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  • navigator and possible visitor (circa 480 B.C.E.) to the area that later became Sierra Leone (Müller 1979). ==Endangerment== Both species of ...
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  • In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby, and Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford. Thermopylae: the battle for the West ...
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  • Both complexes could hold from 450-480 horses combined. The buildings were found during excavations between 1927 and 1934 at Megiddo. Head excavator ...
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  • facing mountain gorillas: There were only 480 of the species in the wild at that time. Fossey's supporters convinced her to take time away ...
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  • Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C.E. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0934686501 ...
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  • so that his birth may be placed at about 480 B.C.E.. Philolaus was born in southern Italy, in either Croton, Tarentum, or Heraclea, according ...
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  • on an [[Attica|Attic]] lekythos, ca. 480-470 B.C.E., attributed to the Tithonos Painter ]] ==Mythology== In Greek mythology, several accounts ...
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  • |length = 480 km (298 mi) |width = 109 km (68 mi) |area = 28,400 km² (11,000 sq mi) |max-depth = 614 m (2,015 ft) |volume = 2,090 km³ (501.7 ...
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  • [[Image:Battle of Thermopylae and movements to Salamis, 480 BC.gif ... In 480 B.C.E., Xerxes I of Persia moved his armies against the loose ...
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  • smallest exhibit space of 34,140 square meters (354,480 square feet). This was followed by an extensive reconstruction effort and additional building ...
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  • #039;s account of the evacuation of Attica in 480 B.C.E., in which it is stated that the evacuation was an emergency measure taken only after ...
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  • approximately nine thousand miles (14,480 kilometers) long, with much of the trade of central Africa passing along it, including copper, palm ...
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  • because it emits light (with peak wavelength at 480 nm) when subjected to high-energy gamma rays. It is used in detectors in various fields of study ...
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  • extreme length of about 770 km (415 nautical miles, 480 mi). It has a mean breadth of about 160 km (85 nautical miles, 100 mi), although the Strait of ...
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  • York: Facts on File, 1999, ISBN 978-0816026937), 480. Her Christian name was Rosamond. She attended Motyeire School for Girls in Shanghai, and graduated ...
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  • |~ 480–430 THz |-align="center" bgcolor="#FF8000 ... |~ 510–480 THz |-align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF00 ...
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  • speed record. This time the target was 300 mph (480 km/h). Bluebird K7 was fitted with a lighter and more powerful Bristol Orpheus engine, taken from ...
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  • Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-480-5 *Taylor-Boyd, Susan. 1990. Betty Friedan: Voice for Women's Rights, Advocate of Human Rights. Gareth ...
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  • Atlas, on a vase by the Athena Painter, c. 490-480 B.C.E. (National Archeological Museum, Athens)]] Atlas continues to be a commonly used icon ...
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  • Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. South Korea, with 98,480 square kilometers, measures slightly larger than the American state of Indiana. The country has ...
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  • EB 4, 480 . Plato, it should be noted, actually argued in his dialogue ... * Encyclopedia Britannica, "Empiricism," vol. 4, 480. ...
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  • 480 11.087 2348 | 2562 | 2822 | 3141 | 3545 | 4072 | comment= color1=#cccc99 | color2=black rhombohedral 3(mildly acidic oxide) 2.04 ...
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  • |480,000,000 |First tree genome, Sept 2006 |- |Yeast,Saccharomyces cerevisiae |20,000,000 |A. Goffeau, B. G. Barrell, H. Bussey, et al., [https://www ...
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  • when the Persians sacked the city in 480 B.C.E. and razed the Acropolis ... was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 B.C.E. Like most Greek temples ...
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  • According to Diodorus Siculus (xii. 31) the locality was governed from 480 B.C.E. to 438 B.C.E. by a line called the Archaeanactidae, probably ...
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  • Crusade for Astronomy." Isis 2000 91(3): 480-503. * Potkay, Adam S. "Theorizing Civic Eloquence in the Early Republic: the Road from ...
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  • The Older Parthenon was caught unfinished by the invading Persians in 480 B.C.E., and was razed to the ground, burnt and looted, along with the ...
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  • sectors, the first of which is about 280 miles (480 kilometers) long and has a general westward direction down to the confluence with the Atabapo and ...
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  • examples. The Greek philosopher Xenophanes (570 - 480 B.C.E.) said that "the greatest God" resembles man "neither in form nor in mind. ...
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  • of railway tracks; by 1912, the total was 5,480 km (3,403 miles). The banning ... to Britain. In 1846, another famine year, 480,827 swine, and 186,483 oxen ...
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  • West as well. Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 547) set forth an early ... developed by Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480- c. 547) who wrote the Rule ...
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  • Darius in 510 B.C.E. and finished by Xerxes in 480 B.C.E.; and the Hadish palace by Xerxes I, which occupies the highest level of terrace and stand ...
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  • |align="center" |3 480 |align="center" |2.3 |- |align="center" |Bolivia |align="center" |2 430 ...
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  • in the Battle of Marathon, and in 480 B.C.E. he fought at the Battle of Salamis. Salamis was the subject of The Persians, written eight years ...
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  • the first invasion at the Battle of Marathon. In 480 B.C.E. the Persians came back, and captured and burned Athens, but the Greeks defeated them ...
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  • |highest= Gurten|highest_m=864|lowest=Aare|lowest_m=480 | population = 133920 |populationof = Dec 2010 | website = www.bern.ch | mayor = Alexander ...
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  • of the type was the American 300+ mph (480 km/h) Curtiss SC Seahawk which was actually a fighter aircraft like the Rufe in addition to a two ...
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  • Leaf, (Behrman House, 1996, ISBN 0874411033), 480. ===Shimon Ballas' novel, Outcast=== Iraqi-Israeli author Shimon Ballas' novel Outcast ...
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  • of the Greek mainland in 490 B.C.E. and in 480-479 B.C.E.; in both cases ... Ten years later, in 480 B.C.E., after massive preparation king Xerxes ...
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  • to Saint Benedict of Nursia (born 480 C.E.). His rule was diffused with miraculous rapidity from the original Benedictine monastery at Monte ...
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  • philosophers, most notably Boethius (ca. 480-524 C.E.) and St. Augustine (354-430 C.E.). Boethius' treatise De Institutione musica stood ...
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  • Standard Definition usually refers to 480 vertical lines of resolution ... | 720×480 | 710.85×486 | 480i/p | 345,600 (0.3) | 3:2 ...
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  • in the Caribbean (after Cuba), with an area of 76,480 km². The island of Cuba lies to the northwest across the Windward Passage, the strait connecting ...
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  • against the Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C.E. Sophocles enjoyed a public profile outside the theater. In 443/442 he served as one ...
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  • or units arriving during the war, represented 480,000 soldiers. This included a great number of logistical and support units. There were also 200 ...
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  • object keeping pace with the boat at a depth of 480 feet. It was detected traveling for half a mile in this manner, before contact was lost. ...
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  • at an elevation 1475 to 1575 feet (450 to 480 meters). It sits at the confluence of the Chirchik river and several of its tributaries and is ...
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  • 1) is currently under construction and will add 480 MW to the total. Construction on an additional project on the Rupert River was started on January ...
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  • By 480 B.C.E. Gelo, the tyrant of Greek Syracuse in modern Italy, ... defeated by Gelo at the Battle of Himera (480 B.C.E.). He was either killed ...
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  • adaptive significance]. The Condor 78(4): 471-480. Retrieved November 18, 2008. * Tarburton, M. K. 1993. A comparison of the breeding biology ...
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