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101Alexander of Abonoteichus — (c.105 AD) was an oracle who built a following in parts of the Roman Empire. He is commonly known as Alexander the False Prophet through a deeply hostile satire by Lucian of Samosata in which this second century AD writer describes him as having… …
102Maui Patera — Highest resolution image of Maui Patera, acquired by Galileo during an encounter with Io in October 1999 Maui Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter s moon Io. It is about 38 kilometers in diameter and is located …
103Silanus of Ambracia — Silanus (Greek: Σιλανός) of Ambracia was a soothsayer in Xenophon s Anabasis . In 401 BC, he accompanied Cyrus the Younger in an expedition against Artaxerxes. When Silanus provided Cyrus with a successful prediction, he was rewarded with 3000… …
104James Archer (disambiguation) — James Archer may refer to:*James J. Archer (1817–1864), American Civil War general *James Archer (1823 1904), Scottish portrait painter *James Archer (1850 ?), second mate of the Euxine (ship) , shipwrecked sailor who resorted to murder and… …
105Fauna of Asia — is all the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands. Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia, the term fauna of Asia is somewhat elusive. Asia is the eastern part of the Palearctic… …
106Phasis (town) — Phasis ( gr. Φάσις) was an ancient and early medieval city on the eastern Black Sea coast, founded in the 7th/6th century BC as a colony of the Milesian Greeks at the mouth of the eponymous river in Colchis, near the modern day port city of Poti …
107Balkan mixed forests — The Balkan mixed forests constitute a terrestrial ecoregion of Europe according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency. It belongs to the biome of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests… …
108Thermantia — (d. 415) was the second Empress consort of Honorius, Western Roman Emperor.FamilyShe was a daughter of Stilicho, magister militum of the Western Roman Empire, and Serena. Thermantia was a sister of Eucherius and Maria. De Consulatu Stilichonis by …
109Achilleus — Thetis gibt ihrem Sohn Achill seine neuen, von Hephaistos geschmiedeten Waffen. Ausschnitt einer Schwarzfigurenmalerei auf einer attischen Hydria 575–550 vor Chr, Louvre Achilleus (dt. Achill oder latinisiert Achilles, altgriechisch gelehrt …
110Edward Daniel Clarke — (* 5. Juni 1769 in Willingdon, Sussex; † 9. März 1822 in London) war ein englischer Mineraloge und Naturforscher. Sein botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „E.D.Clarke“. Auf Reisen durch England (1791), Italien (1792 und 1794), Skandinavien, Finnland …
