The term galley can refer to any ship propelled primarily by man-power, using oars. Most galleys also use masts and sails as a secondary means of propulsion. Various types of galleys dominated naval warfare in the Mediterranean from the time of Homer to the development of effective naval gunnery around the 15th and 16th centuries. Galleys fought in the wars of ancient Persia, Greece, Carthage and Rome until the 4th century. After the fall of the Roman Empire, galleys saw continued, if somewhat reduced, use by the Byzantine Empi ...

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Galley - Ancient galleys
Galley - The first galleys Galley - Penteconters Galley - Triremes Galley - Quinqueremes and polyremes
Galley - Later galleys
Galley - Medieval galleys in northern Europe Galley - The Renaissance Galley - The last galleys
Galley - Other links Galley - Other meanings

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Quinquereme, Quinquereme - Construction, Quinquereme - Polyremes, Quinquereme - Roman

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Galley - The first galleys. Galleys travelled the Mediterranean from perhaps 3000 BC. The Greeks and Phoenicians built and operated the first known ships to navigate the Mediterranean: merchant vessels with square-rigged sails. The first military vessels, as described in the works of Homer and represented in paintings, had a single row of oarsmen along each side (in addition to the s ...

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Galley, Galley - Ancient galleys, Galley - The first galleys, Galley - Penteconters, Galley - Triremes, Galley - Quinqueremes and polyremes, Galley - Later galleys, Galley - Medieval galleys in northern Europe, Galley - The Renaissance, Galley - The last galleys, Galley - Other links, Galley - Other meanings

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Keyword may mean: Keyword (computer), an identifier in a computer language that indicates a specific command Keyword (linguistics), a word that occurs with unexpected frequency in a text Keyword (America Online), an addressing scheme used on America Online as an alternative to URLs A word describing a concept found in a document such as a Web page, constituting part of the metadata for the document This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Diction

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In the 4th century BC, after the Peloponnesian War, there was a shortage of oarsmen of sufficient skill to man large navies of triremes. The search for designs of galley that would allow oarsmen to use muscle power instead of skill led Dionysius of Syracuse to build tetreres (quadriremes) and penteres (quinqueremes). For a long time, modern scholars were confused by the word penteres. If they were analogous to trieres (triremes) they would have had five rows of oars, but such a galley would surely have been imposs ...

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Quinquereme, Quinquereme - Construction, Quinquereme - Polyremes, Quinquereme - Roman

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After Beaton's death the castle at St. Andrews became a place of refuge for many Scottish Protestants, and Knox resided there in relative peace along with his pupils, the sons of Longniddry and Ormiston, for some several months. At end of July 1547, however, the castle was attacked and captured by pro-catholic French forces. Knox and some of the rest of the refugees were taken prisoner, and forced to row in the French galleys. He spent eighteen months as a galley-slave, amid hardships and miseries which are said to have permanently in ...

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John Knox, John Knox - Early life, John Knox - Conversion to Protestantism, John Knox - Confinement in the French galleys, John Knox - Residence in England, John Knox - On the Continent 1554-1559, John Knox - Organization of the Church in Scotland., John Knox - Knox and Queen Mary, John Knox - Ministry in Edinburgh and private life, John Knox - Personal appearance and manner, John Knox - Testimonies to his character

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William Short can refer to: Willam J. Short was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Willam Short was the Mayor of Edmonton, Alberta. Other related archivesEdmonton, Alberta, Manitoba, Willam J. Short, Willam Short

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Cycling shorts are shorts designed for cycling. Historically cycling shorts have been made of black wool and had a leather chamois. Most modern cycling shorts are made of lycra and contain a synthetic chamois in the seat and crotch area. They are usually worn without underwear. The function of the chamois is to absorb moisture, thus preventing chaffing and rashes, thereby increasing a cyclist's comfort and endurance. ...

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Boxer shorts (also known as boxers or loose boxers) are a type of underwear, worn usually by men. They are all-around-elastic shorts named after the shorts worn by pugilists. They originated in the 1930s, but were obscured by the popular briefs. Around 1947, boxers started to gain in popularity. Boxer shorts gained massive popularity in the 1980s when Nick Kamen appeared wearing them in a Levis advertisement. Although briefs outsell boxer shorts, it is apparent that more and more young men prefer the latter. Since the 1990s, many men also op ...

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Boxer shorts - Advantages and disadvantages

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Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. It is now used almost interchangeably with short film (which can run somewhat longer than 20 minutes); either term is often abbreviated to short (as a noun, e.g. 'a short'). Short subject - History. Short subject - Early period. The term came to be applied in the 1910s, when the majority of feature ...

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Short U (Ў, ў) is a letter of the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. It is called 'non-syllabic u' (u nieskładovaje) in Belarusian, because as the semivowel equivalent of у (u) it does not form syllables. Its equivalent in the Belarusian Latin alphabet is Ŭ, ŭ. In native Belarusan words, Ў represents the high back semivowel [u̯] in diphthongs, as in хлеў (xleŭ) 'shed' or воўк (voŭk) 'wolf'. This is similar to the w in En ...

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Short U - History Short U - Monument

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The Right Honourable Clare Short (born February 15, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician. She is a cousin of Canadian-American actor/comic Martin Short. She is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, and was Secretary of State for International Development from May 2, 1997 until her resignation on May 12, 2003. Clare Short - Background. Clare Short was born to Irish Catholic parents from County Armagh, Ulster in Birmingham, England in 1946. She would later be supportive of peaceful Sinn Féi ...

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Clare Short - Background Clare Short - Early career Clare Short - DFID Clare Short - Resignation over Iraq war
Clare Short - Bugging of the UN
Clare Short - Memoirs Clare Short - Works

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Bliss is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield, first published in 1920. The story is told through the eyes of Bertha, its main character, a very limited third person narrator. Bliss short story - Synopsis. The story follows a day in the life of its main character, Bertha. She feels blissful and experiences her whole existence as perfect while at the same time seeming childish and naive. On this particular day, Bertha has invited friends for dinner.The dinner guests are characterized as shal ...

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Bliss short story - Synopsis Bliss short story - Characters
Bliss short story - Dinner guests
Bliss short story - Interpretation
Bliss short story - Nature - the pear tree
Bliss short story - Trivia

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A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright, describes how four historical civilizations (Easter Island, Sumer, Maya and Rome) self-destructed due to a lack of foresight and to wrong choices. His premise is that each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. In his analysis of the four cases, he notes that two (Easter Island and Sumer) failed due to depletion of natural resources—"their ecologies were unable to regenerate." The other two failed in their heartlands, "where ecological demand was hi ...

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Short-beaked Echidnas are typically 30 to 45 centimetres in length, have a 75-millimetre snout, and weigh between two and five kilograms. The Tasmanian subspecies, T. a. setosus, is larger than its Australian mainland counterparts. Because the neck is not externally visible, the head and body appear to merge together. The earholes are on either side of the head, with no external pinnae. The eyes are small and at the base of the wedge-shaped snout. The nostrils and the mouth are at the distal end of the snout; the mouth of the Sho ...

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Short-beaked Echidna, Short-beaked Echidna - Taxonomy, Short-beaked Echidna - Physical description, Short-beaked Echidna - Reproduction, Short-beaked Echidna - Ecology and behaviour, Short-beaked Echidna - Conservation status, Short-beaked Echidna - Cultural references

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The two fleets met outside the gulf of Actium, on the morning of September 2, 31 BC, with Mark Antony led 220 warships through the straits toward the open sea. There he met the fleet of Octavian, led by Admiral Agrippa, arranged to block his exit in an arc from the south. Mark Antony's warships were mostly massive quinqueremes, huge galleys with massive rams that could weigh up to three tons. The bows of the galleys were armored with bronze plates and square-cut timbers making it difficult to successfully ram them with similar equipment. Unf ...

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Battle of Actium, Battle of Actium - Prelude, Battle of Actium - The battle, Battle of Actium - Aftermath

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SQL keywords fall into several groups. SQL - Data retrieval. The most frequently used operation in transactional databases is the data retrieval operation. SELECT is used to retrieve zero or more rows from one or more tables in a database. In most applications, SELECT is the most commonly used DML command. In specifying a SELECT query, the user specifies a description of the desired result set, but they do not specify what physical operations must ...

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SQL, SQL - History, SQL - Scope, SQL - SQL keywords, SQL - Data retrieval, SQL - Data manipulation, SQL - Data transaction, SQL - Data definition, SQL - Data control, SQL - Other, SQL - Database systems using SQL, SQL - Criticisms of SQL, SQL - Alternatives to SQL

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During the Hellenistic period, the trireme was largely supplanted by larger galleys, especially the quinquereme. The numbers did not refer to additional banks of oars, but to the number of rowers per vertical section, with multiple men on an oar. This change was accompanied by an increased reliance on tactics like boarding and using warships as platforms for artillery. Triremes and smaller vessels continued to be employed, however. Only the poorest states would use them as the core of their navy, but lightened versions were often used ...

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Trireme, Trireme - Origin, Trireme - Construction and capabilities, Trireme - Tactics, Trireme - Development, Trireme - Reconstruction

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Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society. La barbarie (Babarity): The culture, which is the self-development of the life, is threatened in our society by the barbarism of the monstrous objectivity of the technoscience, whose ideologies reject all form of subjectivity, while the life is condemned to escape his anguish in the media universe. Du communisme au capitalisme, théorie d'une catastrophe (From Communism to Capitalism, Theory of a Catastrophe): The collapse of the e ...

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Michel Henry, Michel Henry - The life and the work of Michel Henry, Michel Henry - Biography, Michel Henry - A Phenomenology of Life, Michel Henry - Two Modes of Manifestation, Michel Henry - Consequences of his Philosophy, Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society, Michel Henry - On Art and Painting, Michel Henry - On Christianity, Michel Henry - On Psychoanalysis, Michel Henry - Some Quotes from Michel Henry, Michel Henry - On Affectivity, Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society, Michel Henry - On Art and Painting, Michel Henry - On Christianity, Michel Henry - Description of Selected Titles, Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society, Michel Henry - On Art and Painting, Michel Henry - On Christianity, Michel Henry - Literary Works, Michel Henry - Bibliography of Michel Henry, Michel Henry - Philosophical Works, Michel Henry - Posthumous Books, Michel Henry - Literary Works, Michel Henry - Books on Michel Henry

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Both C and Pascal use keywords, or words reserved for use by the language itself. Examples are "if", "while", "const", "for" and "goto", which are also keywords that happen to be in common to both languages. Pascal is often said to be "wordy" compared to C. In Pascal, blocks begin and end with "begin" and "end". C uses "{" and "}", respectively. In Pascal, a function must begin with the keyword "function", a type with "type". In C, both ...

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Pascal and C, Pascal and C - C vs Pascal: A language comparison, Pascal and C - Identifiers, Pascal and C - Keywords, Pascal and C - Syntax, Pascal and C - Simple types, Pascal and C - Character types, Pascal and C - Boolean types, Pascal and C - Real/floating point types, Pascal and C - Array types, Pascal and C - Strings, Pascal and C - Record types, Pascal and C - Pointers, Pascal and C - Statements, Pascal and C - Functions/Procedures, Pascal and C - Preprocessor, Pascal and C - Type escapes, Pascal and C - Files, Pascal and C - Blue Sky Pascal, Pascal and C - Epilogue

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