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    Also in the early second century a papyrus letter of Claudius Terentianus to his father Claudius Tiberianus uses the term xylespongium in a phrase. In...
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    (ancient Greece) Menelaus of Alexandria c. AD 70–140 (ancient Greece) Claudius Ptolemy c. AD 83–168 Roman Empire (Roman Egypt) Al-Ma'mun 786–833 (Iraq/Mesopotamia)...
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    dish has changed the destiny of Europe." The case of Claudius's poisoning is more complex. Claudius was known to have been very fond of eating Caesar's...
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  • 1932 (id=4123) Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too (id=4122) Claudius Regaud January 30, 1870 Lyons, France December 29, 1940 Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or...
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    Claude is a French given name originating from the Latin name Claudius meaning "strong willed". In French, it is used for both males and females. In English...
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  • c-14m 1980 video [167] Classifying Living Things Bruce Hoffman c-20m 1985 Claudius, Boy of Ancient Rome William Deneen and John Eadie; writer: Elmore Leonard...
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    world. Curtius Rufus served as Consul Suffectus in AD 43 under the emperor Claudius. He must have written the Histories in the year or two before the consulship...
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  • William Sloane Coffin John E. Dolibois Joseph W. Eaton Claudius Miller Easley, Jr., son of Claudius Miller Easley Alexander Eckstein[citation needed] Leon...
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    Archaeology, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 257–75, 2003 [3]Claudius J. Rich, "Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon", 1815 [4]Claudius J. Rich, "Second memoir on Babylon; containing...
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    XXXIV Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus Domitian Nerva Trajan Hadrian Antoninus Pius Lucius Verus Marcus Aurelius...
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    Guard forced its way in to insist on the appointment of Caligula's uncle, Claudius. His reign concentrated on the restoration of the rule of law. A lawyer...
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    Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via Internet Archive. Drusus Pompeius, the son of Claudius Cæsar, by Herculanilla, to whom the daughter of Sejanus had a few days...
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    confirmed intensive use of the North Sea was by the Romans in 12 BC, when Nero Claudius Drusus built and launched a fleet of over a thousand ships into the North...
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    Lot secretly give the child to a knight named Gawain the Brown (Gauvain li Brun) who baptises the infant with his own name, puts the infant Gawain in a cask...
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    attended and prestigious motor sports events in the world. First mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy, the Roman city Vindinium was the capital of the Aulerci, a sub...
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  • Horrible Histories (2015 TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Claudius)
    Logie Baird, Alexander Fleming, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Pierre Curie, Claudius, Henry II (Season 7) Harrie Hayes (Series 8-present) Elizabeth I of England...
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  • first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, was commissioned by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. The Aqua Appia was one of two major public projects of the time;...
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  • Gaspard, American Cajun vocalist and guitarist (d. 1937) October 19 Hermann Claudius, lyricist (died 1980) Alphonse Picou, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1961)...
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    sense, and "arboretum" as an English word is first recorded used by John Claudius Loudon in 1833 in The Gardener's Magazine, but the concept was already...
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  • 316 Archived 2016-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 978-0596553890 Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage...
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    Caesar, Constantine claimed the protection of Apollo, Sol Invictus, like Claudius Gothicus (r. 268-270), from whom he began to claim descent. His slow conversion...
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    something that his contemporaries could not fail to notice: see Christer Brun, "Matidia die Jüngere", IN Anne Kolb, ed., Augustae. Machtbewusste Frauen...
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    shades of light and shadow, without mixing the colors in the palette. Claudius Ptolemy explained in his Optics how painters created the illusion of depth...
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  • Nicolaus Brønsted (1879–1947) Karen Callisen (1882–1970), geologist Claudius Clavus (Claudius Claussøn Swart) (1388–?) Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976) Willi...
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    Gaius Caesar, and the people of Eresos further honoured Gaius Caesar and Claudius Nero, later the Emperor Tiberius, by electing them honorary prytanis in...
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    Friedrich Jacobi, Matthias Claudius, Friedrich von Matthisson, Elisa von der Recke, Jens Immanuel Baggesen, Friedrike Bruns, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gerhard...
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    for the Roman fleet of Gaul which remained operative until the reign of Claudius and only the second port after Ostia until at least the time of Nero. Subsequently...
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    Tiberius Claudius Rhodocles for himself, his wife, and their sons, Tiberius Claudius Gratus Petronianus, aged fifteen, and Tiberius Claudius Terminalis...
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  • minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog 901 Brunsia 1918 EE Heinrich Bruns (1848–1919), German astronomer and director of the Leipzig Observatory (534)...
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    Nouvelles Annales were written by Conrad Malte-Brun (1775–1826) and his son Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1816–1889). Scholars[who?] believe that Verne was...
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