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Who is willing to believe that Alexandria is exactly 5000 stadia from Syene, whatever the value of the stadium?
It also served as a platform for a monumental lighthouse, or pharos, that imitated the great Pharos of Alexandria.
To use Memorial Day to make up for a snow day is a slap in the face to every person in Alexandria who has lost someone to the perils of war.
From Madrid via Alexandria en route to the city of Antwerp, the current stopover is New Delhi.
I turned the car off and unbuckled my seat belt, also watching Alexandria struggle with her own.
I watched as Alexandria pumped three bullets into Rafael's chest, and I saw him go down.
Mary's marking sampler, with six alphabets worked in black in the Quaker block style, names Alexandria as its place of origin.
Regarding his importance for the history of cartography, he is compared to Ptolemy, the ancient scholar from Alexandria in Egypt.
It involved not only building a library, but inviting savants from all over the Greek world to live in Alexandria.
A fleet of thirteen ships and over 36,000 troops set forth for Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, in June 1798, conquering Malta on the way.
Again Alexandria laughed at his young ways, but still was taken aback at the beautiful regality she saw in the golden-haired youth.
She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
The walls of the Alexandria seraglio apparently carry large portraits of himself to the total of his ladies.
The Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria is likewise designated by the non-biblical title of pope.
On September 23 1942 he took off from an airfield near Alexandria on a solo reconnaissance over the Aegean.
Another performance that Kavita holds close to her heart was at the inauguration of the restored Bibliotheca Alexandria.
In my 3rd year, a group of four of us were sent on a clerkship to Alexandria.
However she assisted her father Theon of Alexandria in writing his eleven part commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.
Thus animals could be seen as the embodiments of evil, like the asp of Macarius of Alexandria.
Palermino, a folk artist from Alexandria, Va., has sold limited editions and notecards featuring her work for 15 years but is new to licensing.
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The most important was the Alexandria which is still the chief seaport of Egypt.
The Saint is robed in the alb, dalmatic with two stripes, chasuble and pall as being Archbishop of Alexandria.
Halleck telegraphed to fall back to the fortifications of Alexandria and Washington.
A man of mean condition, born at Alexandria, had lost his sight by a defluxion on his eyes.
Hence, he adds, were derived the names of the demes in the Dionysiac phyle at Alexandria, viz.
He was selected by the assembly as one of the incorporators of the town of Alexandria, and as one of the first trustees.
The first passage which he points out is found in the stromata of Clement of Alexandria.
The delay of the Federals at Opelousas gave abundant time to remove our stores from Alexandria.
On the third day after his arrival he left Tennis and sailed from Tanis for Alexandria.
The first troops to arrive were two raw, undrilled, and ununiformed Irish regiments from Alexandria, armed with altered muskets.
A definite medical school was established at Alexandria and others perhaps at pergamon and elsewhere.
Vitruvius, on the other hand makes Ptolemy found the library at Alexandria as a rival to that at pergamon.
You probably fail to realize difficulty of rebutting case of burning Alexandria and obtaining evidence for defence.
The bowls in which the rare wines were mixed were of pure crystal or the rubied glass of Alexandria.
The head of the church is called the Abuna, and is consecrated by the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
The proposition relating to the exterior angle was recognized by Pappus of Alexandria.
The pilots name was Mikali, and some of those on board belonged to the Venetian gallies of Alexandria.
The one of real service was the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria, Egypt.
Ctesibius of Alexandria, Hero and others, founded the science of pneumatics on observations on the physical properties of air.
Think of the philosophers who deserted the College of Heliopolis for Alexandria!
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