Search results for "Greeks, The" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Crocodile is the common name for any species belonging to the reptile ... primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Mediterranean coast. Founded by Alexander the Great, it was home to a significant ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- , and diplomat, who is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales ... psychological insight. No other author of the Middle English period demonstrates ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Aischines or Æschines), son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens, was ... According to Plato, Aeschines of Sphettus was present at the trial ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean ... a system of latitude and longitude for the maps he created, and was the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Mountain Press, 2003), 286. ISBN 0878420630 The colorful agate and other chalcedonies ... after volatile materials have separated from the molten mass, they leave behind ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, noted ... It was Apollonius who gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- were referred to as Phoenicians by the Greeks. The Phoenician language was ... being in perpetual conflict with the Greeks. The Phoenicians managed to ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- Atmospheric chemistry involves study of the chemistry of the atmospheres ... for photosynthesis, and water vapor for the precipitation that replenishes ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... water square miles, excluding all 660 of the islands on the lake. The width ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- a Turkish army officer and statesman. He was the founder and until 1934, the ... Atatürk was born in the city of Thessaloníki (Turkish: Selânik ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern ... Laconophilia is the admiration of Sparta, which continues to fascinate ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- – June 10, 323 B.C.E.), commonly known in the West as Alexander the Great ... (Megas Alexandros), King of Macedon (336–323 B.C.E.), was the most ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars or Medic Wars were a series ... ===The Greeks, the Lydians and the Persians=== The Lydians of Western ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2024
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. ... walnuts, almonds, and possibly pistachios. The pastry is prepared on large ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Hapi-ankh) was a bull-deity worshiped in the Memphis region and thought ... The worship of Apis was certainly the most popular of the three great ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- checkers, or straight checkers, is a form of the draughts board game played ... The origin of the game can be traced as far back as the Iraqi city ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- Odysseus; Latin: Ulixes), was the mythical Greek king of Ithaca and ... Most such genealogies aim to link Odysseus with the foundation of ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
