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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...40;τρα θεά φιλοπάτωρ, [[D...
6: ...ncient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly-named pred...
21: ...of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million [...
35: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra... - Heart (10132 bytes)
3: ...ge|Greek]] ''kardia'' (καρδια) for "heart".
15: ...ry artery]]. In the lungs gaseous exchange takes places and the blood releases [[carbon dioxide]] int...
23: The blood supply to the heart itself is supplied by the left and right ''coronary arteries'', w...
28: ...trial systole'', ''ventricular systole'' and ''complete cardiac diastole.'' The atrial systole consist...
30: ...and ''aortic semilunar valves'' close. Finally complete cardiac diastole involves relaxation of the at... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ... and other ceramic materials. This article will explore the history, techniques, cultural significance...
21: ...ured into molds, making it easier to produce multiple copies of a design.
23: *Glazing and Firing: Glazing involves applying a coating that will turn to glass when the po...
30: ...raku ware, known for its simplistic beauty, is deeply intertwined with the Japanese tea ceremony and Z...
46: ...]] word Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
25: ... historical stages of the Greek language that are placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet...
36: ...Italian]] is to [[Latin language|Latin]], for example. It is claimed that an "educated" speaker of the...
44: Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]] but also in ...
52: ... reflects features of the older language. The examples below are intended to represent Attic Greek in ...
164: | [[plosive consonant|'''Plosive''']] - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...0;λη Σύνταξις'', "The Great Treatise"). It was preserv...
7: ...ers and navigators, until the time of the great explorations. They were also adopted in the Arab world...
11: ...grand scheme. He assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew, in a grid th...
13: ...:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart....
16: ...300, after the text was rediscovered by [[Maximus Planudes]]. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...d to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a printed document showing h...
4:
8: ...nomy]] and [[musica]]. The concept of musica was split into three major kinds: [[musica universalis]],...
10: ...rceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any [[sound]] would be heard - music ref...
14: ...mathematical proportions in sound - be it sung or played on instruments. The polyphonic organization o... - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: ...("Earth") and ''γραφειν'' ("to write," as in "to describe").
11: ... Mapping by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]]s as they explored new lands added new techniques. During the [...
13: ...eography had become recognized as a discrete discipline and became part of a typical universitycurricu...
15: ...antity of knowledge and the number of tools has exploded. There are strong links between geography and...
22: ...graphical knowledge into categories that can be explored globally - Pan pipes (2209 bytes)
2: ...] ([[Greek language|Greek]] συριγξ) has long been popular as a folk inst...
4: ...l style, pipes are fine tuned to correct pitch by placing small pebbles or dry corn [[kernel]]s into t...
6: The pan pipe is played with breath blown horizontally across the ope...
8: ... is derived. (''Pan pipes'' is both singular and plural.) Other names for the instrument include '''... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπτος), whic...
12: ...e lengths of rivers vary over time (especially in plains, where rivers often change course), and, seco...
30: ...ummer, when the great rains fall on the Ethiopian Plateau; the rest of the year the great rivers drain...
42: ...nean Sea]]; a side channel, the [[Bahr Yussef]], splits from the main channel downriver from the city ...
50: ...James Augustus Grant]] in 1860-1863 for further explorations around Lake Victoria and traced the Nile ... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
103: ...[John Calvin Batchelor]]'s "The Birth of the [[People's Republic]] of Antarctica" ([[1983]])
106: <!-- Somebody who can read Japanese, please check the year here http://www.nacos.com/koma... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...city as well.) In modern usage, the [[mortuary temple]]s and [[tomb]]s of the west bank are generally ...
4: ...Delta;ιοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Zeus]] ...
6: ...st-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in the city.
8: ...situated at or near the sites of two important temples that stood on the outskirts of the city.
12: *[[Karnak|Karnak Temple]] - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
1: ...;χυλος''') was a [[playwright]] of [[ancient Greece]].
5: ...s, making ''The Persians'' his earliest surviving play.
7: ...(or more likely a [[Lammergeier]]), mistaking the playwright's bald crown for a stone, dropped a [[tor...
19: ...actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the [[Greek chorus]...
21: Aeschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of which remain extant: - 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]]... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...stotle''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Αριστοτέλη&sig...
4: ...n [[ancient Greek]] [[philosopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two...
8: ...gh Plato and a few other writers. The writings of Plato and Aristotle form the core of [[Ancient philo...
10: ...ge has ethical as well as scientific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[ideali...
12: Aristotle, by contrast, placed much more value on knowledge gained from the ... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΗΣ, '''Arkhimêas'...
4: ...d [[buoyancy]], also known as [[Archimedes' principle]], while taking a bath (thereupon taking to the ...
12: ...om the vertex to the base. The vertex must be so placed that the two horizontal distances mentioned i...
16: ...n the process, he calculated the oldest known example of a [[geometric series]] with the [[ratio]] 1/4...
26: ...icted the motions of the sun and the moon and the planets (i.e. an [[orrery]]). He credits [[Thales]] ... - Platypus (21900 bytes)
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14: The '''platypus''' (''[[Ornithorhynchus]] [[anatinus]]'') i... - Early history of Ireland (30651 bytes)
5: ...thology|myth]], and [[archaeology]]. During the [[Pleistocene]] [[ice age]], Ireland was extensively g...
9: ...ey constructed by stretching animal skins over simple wooden frames. They had outdoor hearths for cook...
14: ...and pottery, and the use of more advanced stone implements. It was once thought that these innovations...
20: ...onuments. The largest of these tombs were clearly places of religious and ceremonial importance to the...
32: ...t have been the result of colonisation: it may simply have been the natural consequence of the introdu... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...anbul]] in today's [[Turkey]]. Today, Constantinople is the area between the [[Golden Horn]] and the ...
3: ...lorin]], is synonomous with Byzantium (Constantinople), where most gold coins circulating in Europe ca...
5: ...r provinces to the east in Asia beyond Constantinople, allowing the east to develop relatively unmoles...
7: Constantinople was captured and sacked by the [[Fourth Crusade]...
9: ..., the capital was moved to [[Ankara]]; Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in [[1930]]. - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
3: ...gean Sea''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: '''Αιγαίον Πέ&lamb...
5: In ancient times there were various explanations for the name "Aegean." It was said to hav...
7: In ancient times the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations - the [[Minoan ci...
9: ... The larger islands have some fertile valleys and plains. There are two islands of considerable size b... - Democracy (24363 bytes)
2: ... government can be classified as such. This can apply to a multitude of government systems as these co...
4: ...;alpha;; the term therefore means "rule by the people."
10: ...ght to vote. However, the ancient Athenian vote applied to making decisions directly, rather than voti...
25: *or most simply through falsification of the results
27: Historical examples of this include the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] under...
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