Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC - 120 BC - 119 BC 118 BC 117 BC 116 BC 115 BC 120 BC - Events. 120 BC - Births. Berenice III, reigning Queen of Egypt Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, writer and politician Verr ...

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• 120 BC - Events
• 120 BC - Births
• 120 BC - Deaths

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The Vandals were first identified with Przeworsk culture in the 19th century [citation needed]. Controversy surrounds potential connections between the Vandals and another possibly Germanic tribe, the Lugii (Lygier, Lugier or Lygians). Some academics believe that either Lugii was an earlier name of the Vandals, or the Vandals were part of the Lugian federation. Similarity of names have suggested homelands for the Vandals in Norway (Hallingdal) Sweden (Vendel) or Denmark (Vendsyssel). The Vandals are assumed to have c ...

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Vandals, Vandals - Origins, Vandals - History, Vandals - Gaul, Vandals - Iberia, Vandals - Africa, Vandals - Sack of Rome, Vandals - Decline, Vandals - List of kings, Vandals - Vandalic language, Vandals - Modern heritage

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Zhiyuan (至元 Zhìyuán) 1264-1294 Dade (大德 Dàdé) 1297-1307 Yanyou (延祐 Yányòu) 1314-1320 Zhihe (致和 Zhìhé) 1328 Zhishun (至順 Zhìshùn) 1330-1332 Yuantong (元統 Yuántǒng) 1333-1335 Zhiyuan (至元 Zhìyuán) 1335-1340 Zhizheng (至正 Zhìzhèng) 1341-1368 Zhiyuan (至元 Zhìyuán) 1368-1370 Yuantong (元統 Yuántǒng) 1333-1335 Zhiyuan (至元 Zhìyuán) 1335-1340 Zhizheng (至正 Zhìzh ...

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Table of Chinese monarchs, Table of Chinese monarchs - Xia Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Shang Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Zhou Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Qin Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Han Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Three Kingdoms Period, Table of Chinese monarchs - Jin Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Sixteen Kingdoms Period, Table of Chinese monarchs - Sovereignties established by Wu Hu, Table of Chinese monarchs - Northern and Southern Dynasties, Table of Chinese monarchs - Sui Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Tang Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Table of Chinese monarchs - Independent Regimes during Ten Kingdoms, Table of Chinese monarchs - Liao Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Song Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Western Xia, Table of Chinese monarchs - Jin Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Yuan Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Ming dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Shun Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Southern Ming Dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Qing dynasty, Table of Chinese monarchs - Taiping Rebellion, Table of Chinese monarchs - Yuan Shikai's Chinese Empire

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For many thousands of years our ancestors have been visiting and venerating the power places of Europe. One culture after another has often frequented the same power sites and the story of how these magical places were discovered and used is filled with fairies and nature spirits, sages and astronomers, and enigmatic myths of world destroying cataclysms.

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The Venus Transit of June 2004 during the Venus Retrograde phase is a rare cosmic event that this year is laden with spiritual significance. Richard Giles examines this remarkable phenomenon.

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Thirteen is the 6th smallest prime number; the next is seventeen. 13 is the second Wilson prime. 13 is the fifth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 8191. 13 is also the third lucky prime. 13 is the second star number and the seventh Fibonacci number. As it is an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, it is a Markov number, appearing in solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation: (1, 5, 13), (1, 13, 34), (5, 13, 194), ... There are 13 Archimedean solids. 13 goes into 999,999 exactly 76,923 times, so vulgar fractions with 13 in the denominator have six digit repe ...

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13 number, 13 number - In mathematics, 13 number - In science, 13 number - As lucky unlucky or significant number, 13 number - In religion and mythology, 13 number - In media, 13 number - In fiction, 13 number - In other fields

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Main article: Geography of Alberta Alberta is in western Canada, with an area of 661,190 km² (255,287 mi²). Southwards, at 49° north, it borders the US state of Montana. Eastwards at 110° west it borders the province of Saskatchewan. At 60° north it is separated from the Northwest Territories. To the west, its border with British Columbia follows the line of peaks of the Rocky Mountains range along the Continental Divide, which runs northwesterly, until it reaches 120° west, at which point the border foll ...

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Alberta, Alberta - Geography, Alberta - Largest municipalities and metro areas by population, Alberta - Industry, Alberta - Agriculture and forestry, Alberta - Government, Alberta - Education, Alberta - K-12, Alberta - Post-secondary, Alberta - Transportation, Alberta - Culture, Alberta - Demographics, Alberta - History, Alberta - Fauna and flora, Alberta - Fauna, Alberta - Flora

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The famous Catalogue of Ships (νεων κατολογος) is recorded as a part of Book II (verses 494–760, PP Il.2.494) of Homer's Iliad. It lists the names of all the allies who came with the Greeks to lay siege to Troy along with the names of their leaders and the number of ships they brought with them. It is followed by a similar, though shorter, list of the Trojans' allies. The Catalogue provides a rare summary of the geopolitical situation in the region although its reliability is disputed. Some argue that it d ...

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• Catalogue of Ships - The Catalogue
• Catalogue of Ships - Literature

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The Indo-Aryans were nomadic or at least peripatetic, following their herds of cows around from pasture to pasture. Consequently they had no permanent settlements; the RgVeda only mentions temporary huts. These leave no archaeological record. So it is only to be expected that the migrations left no archaeological traces. The Huns are a comparable instance. No one doubts that the Huns actually invaded parts of western Europe on more than one occasion. Yet -- because the Huns were nomads -- they left no archaeological ...

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Indo-Aryan migration, Indo-Aryan migration - Overview, Indo-Aryan migration - History, Indo-Aryan migration - Linguistics, Indo-Aryan migration - Philology, Indo-Aryan migration - Rig Veda, Indo-Aryan migration - Vedic and Puranic King lists, Indo-Aryan migration - Puranas, Indo-Aryan migration - Avesta and Airyanem Vaejah, Indo-Aryan migration - Archaeology, Indo-Aryan migration - Indus Valley Civilization, Indo-Aryan migration - Vasishta head, Indo-Aryan migration - Pottery, Indo-Aryan migration - West Asia, Indo-Aryan migration - Astronomical data, Indo-Aryan migration - Physical Anthropology, Indo-Aryan migration - Genetics and Archaeogenetics

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The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main groups, in order of population size are: Mandarin 北方话/北方話 or 官話/官话 (old name) Wu 吳/吴 Cantonese 粵/粤 Min 閩/闽 Xiang 湘 Hakka 客家 or 客 Gan 贛/赣 Chinese linguists have recently distinguished 3 more groups from the traditional seven: ...

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Chinese language, Chinese language - Spoken Chinese, Chinese language - Language or language family?, Chinese language - Written Chinese, Chinese language - Chinese characters, Chinese language - History, Chinese language - Influence on other languages, Chinese language - Sounds, Chinese language - Romanization, Chinese language - Other Transcriptions, Chinese language - Morphology, Chinese language - Loanwords, Chinese language - Grammar

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Prior to invasion, the United States and other coalition forces involved in the 1991 Persian Gulf War had been engaged in a low-level conflict with Iraq, enforcing Iraqi no-fly zones. Iraqi air-defense installations were engaged on a fairly regular basis after repeatedly targeting American and British air patrols. In mid-2002, the U.S. began to change its response strategy, more carefully selecting targets in the southern part of the country in order to disrupt the military command structure in Iraq. A change in enforcement tactics was acknowledged at the time, but it was not made public that this was ...

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2003 Invasion of Iraq, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Political and diplomatic aspects, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Military aspects, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Prelude, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Rationale, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Weapons of mass destruction, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Sanctions, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Human Rights, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Libyan disarmament, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Purported links between the government of Iraq and terrorist organizations, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legitimacy and legality, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion legitimacy, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Countries supporting and opposing the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Legality of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opposition view of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Opening attack, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Special Operations, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Fall of Baghdad April 2003, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Other areas, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Summary of the invasion, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Security looting and war damage, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - End of major combat operations May 2003, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Deaths, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Related propaganda and phrases, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Media coverage, 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Veterans Organizations

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Fathers 4 Justice - Origins. Fathers 4 Justice was founded by Matt O’Connor, a marketing consultant and father of two. O'Connor became incensed with family law after a court temporarily barred him from seeing his two young sons outside of a contact centre, following his separation from his wife in 2000. On 17 December 2002, O’Connor and a small group of supporters staged their first protest by storming the Royal Courts of Justice dressed as Father Christmas. In January 2003 he officially founded Fathers 4 Justice. Initially the group targeted the homes of family court judges and family lawyers' ...

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Fathers 4 Justice, Fathers 4 Justice - History, Fathers 4 Justice - Origins, Fathers 4 Justice - Activities, Fathers 4 Justice - F4J disbands, Fathers 4 Justice - Politics

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Christianity began among a small number of Jews and Jewish Proselytes. Acts of the Apostles 1:15 says about 120. By the third century AD, Christianity had grown to become the dominant religion of the northern Mediterranean world. It also gained important extensions to the east and south of the Mediterranean. The core History of the Roman Catholic Church is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those first 300 ...

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History of Christianity, History of Christianity - Roots of Christianity, History of Christianity - The Jewish background, History of Christianity - The Life of Jesus of Nazareth, History of Christianity - The earliest emergence of Christianity, History of Christianity - The Earliest Church, History of Christianity - Break with Judaism, History of Christianity - The Martyrs, History of Christianity - The Apologists, History of Christianity - House Churches, History of Christianity - The writings of the New Testament apocrypha, History of Christianity - Early heresies, History of Christianity - Gnosticism, History of Christianity - Competing religions, History of Christianity - Second and third centuries, History of Christianity - Fourth century, History of Christianity - Development of the canon of scripture, History of Christianity - Christianity legalized in the Roman Empire, History of Christianity - The Christological controversies, History of Christianity - Fifth century, History of Christianity - The conversion of the Mediterranean world, History of Christianity - Developing Christianity outside the Mediterranean world, History of Christianity - The development of the Papacy, History of Christianity - The rise of Islam, History of Christianity - Persecutions, History of Christianity - Spread of Christianity to central and eastern Europe, History of Christianity - Church and state in the Medieval west, History of Christianity - Schisms between East and West, History of Christianity - The later Middle Ages, History of Christianity - Early America, History of Christianity - The Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation, History of Christianity - Protestantism and the Rise of Denominationalism, History of Christianity - 19th century, History of Christianity - Anti-clericalism and atheistic communism, History of Christianity - 20th century, History of Christianity - Catholic reforms, History of Christianity - Non-Catholic developments, History of Christianity - The spread of secularism, History of Christianity - 21st century, History of Christianity - Historiography, History of Christianity - Print resources

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The geographical, cultural and historical context of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism during the 1st century BCE in northwestern India, all point to intense multi-cultural influences: "Key formative influences on the early development of the Mahayana and Pure Land movements, which became so much part of East Asian civilization, are to be sought in Buddhism's earlier encounters along the Silk Road" (Foltz, Religions on the Silk Road). As Mahayana Buddhism emerged, it received "influences from popular Hindu devotional cults (bhakti), Persian and Greco-Roman t ...

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Greco-Buddhism, Greco-Buddhism - Historical outline, Greco-Buddhism - Religious interactions, Greco-Buddhism - Alexander the Great in Bactria and India 331-325, Greco-Buddhism - The Mauryan empire 322–183 BCE, Greco-Buddhism - The Greek presence in Bactria 325 to 125 BCE, Greco-Buddhism - The Indo-Greek kingdom and Buddhism 180 BCE –10 CE, Greco-Buddhism - The Kushan empire 1st–3rd century CE, Greco-Buddhism - Artistic influences, Greco-Buddhism - The anthropomorphic representation of the Buddha, Greco-Buddhism - A Hellenized Buddhist pantheon, Greco-Buddhism - Greco-Buddhism and the rise of the Mahayana, Greco-Buddhism - Conceptual influences, Greco-Buddhism - Gandharan proselytism, Greco-Buddhism - Intellectual influences in Asia, Greco-Buddhism - Greco-Buddhism and the West, Greco-Buddhism - Exchanges, Greco-Buddhism - Religious influences, Greco-Buddhism - Notes

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Life in the People's Republic of China Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. The art of Taiwan and that of Chinese Emigrants can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on the heritage of Chines ...

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• Chinese art - Historical development to 221 BC
• Chinese art - Neolithic pottery
• Chinese art - Jade culture
• Chinese art - Bronze casting
• Chinese art - Early Chinese music
• Chinese art - Early Chinese poetry
• Chinese art - Chu and Southern culture
• Chinese art - Early imperial China 221 BC–AD 220
• Chinese art - Qin sculpture
• Chinese art - Pottery
• Chinese art - Han poetry
• Chinese art - Han architecture
• Chinese art - Other Han art
• Chinese art - Period of division 220–581
• Chinese art - Influence of Buddhism
• Chinese art - Secular culture
• Chinese art - Poetry
• Chinese art - Calligraphy
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - The Sui and Tang dynasties 581–960
• Chinese art - Buddhist architecture and sculpture
• Chinese art - Golden age of Chinese poetry
• Chinese art - Li Po and Du Fu
• Chinese art - Late Tang poetry
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - The Song and Yuan dynasties 960–1368
• Chinese art - Song poetry
• Chinese art - Song painting
• Chinese art - Yuan drama
• Chinese art - Yuan painting
• Chinese art - Late imperial China 1368–1895
• Chinese art - Ming Poetry
• Chinese art - Ming prose
• Chinese art - Ming painting
• Chinese art - Qing drama
• Chinese art - Qing poetry
• Chinese art - Early Qing painting
• Chinese art - Decorative arts
• Chinese art - Qing fiction
• Chinese art - Modern Chinese art
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - Poetry
• Chinese art - Influence of the West
• Chinese art - People's arts
• Chinese art - Contemporary art since 1979
• Chinese art - Performing arts
• Chinese art - Visual arts
• Chinese art - Unsorted
• Chinese art - Performing arts
• Chinese art - Visual arts

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