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111Sargon II — died 705 B.C., king of Assyria 722 705. * * * died 705 BC Assyrian king (r. 721–705 BC). He continued the empire building work of his presumed father, Tiglath pileser III. One of his aims was to prove the might of the Assyrian god Ashur by… …
112Sophocles — Sophoclean /sof euh klee euhn/, adj. /sof euh kleez /, n. 495? 406? B.C., Greek dramatist. * * * born с 496, Colonus, near Athens died 406 BC, Athens Greek playwright. With Aeschylus and Euripides, he was one of the three great tragic playwrights …
113Monet, Claude — born Nov. 14, 1840, Paris, France died Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny French landscape painter. Monet spent his early years in Le Havre, where his first teacher, Eugène Boudin, taught him to paint in the open air. Moving to Paris, he formed lifelong… …
114Sebastiano del Piombo — orig. Sebastiano Luciani born с 1485, Venice, Republic of Venice died July 21, 1547, Rome, Papal States Italian painter. While in Venice, he was highly influenced by his teacher, Giorgione. In 1511 he moved to Rome and became a member of… …
115Tragic Optimism for a Millennial Dawning — ▪ 1999 Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Harvard University since 1973, has gained worldwide renown as a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and, not least,… …
116ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
117Egypt, ancient — Introduction civilization in northeastern Africa dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Its many achievements, preserved in its art and monuments, hold a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets. This article… …
118Islāmic world — Introduction prehistory and history of the Islamic community. Adherence to Islām is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern… …
119tropical rainforest — Introduction also spelled tropical rain forest luxuriant forest, generally composed of broad leaved trees and found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator. Rainforests are vegetation types dominated by broad leaved trees …
120Herbert Hoover: Against the Proposed New Deal — ▪ Primary Source President Hoover attributed the Depression to forces that bore on the United States from without, not to weaknesses in the American system itself. He had originally intended to conduct a limited campaign for reelection; but …
