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Troy: Encyclopedia - Troy

Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homer's Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older material (Iliad means "epic of Ilion"). Troy (Turkish: Truva) is also the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, in Asia Minor or Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now northwest Turkey, so ...

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Troy - Excavation campaigns

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Troy: Encyclopedia II - Troy - Legendary Troy The story of the Trojans first began in myth and legend. According to Greek mythology, the Trojans were the ancient citizens of the city of Troy in the Troad area, in the land of Asia Minor (or Little Asia, now Turkey). Troy was known for its riches, gained from port trade with east and west, fancy clothes, iron production, and massive defensive walls. The Trojan royal family was started by Electra and Zeus, the parents of Dardanus. Dardanus, the legendary founder of Troy, crossed over to Asia Minor from the insland of Samothrace, where he m ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Battle of Trois-Rivières

The Battle of Trois-Rivières was fought on June 8, 1776 in the American Revolutionary War. A British army under Quebec Governor Sir Guy Carleton, in pursuit of an American force, defeated a counterattack led by John Sullivan. The American army in Canada had suffered a severe blow in the disastrous attack on Quebec City on New Year's Eve of 1775. A heavy flow of supplies and reinforcements allowed the Americans to maintain a presence in the vicinity of Quebec into 1776, but massively superior British artillery made siege im ...

Troy: Encyclopedia - Helen

Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen - Etymology. The name has been compared to Vedic Saraṇyū, daughter of Tvastar, who is abducted in RV 10.17.2; the name may then be from a PIE root *sel "to elope" and go back to a Proto-Indo-European abduction myth. The name is in any case unrelated to Hellenes, as is sometime ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Achaeans

The Achaeans (also Akhaians, Greek Αχαιοί) is the collective name given to the Greek forces in Homer's Iliad. An alternative name, used interchangeably, is Danaans. More specifically, Achaea in Homer is the province of Agamemnon, chief commander of the Greek forces, the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, roughly corresponding to the modern prefectures of Achaea and Corinth. The Homeric Achaeans would have bee ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs

Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs is en epistle in verse form written by Voltaire. It contains one of the most famous Voltaire quotes, "If God hadn't existed, it had been necessary to invent him." Other related archivesVoltaire, epistle, quotes

Troy: Encyclopedia - Avoirdupois

The avoirdupois system is a system of weights defining terms such as pound and ounce. It is the everyday system of weight used in the United States and is still widely used in the United Kingdom, despite official adoption of the metric system. It is considered more modern than the alternative troy or apothecary or the medieval English mercantile and Tower systems. The name derives from the Old French term aveir de peis meaning literally "goods of weight", referring to goods sold by ...

Troy: Encyclopedia - David Gemmell

David Gemmell (born August 1, 1948) is a Times bestseller fantasy author. He was born in West London in the summer of 1948. At the age of sixteen he was expelled from school for organizing a gambling syndicate. He then became a day laborer and a nightclub bouncer in Soho. He also worked as a freelance writer for the London Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express. He published his first novel, Legend, in 1984 which has remained in print. In 1986 he became a full-time writer and most recentl ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Chinese units of measurement

The Chinese units (Chinese: 市制; Pinyin: Shìzhì; literally "market system") are the customary and traditional units of measure used in China. The units were standardized during the twentieth century to make them convert roundly to SI units. Many of the units were formerly 16 based. Hong Kong was outside of the reform, and in present ...

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Chinese units of measurement - Length

Chinese units of measurement - Hong Kong units

Troy: Encyclopedia - Dardan

The terms Dardan and Dardanian in classical writings were synonymous with the term Trojan, the Dardans being Trojans, an ancient people of Troas in northwestern Anatolia. The Dardans derived their name from Dardanus, the mythical founder of Dardania (Asia minor), an ancient city in the Troad. Rule of the Troad was divided between Dardania and Troy. The Royal House of Troy was also divided into two branches, that of Dardania, and that of Troy (or Ilium). The House of Dardania was older than the House of Troy, but Troy lat ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Cebren

Cebren was a Greek river-god (an Oceanid), whose river was located near Troy. He was the son of Oceanus and Tethys and he was the father of Asterope, Hesperia and Oenone. Other related archivesAsterope, Greek, Hesperia, Oceanid, Oceanus, Oenone, Tethys, Troy

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Britain

The word Britain is an informal term used to refer to; the island of Great Britain which consists of the nations of England, Scotland and Wales. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or UK, sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the first two senses above (i.e. the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain). However, the term has a range of related usages, a ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - Aeneads

In Roman mythology, the Aeneads were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Virgil also used the word as a synonym of "Trojan", a person from Troy. The Aeneads included: Achates Acmon Anchises Ascanius Iapyx the Lares Mimas Misenus the Penates Sergestus Category: Roman mythology ...

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Troy: Encyclopedia - U.S. customary units

U.S. customary units, commonly known in the United States as English units or standard units, are units of measurement that are currently used in the U.S., in some cases alongside units from SI (the International System of Units—the modern metric system). The U.S. system of units is similar to the Imperial system which was used in the United Kingdom until 1995 (and still has wide unofficial usage). Both systems derive from the evolution of local units over the centuries, as a result of standardization efforts in England; the local units themselves mostly trace back to Roman and Anglo-Saxon units. To ...

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U.S. customary units - Units of mass

Troy: Encyclopedia - Fences

Fences is a play by August Wilson; it was his second play to go to Broadway. It secured a Tony for James Earl Jones and won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1987 for the author. The play is set after the Korean War and before the Vietnam War, from 1957 to 1965. Like many other Wilson plays, the main character is a tragic black man. In Fences, his name is Troy Maxson. Other major characters include: Bono - Troy's best friend, and obvious "follower" in their friendship. Rose - Troy's wife and the mother ...

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Fences - Plot Summary

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Troy: Encyclopedia II - Troy Hurtubise - Project Troy

Project Troy is the moniker given to the current stage of a 15-plus year effort undertaken by Hurtubise to develop protection suit technology. It began as a desire to create a suit capable of withstanding the viciousness of an enraged bear attack, but the process has developed ideas and technologies whose purposes go beyond simple bear attack protection and could benefit the world. Some of the testing the 145-kilogram (320-pound) Ursus Mark VI underwent included live bear tests in British Columbia, Canada. After initial fear of the st ...

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