility cult in [[Thespiae]], and played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries...
19: ... bore him a daughter, Voluptas, whose name means "pleasure", and became immortal herself. Psyche's vis... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
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23: ...can be differentiated from hens by their striking plumage, marked by long flowing tails and bright poi...
27: ... Chickens will sometimes fly simply in order to explore their surroundings, but will especially fly in...
32: ...o their own. Some farmers use fake eggs made from plastic or stone to encourage hens to lay in a parti... - Fox Terrier (4434 bytes)
4: ...the world, particularly [[rural]] and [[farming]] ares, these words are used for these breeds and also t...
12: ...ury. The process of [[selective breeding]] was duplicated in other countries as emigrants took their ... - Aries (2808 bytes)
16: ...hung its [[golden fleece|fleece]] in the Grove of Ares, where it turned to gold and later became the que...
18: ...f [[Aries]], containing part of [[Pisces]], the [[Pleiades]], and the constellation of [[Andromeda (co...
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