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- Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
8: ...woman to earn enough money to pay her way through Syracuse Medical College where she graduated as a doctor i...
10: ...on (civilian)" by the Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U....
12: ... civilians. On [[April 10]], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a s... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...rotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[natu...
6: ...can avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren. - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
2: ...at least as far back as the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]]), but it was also widely used thr...
7: ...Greek ''papuros'' has no known relation to any Egyptian word or phrase.
11: ...pyrus.01.jpg|thumb|left|350px|A section of the Egyptian [[Book of the Dead]] written on papyrus]]
15: ...Caesar]]'s father-in-law, was preserved by the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been parti...
17: ...] were fashioned. Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Gr棯-Roman world it... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...s of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]],...
15: ...ies", [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] "Description of Greece", [[Diodorus]] "Bibliothiki" and [[J...
20: ...the Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adapted the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] [[alphabet]] to Gr...
24: ...[[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. Modern [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] ha...
28: ...en in short order the other Greek city-states, adopted the formal practice of [[pederasty]], in an eff... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] - Agathocles (2843 bytes)
1: ...]] - [[289 BC]]), [[tyrant]] of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] ([[317 BC]] - [[289 BC]]) and king of [[Sicily]...
5: ...overthrow the [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] party in Syracuse.
7: ... 10,000 citizens, and thus made himself master of Syracuse, he created a strong army and fleet and subdued t...
9: ...Agathocles was [[siege|besieged]] and defeated in Syracuse in [[battle of Himera (311 BC)|battle of Himera]]...
17: ...d [[Theoxena]], stepdaughter of [[Ptolemy I of Egypt]]. His daughter [[Lanassa]] married to king [[Pyr... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
26: ...rsuaded them to send [[Gylippus]] to assist the [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracusans]] and to fortify [[Decelea]] in...
30: ...issaphernes ([[412 BC]]), and persuaded him to adopt the negative policy of leaving Athens and Sparta ... - Pope Vigilius (2891 bytes)
7: ...y. Vigilius sent ships with grain but they were captured by the Goths. Vigilius reached Constantinople...
9: ... return to Rome, but he died in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. - Carthage (20744 bytes)
10: ...st from modern [[Morocco]] to the borders of [[Egypt]]. Its influence had also spread into the Mediter...
26: ...e of his books. This book has been lost but descriptions of some of its contents have survived.
33: ...from the neighbouring civilizations of Greece, Egypt and the Etruscan city-states.
42: ...cuse]], backed in part by Greek support, was attempting to unite the island under his rule. This immin...
49: ...sius I of Syracuse|Dionysius]], the new tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced t... - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
1: ...by a Roman soldier during the sack of the city of Syracuse, despite orders from the Roman general, [[Marcus ...
4: ...s involvement in the defense of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] against the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] [[siege]]...
6: ...ne of his inventions used for military defense of Syracuse against the invading Romans was the [[claw of Arc...
8: It is said that he prevented one Roman attack on Syracuse by using a large array of [[mirror]]s (speculated...
10: Archimedes was killed in Syracuse by a Roman soldier in 212 BC. - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
1: ...''', from the city foundation until the last attempt of the [[Byzantine Empire|Roman Empire of the Eas...
16: ...king]]: builds temple of [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter Optimus Maximus]]
63: ...13]]/[[211 BC]] – Siege of Syracuse, Rome captures the city
83: ...|Jughurta of Numidia]], eventually defeated and captured by [[Marius]]
104: ...egins the Second Roman civil war against the ''[[Optimates]]'', the conservative faction of the [[Roma... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...ce of Ragusa|Ragusa]]<br />[[Province of Syracuse|Syracuse]]<br />[[Province of Trapani|Trapani]] |
24: ...]], [[Messina, Italy|Messina]], [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] (''Siracusa'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]...
52: ...from [[Catania]]), as well as the [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Tommaso Geraci]].
64: ...rtant colony was established at [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] in [[734 BC]]. Other important [[Greek colonies...
66: ...he eastern part of Sicily, which was dominated by Syracuse. - Palermo (10618 bytes)
8: ...he provincial administration in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. When the [[Roman Empire]] was split, Sicily an...
23: ... decades, due to incompetence, incapacity, [[corruption]] and [[abuse of power]].
49: ...stonishing [[stucco]] work of the [[baroque]] sculptor [[Giacomo Serpotta]] can be seen in many of the...
73: ...cily]]: [[Marsala]], [[Agrigento]], [[Siracusa]] (Syracuse), [[Catania]], [[Taormina]], [[Messina]] - Catapult (3598 bytes)
10: ...sified according to the [[physics|physical]] concept used to store and release the [[energy]] required...
19: ...-[[300 BC]]), early adopters being [[Dionysius of Syracuse]] and [[Onomarchus of Phocis]]. [[Alexander the ... - Ballista (1776 bytes)
13: The first known appearance was in [[Syracuse]], [[Italy]], around [[400 BC]]. - Mathematician (9627 bytes)
5: ...e given prominent mention here, because a misconception that everything in mathematics is already know...
13: ...er ideas ([[theorem]]s) that follow from the assumptions according to exact rules of [[logic]]. That,...
23: ...sproven to logically follow from some set of assumptions, it is called a ''[[conjecture]]'', as oppose...
27: ...was part of the royal family of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The [[Guillaume Fran篩s Antoine, Marquis de l...
31: ... and [[Marianna Csornyei]]. Also, there is a perception that East Asians, like the Chinese, Korean and... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 B.C.]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]]) - Ice age (15810 bytes)
41: ...so good that orbital forcing is the generally accepted explanation. The combined effects of the chang...
48: ...sting uncertainties in dating, but not widely accepted at present (Nature 434, 2005, [http://web.mit.e...
93: ...he watersheds of [[Canada]] were so severely disrupted that they are still sorting themselves out &mda... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
5: ...ition of [[Greece|Greek]] states thwarted an attempted invasion of the [[Greek peninsula]] by the [[Pe...
11: Sparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land based...
13: ...artan slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept under control, and could not be left unsupervised...
17: ...le of Sphacteria]] in [[425 BC]]. The Athenians captured between 300 and 400 Spartan hoplites. The hos...
19: ...s agreed to exchange the hostages for the towns captured by Brasidas, and signed a truce. - Adriatic Sea (5830 bytes)
13: ...ytus,'' 736), but was gradually extended as the [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracusan]] colonies gained in importance.
24: ...le area of which exceeds 100 fathoms (180 m) in depth.
28: ...nd west of [[Durrë³] where a large basin gives depths of 500 fathoms (900 m) and upwards, and a small...
29: The mean depth of the sea is estimated at 133 fathoms (240 m).
39: ...to elevations of a few hundred feet, with the exception of a few larger islands like [[Brac|Brač]...
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