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- Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...ust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ...'''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian capital and national library.
6: ...h he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
9: ... tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest i...
11: ... from [[Heracles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]... - Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
1: [[Image:PtolemyII.jpg|thumb|right|Head of '''Ptolemy II Philadelphus''' ([[309 BC|309]...
2: ...logy of the Ancient World'', 2nd ed. 1980) gives the date of his death as [[January 29]].
4: ...ing in Macedonia in [[281 BCE]], and perished in the Gallic invasion of 280-79 (see [[Brennus]]).
6: He began his reign as co-regent with his parents [[P...
8: ...d the harbours and coast towns of [[Cilicia]] Trachea ("Rough Cilicia"), [[Pamphylia]], [[Lycia]] and ... - Ptolemy III of Egypt (1403 bytes)
3: ... upon the murder of his eldest sister [[Berenice Phernophorus]].
5: ...f Egypt|Berenice of Cyrene]] between 244/243 and they were parents of [[Arsinoe III of Egypt]] and [[P...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places...
11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_i... - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
1: ...I]] and [[Berenice II of Egypt]], the decline of the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic kingdom]] began.
3: ...emy himself was present, secured the kingdom for the remainder of his reign.
5: ...his vile favourite Agathocles added a commentary. He married (about 215) his sister [[Arsinoe III of E...
7: ...es]], which describes purported events following the Battle of Raphia, in both [[Jerusalem]] and [[Ale...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places... - Ptolemy IX of Egypt (2673 bytes)
1: ...1 BC]], with intervening periods ruled by his brother, [[Ptolemy X of Egypt|Ptolemy X]] Alexander.
3: ... by Ptolemy X, who took the throne again. He was then killed in battle, and Ptolemy IX reigned until h...
5: ...e name [[Ptolemy XI of Egypt|Ptolemy XI]] and had her killed 19 days later.
7: ...Ptolemy I]] Soter; note that in older references, he may be numbered VIII.
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places... - Ptolemy V of Egypt (2995 bytes)
1: ...ame to the throne, and under a series of regents the kingdom was paralysed.
3: ...l of his supporters being killed out of hand by the Alexandrian mob.
5: ...stine (region)|Palestine]] from the Ptolemies to the Seleucids.
7: ...sportsman; he excelled in athletic exercises and the chase.
9: ...attocity what provoke further rebellions amongst the Egyptians. - Ptolemy VI of Egypt (2419 bytes)
1: ... from the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic period]]. He reigned from [[180 BC|180]]-145 BC.
3: ...ntil her death in [[176 BC]]. The following year he married his sister, [[Cleopatra II]].
5: ...y, cruelly suppressing frequent rebellions, until he was killed in Syria, fighting against [[Alexander...
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9: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_v... - Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (5881 bytes)
1: ...ochus IV Epiphanes]] invaded Egypt and installed the young Euergetes as king.
3: ...ot popular, and in May [[163 BC|163]] the two brother agreed to a partition that left Physcon in charg...
5: ... that Physcon had bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome if he died childless, an act not mentioned by any liter...
7: ...offered him the hand of his daughter [[Cleopatra Thea]], and sent him back to Cyrenaica.
9: ... took the throne as "Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II", the name deliberately recalling his ancestor [[Ptolem... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
2: ...es Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior]]}}
12: [[Theropoda]]<br/>
16: ...s, including blood vessels and cells lining them [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03dinosaur.h...
18: ...[[Dimetrodon]]'', the winged [[pterosaur]]s, and the aquatic [[ichthyosaur]]s, [[plesiosaur]]s, and [[...
20: ...ion of [[cladistics]], which rigorously analyzes the relationships between biological organisms, has a... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
1: ... largest church in Christendom and often used by the Pope.]]
2: ...]s have been buried there, too. Construction of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed ...
4: ...ich is no longer used. These are the sources of the confusion.
7: ...Council convened in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The high canopy or baldocchino was designed by Bernin...
8: ... Constantine]] officially recognized Christianity he started construction in [[324]] of a great basili... - Sun (20830 bytes)
4: |+ '''The Sun'''
6: ...gn="center" | [[Image:The Sun w920607.jpg |270px|The Sun]]
11: ...10<sup>6</sup> [[mile|mi]]) <br>(8.31 minutes at the [[Speed of Light]])
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
76: ...?]] <br>(to the [[ecliptic]]) <br>67.23? <br>(to the [[Milky Way|galactic plane]]) - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...th discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.
4: ...d by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in the [[13th century]].
6: ...he speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of [[star]]s.
12: :''The following is a brief biography of Newton's early ...
14: ...sband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother. - Ribosome (4897 bytes)
1: ...subunit (B). Side and front view. <br/><small>(1) Head. (2) Platform. (3) Base. (4) Ridge. (5) Central...
3: ...organelle]] composed of [[rRNA]] (synthesized in the [[nucleolus]]) and ribosomal proteins. It [[trans...
4: ...]s, it is thought that they might be remnants of the [[RNA world]].
7: ...ffold that may enhance the ability of rRNA to synthesise protein.
9: ...h interest since the mid 20th century on through the early 21st century. - Michigan (29427 bytes)
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36: ... more recreational boats than any other state in the union.
40: ... The population grew slowly until the opening of the [[Erie Canal]] in 1825, which brought large numbe...
42: ...er Peninsula]] as a concession, formally entered the Union on [[January 26]], [[1837]].
44: ...]], [[iron]], and [[copper]], which would become the state's most sought-after natural resources. - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (16156 bytes)
8: ...ethality to humans, as well as for the nature of the mental decay it causes.
11: ...lead to the microscopic appearance of "holes" in the brain, degeneration of physical and mental abilit...
13: == The BSE epidemic in British cattle ==
14: ...have been shown experimentally to be present elsewhere, such as blood.
16: ...e other European countries like Germany required the said animal byproducts to undergo a high temperat... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ... Greek ([[Athens|Athenian]]) [[philosophy|philosopher]].
5: ... decoration of Alcibiades. During such campaigns, he also showed his extraordinary hardiness, walking ...
7: ...me on scientific research, but gave up on it when he came to see that it was ''philosophy'' that was t...
9: ...s charged, and sentenced to drink [[Cicuta virosa|hemlock]], which cost him his life.
11: ..., the priestess [[Diotima]] and others as his teachers. - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
1: ...calculation]], [[measurement]], and the study of the [[shape]]s and [[motion]]s of physical objects.
3: ...[[calculation]]s and is an indispensable tool in the [[natural science]]s and [[engineering]].
7: ... have something in common, namely that they fill the hands of exactly one person, was a breakthrough i...
8: ...traction]], [[multiplication]] and [[division (mathematics)|division]]).
10: ...first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines in the ground or scratching wood. - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...wave) [[amateur radio]] operators. Morse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be e...
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character)
11: ...gely replaced by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...al code specification, largely limited to use in the United States, became known as Railroad or [[Amer... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...t events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called [[intraplate earthquake]]s.
4: ...inor and cause no damage(those less than 5 on ritcher scale).
5: ...life, but for most of the earthquakes shaking is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage.
7: ...SanFranHouses06.JPG|thumb|200px|none|Damage from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].]]
9: ...mb|200px|none|Section of collapsed freeway after the 1989 [[Loma Prieta earthquake]].]] - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
1: ...hmetic]] and [[astronomy]] to [[Europe]]. He was the first [[France|French]] [[pope]] (see [[List of F...
5: ...ian]]-held city of [[Barcelona]] and possibly in the [[Islam]]ic cities of [[Cordoba, Spain|C󲤯ba]] ...
7: ...] where he was soon appointed a teacher in the cathedral school by [[Adalberon, archbishop of Reims|Ad...
9: ...also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Ge...
11: ...gh Capet]]. Capet became king of France, ending the [[Carolingian]] line of kings.
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