Alexander the Great
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Interesting question over at Ask MetaFilter: I can’t find much info about it online, the only information I can find is that he supposedly tunneled through Rosh Hanikra after having conquered Tyre, and the tunnel was large enough for him to march his entire army through. But why is it that can no one find…
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Richard Stoneman is the guest in a podcastish sort of thing from Australia’s ABC … not sure what the shelf life of it is: Alexander the Great: a life in legend – RN Book Show – 10 May 2010.
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Image by lyng883 via Flickr Folks might be aware that the ‘Little Mermaid’ from Copenhagen’s harbour is temporarily residing at the Shanghai World Expo. Some press coverage includes this little tidbit: “Different cultures have different interpretations of the Mermaid. We have another story of the Mermaid,” said Flora Kotzia, a visitor from Greece. According to…
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Interesting item from the Global Arab Network: A collection of Hellenistic coins dating back to the era of Alexander the Great were found near Najm Castle in the Manbej area in Aleppo governorate (northern Syria ). The coins were found by a local man as he was preparing his land for construction, uncovering a bronze…
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The incipit of a piece in the Telegraph: Clever children are almost four times more likely to suffer from the condition, which is also known as manic depression. The latest finding, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, supports a commonly held belief that exceptional intellectual ability is associated with the mental illness. Famous sufferers…
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