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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...u;ρα θεά φιλοπάτωρ, [[December]...
11: ...ver, Ptolemy imperiled his own power by injudiciously meddling in the affairs of Rome. When [[Pompey]]...
15: ... she returned to Egypt, Ptolemy XIV died mysteriously. Cleopatra then made Caesarion her co-regent. Sh... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ...m [[Greek language|Greek]] καλλος ''kallos'' "beauty" + γ&r...
84: ===Islamic calligraphy===
88: ...t has co-evolved alongside the [[religion]] of [[Islam]] and the [[Arabic language]].
90: ...s on the page. Contemporary [[artists]] in the [[Islamic world]] draw on the heritage of calligraphy t...
92: ...ges from the Qur'an are still active sources for Islamic calligraphy. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...taly]], south [[Republic of Macedonia|Former Yugloslav Republic of Macedonia]], central and south [[Bu...
266: ...;γγνώμη (freely translated "I'm sorry") in which /n/ is phoneticaly drop...
295: [[Lambda|Λ λ]],
348: Transliterated:
457: ...eakers'' (Longman Linguistics Library). Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN 0582307090 - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...miliar name) and only made available in Latin translation (by [[Gerard of Cremona]]) in the 12th centu...
11: ...ude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
14: ...ed 180 degrees of longitude from the Canary islands in the Atlantic Ocean to China, and about 80&...
20: ..., a work which survives only in a poor Arabic translation, he writes about properties of [[light]], in...
23: ...iquity and also enjoyed great influence in the [[Islamic]] world and the [[medieval]] [[Latin]] [[West... - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...mes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
54: ...sections of faster flowing water with many small islands, shallow water, and rocks, forming an obstacl...
62: ...science during Pharonic times. The Nile mysteriously and predictably rose each summer to flood and fe...
66: Ledyard, in his ''Travels'', speaks contemptuously of this celebrated wonder:—"This is the mi...
87: ...//www.ianandwendy.com/OtherTrips/Egypt/NileCruise/slideshow2.htm Photo Gallery from a cruise between L... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
12: ...l after the [[Scientific Revolution]]. It was translated into [[Latin]] and the other languages of Eur...
20: ...that the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for ...
26: ...e) |uniformitarianism]]. This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout t...
48: ... younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. This principle allows sedimentary lay... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
5: ...a second word for ''papyrus'', βύβλος ''bublos'' (said to derive from...
10: ... side by side on a hard surface, with their edges slightly overlapping, and then another layer of stri... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...ndered Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ...lytonic|Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρο&sigma...
9: ...hilip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. ...
63: ... passions in some quarters in Greece, (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia and diasporas thereof. P...
89: ...drome]], leading to the possibility that a helplessly paralyzed Alexander might actually have been kil...
91: ...and Macedonian nobility, who felt they were being slowly but surely phased out of power by Alexander's... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
23: ...hing of Greek was being lost in the West; his translations and commentaries were nearly all that was k...
25: ...anguage|Arabic]] manuscripts to produce Latin translations. Aristotle's works were commented on by [[T...
40: ...raceable to the [[Epicureans]], who were known as slanderers. If such legends were circulated widely b...
56: ...evoted to his family and his friends, kind to his slaves, fair to his enemies and rivals, grateful tow... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
296: [[hack (technology slang)]] --
375: [[Lambda calculus]] --
569: [[Slide rule]] --
570: [[SLIP]] --
571: [[SLR parser]] -- - Electricity (13894 bytes)
10: ...the modern Latin word ''electricus'' from ''ηλεκτρον'' (''elek...
12: ...er Franklin (more frequently) or [[Ebenezer Kinnersley]] of [[Philadelphia]] (less frequently) who cre...
20: ...ch giants of electrical engineering as [[Nikola Tesla]], inventor of the [[induction motor]] and the f...
22: ...ittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], bought the rights to Tesla's patents for polyphase alternating-current dyna... - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
4: The image may be projected on a translucent screen for real-time viewing (popular for vi...
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.
32: Pinhole cameras are often constructed with a sliding film holder or back so that the distance be... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...a;ντινούπολη) is the former name of the city of [[Istanb... - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
58: Chlorine ([[Greek language|Gr.]] χλωρος, greenish yellow) w... - Helium (36603 bytes)
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...
173: ...feet (less than 100 liters) of the gas had previously been obtained<!-- ref: ''The Encyclopedia of the... - Selenium (9236 bytes)
194: ...lenium ([[Greek language|Greek]] σελήνη ''selene'' meaning "Moon") was di... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
3: ...iota;γαίον Πέλαγος''', ''Aigaion Pel...
9: ...d [[G?ada]] . The current status of many smaller islands is a source of conflict between [[Turkey]] an... - Molar (tooth) (1877 bytes)
8: ... ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
9: ...mbdodont''': Like zalambdodont, but there are two lambdas on one tooth. - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...a]] (now Iznik, Turkey) and probably died on the island of [[Rhodes]]. He is known to have been activ...
18: Hipparchus is believed to have died on the island of [[Rhodes]], where he spent most of his late...
47: ...e founded a school of [[astrology]] on the Greek island of [[Kos]]. Another candidate for teaching th...
49: In any case, the translation of the astronomical records required profoun...
97: ...distinctly different. This is partly due to some sloppy rounding and calculation errors, for which Pt...
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