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15 hours ago · Further evidence for the Library's survival after 48 BC comes from the fact that the most notable producer of composite commentaries during the late first century BC and early first century AD was a scholar who worked in Alexandria named Didymus Chalcenterus, whose epithet Χαλκέντερος (Chalkénteros) means "bronze guts".
- Libraries of The Ancient World
A late 3rd century A.D. establishment, was a great early...
- Imperial Library of Constantinople
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city...
- Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ s θ ə n iː z /; Greek:...
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The...
- List of Destroyed Libraries
Birmingham Central Library destroyed by fire, 1879 The urn...
- Zenodotus
A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he lived...
- Palmyrene Invasion
The Palmyrene invasion of Egypt occurred in the summer, or...
- Libraries of The Ancient World
15 hours ago · Past predictions First millennium CE Date (CE) Claimant(s) Description Ref. 66–70 Simon bar Giora, Jewish Essenes The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the Jewish uprising against the Romans in 66–70 in Judea as the final end-time battle which would bring about the arrival of the Messiah. By the authority of Simon, coins were minted declaring the redemption of Israel. 2nd century Montanus ...
15 hours ago · Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.
15 hours ago · 10. 29 July 1927. An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and the National Debt, and to make further provision in connection with finance. Appropriation Act 1927.
15 hours ago · v. t. e. The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with ...
15 hours ago · High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population [1] In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population ...
15 hours ago · Vienna [9] [10] (German: Wien [viːn] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. [11] [12] Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, [13] representing nearly one-third of the ...
