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Aglaonike (V bc or 200 bc)

2016
Its name means “shining victory” or “victory of light”, but other than that very little is known about Aglaonike, also called Aglonice, who was born and lived in Thessaly. According to some sources she is considered to be the first woman astronomer and in fact Aglaonike was a master in the art of predicting eclipses, being able to determine the exact ...
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FROM BCS TO THE LHC

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2008
Reflections on spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the connection between condensed matter physics and particle physics, as given in a talk at a symposium at the University of Illinois in Urbana, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the theory of superconductivity.
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The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean, 350 BC–100 BC

2011
In 333 BC Alexander III, king of Macedon, whose claims to Greekness were treated with some scepticism down in Athens, wreaked vengeance on the Persian kings who had posed such a threat to Greece in past centuries, by defeating a massive Persian army at the battle of the Issos, beyond the Cilician Gates.
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The Heirs of Odysseus, 800 BC–550 BC

2011
Whether the early Greeks possessed as powerful a sense of identity as the Phoenicians is far from clear. Only when a massive Persian threat appeared to loom from the east, in the sixth century, did the diverse Greek-speakers of the Peloponnese, Attika and the Aegean begin to lay a heavy emphasis on what they had in common; the sense of a Hellenic ...
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Correlated BCS theory

Nuclear Physics A, 1981
A variational theory of the BCS pair-condensed state of strongly-interacting Fermi system is briefly outlined. An FHNC scheme is devised to calculate the radial distribution function and the one-and the twobody density matrices.
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Ancient Greece: 1100 BC to 30 BC

2018
The collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation of the Mediterranean coincided with the commencement of the Greek Dark Ages. The period of this age was between the thirteenth century BC and the eleventh century BC, and it coincided with a dramatic drop in Greece’s population.
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Merchants and Heroes, 1500 BC–1250 BC

2011
In the years around 1500 BC Crete experienced not just massive economic changes but very significant political changes. The arrival of a Greek dynasty on the island occurred around the time that many settlements such as Arkhanes were abandoned; Knossos alone survived among the great palaces, and one Minoan site after another was destroyed.
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The Babylonian Empire: 1900 BC to 539 BC

2018
The history of Sumer and Akkad have been mostly derived from archaeological evidence, unlike the history of either Greece or Rome, which have been accorded a written tradition. There was no Herodotus or Thucydides in the case of either Sumer or Akkad as there was in the case of Greece, except for Berossus.
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Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)

The chapter begins with a review of some of the background thinking during Hippocrates time. The brain was considered to be the location of the soul which was the essence of subjective experience. However, this was not a brain function as such but rather a location where the pneuma reacted with the soul.
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The Triumph of the Tyrrhenians, 800 BC–400 BC

2011
The importance of the Etruscans does not simply lie in the painted tombs whose lively designs captivated D. H. Lawrence, nor in the puzzle of where their distinctive language originated, nor in the heavy imprint they left on early Rome. Theirs was the first civilization to emerge in the western Mediterranean under the impetus of the cultures of the ...
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