180 - Events. July 17 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed in Carthage for being Christians (known as the Scillitan Martyrs). Commodus succeeds his father Marcus Aurelius as Roman Emperor. In his Methodus Medendo, Greek physician Galen describes the connection between paralysis and severance of the spinal cord. 180 - Deaths. March 17 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (b. 121) Aulus Gellius, Latin author an ...

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Celsus was a 2nd century opponent of Christianity, known to us mainly through the reputation of his literary work, The True Word (or Account), almost entirely reproduced in excerpts by Origen in his counter-polemic Contra Celsum of 248, seventy years after Celsus wrote. In that year, though the Church was under no widespread persecution, owing to the inertia of the emperor Philip the Arab, the atmosphere was full of conflict. Rome was celebrating the 1000th anniversary of its founding, and imperial aspirations and ideas ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Chris ...

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The Pauline epistles are those books in the New Testament that are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus. The authorship of the Pauline epistles is a subject of much debate. The New Testament contains thirteen letters explicitly ascribed to Paul and one anonymous letter, Hebrews, traditionally attributed to Paul. Nearly every modern scholar agrees that Paul was the author of seven letters, often referred to as the "undisputed epistles" (Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon). ...

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Antiochus II Theos (286–246 BC), was an emperor of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned 261–246 BC). He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in 261 BC. He was the son of Antiochus I and princess Stratonice, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes He inherited a state of war with Egypt, which was fought along the coasts of Asia Minor (the "Second Syrian War"). Antiochus also made some attempt to get a footing in Thrace. During the war he was given the title "Theos" which means "God" in Greek, bei ...

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Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. Smallpox was respo ...

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180 (one hundred eighty) is the natural number following 179 and preceding 181. List of numbers -- Integers << 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 >> 180 number - In mathematics. One hundred eighty is the sum of six consecutive primes (19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41), as well as the sum of eight consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37). Using degrees (°) to measure angles, 180° is called strai ...

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100 (one hundred) (the Roman numeral is C for centum) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. << 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 >> List of numbers -- Integers << 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 >> centi- (from Latin) 100 number - In mathematics. One hundred is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as Including:

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The Wisdom of Ben Sira, (or The Wisdom of Yeshua Ben Sira or merely Sirach), called Ecclesiasticus by Christians, is a book written circa 180–175 BCE. The author, Yeshua ben Sira, was a Jew who had been living in Jerusalem, who may in fact have established his school and written his work in Alexandria (Guillaume). His work was written in Hebrew, nevertheless, and translated into Greek ...

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108 is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109. << 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 >> List of numbers -- Integers << 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 >> 108 number - In mathematics. One hundred eight is an abundant number, a tetranacci number. It is the hyperfactorial of 3 since it is of the form . 108 is a number that is divisible by the value of ...

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In compiling the history of ancient Israel and Judah, there are many available sources, including the Jewish Tanakh (partially the Old Testament, it also consists of the book of the prophets, and the five books of Moses) and other Jewish texts such as the Talmud, the Ethiopian book of history known as the Kebra Nagast, the writings of historians such as Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanas, Philo of Alexandria and Josephus, other writings, and archaeological e ...

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Four directions are north, east, south and west. Or forward, back, left and right. Cardinal directions or cardinal points are the four principal directions or points of the compass in plane. The Four Cardinal Directions correspond to the following degrees of a compass: North: 0 (= 360) degrees, East: 90 degrees, South: 180 degrees and West: 270 degrees (see azimuth). Cardinal direction - Germanic origin of names. During the Migration Period, the Germanic languages' names ...

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The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 CE. They were the successors in India of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek kings (the Euthydemids) founded by the military governor Diodotus around 250 BCE when he established the independence of his Bactrian territory from the Seleucid Empire. During the two centuries of their rule, the Indo-Greek kings combined the Greek and Indian languages and sym ...

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In mathematics, the trigonometric functions are functions of an angle, important when studying triangles and modeling periodic phenomena. They are commonly defined as ratios of two sides of a right triangle containing the angle, and can equivalently be defined as the lengths of various line segments from a unit circle. More modern definitions express them as infinite series or as solutions of certain differential equations, allowing their extension to positive and negative values and even to comp ...

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The Cessna 177 Cardinal is a light, high-wing general aviation aircraft that was intended to complement and later replace the Cessna 172, first announced in 1967. It was produced from 1968 to 1978. Cessna 177 - Background. The Cessna 177 was designed in the mid-1960s by asking the engineers at Cessna to create a "futuristic 1970s successor to the Cessna 172". The new aircraft featured newer technology and a cantilevered wing with a laminar-flow airfoil. The 1968 model 177 was initially underp ...

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Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus) (August 31, 161–December 31, 192) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, in the mold of Nero and Caligula, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". Commodus - Life. Commodus was the son of the popular and successful Marcus Aurelius. He had a twin brother, Antoninus, who died when he was about four years old, and a s ...

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2nd century - Significant persons. Cai Lun, Chinese inventor Galen, medical writer Saint Irenaeus Pliny the Younger Plutarch Ptolemy Trajan Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius Commodus Septimius Severus 2nd century - Inventions discoveries introductions. Cai Lun invents paper (c. 105) Ptolemy compiles a catalogue of all stars visible to the naked eye ...

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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. April 26 - Events. 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh S ...

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114 (one hundred [and] fourteen) is the natural number following 113 and preceding 115. << 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 >> List of numbers -- Integers << 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 >> 114 number - In mathematics. One hundred fourteen is an abundant number, a sphenic number and a Harshad number. At 114, the Mertens function sets a new low of -6, a record tha ...

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The Antonine Plague AD 165-180, also known as the Plague of Galen, was an ancient pandemic, either of smallpox or measles brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East. The epidemic claimed the lives of two Roman emperors — Lucius Verus, who died in 169, and his co-regent who ruled until 180, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, whose family name, Antoninus, was given to the epidemic. The disease broke out again nine years later, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, and caused up to 2,000 deaths a day at Rome, one quarter of those infec ...

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