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Ancient Galaxy Is Most Distant Ever Found - Space.com  Aug 5, 2015 ... Astronomers have spotted the farthest-flung galaxy in the known universe. ... as it is one of the most reliable tracers of star formation," study lead...
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List of the most distant astronomical objects - Wikipedia  This article documents the most distant astronomical objects so far discovered, and the time ... 1 Notably distant objects; 2 List of most distant objects by type; 3 Timeline of most distant ..... determination, and were found subsequently to be the most distant known at that time. ..... "Ancient Galaxy Is Most Distant Ever Found".
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The Ancient Red Dot --The Oldest Most Distant Object in the ...  May 26, 2011 ... A gamma-ray burst known as GRB 090429B for the 29 April 2009 date ... The Ancient Red Dot --The Oldest Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered ... of GRB 090429B was truly one of the first galaxies in the Universe,"...
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Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe ...  Sep 12, 2016 ... Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe ... are among the most-distant objects in the universe that we can currently study. ... One of the main challenges is finding these distant quasars, which are...
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Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe ...  Sep 12, 2016 ... One of the main challenges is finding these distant quasars, which are ... But having more examples of ancient quasars will help experts to...
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Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx | History | Smithsonian  After decades of research, American archaeologist Mark Lehner has some answers ... Approximately 66 feet tall and 240 feet long, it is one of the largest and oldest ... There are hundreds of tombs at Giza with hieroglyphic inscriptions dating .... of years before Pharoh Khafre or any other Egypt king or even kingdom(Egypt)...
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Full text of "An ancient history for beginners / by George Willis ...  This peninsula, therefore, did a good service to civilization by helping bring the ... The kings of earlier states had been content with receiving gifts from ...... Tir'yns, near the gulf, is the oldest city, so far as we know, on the continent of Europe. ...... Croesus, King of Lydia (560-546 B.C.) and Cyrus, King of Persia (558-529 B.C.).
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Pharos Lighthouse  The great lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt, stood on the island of Pharos. ... Other: Said to be the only ancient wonder with a practical application. ... miles to the west, so that the silt and mud carried by the river would not block the city harbor. ... a symbol and a mechanism to guide the many trade ships into its busy harbor.
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Perseus Under Philologic: Str. 14.5  Since some parts of this country are inside the Taurus and others outside it, and ... 14.5.2The first place in Cilicia, then, to which one comes, is a stronghold, .... Going down into it, one comes to a floor that is uneven and mostly rocky, but full of .... still people call that which extends as far as the Gulf of Issus the true isthmus,...
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Fact Monster  The original list of seven wonders is the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which is made ... Estimated date of construction is 2680 B.C. Of all the Ancient Wonders, the ... This bronze statue of Helios (Apollo), about 105 feet high, was the work of ... finishing it in 280 B.C. It was destroyed during an earthquake in 224 B.C....
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Carthage - New World Encyclopedia  Apr 16, 2013 ... Recent excavation of ancient Carthaginian sites has brought much more ... Her brother, King Pygmalion of Tyre, murdered her husband, the high priest. ... The city had massive walls, 23 miles in length and longer than the walls of ... largest producer of silver, mined in Iberia and the North African coast, and,...
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jeopardy/2139_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ON THE MAP | Not counting Antarctica, it's the continent that reaches the farthest south | South America. right: Greg .... ANCIENT GREEK SALAD | (Hi, I'm Steve Smith, proud to have been a Michigan State Spartan) It's the name of a league the ancient Spartans founded, & of a war they fought against Athens | Peloponnesian.
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The Yam Suph: "Red Sea" or "Sea of Reeds" - CRI/Voice  This would mean that the Hebrews journeyed far to the south and before ... Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, which is only about 17 miles wide at its narrowest point. ... The problem is that the biblical account never refers to the Red Sea by name. ... either translate yam suph as "Sea of Reeds" or use the traditional translation and...
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Kalasasaya | - Bad Archaeology - WordPress.com  Jan 5, 2014 ... The Plain lies some 360 km south-south-east from Lima and is ... According to the British Arachnological Society, Ricinulei is rather more ... Hancock goes on to cite the Egyptian Pyramid Texts, the Hebrew .... depicted with a beard, but according to the Anales de Cuauhtitlan, ...... North Hertfordshire Museum.
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Wikipedia  The Seven Wonders of the World or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World refers to ... Of the original Seven Wonders, only onethe Great Pyramid of Giza, the ... The Colossus of Rhodes was the last of the seven to be completed, after 280 BC .... the original Seven Ancient Wonders List was limited in its geographic scope,...
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Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius ...  "It's been eight years and one month since you came into the service of ... "I know you have performed ten labors during this time, but, if you will ... Heracles had only traveled as far as the Echedorus River when he had his first ... Squinting into the sun, he saw Mount Caucasus and noticed a helpless old man chained to the...
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Ghosts in the Ancient World - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Oct 30, 2014 ... To the people of the ancient world, there was no doubt that the soul of a ... This understanding was so prevalent that ghost stories can be found, with very ... the Hall of Truth where it was judged by Osiris and the 42 Judges by having ... In a letter from a widower to his dead wife found in a tomb from the New...
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The Mystery of Plato's Atlantis (part 2) - Classical Wisdom Weekly  Jun 12, 2013 ... It is in Egypt that Solon reveals that the history of Atlantis is scrolled ... Santorini is a Greek island that rests atop an ancient caldera ... Thera, is a very real land mass located in the southern Aegean sea. ... explosion some 900 or 1000 years before Plato wrote about the lost civilization. .... Best wishes, Peter.
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The Seven Wonders - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Sep 2, 2009 ... The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were: the Great Pyramid at Giza, ... Father of History', makes no mention of them in his descriptions of Babylon. ... in Asia Minor, took over 120 years to build and only one night to destroy. ... The Lighthouse at Alexandria, built on the island of Pharos, stood close to...
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Meron - - Israel - Chabad.org  A few miles from the Sea of Galilee, just north of the ancient city of Safed, stands Mount Meron. Many important sages are buried there, but Meron is most...