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- |WHS = Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns ... in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- a statue featured at the national shrines of the later Kingdom of Israel ... quot; (חטא העגל) or "The Sin of the Calf." It is first ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- is found in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the ... desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 04:12, 24 May 2024
- (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of mythical creatures that are ... his baser instincts and rise to the level of enlightened humanity, symbolizing ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 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
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; ... he lived out his life in the context of what many regarded as permanent ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- quot;distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth ... She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- produced by humans, typically consisting of washing water, urine, feces ... remove water"), from Latin ex- ‘out of’ + aqua ‘water’. ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. Operation Marita ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- name olive also refers to the edible fruit of this tree, a small drupe that ... oil is considered a healthy oil because of its high content of monounsaturated ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- Snail is the common name applied to most members of the mollusk class ... Gastropoda, the largest and most diverse class of the phylum Mollusca ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 07:39, 25 May 2024
- goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship ... Additionally, she was worshiped as a deity of rebirth in connection with ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. His works ... While some accuse him of being a pro-Roman propagandist, even a traitor ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- divided into two very distinct stages, that of a lost and disillusioned youth ... Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century." Time magazine ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- eastern Europe in 1912–1913, in the course of which the Balkan League (Kingdom ... independence in 1878, and the re-emergence of a Croatian state in 1868 awoke ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
