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A Gladiator Dies Only Once

A Gladiator Dies Only Once is a collection of short stories by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 2005.

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A Resurrection

"A Resurrection" is a short story by American writer Willa Cather.

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Achilles and Briseis

Achilles and Briseis is a picture depicting plateaux from the Iliad relating to the gifting of Briseis to Achilles found in the House of the Tragic Poet Pompeii, Italy.

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Acutia (gens)

The gens Acutia was a minor plebeian family at Ancient Rome.

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AD 60

AD 60 (LX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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AD 62

AD 62 (LXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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AD 63

AD 63 (LXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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AD 79

AD 79 (LXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Adam style

The Adam style (or Adamesque and "Style of the Brothers Adam") is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by three Scottish brothers, of whom Robert Adam (1728–1792) and James Adam (1732–1794) were the most widely known.

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Addison Mizner

Addison Cairns Mizner (December 12, 1872 – February 5, 1933) was an American resort architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers.

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Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis (22 June 1835 – 12 August 1910) was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing.

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Adriaen Coorte

Adriaen Coorte (ca. 1665 – after 1707) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707.

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Advertising

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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Aegis

The aegis (αἰγίς aigis), as stated in the Iliad, is carried by Athena and Zeus, but its nature is uncertain.

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African sacred ibis

The African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of ibis, a wading bird of the Threskiornithidae family.

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Agesander of Rhodes

Agesander (also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus; Ἀγήσανδρος or Ἁγήσανδρος) was or, more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style.

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Agrippa Postumus

Agrippa Postumus (Agrippa Julius Augusti f. Divi n. Caesar; 12 BC – 20 August AD 14),: "The elder Agrippa died, in the summer of 12 BC, while Julia was pregnant with their fifth child.

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Aguamiel

Aguamiel (literally agua "water" miel "honey") is the sap of the Mexican maguey plant which is believed to have therapeutic qualities.

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Aguateca

Aguateca is a Maya site located in northern Guatemala's Petexbatun Basin, in the department of Petén.

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Akrotiri (Santorini)

Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced) is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera).

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Alda Levi

Alda Levi Spinazzola (Bologna, 16 June 1890 – Rome, 23 June 1950) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.

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Alejo Vera

Alejo Vera y Estaca (14 July 1834, Viñuelas – 4 February 1923, Madrid) was a Spanish painter in the Romantic style who specialized in history painting.

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Aleksey Gornostayev

Alexey Maksimovich Gornostaev (Алексей Максимович Горностаев, February 18, 1808 – December 18, 1862) was a Russian architect, notable as a pioneer in Russian Revival, the builder of Valaam Monastery hermitages, Trinity-Sergius Convent in Saint Petersburg and Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki.

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Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro

Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro (4 April 1940 in Rome – 29 August 2000 in Rome) was an Italian historian and archaeologist.

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Alexander Mosaic

The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BC, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii.

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Alexander Roos

Alexander Roos (– 30 June 1881) was an Italian-born British architect and urban planner.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

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Alfieri clan

The Alfieri clan was a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on the north-east of Naples, with its sphere of influence in the municipalities of Saviano and Nola.

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Alfred Stevens (sculptor)

Alfred George Stevens (30 December 18171 May 1875), was a British sculptor.

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Alison E. Cooley

Alison E. Cooley is a British classicist specialising in Latin epigraphy.

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Alizarin

Alizarin or 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone (also known as Mordant Red 11 and Turkey Red) is an organic compound with formula that has been used throughout history as a prominent red dye, principally for dyeing textile fabrics.

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Alleius Nigidius Maius

Gnaeus Allieus Nigidius Maius (15-23 A.D. – 79 A.D.-?) was a prominent politician and wealthy businessman in ancient Pompeii, who gained wide popularity with the citizens of the town through his sponsorship of gladiatorial games and other spectacles.

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Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland.

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Alvinella pompejana

Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii worm, is a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms").

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Amanda Knox

Amanda Marie Knox (born July 9, 1987) is an American writer and activist who spent almost four years in an Italian prison accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher on November 1, 2007.

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Amedeo Maiuri

Amedeo Maiuri (January 7, 1886 - April 7, 1963) was an Italian archaeologist, famous for his archaeological investigations of the Roman city of Pompeii which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August of AD 79.

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American Institute for Roman Culture

The American Institute For Roman Culture is a non-profit organization with classrooms located in the Piazza dell Orologio to provide students with a full immersion into modern Italian culture while learning about the past.

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American Tourists Abroad

American Tourists Abroad is a 1912 American silent documentary produced by Kalem Company and distributed by General Film Company.

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Amphitheatre of Pompeii

The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatre.

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Ancient art

Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

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Ancient Celtic music

Deductions about the music of the ancient Celts of the La Tène period (and their Gallo-Roman and Romano-British descendants of Late Antiquity) rely primarily on Greek and Roman sources, as well as on archaeological finds and interpretations including the reconstruction of the Celts' ancient instruments.

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Ancient furniture

There are few survivals of ancient Greek and Roman furniture, but a number of images in reliefs, painted pottery and other media.

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Ancient Greek art

Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation.

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Ancient history

Ancient history is the aggregate of past events, "History" from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the post-classical history.

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Ancient North Arabian

Ancient North Arabian (ANA)http://e-learning.tsu.ge/pluginfile.php/5868/mod_resource/content/0/dzveli_armosavluri_enebi_-ugarituli_punikuri_arameuli_ebrauli_arabuli.pdf refers to all South Semitic scripts excluding Ancient South Arabian (ASA) used in central and northern Arabia from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but differed from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Ancient Roman cuisine

Ancient Roman cuisine changed over the long duration of the ancient Roman civilization.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Ancient Rome and wine

Ancient Rome played a pivotal role in the history of wine.

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André Chénier

André Marie Chénier (30 October 176225 July 1794) was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim.

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Andrea Carandini

Count Andrea Carandini (born November 3, 1937) is an Italian professor of archaeology specialising in ancient Rome.

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Andrea De Jorio

Andrea De Jorio (1769–1851) was an Italian antiquarian who is remembered today among ethnographers as the first ethnographer of body language, in his work La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano, 1832 ("The mime of the Ancients investigated through Neapolitan gesture").

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Andrea Roncato

Andrea Roncato (Bologna, 7 March 1947) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.

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Annurca

'Annurca', pronounced in Italy, also called 'Anurka', is a historically old cultivar of domesticated apple native to Southern Italy, It is believed to be the one mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, and in the 16th century by Gian Battista della Porta.

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Antonio Niccolini (architect)

Antonio Niccolini (21 April 1772 – 8 May 1850) was an Italian architect, scenic designer, and engraver.

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Antonio Ponz

Antonio Ponz (1725–1792) was a Spanish painter.

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Antonius Felix

Marcus Antonius Felix (Felix, in Greek: ὁ Φῆλιξ, born between 5/10-?) was the Roman procurator of Iudaea Province 52–58, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.

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Apocalypse Pompeii

Apocalypse Pompeii is a 2014 American disaster film produced by The Asylum and directed by Ben Demaree.

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Apollo

Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Apollo of Mantua

The Apollo of Mantua and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm.

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Apollo of Piombino

The Apollo of Piombino or the Piombino Boy is a famous Greek bronze statuette in late Archaic style that depicts the god as a kouros or youth, or it may be a worshipper bringing an offering.

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Aqua Augusta (Naples)

The Aqua Augusta, or Serino Aqueduct (Acquedotto Romano del Serino), was one of the largest, most complex and costliest aqueduct systems in the Roman world; it supplied water to at least eight ancient cities in the Bay of Naples including Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Aqua Virgo

The Aqua Virgo was one of the eleven Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome.

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Arabesque

The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements.

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Aragon

Aragon (or, Spanish and Aragón, Aragó or) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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Archaeological forgery

Archaeological forgery is the manufacture of supposedly ancient items that are sold to the antiquities market and may even end up in the collections of museums.

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Archaeological site of the Trinquetaille glassware

The archaeological site of the Verrerie in Trinquetaille, has been acquired by the town council of Arles in 1978.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archaeology of Indonesia

The archaeology of Indonesia is the study of the archaeology of the archipelagic realm that today forms the nation of Indonesia, stretching from prehistory through almost two millennia of documented history.

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Architecture of Italy

Italy has a very broad and diverse architectural style, which cannot be simply classified by period or region, due to Italy's division into several city-states until 1861.

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Architecture of Scotland in the Industrial Revolution

Architecture of Scotland in the Industrial Revolution includes all building in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century.

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Architecture of the United Kingdom

The architecture of the United Kingdom, or British architecture, consists of an eclectic combination of architectural styles, ranging from those that predate the creation of the United Kingdom, such as Roman, to 21st century contemporary.

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Armero tragedy

The Armero tragedy (Tragedia de Armero) was one of the major consequences of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz stratovolcano in Tolima, Colombia, on November 13, 1985.

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Arnos Grove house

Arnos Grove, originally known as Arnolds, is a grade II* listed house in Cannon Hill, London.

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Art collections of Holkham Hall

The art collection of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England remains very largely that which the original owner intended the house to display; the house was designed around the art collection acquired (a few works were commissioned) by Thomas Coke 1st Earl of Leicester during his Grand Tour of Italy during 1712–18.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Art of Europe

The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe.

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Art theft

Art theft is usually for the purpose of resale or for ransom (sometimes called artnapping).

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Arthropods in culture

Arthropods play many roles in human culture, including as food, in art, in stories, and in mythology and religion.

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Artoria gens

The gens Artoria was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Ascendonanus

Ascendonanus (meaning "climbing dwarf") is an extinct genus of varanopid "pelycosaurian" synapsid from the Early Permian of Germany.

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Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany.

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Asterix and the Chariot Race

Asterix and the Chariot Race (French: Astérix et la Transitalique, "Asterix and the Trans-Italic") is the 37th book in the Asterix series, and the third to be written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad.

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Atom Heart Mother World Tour

The Atom Heart Mother World Tour was an international concert tour by Pink Floyd.

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Auge

In Greek mythology, Auge ("Sunbeam") was the daughter of Aleus the king of Tegea in Arcadia, and the virgin priestess of Athena Alea.

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August 1966

The following events occurred in August 1966.

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August 24

No description.

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August Mau

August Mau (15 October 1840 – 6 March 1909) was a prominent German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with the town of Herculaneum by volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

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Austrian Parliament Building

The Austrian Parliament Building (Parlamentsgebäude, colloquially das Parlament) in Vienna is where the two houses of the Austrian Parliament conduct their sessions.

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Authepsa

In classic antiquity authepsa or autepsa (αὐθέψης, authepses: αὐτός + ἕψω, "self-boiling", "self-cooking") was a vessel used for water heating.

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Autostrada A3 (Italy)

The Autostrada A3 is a motorway in Southern Italy, which runs from Naples to Salerno, in the region Campania.

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Avella

Avella (Abella; Ἀβέλλα) is a city and comune in the province of Avellino, in the Campania region of Italy.

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Avellino eruption

The Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius refers to a Plinian-type eruption that occurred in the 2nd millennium BC and is estimated to have had a VEI of 6.

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Żnin

Żnin (Znin, 1941-45: Dietfurt) is a small town in Poland with a population of 14,181 (June 2014).

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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany, on the southern slope of the Taunus, bordering among others Frankfurt am Main and Oberursel.

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Baiae

Baiae (Baia; Baia) was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, and now in the comune of Bacoli.

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Bandeau

A bandeau (pl. bandeaux, diminutive of bande meaning "strip") is a garment comprising, in appearance, a strip of cloth.

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Bank of California Building (Seattle)

The Bank of California Building is a landmark building located at 815 2nd Avenue in Seattle, Washington.

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Bankfield Museum

Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England.

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Baptisterium

In classical antiquity, a baptisterium (βαπτιστήριον) was a large basin installed in private or public baths into which bathers could plunge, or even swim about.

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Barthélemy Menn

Barthélemy Menn (20 May 1815 – 10 October 1893) was a Swiss painter and draughtsman who introduced the principles of plein-air painting and the paysage intime into Swiss art.

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Basilica

A basilica is a type of building, usually a church, that is typically rectangular with a central nave and aisles, usually with a slightly raised platform and an apse at one or both ends.

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Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Baton Rouge Magnet High School (BRMHS or Baton Rouge High) is a public magnet school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, founded in 1880.

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Battlement

A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.

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Beau-Rivage Geneva

Beau-Rivage Geneva is a five-star luxury hotel, founded in 1865 by the Mayer family.

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Bed

A bed is a piece of furniture which is used as a place to sleep or relax.

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Begram ivories

The Begram ivories are a series of over a thousand decorative inlays, carved from ivory and bone and formerly attached to wooden furniture, excavated in the 1930s in Bagram (Begram), Afghanistan.

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Bellia gens

The gens Bellia, also written Billia and Bilia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Belliena gens

The gens Belliena or Billiena was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Benedetta Cappa

Benedetta Cappa (14 August 1897 – 15 May 1977) was an Italian futurist artist who has had retrospectives at the Walker Art Center and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Berja

Berja is a municipality, former bishopric and Latin titular see in Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is located on the south-eastern slope of the Sierra de Gádor, 10 miles north-east of Adra by road.

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Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery

The Berkshire Royal Horse Artillery was a Territorial Force Royal Horse Artillery battery that was formed in Berkshire in 1908.

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Berthouville Treasure

The Berthouville treasure is a hoard of Roman silver uncovered by ploughing in March 1830 at the hamlet of Villeret in the commune of Berthouville in the Eure département of Normandy, northern France.

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Beware of the dog

Beware of the dog (also rendered as Beware of dog) is a warning sign indicating that a dangerous dog is within.

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Bhokardan

Bhokardan is a city and a municipal council in Jalna district in the state of Maharashtra, India.

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Bibracte

Bibracte, a Gaulish oppidum or fortified city, was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul.

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Bikini

Bikini typically describes a women's simple two-piece swimsuit featuring two triangles of fabric on top, similar to a bra and covering the woman's breasts, and two triangles of fabric on the bottom, the front covering the pelvis but exposing the navel, and the back covering the buttocks.

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Biskupin

The archaeological open-air museum Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified settlement in Poland (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship).

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Black smoke (The War of the Worlds)

The black smoke, or black powder, is a fictitious poisonous gas in H. G. Wells' 1898 science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, used by the Martians to eliminate groups of humans, especially artillery crews, and conveyed by shells fired from a gun-like "black tube" carried by the Tripods' whip-like tentacles.

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Blond

Blond (male), blonde (female), or fair hair, is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.

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Blue Grotto (Capri)

The Blue Grotto is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.

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Blue John (mineral)

Blue John (also known as Derbyshire Spar) is a semi-precious mineral, a form of fluorite with bands of a purple-blue or yellowish colour.

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Bob Pejman

Bob Pejman (born 1963) is a contemporary artist/painter who currently resides in the United States.

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Bocas de Fogo

Bocas de Fogo (Portuguese for "mouths of fire") is a volcano near the community of Urzelina, Velas municipality, São Jorge Island, Azores.

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Bodegón

The term bodega in Spanish can mean "pantry", "tavern", or "wine cellar".

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Boscoreale

Boscoreale (Vuoscoriàlë) is an Italian comune and town in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, with a population of 27,457 in 2011.

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Boscoreale Treasure

The Boscoreale Treasure is the name for a large collection of exquisite silver and gold Roman objects discovered in the ruins of an ancient villa at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, southern Italy.

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Bounty (reward)

A bounty (from Latin bonitās, goodness) is a payment or reward often offered by a group as an incentive for the accomplishment of a task by someone usually not associated with the group.

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Brescia

Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Bronze and brass ornamental work

The use of bronze dates from remote antiquity.

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Brothels in Paris

The authorities of Medieval Paris attempted to confine prostitution to a particular district.

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Bruttia (gens)

The gens Bruttia was a Roman family during the late Republic and into imperial times.

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Bursa Treasure

The Bursa Treasure or Brusa Treasure is the name of an early Roman silver hoard found in the city of Bursa, Turkey.

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Burton Constable Hall

Burton Constable Hall is a large Elizabethan country house with 18th and 19th century interiors, and a fine 18th century cabinet of curiosities.

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Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Busch Gardens Williamsburg (formerly known as Busch Gardens Europe and Busch Gardens: The Old Country) is a theme park located in James City County, Virginia, United States.

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Byakkotai

The was a group of around 305 young teenage samurai of the Aizu domain, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869).

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Cabbage

Cabbage or headed cabbage (comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea) is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.

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Cadoro

Cadoro, or Cadoro Jewels Corporation, was a Manhattan-based jewelry company founded in 1954 by Steven Brody and Daniel Stoenescu (aka Staneskieu), specialising in fashionable costume jewelry sold via department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Caecilia (gens)

The gens Caecilia was a plebeian family at Rome.

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Caecilius

Caecilius may refer to.

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Caesarion

Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar (Πτολεμαῖος Φιλοπάτωρ Φιλομήτωρ Καῖσαρ, Ptolemaĩos Philopátōr Philomḗtōr Kaĩsar "Ptolemy, Beloved of his Father, Beloved of his Mother, Caesar"; June 23, 47 BC – August 23, 30 BC), better known by the nicknames Caesarion (Καισαρίων, Kaisaríōn ≈ Little Caesar; Caesariō) and Ptolemy Caesar (Πτολεμαῖος Καῖσαρ, Ptolemaios Kaisar; Ptolemaeus Caesar), was the last Pharaoh of Egypt.

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Caius Norbanus Sorex

Caius Norbanus Sorex was an actor who lived in Italy and was active at Pompeii and Nemi during the time of Augustus.

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Calchas

In Greek mythology, Calchas (Κάλχας Kalkhas, possibly meaning "bronze-man"), son of Thestor, was an Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: "as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp".

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Callender, Iowa

Callender is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States.

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Cambridge Latin Course

The Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) is a series of textbooks published by Cambridge University Press, used to teach Latin to secondary school students.

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Cameo glass

Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background.

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Campania

Campania is a region in Southern Italy.

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Carbon print

A carbon print is a photographic print with an image consisting of pigmented gelatin, rather than of silver or other metallic particles suspended in a uniform layer of gelatin, as in typical black-and-white prints, or of chromogenic dyes, as in typical photographic color prints.

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Cardiff Rift

The Cardiff Rift is a fictional wormhole in the science fiction television series Doctor Who and Torchwood, one end of which is located in Cardiff Bay, Wales.

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Caristia

In ancient Rome, the Caristia, also known as the Cara Cognatio, was an official but privately observed holiday on February 22, that celebrated love of family with banqueting and gifts.

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Carlo Confalonieri

Carlo Confalonieri (25 July 1893 – 1 August 1986) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Carrie-Anne Moss

Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress.

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Casa del Menandro

The Casa del Menandro (House of Menander) is a house in Pompeii, Italy.

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Caspar Voght

Caspar Voght (17 November 1752 – 20 March 1839), later Caspar Reichsfreiherr von Voght (more commonly known as Baron Caspar von Voght), was a German merchant and social reformer from Hamburg (today Germany).

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Castletown House

Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

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Catherine Palace

The Catherine Palace (Екатерининский дворец) is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 30 km south of St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Cavaedium

Cavaedium, in architecture, is the Latin name for the central hall or court within a Roman house, of which five species are described by Vitruvius.

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Cave Canem Foundation

Cave Canem Foundation is an American 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African-American poets in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs and writing workshops across the United States.

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Cádiz

Cádiz (see other pronunciations below) is a city and port in southwestern Spain.

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Celbridge

Celbridge is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland.

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Chariot

A chariot is a type of carriage driven by a charioteer using primarily horses to provide rapid motive power.

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Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry (23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860) was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (also known as the Houses of Parliament) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.

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Charles Cardell

Charles Cardell (1892–1977) was an English Wiccan who propagated his own tradition of the Craft, which was distinct from that of Gerald Gardner.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Spanish: Carlos; Italian: Carlo; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand.

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Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac

Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac (24 June 1777, Paris – 20 January 1847, Paris) was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist.

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Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell (27 April 1788 – 17 September 1863) was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer.

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Chersonesus

Chersonesus (Khersónēsos; Chersonesus; modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсонес, Khersones; also rendered as Chersonese, Chersonesos), in medieval Greek contracted to Cherson (Χερσών; Old East Slavic: Корсунь, Korsun) is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula.

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Christoph Heinrich Kniep

Christoph Heinrich Kniep (1755 – 1825), was a German painter.

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Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 20th century

A list of 20th-century saints and blesseds.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

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Cinecittà

Cinecittà (Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy.

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Circumvesuviana

Circumvesuviana is a railway company operating services in the East of the Naples metropolitan area.

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Cities in Dust

"Cities in Dust" is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees from their seventh studio album, Tinderbox (1986).

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII Philopator (Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ Cleopatra Philopator; 69 – August 10 or 12, 30 BC)Theodore Cressy Skeat, in, uses historical data to calculate the death of Cleopatra as having occurred on 12 August 30 BC.

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Cluentia gens

The gens Cluentia was a Roman family of the late Republic.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Commissioners' Plan of 1811

The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan to this day.

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Compitalia

In ancient Roman religion, the Compitalia (Latin: Ludi Compitalicii) was a festival celebrated once a year in honor of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways meet.

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Concordia (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion, Concordia is the goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society.

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Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes

The conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes describes the activities, methods, and techniques that have historically and are currently being used to care for the preserved remains of the frescoes from the archeological site of Pompeii, Italy.

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Conservation issues of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Pompeii and Herculaneum were once thriving towns, 2,000 years ago, in the Bay of Naples.

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Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini"

The Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" is a music conservatory in Pesaro, Italy.

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Constantin Hansen

Carl Christian Constantin Hansen (Constantin Hansen) (3 November 1804 – 29 March 1880) was one of the painters associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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Cornu (horn)

A cornu or cornum (cornū, cornūs or cornum, "horn", plural cornua, sometimes translated misleadingly as "cornet") was an ancient Roman brass instrument about long in the shape of a letter 'G'.

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Coverage of Google Street View

Google Street View was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and until November 26, 2008, featured camera icon markers, each representing at least one major city or area (such as a park), and usually the other nearby cities, towns, suburbs, and parks.

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Cryptoporticus

In Ancient Roman architecture a cryptoporticus (from Greek crypta and porticus) is a covered corridor or passageway.

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Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons

The mythological monster Medusa, her sisters, and the other Gorgons, have been featured in art and culture from the days of ancient Greece to present day.

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Culture of Europe

The culture of Europe is rooted in the art, architecture, music, literature, and philosophy that originated from the continent of Europe.

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Cupid

In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupīdō, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection.

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Curb

A curb (American English), or kerb (Australian English, British English; see spelling differences), is the edge where a raised sidewalk (pavement in British English; pavement or footpath in Australian English) or road median/central reservation meets a street or other roadway.

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Curse of the Faceless Man

Curse of the Faceless Man is a 1958 independently made American low-budget black-and-white horror film, produced by Robert E. Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, and Luis van Rooten.

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Curtain

A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water.

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CyArk

CyArk is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Oakland, California, United States.

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Cyparissus

In Greek mythology, Cyparissus or Kyparissos (Greek: Κυπάρισσος, "cypress") was a boy beloved by Apollo, or in some versions by other deities.

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Cypraea pantherina

Cypraea pantherina, common name the panther cowry, is a species of large tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Cypraea tigris

Cypraea tigris, commonly known as the tiger cowrie, is a species of cowry, a large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Czech exonyms

The following is a list of Czech exonyms, that is to say names for places that do not speak Czech that have been adapted to Czech phonological system and spelling rules, or are simply native names from ancient times.

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D. James Goodwin

D.

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Daedalus

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Δαίδαλος Daidalos "cunningly wrought", perhaps related to δαιδάλλω "to work artfully"; Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful craftsman and artist.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture is a BBC series first aired on BBC Two in April 2008 in which British architectural historian Dan Cruickshank travels around the world visiting what he considers to be the world's most unusual and interesting buildings, structures and sites.

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Dancing satyr

Dancing satyr is a sculpture type in Hellenistic and Roman art.

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Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo

The over-lifesize Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo is a Greek bronze statue, whose refinement and rapprochement with the manner of Praxiteles has made it a subject of discussion.

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Dark Rome Tours & Walks

Dark Rome Tours is a tour company which offers guided tours in Rome, the Vatican, Florence, Venice, Milan and Paris.

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Darkest of Days

Darkest of Days is a first-person shooter video game developed by 8monkey Labs and published by Phantom EFX.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as date or date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Découvertes Gallimard

Découvertes Gallimard (literally in English “Discoveries Gallimard”; in United Kingdom: New Horizons, in United States: Abrams Discoveries) is an encyclopaedic of illustrated, pocket-sized books on a variety of subjects, aimed at adults and teenagers.

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Death of Cleopatra

The death of Cleopatra VII, the last reigning ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, occurred on either 10 or 12 August 30 BC in Alexandria, when she was 39 years old.

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Delmonico's

Delmonico's is the name of various New York City restaurants of varying duration, quality, and fame.

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Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva

Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens "Gradiva") is an essay written in 1907 by Sigmund Freud that subjects the novel Gradiva by Wilhelm Jensen, and especially its protagonist, to psychoanalysis.

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Demosthenes

Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης Dēmosthénēs;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens.

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Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the English Grounds of Wörlitz, is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe.

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Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL

Deliberate destruction and theft of cultural heritage has been conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since 2014 in Iraq, Syria, and to a lesser extent in Libya.

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Detachment of wall paintings

The detachment of wall paintings involves the removal of a wall painting from the structure of which it formed part.

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Di indigetes

In Georg Wissowa's terminology, the di indigetes or indigites were Roman deities not adopted from other religions, as distinguished from the di novensides.

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Digital Molecular Matter

Digital Molecular Matter, better known as simply DMM, is a proprietary middleware physics engine developed by Pixelux for generating realistic destruction and deformation effects.

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Diriyah

Diriyah (الدرعية), formerly romanized as Dereyeh and Dariyya, is a town in Saudi Arabia located on the north-western outskirts of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

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Discovery Times Square

Discovery Times Square (also known as Discovery TSX) was an exhibition space at 226 West 44th Street in New York City that opened June 24, 2009 and closed in September 2016.

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District heating

District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.

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Doctor Who (series 4)

The fourth series of British science fiction television programme Doctor Who began on 25 December 2007 with the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned".

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Doctor Who (series 8)

The eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who began on 23 August 2014 with "Deep Breath" and ended with "Death in Heaven" on 8 November 2014.

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Dome

Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Domitian

Domitian (Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96 AD) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96.

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Domus

In ancient Rome, the domus (plural domūs, genitive domūs or domī) was the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras.

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Domvs Romana

The Domvs Romana is a ruined Roman-era house located on the boundary between Mdina and Rabat, Malta.

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Donna Noble

Donna Noble is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Doryphoros

The Doryphoros (Greek Δορυφόρος Classical Greek, "Spear-Bearer"; Latinised as Doryphorus) of Polykleitos is one of the best known Greek sculptures of classical antiquity, depicting a solidly-built, well-muscled standing warrior, originally bearing a spear balanced on his left shoulder.

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Doug Rickard

Doug Rickard (26 May 1939 – 7 May 2002) was an Australian-born space engineer.

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Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa)

Drusilla (38 AD – 25 August 79 AD) was a daughter of Herod Agrippa and thus sister to Berenice, Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II.

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Dry tree

The Dry tree (or Solitary tree) is a legendary tree.

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Dubris

Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England.

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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a 1990 animated comedy adventure film based on the animated television series DuckTales.

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Dura-Europos

Dura-Europos (Δοῦρα Εὐρωπός), also spelled Dura-Europus, was a Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman border city built on an escarpment above the right bank of the Euphrates river.

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E. M. Newman Travelogues

Edward M. Newman (March 16, 1870 – April 16, 1953) was a film producer of many documentary film shorts released by Warner Brothers and edited at Vitaphone studios in Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s.

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Eastwatch

"Eastwatch" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 65th overall.

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Economy of Naples

Naples is Italy's fourth largest city in terms of economic size, coming after Milan, Rome and Turin.

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Education in ancient Rome

Education in ancient Rome progressed from an informal, familial system of education in the early Republic to a tuition-based system during the late Republic and the Empire.

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Edward William Brayley

Edward William Brayley FRS (1801 – 1 February 1870) was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.

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Egg cup

An egg cup, sometimes called egg server, is a container used for serving boiled eggs within their shell.

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Egyptian blue

Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10 or CaOCuO(SiO2)4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite, is a pigment used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years.

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Elections in the Roman Republic

Elections in the Roman Republic were an essential part to its governance, although all citizens did not always play a consistently equal part in them.

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Emily Browning

Emily Jane Browning.

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Emmanuel Maurice, Duke of Elbeuf

Emmanuel Maurice de Lorraine (Emmanuel Maurice; 30 December 1677 – 17 July 1763) was Duke of Elbeuf and Prince of Lorraine.

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Empress pepper pot

The Hoxne hoard pepper pot,, British Museum, accessed June 2010 commonly known as the Empress pepper pot, although it now seems not to represent an empress, is a silver piperatorium, partially gilded, dating from around 400 AD.

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Endicott Hotel

The Endicott Hotel is a former luxury hotel which now serves as a coop.

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English exonyms

An English exonym is a name in the English language for a place (a toponym), or occasionally other terms, which does not follow the local usage (the endonym).

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Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau

Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau (2 March 1842 in Madrid – 7 September 1902 in Oloron) was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote plays, zarzuelas (light operas), and novels including the first story involving time travel using a machine.

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Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

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Equites

The equites (eques nom. singular; sometimes referred to as "knights" in modern times) constituted the second of the property-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class.

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Ercolano

Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania of Southern Italy.

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Erich Pernice

Erich Pernice (19 December 1864, Greifswald – 1 August 1945, Freest) was a German classical archaeologist.

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Ernest Nash

Ernest Nash (September 14, 1898 – May 18, 1974) was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography.

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Eros

In Greek mythology, Eros (Ἔρως, "Desire") was the Greek god of sexual attraction.

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Erotic art

Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making.

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Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography.

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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79

Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano in modern-day Italy, erupted in 79 AD in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history.

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Escape from Pompeii

Escape from Pompeii is a shoot-the-chutes water attraction designed by Intamin located at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Estelle Lazer

Estelle Lazer is an independent archaeologist who has worked on sites in the Middle East, Italy, Cyprus, the UK, Antarctica and Australia.

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Etruscan cities

Etruscan cities are those that shared a common Etruscan language and culture even though they were independent city-states.

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Ettore Pais

Ettore Pais (July 27, 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939, Rome) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician.

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Eumachia

Eumachia was the public priestess of the Imperial cult in Pompeii during the middle of the 1st century AD as well as the matron of the Concordia Augusta.

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Europa (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Europa (Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē) was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and after whom the continent Europe was named.

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European route E45

The European route E 45 goes between Norway and Italy, through Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria.

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Ezinge

Ezinge (Gronings: Aisen or Aizing) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen.

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Falernian wine

Falernian wine (Falernum) was produced from Aglianico grapes (and quite possibly Greco as well)J.

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False door

A false door is an artistic representation of a door which does not function like a real door.

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Fausto Zevi

Fausto Zevi is a contemporary Italian classical archaeologist.

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Fayum mummy portraits

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Egyptian mummies from Roman Egypt.

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Félix Callet

Félix-Emmanuel Callet, (23 May 1791 – August 1854) was a French neoclassical architect.

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February 5

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February 6

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Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815.

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Felicitas

In ancient Roman culture, felicitas (from the Latin adjective felix, "fruitful, blessed, happy, lucky") is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or happiness.

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Fiction set in ancient Rome

If you know of works set in the pre-Republican era, please expand this section.

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Fish plate

A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC.

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Flagellation

Flagellation (Latin flagellum, "whip"), flogging, whipping or lashing is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, lashes, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, etc.

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Flavian dynasty

The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 AD and 96 AD, encompassing the reigns of Vespasian (69–79), and his two sons Titus (79–81) and Domitian (81–96).

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Flora (mythology)

In Roman mythology, Flora (Flōra) is a Sabine-derived goddess of flowers and of the season of spring – a symbol for nature and flowers (especially the may-flower).

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Folding door

A folding door is a type of door which opens by folding back in sections or so-called panels.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Forever Knight

Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario.

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Fortuna

Fortuna (Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion.

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Forum (Roman)

A forum (Latin forum "public place outdoors", plural fora; English plural either fora or forums) was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls.

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Fountain

A fountain (from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), a source or spring) is a piece of architecture which pours water into a basin or jets it into the air to supply drinking water and/or for a decorative or dramatic effect.

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François Marie Suzanne

François Marie Suzanne (1750 – unknown) was a French sculptor.

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Francesco Piranesi

Francesco Piranesi (1758/59 – 23 January 1810) was an Italian engraver, etcher and architect.

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Francis Bernasconi

Francis Bernasconi (1762 – 1 January 1841), aka Francisco Bernasconi, was an English ornamental carver and plasterer of Italian descent.

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Francis Kelsey

Francis Willey Kelsey (May 23, 1858 – May 14, 1927) was a classics scholar, professor, and archaeologist that would go on to lead the first expedition to the Near-East done by the University of Michigan (U of M).

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Franz Christian Gau

Franz Christian Gau (b. Cologne, 15 June 1790; d. Paris, January, 1854) was a German architect and archaeologist.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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French Empire mantel clock

A French Empire-style mantel clock is a type of elaborately decorated mantel clock made in France during the Napoleonic Empire between 1804–1814/15, although the timekeepers manufactured throughout the Bourbon Restoration (1814/1815–1830) are also included within this art movement since they share subject, decorative elements, shapes and style.

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French landscape garden

The French landscape garden (jardin paysager, jardin a l'anglaise, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Fresco

Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster.

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Friedrich Weinbrenner

Friedrich Weinbrenner (24 November 1766 – 1 March 1826) was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style.

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Friedrichstadt (Dresden)

Friedrichstadt is a neighborhood in central Dresden, Germany.

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Frigidarium

A frigidarium is a large cold pool at the Roman baths.

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Fullo

A fullo was a Roman fuller or laundry worker (plural: fullones), known from many inscriptions from Italy and the western half of the Roman Empire and references in Latin literature, e.g. by Plautus, Martialis and Pliny the Elder.

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Furniture

Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools, and sofas), eating (tables), and sleeping (e.g., beds).

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Gaetano Mormile

Gaetano Mormile (1839 in Naples – 1890) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects, often peasants in folkloric dress, but also vedute and Neo-Pompeian subjects.

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Gaius Ummidius Actius Anicetus

Gaius Ummidius Actius Anicetus was a Roman pantomime actor who lived in Pompeii.

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Galeria Copiola

Galeria Copiola (96 BC – 9 AD or after) was an ancient Roman dancer (emboliaria) whom Pliny includes in a list of notable female nonagenarians and centenarians in his Natural History.

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Garden furniture

Garden furniture, also called patio furniture or outdoor furniture, is a type of furniture specifically designed for outdoor use.

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Garden ornament

A Garden ornament is an item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration.

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Garum

Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the cuisines of ancient Greece, Rome, and later Byzantium.

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Gary Devore (archaeologist)

Gary Devore is an archaeologist and author currently affiliated with Stanford University.

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Gatsbys American Dream

Gatsbys American Dream was an American indie rock band based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Geneva Freeport

Geneva Freeport (Ports Francs et Entrêpots de Genève SA) is a warehouse complex in Geneva, Switzerland for the storage of art and other valuables and collectibles.

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Genius (mythology)

In Roman religion, the genius (plural geniī) is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing.

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Genre art

Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.

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Genre painting

Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.

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Geography of Italy

Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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Georges Rohault de Fleury

Georges Rohault de Fleury (or Rohault de Fleury; 23 November 1835 – 12 November 1904) was a French archaeologist and art historian.

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Geothermal heating

Geothermal heating is the direct use of geothermal energy for heating some applications.

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Gheorghe Asachi

Gheorghe Asachi (surname also spelled Asaki; March 1, 1788 – November 12, 1869) was a Moldavian, later Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator.

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Giacomo Medici (art dealer)

Giacomo Medici is an Italian antiquities smuggler and art dealer who was convicted in 2004 of dealing in stolen ancient artifacts.

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Gianni Berengo Gardin bibliography

The Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930) has been the sole contributor or a major contributor to a remarkable number of photobooks from 1960 to the present.

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Giants (Greek mythology)

In Greek and Roman Mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (jye-GAHN-tees or gee-GAHN-tees; Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, Γίγας, Gígas) were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size, known for the Gigantomachy (Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods.

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Giardino all'italiana

The Giardino all'italiana or Italian garden is stylistically based on symmetry, axial geometry and on the principle of imposing order over nature.

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Giorgio Sommer

Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) was born in Frankfurt am Main (in modern-day Germany), and became one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century.

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Giuseppe Fiorelli

Giuseppe Fiorelli (8 June 1823 – 28 January 1896) was an Italian archaeologist.

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Gladiator

A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.

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Gladiators of Rome (2012 film)

Gladiators of Rome (Italian: Gladiatori di Roma), also known as Not Born to Be Gladiators and referred to in marketing as Gladiators of Rome 3D, is a 2012 Italian computer-animated comedy film produced by Rainbow CGI and released by Medusa Film.

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Gladius

(Note: the sword above is actually not a Pompeii Gladius but, instead, a Fulham Gladius) Gladius was one Latin word for sword, and is used to represent the primary sword of Ancient Roman foot soldiers.

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Gladys Triana

Gladys Triana is a Cuban-American visual artist.

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Glass casting

Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies.

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Going Under (2004 film)

Going Under is a 2004 drama film about a married man and a partnered dominatrix who form a personal relationship and begin seeing each other outside her workplace.

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Golden Wind (manga)

, also known as Vento Aureo, is the fifth story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)

Goodbye, Mr.

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Google Street View in Europe

In Europe, Google Street View began on 2 July 2008 with the route of Tour de France being covered in parts of France and Italy.

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Gorton Monastery

The Church and Friary of St Francis, known locally as Gorton Monastery, is a 19th-century former Franciscan friary in Gorton, Manchester, England.

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Gradiva

The Gradiva, The woman who walks, has become a modern 20th century mythological figure, from the novella Gradiva by the German writer Wilhelm Jensen, as she has sprung out of the imagination of a fictional character she may be considered unreal twice over.

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Gradiva (novel)

Gradiva is a novel by Wilhelm Jensen, first published in instalments from June 1 to July 20, 1902 in the Viennese newspaper "Neue Freie Presse".

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural of graffito: "a graffito", but "these graffiti") are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted, typically illicitly, on a wall or other surface, often within public view.

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Graffito (archaeology)

A graffito (plural "graffiti"), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall.

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Grand Tour

The term "Grand Tour" refers to the 17th- and 18th-century custom of a traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a chaperon, such as a family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Greek exonyms

Below is a list of modern-day Greek language exonyms for mostly European places outside of Greece and Cyprus.

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Green

Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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Green earth

Green earth, also known as terre verte and Verona green, is an inorganic pigment derived from the minerals celadonite and glauconite.

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Gridiron (cooking)

A gridiron is a metal grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling meat, fish, vegetables, or combinations of such foods.

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Grotesque

Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

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Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center

The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center is a non-profit, mission based, science center that promotes science learning through a variety of inquiry-based educational and entertaining activities, including exhibits, IMAX films, demonstrations, workshops and teacher professional development.

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Gulf of Naples

The Gulf of Naples, also called the Bay of Naples, is a roughly 15-kilometer-wide (9.3 mi) gulf located along the south-western coast of Italy (province of Naples, Campania region).

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Guy de la Bédoyère

Guy Martyn Thorold Huchet de la Bédoyère (born November 1957) is a British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain and other subjects; and has appeared regularly on the Channel 4 archaeological television series Time Team, starting in 1998.

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Gyeongju

Gyeongju (경주), historically known as Seorabeol (서라벌), is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea.

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Haraldur Sigurðsson

Haraldur Sigurðsson (born May 31, 1939) is an Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist.

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Harukichi Shimoi

Harukichi Shimoi (下位春吉 Shimoi Harukichi) (Fukuoka, October 20, 1883 – December, 1954) was a Japanese poet and writer.

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Harvard–Yale football rivalry

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University.

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Hausberg

Hausberg (lit.: "house mountain", plural: Hausberge) is German for a prominent mountain or hill in the immediate vicinity of a village, town or city, usually located on its municipal territory, but outside the built up area.

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Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière

The Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière was an hôtel particulier in Paris, in the corner between Avenue Gabriel and Rue Boissy d'Anglas.

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Hebei

Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann (6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology.

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Hellenistic art

Hellenistic art is the art of the period in classical antiquity generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BCE, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 31 BCE with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.

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Hemostat

A hemostat (also called a hemostatic clamp, arterial forceps, or pean after Jules-Émile Péan) is a surgical tool used in many surgical procedures to control bleeding.

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Herbert Koch (archaeologist)

Herbert Guido Koch (1 July 1880, in Reichenbach – 25 September 1962, in Hamburg) was a German classical archaeologist.

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Herculaneum

Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum (Italian: Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD.

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Herennia (gens)

The gens Herennia was a plebeian family at Rome.

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Hermann von Rohden

Hermann von Rohden (21 February 1852, Barmen – 21 February 1916, Haguenau) was a German educator and classical archaeologist known for his analyses of ancient Roman terracotta artifacts.

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Hermaphroditus

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos (Ἑρμαφρόδιτος) was the son of Aphrodite and Hermes.

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Highlander: The Game

Highlander: The Game is a cancelled action role-playing game based on the Highlander franchise; it was to be published by Square Enix for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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Hippolyte Moulin

Hippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin, sometimes given as Julien-Hippolyte Moulin or Hypolite Moulin, (1832–1884) was a 19th-century French sculptor.

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Historic sites in Cranford, New Jersey

Cranford, New Jersey is home to a diverse number of historic architectural styles, historically significant buildings, and landmarks.

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History of advertising

The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations.

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History of Animals

History of Animals (Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Historia Animālium "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens.

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History of archaeology

Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).

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History of architecture

The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates.

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History of bras

The history of bras is inextricably intertwined with the social history of the status of women, including the evolution of fashion and changing views of the female body.

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History of construction

The History of construction overlaps many other fields like structural engineering and relies on other branches of science like archaeology, history and architecture to investigate how the builders lived and recorded their accomplishments.

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History of early and simple domes

Cultures from pre-history to modern times constructed domed dwellings using local materials.

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History of erotic depictions

The history of erotic depictions includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, dramatic arts, music and writings that show scenes of a sexual nature throughout time.

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History of gardening

The history of ornamental gardening may be considered as aesthetic expressions of beauty through art and nature, a display of taste or style in civilized life, an expression of an individual's or culture's philosophy, and sometimes as a display of private status or national pride—in private and public landscapes.

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History of glass

The history of glass-making can be traced back to 3500 BC Asia in Mesopotamia.

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History of India

The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism;Sanderson, Alexis (2009), "The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period." In: Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo, Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009.

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History of nudity

The history of nudity involves social attitudes to nudity in different cultures in history.

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History of painting

The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures.

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History of prostitution

Prostitution has been practiced throughout ancient and modern culture.

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History of Roman and Byzantine domes

The History of Roman and Byzantine domes traces the architecture of domes throughout the ancient Roman Empire and its medieval continuation, today called the Byzantine Empire.

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History of scrolls

A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

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History of swimming

Competitive swimming in Britain started around 1830, mostly using breaststroke.

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History of syphilis

The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion.

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History of the bikini

Evidence of bikini-style women's clothing has been found as early as 5600 BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era.

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History of the Jews in Brody

The Jewish community of Brody (district city in Lviv region of western Ukraine) was one of the oldest and most well-known Jewish communities in the western part of Ukraine (and formerly in Austrian Empire / Poland up to 1939).

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History of the Jews in Southern Central Italy

The History of the Jews in Southern Central Italy is at least 2000 years old and now covers the modern provences of Campania, Molise, and Basilicata.

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History of the Roman Empire

The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of Ancient Rome from the fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of the last Western emperor in 476 AD.

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Homosexuality in ancient Rome

Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West.

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Horseradish

Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. Cochlearia armoracia) is a perennial plant of the family Brassicaceae (which also includes mustard, wasabi, broccoli, and cabbage).

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House of Julia Felix

The House of Julia Felix is a large Roman villa in the ruined city of Pompeii.

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House of Loreius Tiburtinus

The House of Loreius Tiburtinus (also called the House of Octavius Quartio) is renowned for its meticulous and well-preserved artwork as well as its large gardens.

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House of Sallust

The House of Sallust is a domus or elite residence in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

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House of the Centenary

The House of the Centenary (Italian Casa del Centenario, also known as the House of the Centenarian) was the house of a wealthy resident of Pompeii, preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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House of the Faun

The House of the Faun (Casa del Fauno), built during the 2nd century BC, was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii, Italy, and housed many great pieces of art.

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House of the Silver Wedding

The House of the Silver Wedding is the name given to the archaeological remains of a Roman house in Pompeii, buried in the ash from the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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House of the surgeon

The House of the surgeon is the oldest and one of the most famous houses in Pompeii, which is located in the Italian region of Campania.

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House of the Tragic Poet

The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE.

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Household deity

A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members.

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How the Earth Was Made

How the Earth Was Made is a documentary television series produced by Pioneer Productions for the History channel.

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Hubert Robert

Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and capriccio, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

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Hugo Licht

Hugo Georg Licht (21 February 1841 in Nieder-Zedlitz (today Siedlnica, Poland) – 28 February 1923 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German architect.

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Human penis size

The most accurate measurement of the size of a human penis can be derived from several readings at different times since there is natural minor variability in size depending upon arousal level, time of day, room temperature, frequency of sexual activity, and reliability of measurement.

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Human skull symbolism

Skull symbolism is the attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull.

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Hypaethral

Hypaethral is an ancient temple with no roof.

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Immortal (Highlander)

An Immortal is one of a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the Highlander franchise.

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Imperium: Pompeii

Imperium: Pompeii is a 2007 Italian television film and part of the Imperium series.

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In Search of... (TV series)

In Search of... was a television series that was broadcast weekly from 1977 to 1982, devoted to mysterious phenomena.

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Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre

The inaugural games were held, on the orders of the Roman Emperor Titus, to celebrate the completion in AD 80 (81 according to some sources) of the Colosseum, then known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Amphitheatrum Flavium).

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Incubate (festival)

Incubate was an annual multidisciplinary arts festival held every September in Tilburg, Netherlands from 2005 to 2016.

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Index of Italy-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Italy.

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Indian pariah dog

The Indian pariah dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is the aboriginal landrace, or naturally selected dog, of the Indian sub-continent.

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Indica (Arrian)

Indica (Ἰνδική Indike) is the name of a short military history about interior Asia, particularly the Indian subcontinent, written by Arrian in 2nd-century CE.

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Inn sign

Inn signs have a history that extends beyond the Middle Ages, when many houses were identified by a sign, often a heraldic charge, which signified that the premises were under the special care of a nobleman, or a vivid image that impressed itself on the memory.

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Ion Keith-Falconer

Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (5 July 1856 – 11 May 1887) was a Scottish missionary and Arabic scholar, the third son of the 8th Earl of Kintore.

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Iphigénie

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine.

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Ipolytarnóc

Ipolytarnóc (Ipeľský Trnovec) is a village in Hungary, Nógrád county.

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Isopsephy

Isopsephy (ἴσος isos meaning "equal" and ψῆφος psephos meaning "pebble") or isopsephism is the practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number.

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Italian art

Since ancient times, Greeks, Etruscans and Celts have inhabited the south, centre and north of the Italian peninsula respectively.

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Italian Greyhound

The Italian Greyhound (in Italian: piccolo levriero italiano) is a small breed of dog of the sighthound type, sometimes called the Italian for short, and nicknamed the "IG" or "Iggy".

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Italian Journey

Italian Journey (in the German original: Italienische Reise) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786–88, published in 1816–17.

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Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art

From the second half of the 18th century through the 19th century, Italy went through a great deal of socio-economic changes, several foreign invasions and the turbulent Risorgimento, which resulted in the Italian unification in 1861.

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Italian Neoclassical architecture

Italian Neoclassical architecture refers to architecture in Italy during the Neoclassical period (1750s - 1850s).

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Italian Neoclassical interior design

Italian Neoclassical interior design refers to furnishing and interior decorating trends in Italy which occurred during the Neoclassical period (c. mid-18th century - early 19th century).

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Italian sparrow

The Italian sparrow (Passer italiae), also known as the cisalpine sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean region.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

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Jaggu Dada

Jaggu Dada is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language action film directed and produced by Raghavendra Hegde.

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Jakob Wilhelm Hüber

Jakob Wilhelm Hüber (1787 in Düsseldorf – 1871 in Zurich) was a German landscape painter of the 19th century.

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James Pattison Cockburn

James Pattison Cockburn (18 March 1779 – 18 March 1847) was an artist, author and military officer.

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James R. Schlesinger

James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

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Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière

Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière (1747–1820) was a French decorative painter.

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.

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Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.

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Jean-Pierre Adam

Jean-Pierre Adam (born November 24, 1937 in Paris) is a French archaeologist, specialising in ancient architecture.

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Jean-Pierre Domingue

Jean-Pierre Domingue (born in Montreal) is a French-Canadian photographer.

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Jerash

Jerash (Arabic: جرش, Ancient Greek: Γέρασα) is the capital and the largest city of Jerash Governorate, Jordan, with a population of 50,745 as of 2015.

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Jim Bachor

Jim Bachor (born) is a graphic and mosaic artist, professionally trained in the ancient art of setting marble and glass pieces into mortar.

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist.

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Johannes Overbeck

Johannes Adolph Overbeck (March 27, 1826 – November 8, 1895) was a German archaeologist and art historian.

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Johannes Wiedewelt

Johannes Wiedewelt (1 July 1731 – 17 December 1802), Danish neoclassical sculptor, was born in Copenhagen to royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Just Wiedewelt, and his wife Birgitte Lauridsdatter.

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John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier.

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John Heisman

John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, as well as a sportswriter and actor.

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John Peter Gandy

John Peter Gandy (1787 – 2 March 1850 in Hanover Square, London), later John Peter Deering, was a British architect.

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John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley (1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England.

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John Soane

Sir John Soane (né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style.

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John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing".

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Jone or the Last Days of Pompeii (1913 film)

Based on Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 novel of the same name, the film - one of two different adaptations of the same book in Italy that year - is set during the final days leading up to the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii in 79 AD.

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Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy, also known as Voyage to Italy, is a 1954 drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini.

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Joya de Cerén

Joya de Cerén (Jewel of Cerén in the Spanish language) is an archaeological site in La Libertad Department, El Salvador, featuring a pre-Columbian Maya farming village.

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Judgement of Paris (mosaic)

The Judgment of Paris is the theme of a mosaic from the early second century AD, discovered in 1932 in Antioch.

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Judgment of Solomon

The Judgment of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which King Solomon of Israel ruled between two women both claiming to be the mother of a child.

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Karl Jakob Weber

Karl Jakob Weber (12 August 1712 – 1764) was a Swiss architect and engineer who was in charge of the first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae, under the patronage of Charles III of Naples.

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Kate Devlin

Kate Devlin, born Adela Katharine Devlin is a British computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction (HCI).

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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is a museum of archaeology located on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States.

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Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914.

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Kit Harington

Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington (born 26 December 1986) is an English actor and producer.

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Kiuic

Kiuic is a Mayan archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatán, Mexico.

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Knucklebones

Knucklebones, Tali, Fivestones, or Jacks, is a game of ancient origin, usually played with five small objects, or ten in the case of jacks.

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Kunstschutz

Kunstschutz (art protection) is the German term for the principle of preserving cultural heritage and artworks during armed conflict, especially during the First World War and Second World War, with the stated aim of protecting the enemy's art and returning after the end of hostilities.

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L'art pompier

L'art pompier, literally "Fireman Art", is a derisive late-nineteenth-century French term for large "official" academic art paintings of the time, especially historical or allegorical ones.

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L'ultimo giorno di Pompei

L'ultimo giorno di Pompei ("The last day of Pompeii") is an opera (dramma per musica) in two acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola.

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Laconicum

The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, bath) was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, contiguous to the caldarium or hot room.

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Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Languages of the Roman Empire

Latin and Greek were the official languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were important regionally.

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Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy

Italy has the richest concentration of Late Antique and medieval mosaics in the world.

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Latin profanity

Latin profanity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses.

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Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (11 February 1734–26 December 1793) was a French financier and fermier général.

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Lava

Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.

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Lawney Reyes

Lawney L. Reyes (born c. 1931 in Bend, Oregon) (Sin-Aikst) is an American Indian artist, curator and memoirist based in Seattle, Washington.

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (born Lourens Alma Tadema; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.

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Lawrence Richardson Jr.

Lawrence Richardson Jr. (December 2, 1920 in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013 in Durham, North Carolina) was an American Classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991.

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Lazarus Laughed

Lazarus Laughed is a play by Eugene O'Neill written in 1925.

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Le Antichità di Ercolano

The Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed) is an eight-volume book of engravings of the findings from excavating the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples (now Italy).

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Le Chabanais

Le Chabanais was one of the best known and most luxurious brothels in Paris, operating near the Louvre at 12 rue Chabanais from 1878 until 1946, when brothels were outlawed in France.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Lego Pompeii

LEGO Pompeii is notable for being among the largest of all Lego historical models.

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Leonard Shoobridge

Leonard Knollys Haywood Shoobridge (20 October 1858 – 1 February 1935) was an English writer, archaeologist, poet and politician.

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Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna (also Lepcis, Berber: Lubta, Neo-Punic: lpqy) was a prominent city in Roman Libya.

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Les Filles du feu

Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire) is a collection of short prose works, poetry and a play published by the French poet Gérard de Nerval in January 1854, a year before his death.

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LGBT rights in Spain

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Spain have undergone several significant changes in recent years.

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Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur

Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur is an anthology of poetry about homosexuality, compiled by the German artist Elisar von Kupffer (Elisarion).

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.

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List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities

The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.

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List of ancient dishes

This is a list of ancient dishes, foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating during ancient history.

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List of ancient Greek and Roman roofs

The list of ancient roofs comprises roof constructions from Greek and Roman architecture ordered by clear span.

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List of archaeological excavations by date

This is a list of significant archaeological expeditions by date, which include first excavations at important sites, or expeditions that uncovered important objects.

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List of archaeological sites by continent and age

This list of archaeological sites is sorted by continent and then by the age of the site.

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List of archaeological sites by country

This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories.

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List of Augustae

Augusta (plural Augustae; αὐγούστα) was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and honoured women of the imperial families.

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List of Australian archaeologists

The following is a list of notable Australian archaeologists well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable research.

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List of beaches in Italy

This is a list of beaches in Italy.

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List of cities founded by the Romans

This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans.

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List of craters on Mars: O–Z

This is a list of craters on Mars.

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List of Destination Truth episodes

This is a list of episodes of the paranormal reality series Destination Truth.

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List of Digging for the Truth episodes

Digging for the Truth was a History Channel television series.

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List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances

Below are discoveries in science that involve chance circumstances in a particularly salient way.

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List of Doctor Who henchmen

This is a list of henchmen, fictional characters serving villains and/or monsters and aliens in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

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List of DuckTales characters

This article includes a list of characters from the Disney DuckTales animated franchise, including the original 1987 series and the 2017 reboot series, as well as one theatrical movie and a variety of merchandise, including video games and comics.

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List of English exonyms for Italian toponyms

This list of English exonyms for Italian toponyms is a compilation of Italian toponyms, names of cities, regions, rivers, mountains and other geographical features, in an Italian-speaking area (principally in Italy and Switzerland) which have traditional English exonyms.

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List of English-translated volumes of Découvertes Gallimard

Découvertes Gallimard is a French encyclopaedic collection of illustrated pocket books published by Éditions Gallimard since 1986.

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List of fictional Romans

This article is a list of fictional characters in written fiction and other forms of media set during the period of the Roman Republic and/or the Roman Empire.

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List of Friday the 13th characters

Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books.

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List of gestures

Gestures are a form of nonverbal communication in which visible bodily actions are used to communicate important messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words.

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List of ghost towns by country

The following is a list of ghost towns, listed by continent, then by country.

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List of Greek place names

This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language.

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List of historical earthquakes

Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the beginning of the 20th century.

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List of historical period drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization

The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people.

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List of journeys of Pope Benedict XVI

With an average of three foreign journeys per year from 2006 to 2009, Pope Benedict XVI was as active in visiting other countries as his predecessor, John Paul II, was at the same age from 1999 to 2002.

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List of largest domes

A dome is a self-supporting structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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List of Latin phrases (A)

Additional references.

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List of legendary creatures (H)

* Habrok (Norse) - listed as the "best" hawk.

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List of mass evacuations

This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time.

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List of museums in Naples

The Italian city of Naples hosts a wealth of historical museums and some of the most important in the country.

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List of pastoral visits of Pope Francis

This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.

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List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II

During his reign, Pope John Paul II ("The Pilgrim Pope") made 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined.

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List of people from Southern Italy

This is a list of notable southern Italians.

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List of Quaternary volcanic eruptions

This article is a list of volcanic eruptions of approximately magnitude 6 or more on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) or equivalent sulfur dioxide emission during the Holocene, and Pleistocene eruptions of the Decade Volcanoes (Avachinsky-Koryaksky, Kamchatka; Colima, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; Mount Etna, Sicily; Galeras, Andes, Northern Volcanic Zone; Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Mount Merapi, Central Java; Mount Nyiragongo, East African Rift; Mount Rainier, Washington; Sakurajima, Kagoshima Prefecture; Santamaria/ Santiaguito, Central America Volcanic Arc; Santorini, Cyclades; Taal Volcano, Luzon Volcanic Arc; Teide, Canary Islands; Ulawun, New Britain; Mount Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture; Mount Vesuvius, Naples); Campania, Italy; South Aegean Volcanic Arc; Laguna de Bay, Luzon Volcanic Arc; Mount Pinatubo, Luzon Volcanic Arc; Toba, Sunda Arc; Mount Meager massif, Garibaldi Volcanic Belt; Yellowstone hotspot, Wyoming; and Taupo Volcanic Zone, greater than VEI 4.

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List of rail accidents (1970–79)

This is a list of rail accidents from 1970 to 1979.

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List of Roman amphitheatres

The remains of at least 230 amphitheatres have been found widely scattered around the area of the Roman Empire.

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List of Roman bridges

The Romans were the world's first major bridge builders.

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List of Roman domes

This is a list of Roman domes.

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List of Roman gladiator types

There were many different types of gladiators in ancient Rome.

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List of Roman nomina

This is a list of Roman nomina.

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List of Roman public baths

This is a list of ancient Roman public baths.

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List of Roman theatres

Theatres built during the Roman period may be found all over the area of the Roman Empire.

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List of sex museums

A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica.

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List of state visits made by Elizabeth II

Since ascending the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has undertaken a number of state and official visits as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth, making her the most widely travelled head of state in history.

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List of The Simpsons couch gags

The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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List of traffic collisions

This list of traffic collisions records serious road crashes: those that have a large death toll, occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other historical significance.

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List of tree deities

A tree deity or tree spirit is a nature deity related to a tree.

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List of trolleybus systems in Italy

This is a list of trolleybus systems in Italy by Regione.

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List of US places named for non-US places

This is a list of US places named for non-US places.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Italy

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Southern Europe

The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated 168 World Heritage Sites in all of the 17 sovereign countries (also called "state parties") of Southern Europe: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and Vatican City as well as one site in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

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Listed buildings in St Cuthbert Without

St Cuthbert Without is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England.

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Livineius Regulus

Livineius Regulus was a Roman senator, active during the reign of Tiberius.

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Livius Andronicus

Lucius Livius Andronicus (c. 284 – c. 205 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period.

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London Philharmonic Choir

The London Philharmonic Choir (LPC) is one of the leading independent British choirs in the United Kingdom based in London.

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Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations

Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations is a 1962 book by Robert Silverberg that deals with the then-current archaeology studies of six past civilizations.

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Lost city

A lost city is a settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.

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Lost history

Many significant locations, cultures/groups, and objects throughout history have been lost, inspiring archaeologists and treasure-hunters around the world to search for them.

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Louis Jacobi

Louis Jacobi (21 April 1836 – 24 September 1910) was a German architect and archaeologist.

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Louis XV furniture

The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715-1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and symmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Style Louis XIV.

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Louis XVI furniture

Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models.

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Louis XVI style

Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign of Louis XVI (1774–1793), just before the French Revolution.

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Louvre Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.

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Lucilius Junior

Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century), was the procurator of Sicily during the reign of Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of Aetna, a poem that survives in a corrupt state.

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Lucius Caecilius Iucundus

Lucius Caecilius Iucundus was a banker who lived in the Roman town of Pompeii around 20–62 AD.

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Ludwig Curtius

Ludwig Curtius (December 13, 1874 – April 10, 1954) was a German archaeologist born in Augsburg.

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Luis de Madrazo

Luis de Madrazo y Kuntz (27 February 1825 – 9 February 1897) was a Spanish painter of portraits and religious scenes from a well-known family that included his father José (a painter), and his brothers Federico (also a painter), Pedro (an art critic) and Juan (an architect).

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Lupanar (Pompeii)

The Lupanar of Pompeii is the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.

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Lyre

The lyre (λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods.

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Macabre

In works of art, macabre is the quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere.

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Macellum

A macellum (plural: macella; makellon) is an ancient Roman indoor market building that sold mostly provisions (especially fruits and vegetables).

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Macellum of Pompeii

The Macellum of Pompeii was located on the Forum and as the provision market (or macellum) of Pompeii was one of the focal points of the ancient city.

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Maenad

In Greek mythology, maenads (μαινάδες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue.

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Magic Tree House

The Magic Tree House is an American series of children's books written by American author Mary Pope Osborne.

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Magic Tree House (film)

is a 2011 Japanese anime drama film based on the American children fantasy series of the same name by Mary Pope Osborne.

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Maison pompéienne

The Maison pompéienne ("Pompeian house"), sometimes called the Palais pompéien ("Pompeian palace") was the hôtel particulier of Prince Jérôme Napoléon in Paris in the style of the Villa of Diomedes in Pompeii.

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Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE, GCIH (11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto.

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Marbleizing

Marbleizing or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble.

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Mare Nostrum (1926 film)

Mare Nostrum (1926) is a silent film set during World War I. A Spanish merchant sailor becomes involved with a spy.

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Marion True

Marion True (born November 5, 1948) was the former curator of antiquities for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.

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Maritime archaeology

Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, shore side facilities, port-related structures, cargoes, human remains and submerged landscapes.

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Marketplace

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.

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Marmorino

Marmorino Veneziano is a type of plaster or stucco.

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Marquetry

Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to varigate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures.

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Mars (mythology)

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars (Mārs) was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome.

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Marsaxlokk

Marsaxlokk is a traditional fishing village in the South Eastern Region of Malta, with a population of 3,534 as of March 2014.

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Mary Beard (classicist)

Dame Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar and classicist.

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Mastroberardino

Mastroberardino is an Italian winery located in Atripalda, in Provincia di Avellino, in the Campania region.

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Matthew Festing

Fra' Robert Matthew Festing (born 30 November 1949) served as the 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, from which position he resigned following a dispute with the Vatican on 28 January 2017.

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Meander (art)

A meander or meandros (Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 1001–2000

038 | 1038 Tuckia || 1924 TK || Edward Tuck (1842–1938) and his wife; philanthropists.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000

050 | 50 Virginia || – || Verginia, Roman legendary heroine.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Medusa

In Greek mythology, Medusa (Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair.

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Mefitis

Mefitis is the Samnite goddess of the foul-smelling gases of the earth.

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Mega Disasters

Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006 to July 2008 on The History Channel.

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MEI Academy

"The World is Our Classroom" MEI International Academy(abbreviated as MEI) is an international education company that specializes in experiential learning, academic coursework, and educational travel.

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Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series

The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces is an annual series of major exhibitions held over 100 days in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Melchior Berri

Melchior Berri (born 20 October 1801 in Basel, died 12 May 1854 in Basel) was a well-known Swiss architect.

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Mescinia (gens)

The gens Mescinia was a minor plebeian family at Rome.

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Michelangelo Maestri

Michelangelo Maestri was an Italian artist of the 18th century who died in Rome in 1812.

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Michele Arditi

The marquess Michele Arditi (Presicce, 13 September 1746 – Naples, 23 April 1838) was an Italian lawyer, antiquarian and archaeologist, uncle of the historian Giacomo Arditi.

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Micromosaic

Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images.

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Military art

The genre of military art is art with a military subject matter, regardless of its style or medium.

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Millennium Biltmore Hotel

The Millennium Biltmore Hotel, originally named the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel of the Biltmore Hotels group, is a luxury hotel located across the street from Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, California, US.

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Minatia (gens)

The gens Minatia was a minor plebeian family at Rome.

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Mortimer Wheeler

Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Mosaics of Delos

The mosaics of Delos are a significant body of ancient Greek mosaic art.

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Mount Tambora

Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on Sumbawa, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.

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Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio; Vesuvio; Mons Vesuvius; also Vesevus or Vesaevus in some Roman sources) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.

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Mozart in Italy

Between 1769 and 1773, the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold Mozart made three Italian journeys.

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Muography

Muography is an imaging technique that produces a projectional image of a target volume by recording elementary particles, called muons, either electronically or chemically with materials that are sensitive to charged particles such as nuclear emulsions.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface.

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Murmillo

The murmillo (also sometimes spelled "mirmillo" or "myrmillo", pl. murmillones) was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age.

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Music of ancient Rome

The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from earliest times.

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Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall

Spike Milligan's fourth volume of war memoirs, Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall, spans the landing in Salerno, Italy, September 23, 1943, to his being invalided.

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Must Farm Bronze Age settlement

Part of a Bronze Age settlement was uncovered at Must Farm quarry, at Whittlesey, near Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Mysłakowice

Mysłakowice (Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf) is a village in Jelenia Góra County (Hirschberg), Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Names of European cities in different languages: M–P

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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Naples metropolitan railway service

Naples Metropolitan Railway service are two independent companies that operate a commuter rail system in Naples.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants of the Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis) family.

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Narcissus in culture

Long celebrated in art and literature, narcissi (various common names include daffodil and jonquil) are associated with a number of themes in different cultures, ranging from death to good fortune, and as symbols of Spring.

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National Archaeological Museum, Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (italic, sometimes abbreviated to MANN) is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains.

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National Archaeology Museum (Portugal)

The National Museum of Archaeology (Portugal) (Museu Nacional de Arqueologia) is the largest Archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula.

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National Museum of Brazil

The National Museum (Museu Nacional) is the oldest scientific institution of Brazil and one of the largest museums of natural history and anthropology in the Americas.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.

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Neapolitan cuisine

Neapolitan cuisine has ancient historical roots that date back to the Greco-Roman period, which was enriched over the centuries by the influence of the different cultures that controlled Naples and its kingdoms, such as that of Aragon and France.

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Necropolis of Cyrene

The Necropolis of Cyrene is a necropolis located between Cyrene, Libya and the ancient port of Apollonia, at the western slope of the Wadi Haleg Shaloof hill.

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Nemi ships

The Nemi Ships were two ships, one ship larger than the other, built by the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD at Lake Nemi.

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Neo-Grec

Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870).

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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Neoclassical architecture in Belgium

Neoclassical architecture (Architecture néoclassique) appeared in Belgium during the period of Austrian occupation in the mid-18th century and enjoyed considerably longevity in the country, surviving through periods of French and Dutch occupation and the birth of Independent Belgium, surviving well into the 20th century.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Neoclassicism in France

Neoclassicism is a movement in architecture, design and the arts which was dominant in France between about 1760 to 1830.

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Nephele

In Greek mythology, Nephele (Νεφέλη, from νέφος nephos "cloud"; Latinized to Nubes) was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.

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Neria (gens)

The gens Neria was a minor plebeian family at Rome.

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Nerium

Nerium oleander is a shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, toxic in all its parts.

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NG Life

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mizuho Kusanagi.

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Nicola Barile

Nicola Barile (born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, February 5, 1962) is an Italian screenwriter, writer and director.

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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a 2014 American comedy adventure film directed by Shawn Levy and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman.

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Nile mosaic of Palestrina

The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina. The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean.

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Nocera Inferiore

Nocera Inferiore (Nucere,; locally) is a city and comune in Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, at the foot of Monte Albino, east-south-east of Naples by rail.

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Nocera Superiore

Nocera Superiore (Nucere) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.

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Nola

Nola is a town and a modern municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy.

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Nola-Croce del Papa

Nola-Croce del Papa was an early Bronze age village discovered in May 2001 in the Campania region near Nola, Italy.

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Non Sequitur (comic strip)

Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller (usually credited as just Wiley) in 1992 and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to over 700 newspapers.

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Nordic Classicism

Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.

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Normalcy bias

The normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a belief people hold when facing a disaster.

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Novellia (gens)

The gens Novellia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome.

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Nueva Pompeya

Nueva Pompeya (Spanish for New Pompei) is a neighbourhood in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Nundinae

The nundinae, sometimes anglicized to nundines,.

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Obellia (gens)

The gens Obellia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome, known almost entirely from inscriptions.

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Occia (gens)

The gens Occia was a minor plebeian family at Rome.

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Ochre

Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.

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October Horse

In ancient Roman religion, the October Horse (Latin Equus October) was an animal sacrifice to Mars carried out on October 15, coinciding with the end of the agricultural and military campaigning season.

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Olla (Roman pot)

In ancient Roman culture, the olla (archaic Latin: aula or aulla; Greek: χύτρα, chytra) is a squat, rounded pot or jar.

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Olof Tempelman

Olof Samuel Tempelman (February 21, 1745, Källstad, Östergötland - July 27, 1816, Stockholm) was a Swedish architect and, from 1779, professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

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Omar D'León

Omar D'León (born Omar D'León Lacayo y Estrada in 1929 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a well-known Nicaraguan painter and poet.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Opetreia (gens)

The gens Opetreia was a plebeian family at Rome.

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Oplontis

Oplontis was an ancient Roman site near Pompeii in Italy.

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Opus craticum

Opus craticum or craticii is an ancient Roman construction technique described by Vitruvius in his books De architectura as wattlework which is plastered over.

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Opus vermiculatum

Opus vermiculatum is a method of laying mosaic tesserae to emphasise an outline around a subject.

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Orpheion

The "Orpheion", also known as the Orpheion Theater, is a traditional outdoor Greek hillside theater on the Irving, Texas, campus of the University of Dallas.

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Oryol i Reshka

Oryol i Reshka (Орел і Решка, Орёл и Решка, lit. Heads and Tails) is a Ukrainian television travel series that launched in 2011.

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Ostoria (gens)

The gens Ostoria, occasionally written Hostoria, was a plebeian family at Rome.

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Out from the Deep

"Out from the Deep" is a 1994 song created by the German electronic band Enigma.

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Outline of ancient Rome

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC.

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Ovidia (gens)

The gens Ovidia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome.

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Oxyathres of Persia

Oxyathres (in Greek Oξυαθρης; in Old Persian Vaxšuvarda; lived 4th century BC) was a brother of the Persian king Darius III Codomannus.

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Paestum

Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia (southern Italy).

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Pagani, Campania

Pagani (Pavan) is a town and comune in Campania, Italy, administratively part of the Province of Salerno.

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Paisley Magnet School

John W. Paisley Magnet School is a Middle school/High school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Palace of Portici

The Royal Palace of Portici (Reggia di Portici or Palazzo Reale di Portici; Reggia ‘e Puortece) is a former royal palace in Portici, southern Italy.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός, palaiós, "old", and γράφειν, graphein, "to write") is the study of ancient and historical handwriting (that is to say, of the forms and processes of writing, not the textual content of documents).

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Palaestra at Olympia

The palaestra at Olympia is an ancient edifice in Olympia, Greece, part of the gymnasium at the sanctuary.

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Pan (god)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (Πάν, Pan) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs.

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Panorama

A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "sight") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images or a three-dimensional model.

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Panoramic photography

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view.

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Park Glienicke

Park Glienicke, (German: Park Klein-Glienicke or Glienicker Park) is an English landscape garden in the southwestern outskirts of Berlin, Germany.

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Patulcia (gens)

The gens Patulcia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome.

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Paul W. S. Anderson

Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter who regularly works in science fiction films and video game adaptations.

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Pavonazzo marble

Pavonazzetto marble also known as Docimaean marble, "Book 9, chapter 5, section 16" is a white marble originally from Docimium, or modern Iscehisar, Turkey.

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Payson D. Sheets

Payson D. Sheets is an American archaeologist, Mayanist, and professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Pedestrian crossing

A pedestrian crossing (British English) or crosswalk (American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road.

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Peiraikos

Peiraikos, or Piraeicus, was an Ancient Greek painter of uncertain date and location.

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Pen

A pen is a common writing instrument used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing.

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Peopling of India

The peopling of India refers to the migration of Homo sapiens and earlier hominids into the Indian subcontinent.

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Permanent way (history)

The permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers ("ties" in American parlance) embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway.

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Petar II Petrović-Njegoš

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (Петар II Петровић-Његош,; –), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš, was a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Montenegrin literature.

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Peter Kruschwitz

Peter Kruschwitz (born 1973) is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and deputy head of the Classics Department there.

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Petillia (gens)

The gens Petillia or Petilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Petra

Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan.

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Phaedra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Phaedra (Φαίδρα, Phaidra) (or Fedra) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus, sister of Ariadne, and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.

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Phallus

A phallus is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.

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Philipp Hoffmann (architect)

Philipp Hoffmann (23 November 1806 – 3 January 1889) was a German architect and builder, principally known for his work in the Nassau capital in Wiesbaden.

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Philoxenus of Eretria

Philoxenus of Eretria (Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς) was a painter from Eretria, the disciple of Nicomachus of Thebes, whose speed in painting he imitated and even surpassed, having discovered some new and rapid methods of colouring.

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Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death

Picasso: Magic, Sex, & Death (2001) is a three-episode Channel 4 film documentary series on Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) presented by the artist's friend and biographer John Richardson, and directed by Christopher Bruce or British art critic Waldemar Januszczak, who was also the series director.

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Pierre Jean Robiquet

Pierre Jean Robiquet (13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist.

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Pierre Willems

Pierre Willems (born Maastricht, 6 January 1840; died Leuven, 23 February 1898) was a Dutch philologist and historian of Ancient Rome.

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Pierre-Adrien Pâris

Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 - 1 August 1819) was a French architect, painter and designer.

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Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville

Pierre-François Hugues, known as 'baron d'Hancarville' (Nancy 1719 - Padua 1805) was an art historian and historian of ideas.

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Pietro la Vega

Pietro la Vega (died 1810) was a Spanish archaeologist and artist known for his drawings of the ruins of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.

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Piggy bank

Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin container normally used by children.

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Pilia (gens)

The gens Pilia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert documentary film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.

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Plane (tool)

A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Plato's Academy mosaic

Plato's Academy mosaic was created in the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii, around 100 BC to 100 CE.

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Playhouse Square

Playhouse Square is a theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

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Plinian eruption

Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.

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Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.

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Pliny the Younger

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.

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Poggiomarino

Poggiomarino is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 25 km east of Naples.

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Pollia (gens)

The gens Pollia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Pollice Verso (Gérôme)

Pollice Verso (from with a turned thumb) is a painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiators.

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Polyphemus

Polyphemus (Πολύφημος Polyphēmos) is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.

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Pompei

Pompei is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, home of the ancient Roman ruins part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri (Circumvesuviana station)

Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri is a railway station in Pompei, Italy, on the Naples-Sorrento line of the Circumvesuviana commuter rail system.

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Pompeian Styles

The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting.

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Pompeii (film)

Pompeii is a 2014 3D romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

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Pompeii (novel)

Pompeii is a novel by Robert Harris, published by Random House in 2003.

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Pompeii (song)

"Pompeii" is a song by English indie rock band Bastille.

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Pompeii in popular culture

The ancient Roman city of Pompeii has been frequently featured in literature and popular culture since its modern rediscovery.

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Pompeii Lakshmi

The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE.

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Pompeii: The Last Day

Pompeii: The Last Day is a 2003 dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24 79 AD.

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Pompejanum

The Pompejanum (or Pompeiianum) is an idealised replica of a Roman villa, located on the high banks of the river Main in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany.

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Pompey (disambiguation)

Pompey, otherwise known as Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, was a Roman statesman.

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Pompeya

Pompeya may refer to.

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Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli

The Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli (or Marinelli Pontifical Foundry, Marinelli Bell Foundry) is the successor of a bell foundry already at work in Agnone, Italy in 1040.

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Pop Warner

Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game.

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Poppaea (gens)

The gens Poppaea was a minor plebeian family at Rome.

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Poppaea Sabina

Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 – AD 65)—known as Poppaea Sabina the Younger (to differentiate her from her mother) and, after AD 63, as Poppaea Augusta Sabina—was a Roman Empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero.

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Pornography

Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal.

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Portative organ

A portative organ (portatif organ, portativ organ, or simply portative, portatif, or portativ) (from the Latin verb portare, "to carry"), also known during Italian Trecento as the organetto, is a small pipe organ that consists of one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.

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Portland Vase

The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated to between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support.

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Portrait of Paquius Proculo

The so-called portrait of Paquius Proculo is a fresco currently preserved at the Naples National Archaeological Museum that was found in Pompeii.

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Portus Julius

Portus Julius (alternatively spelled in the Latin "Iulius") (Portus Iulius) was the first harbor specifically constructed to be a base for the Roman western naval fleet, the classis Misenensis.

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Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh

The fame of Vincent van Gogh began to spread in France and Belgium during the last year of his life, and in the years after his death in the Netherlands and Germany.

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Powis Castle

Powis Castle (Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.

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Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories relate to visits or interactions with the Americas and/or indigenous peoples of the Americas by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania before Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.

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Priapism

Priapism is a condition in which a penis remains erect for hours in the absence of stimulation or after stimulation has ended.

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Priapus

In Greek mythology, Priapus (Πρίαπος, Priapos) was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia.

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Propertius

Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.

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Prostitution in ancient Greece

Prostitution was a common aspect of ancient Greece.

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Prostitution in ancient Rome

Prostitution in ancient Rome was legal and licensed.

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Province of Naples

The Province of Naples (Italian: Provincia di Napoli, Napulitano: Pruvincia 'e Nàpule) was a province in the Campania region of southern Italy; since January 2015 has been replaced by the Metropolitan City of Naples.

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Purpurin (glass)

Purpurin (Italian: Porporino; Latin: Haematinum, derived from Greek haimátinos.

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Pyroclastic fall

A pyroclastic fall is a uniform deposit of material which has been ejected from a volcanic eruption or plume such as an ash fall or tuff.

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Pyroclastic flow

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that moves away from a volcano reaching speeds of up to.

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Quadriga

A quadriga (Latin quadri-, four, and iugum, yoke) is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast (the Roman Empire's equivalent of Ancient Greek tethrippon).

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Quickening (Highlander)

The Quickening is a phenomenon in the ''Highlander'' films and television series.

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Quintus Aurelius Pactumeius Fronto

Quintus Aurelius Pactumeius Fronto was a Roman senator active during the first century AD.

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Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus is a character in the Cambridge Latin Course series of books, set in the Ancient Roman Empire.

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Rabiria gens

The gens Rabiria was a minor plebeian family at Ancient Rome.

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Rattle That Lock

Rattle That Lock is the fourth solo studio album by Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour.

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Rattle That Lock Tour

The Rattle That Lock Tour was a concert tour by English singer and musician David Gilmour to support his fourth solo studio album, Rattle That Lock.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in Ancient Rome includes the ancestral ethnic religion of the city of Rome that the Romans used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Roman rule, in so far as they became widely followed in Rome and Italy.

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Religious festival

A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion.

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Rennia gens

The gens Rennia, occasionally written Renia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Reptiles in culture

Reptiles have featured in culture for centuries, both symbolically and for practical purposes.

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Restaurant

A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money.

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Retiarius

A retiarius (plural retiarii; literally, "net-man" or "net-fighter" in Latin) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted net (rete, hence the name), a three-pointed trident (fuscina or tridens), and a dagger (pugio).

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Richard Schöne

Richard Schöne (5 February 1840, in Dresden – 5 March 1922, in Berlin-Grunewald) was a German archaeologist and classical philologist.

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Riga

Riga (Rīga) is the capital and largest city of Latvia.

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Robin Symes

Robin Symes (born February 1939) is a now-disgraced British antiquities dealer who was unmasked as a key player in an international criminal network that traded in looted archaeological treasures.

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Rocaille

Rocaille was a French style of exuberant decoration, with an abundance of curves, counter-curves, undulations and elements modeled on nature, that appeared in furniture and interior decoration during the early reign of Louis XV of France.

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Rocket Science VFX

Rocket Science VFX RSVFX is a visual effects post-production studio based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and specializing in feature films and television projects.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly roccoco, or "Late Baroque", was an exuberantly decorative 18th-century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement.

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Rodolfo Siviero

Rodolfo Siviero (24 December 1911 - 1983) was an Italian secret agent, art historian and intellectual, most notable for his important work in recovering artworks stolen from Italy during the Second World War as part of the 'Nazi plunder'.

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Roman amphitheatre

Roman amphitheatres are amphitheatres – large, circular or oval open-air venues with raised seating – built by the ancient Romans.

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Roman art

Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire.

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Roman Charity

Roman Charity (Latin Caritas romana; Italian Carità Romana) is the exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman funerary art

Roman funerary art changed throughout the course of the Republic and the Empire and comprised many different forms.

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Roman gardens

Roman gardens and ornamental horticulture became highly developed under Roman civilization.

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Roman graffiti

In archaeological terms graffiti (plural of graffito) is a mark, image or writing, scratched or engraved into a surface.

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Roman mosaic

A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire.

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Roman Mysteries (TV series)

Roman Mysteries is a television series based on the series of children's historical novels by Caroline Lawrence.

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Roman portraiture

Roman portraiture was one of the most significant periods in the development of portrait art.

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Roman sculpture

The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture.

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Roman Theatre (Mérida)

The Roman Theatre of Mérida is a construction promoted by the consul Vipsanius Agrippa in the Roman city of Emerita Augusta, capital of Lusitania (current Mérida, Spain).

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Roman villa

A Roman villa was a country house built for the upper class in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, similar in form to the hacienda estates in the colonies of the Spanish Empire.

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Roman wall painting (200 BC–AD 79)

Roman wall paintings are unique pieces of art that have been found in private homes in many different Roman cities, along with the countryside in Italy.

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Roof garden

A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building.

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Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre

Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre (16 August 1702 – 14 March 1780) was a military engineer in the Spanish Army who discovered architectural remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Rose madder

Rose madder is the commercial name sometimes used to designate a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum.

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Rotulus

A rotulus (plural: rotuli) is a kind of roll consisting of a long and narrow strip of writing material, historically papyrus or parchment, that is wound around a wooden axle or rod and is written on its interior face or side such that it is unwound vertically so that the writing runs parallel to the rod, unlike the other kind of roll, namely the "scroll", whose writing runs perpendicular to the rod in multiple columns.

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Rudolf Wiegmann

Heinrich Ernst Gottfried Rudolf Wiegmann (17 April 1804, Nordstemmen - 17 April 1865, Düsseldorf) was a German painter, archaeologist, art historian, graphic artist and architect.

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Ruins

Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once intact have fallen, as time went by, into a state of partial or total disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction.

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Ruse, Bulgaria

Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe or Rusçuk; Русе) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria.

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Rusticelia gens

The gens Rusticelia, occasionally spelled Rusticellia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Rut (roads)

A rut is a depression or groove worn into a road or path by the travel of wheels or skis.

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Sacrificial tripod

A sacrificial tripod is a three-legged piece of religious furniture used for offerings or other ritual procedures.

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Saint-Pierre, Martinique

Saint-Pierre is a town and commune of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc.

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Saliena gens

The gens Saliena or Salliena, also written Salena, Sallena, and Sallienia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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San Giorgio a Cremano

San Giorgio a Cremano is a primarily residential town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy.

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San Nicola in Carcere

San Nicola in Carcere (Italian, "St Nicholas in prison") is a titular church in Rome near the Forum Boarium in rione Sant'Angelo.

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Sandro Bondi

Sandro Bondi (born 14 May 1959) is an Italian politician.

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Sanitation in ancient Rome

Sanitation in ancient Rome was well advanced compared to other ancient cities and was providing water supply and sanitation services to residents of Rome.

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Santorini

Santorini (Σαντορίνη), classically Thera (English pronunciation), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland.

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Sara Losh

Sara or Sarah Losh (1785–29 March 1853) was an English architect and designer.

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Sarno

Sarno is a town and comune and former Latin Catholic bishopric of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 20 km northeast from the city of Salerno and 60 km east of Naples by the main railway.

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Sarno (river)

The Sarno, known as Sarnus to the Romans, is a stream that passes through Pompeii to the south of the Italian city of Naples.

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Sasha Matthews

Sasha Matthews is a cartoonist, activist, and 8th grader living in New York City.

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Sator Square

The Sator Square (or Rotas Square) is a word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome: In particular, this is a square 2D palindrome, which is when a square text admits four symmetries: identity, two diagonal reflections, and 180 degree rotation.

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Saturia gens

The gens Saturia was an obscure plebeian family of equestrian rank at ancient Rome.

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Saturn (mythology)

Saturn (Saturnus) is a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in myth as a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation.

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School of Posillipo

The School of Posillipo refers to a loose group of landscape painters, based in the waterfront Posillipo neighborhood of Naples, Italy.

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Scroll

A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

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Seated Hermes

The bronze Seated Hermes, found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum in 1758, is at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

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Seccia gens

The gens Seccia, Secia, or Siccia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Secret Museum, Naples

The Secret Museum or Secret Cabinet (Gabinetto Segreto) of Naples is the collection of erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum, held in separate galleries in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy, the former Museo Borbonico.

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See-through clothing

See-through clothing is any garment of clothing made with lace, mesh or sheer fabric that allows the wearer's body or undergarments to be seen through its fabric.

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Seeing the World

Seeing the World (also known as A Roamin' Holiday) is a 1927 silent Our Gang film, directed by Robert F. McGowan and Anthony Mack.

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Sestertius

The sestertius (plural sestertii), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin.

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Sexuality in ancient Rome

Sexuality in ancient Rome, and more broadly, sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome, are indicated by Roman art, literature and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.

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Shelagh Cluett

Shelagh Cluett (17 December 1947 – 25 July 2007) was an artist and fine art lecturer working in London, England, from the late 1960s until 2007.

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Shelley Tanaka

Shelley Tanaka is a Canadian editor of numerous young adult novels, an award-winning author of non-fiction for children, a translator, and a writing teacher.

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Shrimp

The term shrimp is used to refer to some decapod crustaceans, although the exact animals covered can vary.

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Shusha massacre

The Shusha massacre (Շուշիի ջարդեր – Shushii charder) was the mass killing of the Armenian population of Shusha and the destruction of the Armenian half of the city that followed the suppression of the Armenian revolt against the authorities of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1920.

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Sicilian Baroque

Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, when it was part of the Spanish Empire.

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Sideburns

Sideburns, sideboards, or side whiskers are patches of facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to run parallel to or beyond the ears.

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Silenus

In Greek mythology, Silenus (Greek: Σειληνός Seilēnos) was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.

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Silvio Oddi

Silvio Angelo Pio Oddi (14 November 1910 in Morfasso, near Piacenza, Italy – 29 June 2001 in Cortemaggiore) was a diplomat in the service of the Holy See and a Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, using traditional animation with some computer animation.

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Sir John Soane's Museum

Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum that was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect John Soane.

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Skara Brae

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

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Slavery in ancient Rome

Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy.

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Sliding door

A sliding door is a type of door which opens horizontally by sliding, usually parallel to a wall.

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Social War (91–88 BC)

The Social War (from socii ("allies"), thus Bellum Sociale; also called the Italian War, the War of the Allies or the Marsic War) was a war waged from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of the other cities in Italy, which prior to the war had been Roman allies for centuries.

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Somma Vesuviana

Somma Vesuviana is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.

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Sorrento

Sorrento (Surriento) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy.

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Southern Italy

Southern Italy or Mezzogiorno (literally "midday") is a macroregion of Italy traditionally encompassing the territories of the former Kingdom of the two Sicilies (all the southern section of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily), with the frequent addition of the island of Sardinia.

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Speculum (medical)

A speculum (Latin for "mirror"; plural specula or speculums) is a medical tool for investigating body orifices, with a form dependent on the orifice for which it is designed.

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Spencer W. Kimball

Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was an American business, civic, and religious leader, and was the 12th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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SS Imperator

SS Imperator was an ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line (Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft, or HAPAG), launched in 1912.

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St Martin's Church, Brighton

St Martin's Church (in full, St Martin with St Wilfrid, St Alban and St Richard Hollingdean) is an Anglican church in Brighton, England, dating from the mid-Victorian era.

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Stabiae

Stabiae was an ancient Roman town near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii, which became famous for the magnificent Roman villas found there in recent times.

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Standard of Ur

The Standard of Ur is an artifact, a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 centimetres (8.50 in) wide by 49.53 centimetres (19.50 in) long, inlaid with a mosaic of shell, red limestone and lapis lazuli.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Stateira II

Stateira II (Στάτειρα; died 323 BC), possibly also known as Barsine, was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia.

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Stefan Bakałowicz

Stefan Bakałowicz (Степан Бакалович) (October 17, 1857, Warsaw – 1947, Rome) was a Polish painter from Warsaw, famous in the Russian Empire.

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Steve Reeves

Stephen Lester "Steve" Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder, actor, and philanthropist.

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Still life

A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

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Storer House (Los Angeles)

Storer House is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles built in 1923.

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Strabo

Strabo (Στράβων Strábōn; 64 or 63 BC AD 24) was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Street hierarchy

The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas.

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Suburban Baths (Pompeii)

The Suburban Baths are located in Pompeii, Italy.

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Sunshine (2007 film)

Sunshine is a 2007 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and adapted from a screenplay written by Alex Garland.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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Sweetbriar

Sweetbriar is a Neoclassical mansion in the Federal style built in 1797 in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

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Taberna

A taberna (plural tabernae) was a single room shop covered by a barrel vault within great indoor markets of ancient Rome.

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Tabitha Lenox

Tabitha Lenox is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists from the NBC/DirecTV daytime drama Passions.

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Tabula Peutingeriana

Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for "The Peutinger Map"), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the road network of the Roman Empire.

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Take-out

Take-out or takeout (in North America—U.S. and Canada—and the Philippines); carry-out (in some dialects in the U.S. and Scotland); take-away (in the United Kingdom other than Scotland, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland), takeaways (in New Zealand), parcel (in Indian and Pakistani English), refer to prepared meals or other food items, purchased at a restaurant, that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere.

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Tambora culture

Tambora is a lost village and culture on Sumbawa Island buried by volcanic ash and pyroclastic flows from the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.

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Tatiana Warsher

Tatiana Warsher (1880–1960) was a Russian archaeologist known for her studies of Pompeii, especially her 40-volume Codex Topographicus Pompeianus.

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Telephus

In Greek mythology, Telephus (Τήλεφος, Tēlephos, "far-shining") was the son of Heracles and Auge, daughter of king Aleus of Tegea; and the father of Eurypylus.

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Temple of Apollo (Pompeii)

The Temple of Apollo is a Roman temple dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, southern Italy.

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Temple of Isis (Pompeii)

The Temple of Isis is a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

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Temple of Jupiter (Pompeii)

The Temple of Jupiter, Capitolium, or Temple of the Capitoline Triad was a temple in Roman Pompeii, at the north end of its forum.

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Tepidarium

The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system.

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Teppe Hasanlu

Teppe Hasanlu or Tappeh Hassanlu (Persian: تپه حسنلو) is an archeological site of an ancient cityThe Cambridge History of Iran (ed. by W.B. Fischer, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yarshster).

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Terra Circa

The Mondo Enduro round the world motorbike expedition attempted but did not cross the Zilov Gap in Central Siberia.

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Terra sigillata

Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red Ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a description of a contemporary studio pottery technique supposedly inspired by ancient pottery.

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Tessera

A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a cube, used in creating a mosaic.

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TG Lurgan

TG Lurgan is a musical project launched by Coláiste Lurgan, an independent Irish language summer school based in Connemara, a Gaeltacht, an Irish district where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular.

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Théodore Ballu

Théodore Ballu (8 June 1817 - 22 May 1885) was a French architect who designed numerous public buildings in Paris.

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Théodore Chassériau

Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times.

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The Battle of Alexander at Issus

The Battle of Alexander at Issus (German: Alexanderschlacht) is a 1529 oil painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), a pioneer of landscape art and a founding member of the Danube school.

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The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli probably made in the mid 1480s.

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The Boy Who Was

The Boy Who Was is a children's historical fantasy novel by Grace Taber Hallock.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

The Dark Ages: An Age of Light is a four-part documentary television series written, directed, and presented by British art critic Waldemar Januszczak looking at the art and architecture of the Dark Ages that shows the era to be an age of enlightenment.

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The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New

The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New is the debut album by Adair.

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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum is a large 1822 painting by English artist John Martin.

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The Diamond Jubilee World Tour

The Diamond Jubilee World is the concert tour by American recording artist, Frank Sinatra, with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé.

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The Fires of Pompeii

"The Fires of Pompeii" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Fires of Vulcan

The Fires of Vulcan is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The History of Rome (podcast)

The History of Rome, often abbreviated THoR, was a podcast created by Mike Duncan which aired between 2007 and 2012.

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The Italian Bob

"The Italian Bob" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' seventeenth season.

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The Kingdom of the Wicked

The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess.

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The Last Day of Pompeii

The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

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The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (1913 film)

Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (English title: The Last Days of Pompeii) is a 1913 Italian black and white silent film directed by Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 film)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) is an RKO Radio Pictures film starring Preston Foster and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, creators of the original King Kong.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (1959 film)

The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1959 sword and sandal action film starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, and Fernando Rey and directed by Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (album)

The Last Days of Pompeii is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Nova Mob, released on February 22, 1991 by Rough Trade.

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The Last Days of Pompeii (disambiguation)

The Last Days of Pompeii is a 1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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The Secrets of Vesuvius

The Secrets of Vesuvius is a children's historical novel set in Roman times by Caroline Lawrence.

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The Spoils of War (Game of Thrones)

"The Spoils of War" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 64th overall.

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The Thieves of Ostia

The Thieves of Ostia is a 2001 historical novel for children written by Caroline Lawrence, the first book in The Roman Mysteries series.

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The Time Tunnel

The Time Tunnel is an American color science-fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure and starring James Darren and Robert Colbert.

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The Wacky World of Tex Avery

The Wacky World of Tex Avery is a French–American–Canadian animated comedy television series produced by DIC Entertainment and created by Robby London in 1997.

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Theatre Area of Pompeii

The theatre area of Pompeii is located in the southwest region of the city.

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Theodor Verhoeven

Theodorus Lambertus Verhoeven, SVD, (17 September 1907, Uden – 1990) was a Dutch archaeologist and missionary who made the significant paleontological discovery in Indonesia of archaic stone tools in association with the c. 800,000-year-old fossils of stegodontids, or dwarf elephants, from which he concluded that islands in Wallacea had been reached by Homo erectus before modern humans appeared there.

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Thermae

In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing.

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Thermopolium

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, a thermopolium (plural thermopolia), from Greek θερμοπώλιον (thermopōlion), i.e. cook-shop, literally "a place where (something) hot is sold", was a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food.

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Thomas B. Jeffery

Thomas Buckland Jeffery (5 February 1845 – 2 April 1910) was an inventor of the clincher tire/rim and manufacturer of bicycles and early automobiles, founder of the Rambler brand.

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Thomas B. Jeffery Company

The Thomas B. Jeffery Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin from 1902 until 1916.

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Tiberius Claudius Verus

Tiberius Claudius Verus (fl. 60s AD) was a local politician in Pompeii.

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Tiger versus lion

Historically, the comparative merits of the tiger (Panthera tigris) versus the lion (Panthera leo) have been a popular topic of discussion by hunters, naturalists, artists and poets, and continue to inspire the popular imagination in the present day.

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Timanthes

Timanthes of Cythnus (Τιμάνϑης) was an ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC.

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Timeline of ancient history

This timeline of ancient history lists historical events of the documented ancient past from the beginning of recorded history until the Early Middle Ages.

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Timeline of environmental history

The timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history.

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Timeline of Italian history

This is a timeline of Italian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Italy and its predecessor states.

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Timeline of Italian unification

The Italian unification Time line is as follows.

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Timeline of LGBT history

The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) history.

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Timeline of Naples

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Naples.

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Timeline of Roman history

This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

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Timomachus

Timomachus of Byzantium (or Timomachos, a transliteration of Τιμόμαχος) was an influential painter of the first century BCE.

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Titus

Titus (Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus; 30 December 39 – 13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81.

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Toilet

A toilet is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human urine and feces.

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Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker

The tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces the baker is one of the largest and best-preserved freedman funerary monuments in Rome.

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Tony Peluso

Anthony F. "Tony" Peluso (March 28, 1950 – June 5, 2010) was an American guitarist and record producer.

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Tourism in Italy

With 52.4 million tourists a year (2016), Italy is the fifth most visited country in international tourism arrivals.

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Trapezophoron

A trapezophore, trapezophorum or trapezophoron is the leg or pedestal of a small side table, generally in marble, and carved with winged lions or griffins set back to back, each with a single leg, which formed the support of the pedestal on either side.

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Travel

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.

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Treasures of Ancient Rome

Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke.

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Triclinium

A triclinium (plural: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building.

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Trimalchio

Trimalchio is a character in the 1st century AD Roman work of fiction Satyricon by Petronius.

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Triple Z (TV series)

Triple Z is a French cartoon that aired during 1998 and 2000.

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Trompe-l'œil

Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

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Types of volcanic eruptions

Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which lava, tephra (ash, lapilli, volcanic bombs and volcanic blocks), and assorted gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.

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Ulpiano Checa

Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz (April 3, 1860 – January 5, 1916), known as Ulpiano Checa, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer and illustrator.

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Unearthed (E.S. Posthumus album)

Unearthed, the first album composed by E.S. Posthumus, was originally made available for purchase online through the CD Baby website in January 2001.

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Up Pompeii (film)

Up Pompeii is a 1971 British sex comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern.

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Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd.

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Urban archaeology

Urban archaeology is a sub discipline of archaeology specialising in the material past of towns and cities where long-term human habitation has often left a rich record of the past.

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Vacuum pump

A vacuum pump is a device that removes gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum.

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Vasily Kenel

Vasily Alexandrovich Kenel (1834–1893) was a Russian architect.

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Vasily Sergeyevich Smirnov (painter)

Vasily Sergeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Василий Сергеевич Смирнов; 12 August 1858, Moscow - 17 December 1890, near Golitsyno) was a Russian painter in the Academic style who specialized in scenes from ancient history.

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Venereum

Venereum (after goddess Venus) was an element of ancient Roman private apartments found particularly in Pompeii.

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Venus (mythology)

Venus (Classical Latin) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory.

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Vergilius Vaticanus

The Vergilius Vaticanus or Vatican Virgil (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225) is a Late Antique illuminated manuscript containing, in its form today, fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics.

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Vermilion

Vermilion (sometimes spelled vermillion) is both a brilliant red or scarlet pigment originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar and the name of the resulting color.

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Vestal Virgin

In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis) were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.

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Vesuvio Playground

Vesuvio Playground is an neighborhood park located on the corner of Thompson Street and Spring Street, off of Prince Street, in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City.

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Vesuvius National Park

Vesuvius National Park (Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio) is an Italian national park centered on the active volcano Vesuvius, southeast from Naples.

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Vico Equense

Vico Equense is a coastal town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in southern Italy.

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Villa

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house.

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Villa Boscoreale

Many Roman villas have been discovered in the district of Boscoreale, Italy.

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Villa of Diomedes

The Villa of Diomedes is a villa in Pompeii, Italy.

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Villa of the Mysteries

The Villa of the Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) is a well-preserved suburban Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy, famous for the series of frescos in one room, which are usually thought to show the initiation of a young woman into a Greco-Roman mystery cult.

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Villa Poppaea

The Villa Poppaea is an ancient Roman seaside villa (villa maritima) situated between Naples and Sorrento, in southern Italy.

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Vincenzo Galdi

Vincenzo Galdi (Naples, October 11, 1871 – Rome, December 23, 1961) was an Italian model and photographer.

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Vincenzo Loria

Vincenzo Loria (September 4, 1850 – 1939) was an Italian painter, active mainly as a watercolor artist in Naples.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

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Vittoriale degli italiani

The Vittoriale degli italiani (English translation: The shrine of Italian victories) is a hillside estate in the town of Gardone Riviera overlooking the Garda lake in province of Brescia, Lombardy.

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Volcano (Gatsbys American Dream album)

Volcano is the third album by Gatsbys American Dream.

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Volcano Live

Volcano Live was a live television programme broadcast on BBC Two from 9 July 2012.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin or Sermo Vulgaris ("common speech") was a nonstandard form of Latin (as opposed to Classical Latin, the standard and literary version of the language) spoken in the Mediterranean region during and after the classical period of the Roman Empire.

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Walther Judeich

Walther Judeich (5 October 1859, Dresden – 24 February 1942, Jena) was a German ancient historian.

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Warehouse 13 (season 4)

The fourth season of the American television series Warehouse 13 premiered on July 23, 2012 on Syfy.

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Warren Cup

The Warren Cup is a silver drinking cup decorated in relief with two images of male same-sex acts.

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Wars of Alexander the Great

The wars of Alexander the Great were fought by King Alexander III of Macedon ("The Great"), first against the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Darius III, and then against local chieftains and warlords as far east as Punjab, India.

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Water rail

The water rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

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Watkins Electric Music

Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British company known for manufacturing musical instruments, guitar, bass and PA amplification and the CopiCat tape echo machine.

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West By Sea

West By Sea is an armchair treasure hunt book in the form of a travel journal.

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Western painting

The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time.

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Westworld (film)

Westworld is a 1973 American science fiction Western thriller film written and directed by novelist Michael Crichton about amusement park androids that malfunction and begin killing visitors.

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Whittlesey

Whittlesey (historically known as Whittlesea or Witesie) is an ancient Fenland market town about east of Peterborough, in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire in England.

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Wicker

Wicker is a technique for making products woven from any one of a variety of cane-like materials, a generic name for the materials used in such manufacture, and a term for the items so produced.

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Wiesbaden City Palace

Wiesbaden City Palace (Stadtschloss Wiesbaden or Wiesbadener Stadtschloss) is a neo-classical building in the center of Wiesbaden, Germany.

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Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn

Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn (21 August 1800 in Rodenberg, Schaumburg – 22 August 1871 in Berlin) was a German architect, painter and art critic.

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Wilhelm Ternite

Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite (5 September 1786, Neustrelitz - 22 October 1871, Potsdam) was a German portrait painter, miniaturist and lithographer.

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Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

Wilhelmina Mary Feemster Jashemski (July 10, 1910 – December 24, 2007) was a noted scholar of the ancient site of Pompeii, where her archaeological investigations focused on the evidence of gardens and horticulture in the ancient city.

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Wilton House

Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

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Wolfgang Helbig

Wolfgang Helbig (2 February 1839 – 6 October 1915) was a German classical archaeologist born in Dresden.

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Woman on top

Woman on top, also called the cowgirl or riding position, is a group of sex positions in which the man lies on his back or sits, the woman straddles him facing either forward or back, and the man inserts his erect penis into the woman's vagina or anus.

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Women in ancient Rome

Freeborn women in ancient Rome were citizens (cives), but could not vote or hold political office.

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Wonderful Crazy Night Tour

Wonderful Crazy Night Tour is a concert tour by British musician Elton John taking place in Europe and North America in 2016 and 2017.

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World tour of Ulysses S. Grant

The world tour of Ulysses S. Grant began in May 1877, only a couple of months after Grant's second presidential term had ended.

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WTVS

WTVS, virtual channel 56 (UHF digital channel 43), is a PBS member television station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Xanten Horse-Phalerae

The Xanten Horse-Phalerae is the name of a set of Roman silvered bronze horse-trappings found in Xanten, Germany.

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Xyston

The xyston (ξυστόν "spear, javelin; pointed stick, goad") was a type of a long thrusting spear in ancient Greece.

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Yellow

Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.

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Zliten mosaic

The Zliten mosaic is a Roman floor mosaic from about the 2nd century AD, found in the town of Zliten in Libya, on the east coast of Leptis Magna.

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1599

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1631

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1700s in archaeology

The decade of the 1700s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1710s in archaeology

The decade of the 1710s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1720s in archaeology

The decade of the 1720s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1730s in archaeology

The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1740s in archaeology

The decade of the 1740s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1748

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1748 in science

The year 1748 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1750s in archaeology

The decade of the 1750s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1760s in archaeology

The decade of the 1760s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1770s in archaeology

The decade of the 1770s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1780s in archaeology

The decade of the 1780s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1790s in archaeology

The decade of the 1790s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1795–1820 in Western fashion

Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century.

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1811 in archaeology

The year 1811 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1819 in archaeology

The year 1819 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1823 in archaeology

The year 1823 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1831 in archaeology

The year 1831 CE in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

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1843 in archaeology

1843 in archaeology.

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1860 in archaeology

1860 in archaeology.

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1866 Great fire of Portland, Maine

The great fire of Portland, Maine sometimes known as the 1866 Great fire of Portland in Maine occurred on July 4, 1866—the first Independence Day after the end of the American Civil War.

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1893 in archaeology

The year 1893 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1896 in archaeology

The year 1896 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1900 in archaeology

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1903 in archaeology

The year 1903 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1906 in Italy

See also: 1905 in Italy, other events of 1906, 1907 in Italy.

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1910 in archaeology

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1910 Rogers Pass avalanche

The 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 62 men clearing a railroad line near the summit of Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia on March 4, 1910.

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1911 Giro d'Italia

The 1911 Giro d'Italia was the 3rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

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1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team

The 1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1918 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

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1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1918 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1918 college football season.

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1927–28 Waratahs tour of the British Isles, France and Canada

Between July 1927 and March 1928 the New South Wales Waratahs, the top Australian representative rugby union side of the time, conducted a world tour encompassing Ceylon, Britain, France and Canada on which they played five Tests and twenty-six minor tour matches.

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1973 in archaeology

The year 1973 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1980 in archaeology

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1990 in archaeology

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1996 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) and American Express aimed at identifying and preserving the world’s most important endangered cultural landmarks.

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1998 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) and American Express to call to action and challenge government authorities responsible for important cultural resources to identify sites immediately at risk, and to stimulate public awareness of the tremendous need to preserve and create sustainable uses for significant heritage made by man.

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1st century

The 1st century was the century that lasted from AD 1 to AD 100 according to the Julian calendar.

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1st millennium

The first millennium was a period of time that began on January 1, AD 1, and ended on December 31, AD 1000, of the Julian calendar.

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2000 in archaeology

The year 2000 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.

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2000 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) and American Express to call upon every government in the world, preservation organizations, and other groups and individuals to nominate sites and monuments that are particularly endangered.

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2005 in archaeology

The year 2005 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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2006 in archaeology

The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.

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203 Pompeja

203 Pompeja is a quite large main-belt asteroid.

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50 BC

Year 50 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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600 BC

The year 600 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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600s BC (decade)

This article concerns the period 609 BC – 600 BC.

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62 Pompeii earthquake

The 62 Pompeii earthquake occurred on 5 February 62 AD.

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80 BC

Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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89 BC

Year 89 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii