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    Herodotus is a lunar impact crater located on a low shelf in the midst of the Oceanus Procellarum. To the east is the slightly larger crater Aristarchus...
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  • Look up Herodotus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian. Herodotus may also refer to: Herodotus (physician), the...
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  • Thumbnail for Raman (crater)
    with the lava-flooded Herodotus and Aristarchus to the southeastern. To the northeast of Raman is the small peak named Mons Herodotus. To the northwest on...
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  • central peaks of the crater Copernicus consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1200 m above the crater floor crater Gassendi with central...
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  • Thumbnail for Aristarchus (crater)
    in the southeastern section. Aristarchus is just to the east of the crater Herodotus and the Vallis Schröteri, and south of a system of narrow sinuous rilles...
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    southwestern part of Fracastorius (crater), and a section of the western wall of Plato (crater). A special filter wheel called a "crater extinction device" is capable...
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  • Thumbnail for Väisälä (crater)
    island are the brilliant crater Aristarchus to the south-southeast and Herodotus to the south-southwest. Väisälä lies just to the west of the Rupes Toscanelli...
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  • Thumbnail for Schiaparelli (lunar crater)
    [skjapaˈrɛlli]) is a lunar impact crater located on the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of the crater Herodotus. The rim is relatively sharp-edged...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Thermopylae
    Battle of Thermopylae itself, two principal sources, Herodotus' and Simonides' accounts, survive. Herodotus' account in Book VII of his Histories is such an...
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    Herodotus and his methods. Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off (at the siege of Sestos) and felt Herodotus's...
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  • Thumbnail for Mons Herodotus
    Mons Herodotus is a small lunar mountain north of the crater Herodotus. It lies on the rugged Aristarchus Plateau and rises approximately 1 km above the...
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    Schröteri, a large, sinuous valley that begins to the north of the crater Herodotus, then meanders north, then northwest, and finally southwest, until...
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  • Thumbnail for Schroter's Valley
    this rise are the craters Aristarchus and Herodotus. This is the largest sinuous rille on the Moon. It begins at a 6 km diameter crater located 25 km to...
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  • Thumbnail for Transient lunar phenomenon
    in the central part of crater Herodotus. One night in 1892, American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard found the bowl of crater Thales filled with luminous...
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    Libya first discovered. "Book 4" . History of Herodotus – via Wikisource. The Geographical system of Herodotus by James Rennel. p348+ Die umsegelung Asiens...
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  • Thumbnail for Thales of Miletus
    Greek as most Milesians, Herodotus described Thales as "a Phoenician by remote descent". Diogenes Laërtius references Herodotus, Duris, and Democritus,...
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  • Elder 1855, Book 2 Chapter 7 Arrian 2013, p. 265. Herodotus 1920, 4.196. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Hanno on Moon". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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  • List of lunar features (category Impact craters on the Moon)
    surface of the Moon has many features, including mountains and valleys, craters, and maria—wide flat areas that look like seas from a distance but are...
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  • Thumbnail for Mount Kilimanjaro
    components. On 6 October 1889, Hans Meyer reached the highest summit on the crater ridge of Kibo. He named it Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze (Kaiser Wilhelm peak)....
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  • Thumbnail for Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
    tomb of Artaxerxes II, circa 358 BCE, date of his burial. List of Herodotus Herodotus (III-91 and III-94), gives a list with a slightly different structure...
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  • Thumbnail for Montes Agricola
    lunar mare. It lies just to the northwest of a plateau containing the craters Herodotus and Aristarchus. The selenographic coordinates of this range are 29°04′N...
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  • Umm al Binni lake (category Holocene impact craters)
    conjectured by Sharad Master, a geoarchaeologist, to represent an impact crater. However, these claims have been disputed, with other studies finding subsidence...
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    1515/kadmos-2015-0008. S2CID 165043567. Retrieved 10 November 2021. Herodotus 1975, p. 46 "Summary of Herodotus | First Floor Tarpley". Retrieved 16 November 2020. A...
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    comparatively rare. Herodotus refers to a king of Tartessos, Arganthonios, presumably named for his wealth in silver. Herodotus also says that Arganthonios...
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  • Adrastus (beetle), a genus of Elateridae (click beetles) Adrastus, an impact crater on the moon Dione Adrastea (disambiguation) Adrasteia This disambiguation...
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  • Thumbnail for Crati
    Volturno and the Sele. In classical antiquity it was known as the Crathis or Crater (Greek: Κρᾶθις). The Crati rises in the central Sila Mountains in the comune...
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    Edinburgh: T&T Clark. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-567-08651-8. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Pharos on Proteus". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology...
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  • Thumbnail for Eratosthenes Seamount
    located at the depth of up to 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) and is a part of the Herodotus Abyssal Plain. It is one of the largest features on the Eastern Mediterranean...
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    the lake of Mareotis, outside Alexandria. The ancient Greeks, such as Herodotus, regarded the whole of the North African littoral, to Cape Spartel in...
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