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    Lake Nemi (Italian: Lago di Nemi, Latin: Nemorensis Lacus, also called Diana's Mirror, Latin: Speculum Dianae) is a small circular volcanic lake in the...
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    The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although the...
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    Nemi is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome (central Italy), in the Alban Hills overlooking Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater lake. It is 6 kilometres...
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    that the triple goddess cult image still stood in the lucus of Nemi in 43 BCE. Lake Nemi was called Triviae lacus by Virgil (Aeneid 7.516), while Horace...
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    is on the northern shore of Lake Nemi beneath the rim of the crater and the modern city Nemi. The worship of Diana at Nemi was supposedly instituted by...
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    situated on the northern shore of Lake Nemi, beneath the rim of the crater and the modern city of Nemi. Worship of Diana at Nemi may have flourished from at...
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  • Temple of Diana (Rome) in ancient Rome Temple of Diana (Nemi) in ancient Rome, on the shore of Lake Nemi Temple of Diana (Nîmes) in Nîmes, France Temple of...
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    Rex Nemorensis (category Lake Nemi)
    rex Nemorensis (Latin, "king of Nemi") was a priest of the goddess Diana at Aricia in Italy, by the shores of Lake Nemi, where she was known as Diana Nemorensis...
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  • Nemi (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈnêːmi]) is a Norwegian comic strip, written and drawn by Lise Myhre. It made its first appearance in 1997 under the title...
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    equivalent, was especially worshipped on the Aventine Hill in Rome, near Lake Nemi in the Alban Hills, and in Campania. The name "Artemis" (n., f.) is of...
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    Trapani. The Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although...
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    Nemoralia (category Lake Nemi)
    the Nemoralia was originally celebrated at the Sanctuary of Diana at Lake Nemi, it soon became more widely celebrated. The Catholic Church may have adapted...
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    volcanic complex near Rome (south). The most recent eruptions produced Lake Nemi and Lake Albano. It may have last erupted in 5,000 BC, the idea of eruptions...
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  • Look up nemi, नेमि, or sa:नेमिनाथ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nemi is a town and commune in Rome. Nemi may also refer to: Lake Nemi, located near...
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    bearing supporting a rotating table from the remains of the Roman Nemi ships in Lake Nemi, Italy. The wrecks were dated to 40 BC. Leonardo da Vinci incorporated...
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    delle Nazioni) Lake Nemi (Lago di Nemi) Lake Negrisiola (Lago di Negrisiola) Lago Nero (Bergamo) Lago Nero (Piacenza) Lago di Neves Lake Nicito (Lago di...
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  • mistakenly states that the painting depicts the lake at Nemi, though it is actually Lake Avernus. The lake of Nemi, also known as "Diana's Mirror", was a place...
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  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke "The Lake of Nemi called Speculum Diane – YCBA Collections Search". "University motto"...
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    (demolished in the early 2000s) and the Museum of the Roman ships of lake Nemi. At the time these were considered two of the most important public works...
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    recognisably modern interior doors including door handles. Doors excavated from Lake Nemi and dated to around 1st century CE feature knob-shaped handles. In Asia...
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    number of extinct volcanoes and 5 lakes, of which the largest are lacus Nemorensis (Lake Nemi) and lacus Tusculensis (Lake Albano). These hills provided a...
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    subsidiary calderas along the rim of the Alban Hills that contain the lakes Albano and Nemi. The hills are composed of peperino (lapis albanus), a variety of...
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    very seriously. He found a replacement for the aged priest of Diana at Lake Nemi, reorganised the Salii (priests of Mars), and pedantically insisted that...
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    Pictures" are listed in bold. Derwentwater (c.1856), Brooklyn Museum of Art Lake Nemi (1856–57), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio: Plate 6  Saint Peter's...
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  • discs, of a Bilge pump, from a 1st Century Roman barge, were unearthed at Lake Nemi. Chain pumps were used in European mines during the Renaissance; mineralogist...
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    augite, sanidine, biotite, phlogopite and apatite. The type locality is Lake Nemi, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy. Occurrences include: Canary...
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    some wrecks have been examined in lakes. Most notable are Caligula's pleasure barges in Lake Nemi, Italy. The Nemi ships and other shipwreck sites occasionally...
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    chain driven, bilge pump, were found one of the 1st century A.D. Nemi ships, of Lake Nemi; and a preserved 2nd century A.D. example, used to raise water...
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    a flourishing agriculture. The former crater is occupied by two lakes, the Lake Nemi and that of Albano. Starting from the ancient Roman era, it was an...
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    items remaining from the Emperor Caligula's galleys at the bottom of Lake Nemi, Italy, in August 1929. Herr's invention was used by Admiral Richard Byrd's...
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