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- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common ... (today's Pakistan). They governed the region until 316 B.C.E. The ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Orthodox communities, including ethnic Greeks. The Patriarch controlled the ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- for heating, baking, or drying. Over the course of history, various ... By 3200 B.C.E., settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization had ...11 KB (1,627 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation ... In later Roman times, Cronus was identified with the Roman deity Saturn. ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The word axiom comes from the Greek word or that which is considered self-evident. The word comes from αξιοειν ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled ... The beginning of larger, centralized polities in India was largely ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E ... and although he invaded Greece, he promoted the idea that the Greeks and Persians ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between ... a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- In Greek mythology, Orion was both a great hunter, who met Ulysses ... Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving Greek literature. His legend ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- and apologist who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in ... and then cooperating with the Roman aggressors) Josephus nonetheless ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ... and lived a frugal, ascetic life. The citizens of Athens showed ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- written by a Jewish author and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- ) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment ... in a “new creation.” One has the choice of danger or opportunity ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera. Among the Greeks, Ares was always mistrusted ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a ... more so in modern fantasy writings, the centaur can overcome his baser ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum ... There are other aromatic plants both in and outside the mint family ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in ... The goddess was known among the Greeks as Meter ("Mother" ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized ... There are two other plants for which the term artichoke is applied ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Lavender is the common name for any of the various plants of the flowering ... While the flowers of the lavender serve the plant's need of reproduction ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- feared for her malevolence. According the Greek legends, the goddess ... Similar to other female monsters in Greco-Roman myth (such as the ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- Catharsis (Latin), from the Greek Κάθαρσις Katharsis meaning ... The term “catharsis” was used in a philosophical sense by Aristotle ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- | Image = [[Image:Troy1.jpg|300px|Walls of the excavated city ... term) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- ::Note: For the planet Saturn, please click here. : holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... The war went badly for the ill-prepared Greeks; the only saving grace ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... Although Western Europe was religiously divided from the Byzantine ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... participated in an expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- ) is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their ... Pan was considered to be the god responsible for the adjudication ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European ... She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest ... Immediately after the last ice age, the Sahara was a much wetter place ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- The Horn of Africa is a large extension of land that protrudes from ... In a more general way, the term "Horn of Africa" is also ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create ... sculpture: bas-relief (low-relief), in which the sculpture is raised only slightly ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... led some Serbs to see others as a threat to the purity of their heritage. ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between ... they were much more advanced than the Greeks. The city of Alexandria became ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- :This article describes the unit of angle. or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- ) (ca. 418 B.C.E.–362 B.C.E.) was a Theban general and statesman ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure called ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... of eroticized female divinities featured in the legends of surrounding Indo ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- of Pergamum; 129 C.E. – c. 210 C.E.) was the Greek physician and philosopher ... medicine. He is rightly regarded as the pioneer in surgery, making ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... feudal tenure was abolished, giving the Greeks the right to acquire land by ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- nation first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- exchange of ambassadors and religious missions with the Greeks. The ... Very little is known about the economy of the Indo-Greeks. The abundance ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... she is often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... Worshiped by the ancient Greeks and said to come from the earth, they ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent ... The coastal area of Provence was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... and other Greek sources. For the Greeks, the Persians were "barbarians ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Xenophanes made a major breakthrough in the conception of God in the polytheistic ... among humans and should not be ascribable to the divine. He found the origin ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to ... and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic gods also underwent ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- August Wilhelm Schlegel, articulated the principles and ideas of the ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, though he was known by ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... (phoînix), through its close association with the famous dye Tyrian ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- Iron Ages parallels that of the early Greeks. The Tuscan area was inhabited ... its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... into the combined deity. Similar to the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians also ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the ... B.C.E. in central Italy, and the Western Greeks, the Latins adopted writing ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources ... He is also the first historical Westerner documented to have converted ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live. Aliens ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one ... were sent to an Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos. According ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... cities, sent a fleet to punish the Greeks. The Persians landed in Attica ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... class of cells, called Kupffer cells, line the vascular networks; their primary ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... Juniper "berries," the fleshy female cones, which are commonly ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Hellenes (Greeks) "Getae." Dacia was ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation ... is often dismissed by skeptics, including the scientific community, as being ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- Copper (symbol Cu, atomic number 29) is one of the oldest known metals ... doorknobs are used in hospitals to prevent the transfer of germs, and copper ...21 KB (3,086 words) - 17:35, 21 May 2020
- of semi-philosophical writings survive under the title of Memoria, his more ... Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- Horseradish (horse radish) is the common name for a perennial herb ... Horseradish is mainly cultivated for its large white, tapered root; ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- of quartz often used as an ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek ... Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... and power ploys while stronger nations used the island as a base from which ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- The sphinx has had a long history of secrecy and intrigue, being viewed ... Ultimately the sphinx represents human desire and ability to penetrate ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The term Hades, in its cosmological sense, has sometimes been used ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo ... The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction to the observer, through sensory ... According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- , transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the god of medicine ... is not surprising that Asclepius was one of the more popular deities in the ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin ... to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy; or, The Eule ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese ... and later superseding that of Knossos, the center of Minoan culture on ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements ... Gymnastics events test the strength, rhythm, balance, flexibility ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- for more than three decades, theologian, the last of the Western Latin ... otherwise would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- #039;) was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the ... Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United ... Human beings, utilizing their creativity, have taken the cucumber ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... town, it was originally settled by Celts, Greeks, and Romans. Along with the ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and ... after about 800 B.C.E. approximately over the range of the preceding Iron ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... comedy. Ancient Greek tragedy remains among the highest literary and cultural ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest ... and Apollo sent a plague amongst the Greeks. The prophet Calchas correctly ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary ... Fables, fairy tales, and parables all have in common the fact that ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Dionysus or Dionysos (from the Ancient Greek Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος ... in the mythic corpus of the ancient Greeks. The existence of these two ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- The Battle of Marathon, Greek Μάχη τοῡ Μαραθῶνος (Mache tou Marathonos), took place in 490 B.C.E. and was the culmination ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- #039; view of Christ was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- 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) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- 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
- replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica of the coffin used for Abraham Lincoln ... A coffin, or casket, is a funerary box used in the display and containment ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- for many governments from ancient times into the nineteenth century, but this ... tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- Egyptian hieroglyphs are a formal writing system used by the ancient ... Egyptian hieroglyphs constitute one of the oldest known writing systems ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- as a ruthless tyrant who brutally persecuted the early Pharisees. The third son of John Hyrcanus, Jannaeus came to the throne after ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- Influenced by Hegel, he maintained that the history of any people or culture ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America ... produced a world map on which he named the new continent "America ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- A stele, often Anglicized as stela, plural stelae (from the Greek ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... quot;; they either omit them from the Bible, or include them in ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Nabhakas ... devoted to Dhamma. They work among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Gandharas ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites ... The derogatory and potentially fallacious descriptions of the Bacchanalia ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- who is best known for having predicted the return of the comet that bears ... Halley was born at Haggerston, London, the son of Edmond Halley, a ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- (Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλης) was one of the three great ancient Greek ... The tragedies of Sophocles are less derivative of Homeric fate or ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used ... Today, Enoch is commemorated on July 26 as one of the Holy Forefathers ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient and Classical Greek ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- , Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e., Ptolemy the Savior, (ca. 367 B.C.E. ... Ptolemy I's legacy lived on in the dynasty he founded and in ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom as a virtue ... Most psychologists regard wisdom as distinct from the cognitive abilities ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- Perdix. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- famous for her romantic involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. Derived from the Greek grc|αιτιολογία, "giving a reason ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ... al-Kindī was skilled in the arts of the Greeks, the Persians and the Hindus. ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- she lived in England and Normandy during the late twelfth century. Due ... Her works are mostly dedicated to members of the French court at the ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- ; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of both the sea and earthquakes. In ... However, when offended or ignored, he struck the ground with his trident and ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... to the ethnic cohesion of Orthodox Greeks. The Greek Orthodox Church ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- The Golden Horde (Turkish: Altın Ordu), also known as Kipchak Khanate ... Armenians, Georgians, and Crimean Greeks. The territories of Christian ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious ... The term "pantheism" is a relatively recent one, first used ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... Is also appears to have been influenced by the Pharisaic tradition, exposing ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush ... The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris ... They enjoyed instant success. The book contained eight fairy tales ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- The Grigori (from Greek egrḗgoroi, "The Watchers") are ... A modern view of the Grigori appears in some versions of Italian witchcraft ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- The Gepids (Beowulf, Widsith)—possibly from Gibiðos, "givers ... The Gepids were almost certainly assimilated into the Romanian space ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 04:34, 30 November 2022
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ... The city was originally called Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- close contemporary Homer, Hesiod is one of the oldest poets in the Western ... have accumulated around Hesiod. Unlike the case of Homer, however, some ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance ... More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to such substances ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- standard textbook of geometry in Europe for the next eight centuries. He also ... Adelard was a pioneer of the scientific renaissance of the twelfth ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- sometimes spelled cummin) is the common name for a small, herbaceous ... chili powders, for instance. Furthermore, the essential oil is used in perfumes ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- She was known as the companion of heroes, protector of cities, and ... culture as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). In particular ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... thumb|250px|Maccabees persecuted by the Greeks: The Maccabees were originally ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of ... In 1956, the British exiled him for what in their view was sedition ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries ... The site is also respected by Islam. According to the Charter of Privileges ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- charge, known as positive and negative. The charge on an electron is, ... is, its net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name ... There were two conflicting aspects to this goddess: She was the deity ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- quot;An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ... as a saint. Modern scholarship questions the historicity of Elizabeth& ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- The Berbers (Imazighen, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous ... Despite the appearance of two significant Berber dynasties, the Almoravids ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Inscription, carved into a cliff side, gives the same text in three languages ... The Behistun Inscription (also Bisitun or Bisutun, بیستون in ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... of physical education and exercise around the world. In certain countries ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... Among the Greeks the caduceus is thought to have originally been a ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... had been considered inaccessible by the Greeks. The force reached the rail ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... human capacity, not to be found elsewhere in the animal world. However, recent ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... offenses or suffering persecution at the hands of their government ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- Greek ko-no-so, and ku-ni-su in Minoan), is the largest Bronze Age archaeological ... antiquarian. Kolokairinos himself conducted the first excavations which brought ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... as an authentic historical figure, but the period in which he lived remains ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... of societal stress or instability, where the men are absent or unreliable ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ... Hippolytus' writings came to be highly influential in the Eastern ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2024
- and bishop of Peterborough from 1691, the son of a citizen of London ... , propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub ... The fruit, which advances the pomegranate's individual purpose ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... Evidence of the promiscuity and ethically lax lives of many of the ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse ... have showy flower displays. Indeed, the name rhododendron comes from ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... E., and according to fragments attributed to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as their ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- mystic, and a mathematician, known best for the Pythagorean theorem. The earliest Greek philosophers in Ionia, known as the Ionians, such ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Each such mixture is obtained during the distillation of petroleum ... a high-octane gasoline component via the catalytic reforming process ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian ... Underlying the theological question were issues such as the struggle ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- :This page is about the number and digit 0 or "zero." ... It plays a central role in mathematics as the identity element of the integers ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- Catastrophism is the idea that Earth's features have remained ... Recently, however, the scientific consensus has been changing toward ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- body, or corpus. It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human ... assumptions. First, it determines what is the proper unit for the study ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: ... = astron + nomos, literally, "law of the stars") is the science ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The term charisma originates from the Greek word χάρισμα meaning ... results or not depends on other aspects of the leader, namely whether their ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December ... * Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: the Gospel and Western ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- philosophical and theological foundation for the development of Christianity ... Philo wrote commentaries portraying the Hebrew Bible as an allegory ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Bestiary.jpg|thumb|350px|The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary.]] The phoenix, or phœnix as it is sometimes spelled, has been an enduring ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- C.E.), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a ... The Roman historian Suetonius referred to Caligula as a "monster ...28 KB (4,511 words) - 18:28, 25 November 2023
- has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- his death. As Pope, Innocent III represents the height of the medieval papacy ... Lotario de' Conti di Segni was the son of Count Trasimund of ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest ... Originating in the early second millennium B.C.E., Aleppo competes ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the ... The Romantics prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was ... Saint Anne is not named in the canonical Gospels or anywhere else ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh) was originally the god of the desert, one of ... and cosmological belief system developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- philosophy, autonomy is often used as the basis for determining moral ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... spiritual-physical experiences. Although the modern terms “epicure” ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The scientific definition of a machine is any device that transmits ... available. Generally these devices decrease the amount of force required to ...16 KB (2,145 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- The term monism (from the Greek: μόνος monos or "one" ... The quest for oneness has been an important, universal drive and impulse ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the eleven surviving ... The Old Comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Scholars distinguish the Old Academy (Plato and his immediate successors ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- called a numeral. In common usage, however, the word number is used for both ... a number are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... of the modern Olympics, as well as the Greeks. The Greeks staged a selection ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- Originating as a part of Italian cuisine, the dish has become popular in ... strict guidelines for preparation. In the United States, pizza has iconic ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Egyptology as an academic discipline did not fully emerge until the ... The numerous sites remaining from this culture, including the great ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- In historiography the phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly ... intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants ... *the culturally specific ways that humans perceive and classify different ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest ... Ánkyra. Ankara also serves as the capital of the Province of Ankara. ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... Samarkand revolted against its Mongol rulers in 1365, and became the ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- over what range of animals is encompassed by the term mouse (plural mice). ... tails with no or little hair. In all but the most restrictive use of the ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or preserving ... can directly turn to a specific page. While the scroll was popular until the ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- (January 14, 1861 – May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the ... In the process, Mehmed suspended parliament and asserted personal ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C.E.), was the last great king of ancient ... The son of Esarhaddon and grandson of Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal was ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- β-lactam antibiotics obtained from fungi of the Penicillium genus and used ... reproduction, fungi also serve a purpose for the whole. In particular, fungi ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... rare assimilation of the strength of the Greeks, the imaginative depth of German ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- In common terminology, wind is the flow of air. In a broader sense ... spatial scale, speed, geographic location, the types of forces producing ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- 1464, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of Byzantine ... works, including commentaries, treatises on the works of Thomas Aquinas, polemical ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- [[Image:Temple of Zeus.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of ... Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... is lost; this does not necessarily mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for ... mother was a Lutheran. In 1898, he attended the Akademisches Gymnasium. Between ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ... The Great Sanhedrin was an assembly of Jewish judges who constituted ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. ... The site was inhabited as far back as 3000 B.C.E., and by the year ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people being ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium ... Once ingested, the bacteria are ingested by macrophages (cells in ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- in a defined end-state. Informally, the concept of an algorithm is ... smaller sub-methods, which are built up to the program as a whole. In other ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- in Parliament as well as his essays gave the followers of William Pitt ... of supporters who would become known as the Canningites. Conversely though ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:08, 13 December 2023
- The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... The symbol of the Cross has been revered by Christians but controversial ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- The Bosporus or Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, ( ... ) is a strait that forms the boundary between the Thrace and Anatolian ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- #039;s death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- to include related freedoms applied to the religious sphere, such as ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... The Revolution restored the parliament, which had been suspended by ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a human ... The first cranes were invented by the Ancient Greeks and were powered ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- Thyme is the common name for any of the about 350 species of aromatic ... In general, thyme is one of the world's more well-known and useful ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- For the past century, the vicinity of Oxyrhynchus has been continually ... The town was named after a species of fish in the Nile River that ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος, "last, ultimate, ... On the level of the purpose for the individual, it is the end of physical ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is ... and solder. Recently, it is being used by the semiconductor industry for ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol ... For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the ... In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- The Janissaries (derived from Ottoman Turkish ينيچرى (yeniçeri ... wealth, power and frequent revolts against the Sultan. The Ottoman Empire ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... If Sophocles was the dramatist whose primary theme was fate, Aeschylus ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- The Maccabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Makabim) were Jewish ... authority in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra ... Empire's Lycia, modern day Demre in the Antalya province of Turkey ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- A dowry is a gift of money or valuables given by the bride's ... Today, the practice has decreased in developed countries and urban ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- , the same as "Gaul," and in Sinhalese, gaːlːə ) refers to a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- The Rule of Saint Basil refers to the monastic regulations formulated ... The development of rules for Christian monks was an effort to bring ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the ... The words "ammonoid" and "ammonite" are both commonly ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- (c. 204 - 249), known in English as Philip the Arab or formerly (prior to ... whether Philip, not Constantine I, was the first Christian emperor. Those ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately ... The English word eunuch is from the Greek eune ("bed") and ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... spiritual inspiration, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city ... Traditionally considered an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the symptoms ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ... He has written extensively about the relationship between language ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- 250px|thumb|Egyptian hieroglyphs typical of the Graeco-Roman period, sculpted ... A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl ... to reach stardom and then she became one of the Top 10 box office draws for ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 14:44, 23 July 2022
- Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis (95 B.C.E.–46 B.C.E.), known as Cato ... and collected a large sum in taxes for the Roman Empire. Cato never relented ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- Catechisms are doctrinal manuals often in the form of questions followed ... repositories of Christian faith over the ages, containing great wisdom ...21 KB (3,269 words) - 17:53, 30 November 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... reality acts within history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- in England. His most famous painting is The Nightmare (1781), in which ... and theology, but came to detest it. The spiritual figures in his work ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept ... represents three divided by four, which may be represented as the ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic ... Until the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the country was considered ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... 40 years of communist totalitarian rule in the late twentieth century under ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The Minoans (Greek: Μυκηναίοι; Μινωίτες) were a pre ... The term "Minoan" was coined by the British archaeologist ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- #039;s population lives in Barcelona, the capital city. Official languages ... older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which in ...38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
- North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the ... He serves as both a guide to the recently departed and as the patron ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a large and ... Over the years dragons have become the most famous and recognizable ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- and singer considered a crucial figure in the history of music. His work ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Scottish novelist, best known for his novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... properties are iron, some steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- Writing is a form of communication through the act of preserving text ... an alphabet provides symbols for all the consonants and vowels that ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created ... Afterwards, she tried to close the lid but it was too late; however ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- feline goddess who was worshiped since the early dynastic period (ca ... In classical Egyptian religion, Bast was the subject of considerable ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- is best known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- of Gods) is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of ... Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... The word Magi is the origin of the English words magic and magician. ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... quot; was universally the same. To the Greeks, the term "law of nature ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... According to tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church was established ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth ... This philosophy would later be applied by the Nazis in their Final ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods ... In most cases, each country has monopoly control over the supply and ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and ... The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to have provided ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- The main group elements of the periodic table are groups 1, 2 and ... The alkali metals are the series of elements in Group 1 of the periodic ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- The Second Crusade (1147-1150) was the second major crusade launched ... The Second Crusade was announced by Pope Eugene III. The initial response ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- The siege of Sparta took place in 272 B.C.E. and was a battle fought ... 297–272 B.C.E.) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines were usually portrayed as implacable ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant expression ... them unjustly as traitors to the Greeks. The historian maintains that ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located ... In the New Testament, Samaritans were despised by the Judean Jews; ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical ... The lyric was originally verse to accompany the lyre. In Ancient Greece ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- , c.185 – c.254 C.E.) was one of the most distinguished theologians ... The details of Origen's life are found in his biography as given ...23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
- bar. Pole jumping competitions date back to the ancient Greeks, as well as ... over natural obstacles in places such as the marshy provinces of Friesland ...22 KB (3,728 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum ... extent as a forage crop for livestock and the straw can be used as fodder ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Hinduism and Islam. Abrahamic religions on the whole date back about 2500 ... a sea route to India by circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... has had negative effects on the environment, particularly ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- [[Image:COINCOLLECTIONCOINS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Coins from around the world]] A coin is a metal token, usually in the shape of a disc, often of ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- was a fourth century Roman historian. His is the last major historical account ... He lacked the linguistic style of Tacitus, being at times turgid and ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion ... The Eastern Catholic Churches were located historically in Eastern ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- Cremation, or the practice of burning the dead, refers to the disposal ... may view fire as a purifying agent and see the practice of cremation as the ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... who live in conquered territory. The Greeks, the Romans, the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Optimism (from the Latin optimus, best) and pessimism (from the Latin ... Philosophically, optimism is linked to the notion that the world is fundamentally ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the ... in analyzing character and in tracing the relationship between cause ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... of being as secondary. So, even if they use the same word "is," ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first ... Aryabhata was born in the region lying between Narmada and Godavari ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- – April 19, 1824) was an English poet of the Romantic school, who was easily ... iconoclast. Their poetry would share some of the same interests, though Byron ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- a person engaging in these events, although the term can also refer to physically ... and violent nature than did the Greeks. The Romans absorbed many Greek ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... toward music similar to that of the Greeks. The Chinese believed that ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon ... In the mythic cosmos, Horus was most notably seen as a sky god, which ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- The Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- The Pythia (Gr. Πύθια) was the priestess presiding over the Oracle ... Its last recorded response was given in 393 C.E., when the emperor ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (Latin: ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. In the ... David became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics) are the ... The original Olympic Games began in c. 776 B.C.E. in Olympia, Greece ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital tax. This status was ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- Hair, a filamentous, often pigmented, outgrowth from the skin, is ... The hair of non-human species is commonly referred to as fur when ...25 KB (4,025 words) - 13:24, 24 January 2023
- Cosmetics are substances used to enhance or protect the appearance ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates cosmetics ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 18:25, 17 January 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers ... knowledge, art, and culture, paper is one of the most important and consequential ...25 KB (4,009 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The term Celt, normally pronounced /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- The use of elephants to execute captives often attracted the horrified ... The use of elephants as executioners inextricably intertwined with ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- far as it goes, it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word ... All ancient ethical theorists understand eudaimonia to be the highest ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|375px|A mummy in the British ... bodies are submerged in bogs. Taken from the medieval Latin word “mumia ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The ... However, the emperor was later unable to cope with the mounting incursions ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant ... There also are some other plants that utilize the term ginger as part ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... in human sacrifice, often accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Keychain of Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ), the oldest college fraternity ... The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- and optics. He is particularly known for the unit of magnetism that bears ... and righteousness. He believed in a life beyond the grave. ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- The Nicene Creed, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed or Icon/Symbol of ... There are several designations for the two forms of the Nicene creed ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... Many empires have fought over the city during its 3,500 year history ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- The Dead Sea ( البحر الميت , ים המלח , translated as Sea of Salt), is a salt lake lying on the border between ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... with a review of project needs to define the required material properties ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... he absorbed local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... prior to Socrates are called PreSocratics; the second period spans the lifetimes ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal ... was written of in ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... this doctrine was included in the two most widely used Christian creeds ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... The ethical issues raised by this practice are complex, just as are ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... than 2,500 years. It is renowned as one of the founding cities of Western ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects ... For industrial applications, as well as in the arts, permanence and ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of classical ... cosmological belief system that developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- and joy, but was also seen as a goddess of the sky, as evidenced by the etymological ... role that is most potently represented in the story of her violent assault ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making ... becomes, remains both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived ... of great personal development, but have the reputation of isolation or ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western tradition ... and opinion. Based upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... other people take for granted. The advancement of thought is ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... Padua is famous as the city where the poet Dante lived, where Saint ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" ... Dolphins are considered to be among the most intelligent of animals ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... politics, similar to which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism emerged ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... predominantly poor Christians numbering in the thousands, led by Peter the ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the ... * A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically ... historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens." ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... and to a Pax Britannica all paid homage to the Roman legacy. At the time ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... or "The Great Assassin" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- for men and women in many countries around the world. Its official name and ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... 1364–1365, he was offered employment by the Christian king of Seville ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... Although several species are often considered weeds, people around ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... Monaco is the world's most densely populated state and second ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... The term Orator is recorded in English since around 1374, meaning ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- in what is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey ... Unusual in Africa, Dahomey was ruled by a form of absolute monarchy ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... For many people justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- he directed his barbed wit not only against the Washington political establishment ... Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large ... Sea turtles provide important functions for the ecosystem. They are ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians in ... of some of his works, with commentaries, in the sixth century C.E. Ancient ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played by their tragic ... back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks. The story of Pyramus and Thisbe ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater ... The Colosseum remained in use for nearly 500 years, with the last ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county ... arts, and international trade. The city is home to the largest ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the ... Astronomy had a specific role in the governing itself of the ancient ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- The plow (British spelling plough) is a tool used in farming for initial ... by horses. In industrialized countries, the first mechanical means of ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- flat surfaces which revolve or oscillate. The most common applications of ... Pictorial evidence records that the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Nero Germanicus before his accession) was the fourth Roman Emperor of the ... 37. This infirmity may have saved him from the fate of many other Roman nobles ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Sukarnoputri of Indonesia. Bangladesh was the first country in the world ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial ... Although the two fields share a common origin, modern astronomy is ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... trusted advisors, RFK worked closely with the President during the Bay of ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle encompasses diverse ... The ultimate question here is whether there is or was some special ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- The chicken (Gallus gallus) is one of humankind's most common ... eggs. People in many cultures have admired the good qualities of chickens ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder ... magi on his journey to Rome in 66 C.E. In the early twentieth century, Franz ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- university in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in ... issues of racial segregation. During the early days of the American ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons ... and mastered the music theory of the Greeks. The common style that developed ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... That change, often known as the Copernican revolution, had important ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- to a person that is consistent over time. The idea that we can understand ... to a person that is consistent over time. The word originates from the Latin ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- literary critic, and novelist notably in the fantasy and autobiographical ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and ... but is most complex in vertebrate animals. The only multicellular animals ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- have no physical explanation. In these cases the creatures bear more similarity ... decoration. This is particularly the case with those symbolizing ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... Its geographic position as a small, wedge-shaped country between the ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... Bangladesh's rank among the most densely populated countries ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the ... The people of Bucharest suffered under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- (born June 17, 1882, Oranienbaum (in the Soviet times Lomonosov) near ... Russian period: L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird") (1910), Petrushka ...32 KB (4,790 words) - 16:04, 12 February 2024
- Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις ," poiesis, a "making ... such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital ... The city has had many names throughout history. Depending on the background ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... This planet is heavily cratered and appears similar to the Moon. It ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... Many Tatars inter-married with Russian families, including the nobility ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote ... The precise date at which the Roman Republic changed into the Roman ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. He is ... (fourth century) in their commentaries on the Almagest; from Strabo's ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- Olive is the common name for a evergreen tree or shrub, Olea europaea ... Among the Greeks, the oil was valued as an important article of diet ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse ... on both Western and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... years, Belgrade's wider city area was the birthplace of the largest ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- invasion 1592 and 1596], creating war along the length of the peninsula until ... Under pressure from the Chinese army and local guerrillas, with food ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- religions speak of demonic forces within the cosmos representing the antithesis ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...35 KB (5,308 words) - 07:20, 10 August 2022
- is one of eight universities that belong to the Ivy League. Originally founded ... The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- was a founding member and first president of the Romanian Academy. Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
