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- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ... name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...rother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her ...
9: ...e named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
11: ... a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as...
13: ...oy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead. - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
1: ...phy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bible was hand...
2: ...corative [[writing]]. A style of calligraphy is described as a ''hand''.
4: ...xamples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and palaeographers.
7: {{Main|Chinese painting}}
8: ...Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art. - Greek language (35285 bytes)
3: ...h [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]] and surrounding countries
7: [[Greek languages|Greek]]<br>
15: ...tudied in schools and universities in many countries from the [[Renaissance]] onwards.
17: ...lect''', '''Post-Classic Greek''' or even '''New Testament Greek''' (after its most famous word of lit...
25: ...his article. For more information, see main articles on [[Proto-Greek language]] and [[Mycenaean langu... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
5: ...ις'', "The Great Treatise"). It was preserved, like most of Classical Greek science, in Ar...
7: ...list of 48 [[constellation|constellations]] is ancestral to the modern system of constellations, but u...
9: ... and ancient Persian empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empire were unreliabl...
11: ...put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew, the Canary Islands.
14: ...grees of latitude from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that... - Nile (13738 bytes)
4: ...nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on [[Earth]].
8: ...mes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νειλος), a Greek name for the Nile. A...
10: ==Longest river==
12: ...r than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at t...
14: ... gives a length of approximately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 mil... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...ure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. It is one of the [[Earth science]]...
3: ...], [[perlite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[silica...
5: ...r, specialised terms such as ''selenology'' (studies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' (of [[Mars (planet...
10: ...ological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was for...
12: ...as translated into [[Latin]] and the other languages of Europe such as [[French language|French]]. [[G... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
2: ... as well as inland parts of [[Europe]] and south-west [[Asia]].
5: ..., who flourished during the [[4th century BC]], uses ''papuros'' when referring to the plant used as a...
10: ...o a single sheet. The sheet is then dried under pressure. After drying, the sheet of papyrus is polish...
13: ... papyrus was often reused, writing across the fibres on the ''[[verso]]'' [http://www-user.uni-bremen....
15: ...in-law, was preserved by the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been partially excavated. - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
2: ...a]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.
4: ...ndered Διοσπολις ''Diospolis'', "City of Zeus" ([[Z...
6: ...(lit. "The Most-select of Places"), one of the names of the temple of [[Karnak]], which is located in ...
8: ...tuated at or near the sites of two important temples that stood on the outskirts of the city.
10: ==Important archaeological sites in Thebes== - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ... ([[336 BC]]-[[323 BC]]), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. He ...
6: ...ng legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
9: ...n rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy.
11: ...om [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achilles]].
14: ...d been bragging to the rest of the Greek city states how he managed to have Philip assassinated. - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
3: ...Alpha;ριστοτέλης
4: ...most influential philosophers in [[Western world|Western]] thought. He wrote many books about [[physi...
8: ...crates did not leave any writings, possibly as a result of the reasons articulated against writing phi...
10: ...n have knowledge of the [[Forms]], the real essences of things, of which the world we see is but an im...
12: ...and difficult to read. Among the most important ones are ''Physics'', ''Metaphysics'', ''[[Nicomachean... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
2: ... of terms relating to algorithms and data structures]]
17: [[120 reset]] --
36: [[320xx microprocessor]] --
58: [[5ESS Switch]] --
90: [[Acceptance, Test Or Launch Language]] -- - Electricity (13894 bytes)
1: ...ity]]" and "quantity of charge." There are two types of electricity or charge: we call one kind of ele...
3: ...C". The symbol ''Q'' is used in equations to represent the [[quantity of electricity]] or charge. Fo...
6: ...who found that rubbing [[fur]] on various substances, such as [[amber]], would cause a particular [[at...
8: ...d to be [[battery (electricity)|electrical batteries]].
10: ...apacitor]] for electrical energy in large quantities, was invented at [[Leiden University]] by [[Piete... - Pinhole camera (6994 bytes)
1: ...e a small pinhole on the order of .020 inches or less. The [[shutter]] of a pinhole camera usually co...
2: ...ecause of the small aperture; typical exposure times can range from 5 seconds to more than an hour.
4: ...ce]] (CCD). Pinhole cameras with CCDs are sometimes used for [[surveillance]] work because of their s...
8: ...reas. This is due to the shading effect of the sides of the hole for light coming in at other than a 9...
10: ...] etching, but a hobbiest can still produce pinholes of sufficiently high quality for photographic wor... - Constantinople (4125 bytes)
1: ...a;ντινούπολη) is the former name of the city of [[Istanb...
3: ...own as the "Queen of Cities", the richest and largest city both culturally and economically. [[Bezant...
5: ...evelop relatively unmolested, while Rome and the west collapsed.
7: ...hen re-captured by [[Nicaean Empire|Nicaean]] forces under the command of [[Michael VIII Palaeologus]]...
23: ... Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture - Chlorine (10751 bytes)
2: {{Elementbox_series | [[halogen]]s }}
15: {{Elementbox_vaporpressure_katpa | 128 | 139 | 153 | 170 | 197 | 239 | c...
18: {{Elementbox_oxistates | ±'''1''', 3, 5, 7 <br />(strongly [[acid...
20: {{Elementbox_ionizationenergies4 | 1251.2 | 2298 | 3822 }}
27: {{Elementbox_eresist_ohmmat20 | > 10 }} - Helium (36603 bytes)
20: | [[Chemical series]]
21: | [[Noble gas]]es
30: | align="center" | colorless<br>[[Image:He,2.jpg|125px|]]
102: ...mperature and pressure|standard temperature and pressure]].</small>
104: ...the effects that near [[absolute zero]] temperatures have on [[matter]] (such as [[superconductivity]]... - Selenium (9236 bytes)
20: | [[periodic table series|Series]]
26: | [[Density]], [[Mohs hardness scale|Hardness]]
32: ...gn="center" bgcolor="#a0ffa0" | '''Atomic properties'''
58: ...="center" bgcolor="#a0ffa0" | '''Physical properties'''
70: | 16.42 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre per mole|m<sup>3<... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
1: ...W.jpg|thumb|250px|View of the Aegean Sea from Rhodes, Greece. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa...
3: ...Marmara Sea]] and [[Black Sea]] by the [[Dardanelles]] and [[Bosporus]].
5: ...ied in the sea; and [[Aegeus]], the father of [[Theseus]], who drowned himself in the sea when he thou...
7: ...was the site of the original [[democracy|democracies]], and it allowed for contact between several div...
9: ...across the [[Peloponnese]] and [[Crete]] to [[Rhodes]], dividing the Aegean from the Mediterranean. Ma... - Molar (tooth) (1877 bytes)
3: ... one species to another, so there are many terms describing them:
4: ...Upper molars look like three-pointed mountain ranges; lowers look like two peaks and a third off to th...
5: ...ind is found in [[human]]s and various other species. Four cusps are arranged in a rectangle; there ma...
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)
2: ...nd [[mathematician]]. The [[European Space Agency|ESA]]'s [[Hipparcos|Hipparcos Space Astrometry Missi...
4: ...opular astronomical poem by [[Aratus]] has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we kno...
8: ...th century]]) in their commentaries on the ''Almagest''; from [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"...
14: ... it is not known if and when he visited these places.
16: ...contemporary portraits. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia tha...
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