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20 hours ago · Clicking on them will cause the page to spin in a tornado-like effect while an audio file of Judy Garland saying "there's no place like home" is heard. After the effect finishes, the page is seen in a sepia tone only. If the tornado is clicked, an audio file from the movie when the tornado hits plays, the page spins again and returns to color.
20 hours ago · Alexandrian Jewry were the largest Jewish community in the world and the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was produced there. Manetho , an Egyptian priest and historian of that time, wrote scathingly of the Jews and his themes are repeated in the works of Chaeremon , Lysimachus , Poseidonius , Apollonius Molon , and in Apion ...
20 hours ago · Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder (posthumous, 1875, after an 1825 watercolour done from life) Signature written in ink in a flowing script. Franz Peter Schubert (German: [fʁants ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃuːbɐt]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
20 hours ago · Akkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from the 8th century BC.
- Assyrian, Babylonian, Canaano-Akkadian, Old Akkadian
- Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
20 hours ago · ITER's stated mission is to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power as a large-scale, carbon-free source of energy. More specifically, the project has aims to: Momentarily produce a fusion plasma with thermal power ten times greater than the injected thermal power (a Q value of 10). Produce a steady-state plasma with a Q value greater than 5.
- Pietro Barabaschi
- 24 October 2007; 15 years ago
20 hours ago · A second reason is the example it set of free men, fighting for their country and their freedom: So almost immediately, contemporary Greeks saw Thermopylae as a critical moral and culture lesson. In universal terms, a small, free people had willingly outfought huge numbers of imperial subjects who advanced under the lash.
