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- Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Ptolemy II of Egypt (4048 bytes)
8: Ptolemy II maintained a splendid court in [[Alexandria, Egypt|Alexandria]]. N...
14: The material and literary splendour of the Alexandrian court was at its height ...
22: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/3*.html Ptolemy Ph... - Ptolemy III of Egypt (1403 bytes)
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/6*.html Ptolemy Eu...
11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_i... - Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
3: ...ed his vices and conducted the government as they pleased. Self-interest led his ministers to make ser...
5: ...gion and literary [[dilettantism]]. He built a temple to [[Homer]] and composed a tragedy, to which hi...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/7*.html Ptolemy Ph...
11: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_i... - Ptolemy IX of Egypt (2673 bytes)
3: ...eopatra IV]], but his mother pushed her out and replaced her with his younger sister [[Cleopatra Selen...
10: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/11*.html Ptolemy S... - Ptolemy V of Egypt (2995 bytes)
5: ...sions overseas. Philip seized several islands and places in [[Caria]] and [[Thrace]], whilst the [[Bat...
9: Great cruelty and perfidy were displayed in the suppression of the native rebellion, a...
14: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/8*.html Ptolemy Ep...
15: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_v... - Ptolemy VI of Egypt (2419 bytes)
8: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/9*.html Ptolemy Ph...
9: *[http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_v... - Ptolemy VIII of Egypt (5881 bytes)
1: ...of the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]] in [[Egypt]]. His complicated career started in [[170 BC]], when [[Antioc...
5: ...ed, but this failed, and Physcon went to Rome, displayed the scars of wounds he received in the attemp...
13: ... infuriated, and by [[132 BC|132]] or 131, the people of Alexandria rioted and set fire to the royal p...
19: ...vernor of Cyprus, to co-reign. She reluctantly complied, with Philometer taking the name Ptolemy IX, t...
22: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/10*.html Ptolemy E... - Dinosaur (35313 bytes)
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16: ...s, including blood vessels and cells lining them [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03dinosaur.h...
18: ...pterosaur]]s, and the aquatic [[ichthyosaur]]s, [[plesiosaur]]s, and [[mosasaur]]s. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
2: ... of the [[basilica]] began in [[1506]] and was completed in [[1626]].
4: ...f the Papal residence, most Papal ceremonies take place at St. Peter's. The basilica also holds a rel...
12: ...worked on the "Fabbrica di San Pietro" (as the complex of building operations were officially called)....
14: *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/...
19: ...ft|200px|The dome designed by Michelangelo was completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1590.]] - Sun (20830 bytes)
76: ...ic]]) <br>67.23? <br>(to the [[Milky Way|galactic plane]])
78: ...eft" | [[Right ascension]]<br>of North pole <sup>[http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm 1]</sup>
85: | 25.3800 [[day]]s <br>(25 d 9 h 7 min 12?8 s) [http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm <sup>1</sup>]
122: ... as do innumerable other bodies including other [[planet]]s, [[asteroid]]s, [[meteoroid]]s, [[comet]]s...
124: ...bits is called ''its'' sun, and stars in a [[multiple star system]] are referred to as the "suns" of b... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ... the [[Gregorian calendar]]) was an [[English (people)|English]] [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], [[a...
4: ...athematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]. He would expand these laws by ar...
6: ...binomial theorem]] in its entirety; and the principles of conservation of [[momentum]] and [[angular m...
17: According to [[Eric Temple Bell|E.T. Bell]] (1937, Simon and Schuster) and ...
19: ... other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html] - Ribosome (4897 bytes)
1: ...). Side and front view. <br/><small>(1) Head. (2) Platform. (3) Base. (4) Ridge. (5) Central protubera...
4: ...ll) or bind to another organelle called the [[endoplasmic reticulum]]. Since ribosomes are [[ribozyme]...
7: ...les (known as ribosomal RNA or [[rRNA]]) and multiple smaller protein molecules. Experiments have show...
10: ...ference was held in [[Queenstown, New Zealand]] [[http://biochem.otago.ac.nz/ribocon/home.htm 1]].
16: ...lso in [[mitochondrium|mitochondria]] and [[chloroplast]]s in eukaryotic cells. Several free ribosomes... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
40: ...ch voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], explorer [[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]] founded [[De...
42: ... had some 80,000 residents, more than enough to apply for statehood. A state government was formed in...
46: ... automotive industry, with [[Henry Ford]]'s first plant in the [[Highland Park, Michigan|Highland Park...
55: *[[1622]] [[ɴienne Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably...
66: ...Treaty of Saginaw]], the [[Ojibwe]], [[Ottawa (people)|Ottawa]], and [[Potawatomi]] ceded more than si... - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (16156 bytes)
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11: ...xponential cascade. These aggregate to form dense plaque fibers, which lead to the microscopic appeara...
16: ...bean]] meal is the primary plant-based protein supplement fed to cattle. However, soybeans do not grow...
18: ...tistics on all types of CJD are published by the [http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk UK CJD Surveillance Centre] in... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...of Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated ...
7: ... scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of...
11: ...to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" ...
13: ...s disciples and thinkers that reflect on his accomplishments through their writing.
21: ...he following quotes are attributed to Socrates in Plato's and Xenophon's writings: - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
7: ...y that of [[number]]s. The realization that two apples and two oranges do have something in common, na...
8: ...tic]] (e.g. [[addition]], [[subtraction]], [[multiplication]] and [[division (mathematics)|division]])...
10: ...em|writing numbers]]. Perhaps [[prehistoric]] peoples first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines i...
12: Historically, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to d...
14: ==Inspiration, aesthetics and pure and applied mathematics== - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...e is now largely obsolete, although it is still employed for a few specialized purposes, including nav...
11: ...t to automated communication, so it was largely replaced by more regular formats, including the [[Baud...
19: ...ecial characters, so it could be used for more complete messages. The shorter marks were called "...
23: ...S/ead/learncw/][http://www.1728.com/morstest.htm][http://www.arsqrp.com/ars/pages/back_issues/2000_text/... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...rior of the lithospheric plates are called [[intraplate earthquake]]s.
11: ... large earthquakes, it can spread over the entire planet. Ground motions caused by very distant earthq...
20: ...countries, and by earthquake specialists. For example, the Japanese [[Japan Meteorological Agency seis...
29: ...are located along compressional and translational plate boundaries. [[Deep focus earthquake]]s are po...
30: ...sense) can also result from the detonation of [[explosive]]s. Thus scientists have been able to monit... - Pope Silvester II (8276 bytes)
7: ... emperor [[Otto I]]. The pope persuaded Otto to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future ...
20: ... in his head that were extremely difficult for people thinking in terms of the [[Roman numerals]]. In ...
29: ...rone (another legend tells that he won the papacy playing dice with the Devil).
30: ...ted him and gave his gouged-out eyes to demons to play with in the church. Repenting, Silvester then c...
32: ...pulti venturo Domino conferet ad sonitum'' ("This place, at the advent of the Lord, will yield to the ...
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