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3 days ago · Merenre Nemtyemsaf (meaning "Beloved of Ra, Nemty is his protection") was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, fourth king of the Sixth Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for six to 11 years in the early 23rd century BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom period. He was the son of his predecessor Pepi I Meryre and queen Ankhesenpepi I and was in turn succeeded by ...
- 6–7 or 9–11 years in the early 23rd century BC.
- Ankhesenpepi I
2 days ago · Prehistoric. Paleolithic. Neolithic (c. 8500 – c. 2000 BC) Yellow, Yangtze, and Liao civilization. Ancient. Xia (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) Shang (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) Zhou (c. 1046 – c. 256 BC) Western Zhou (1046–771 BC) Eastern Zhou (771–256 BC) Spring and Autumn (c. 770 – c. 476 BC) Warring States (475–221 BC) Imperial. Qin (221–207 BC)
1 day ago · 2nd century BC: Paper in Han dynasty China; 206 BC: Compass in Han dynasty China; Early 2nd century BC: Astrolabe invented by Apollonius of Perga. 1st century BC. 1st century BC: Segmental arch bridge (e.g. Pont-Saint-Martin or Ponte San Lorenzo) in Italy, Roman Republic; 1st century BC: News bulletin during the reign of Julius Caesar.
4 days ago · From the web: Oia is a coastal town on the northwestern tip of Santorini, a Greek Aegean island. The town has whitewashed houses carved into the rugged clifftops, and overlooks a vast caldera filled with water. In a 19th-century mansion, the Naval Maritime Museum has exhibits on local seafaring history, including old figureheads, sailors ...
5 days ago · Flourished: c.100 BCE - c.1 BCE. Publilius Syrus (flourished 1st century bc) was a Latin mime writer contemporary with Cicero, chiefly remembered for a collection of versified aphorisms that were extracted by scholars from his mimes, probably in the 1st century ad.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · One of the last regions of the North American continent to be explored and settled, British Columbia emerged in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading provinces of Canada in population, economic wealth, and overall growth.
4 days ago · Leap seconds do the same thing as leap days in terms of like? Making our timekeeping match up with Earth's movement around the sun. Except that's only sort of true, it's that the Earth's rotation slows down enough that compared to International Atomic Time (based off atomic clocks) that we make those atomic clocks count an extra second to keep things synced up. The Mean Solar day apparently ...
