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- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third century B.C.E. (between 285 and 247 B.C.E.) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria ...9 KB (1,516 words) - 23:29, 11 March 2025
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- novels. Forster is also known for a creed of life which can be summed up ... Born in London, the son of an architect, he was to have been named ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- the nineteenth century with the translation of the Rosetta Stone. Yet interest ... some as belonging to the Pharos of Alexandria, one of the Seven ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence ... One of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Acts of Paul ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pharos of Alexandria, the pyramids in Egypt ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... Historically, Crete was once the center of the Minoan civilization ( ...62 KB (9,052 words) - 23:46, 28 May 2024
