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    Polybius Polybius was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period born in Megalopolis‚ Arcadia (200-118 B.C). He was the son of Lycortas‚ also a Greek Politician who became the Cavalry commander of the Achaean league (a Hellenistic period of alliance between Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese). The Achaean league existed between 280 and 146 B.C‚ and at that time Polybius was also a member of the Achaean league in which he spent trying to maintain the independence of Macedonia

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    Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Macedonian king‚ Alexander the Great and Roman general‚ Julius Caesar‚ transformed themselves into personalities which are known to the world till date. Every human being is unique and cannot be a carbon copy of another. But even though they lived in different times of history‚ they had plenty of similarities. It is an ultimate compliment for both of them to have comparable characteristics. Alexander and Caesar were congruent with respect to the results and

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    Doing gender: Gender and Society. Vol. 1. No. 2. P.140 Swedish family at http://www.thelocal.se/20232/20090623/ UNFPA‚ 2000. The State of World Population 2000: Lives Together‚ Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change‚ p. 25. New York: UNFPA Plutarch quotes at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes Suicide rates by gender‚ Ireland‚ 1950- 2009 at http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/irel.pdf M J. Butler‚ 2004. Unduing gender. Routledge

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    Cited: Paterculus‚ Velleius. Roman History. Book website source. New York‚ New York. 1924. website source. Plutarch. The Parallel Lives‚ Loeb Classical Library edition. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1920. Website Source Froude‚ James Anthony. Life of Caesar. Project Gutenberg e-text. p. 67. Suetonius‚ Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius 6; Velleius Paterculus

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    spectacle of a ship being lifted clean out of the water into the air and whirled about as it hung there‚ until every man had been shaken out of the hull and thrown in different direction‚ after which it would be dashed down empty upon the walls.” (Plutarch‚ Greek historian‚ biologist and essayist) Other Weapons

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    related to politics and in the story he works as a mirror to Bartleby in the sense that a mere bust (a still‚ lifeless figure) of him represents a political and philosophical statement. Marius‚ a Roman general called “the third founder of Rome” by Plutarch‚ represents statesmanship. Adam alludes to the presence of religion in society as a justification to our actions. Adams and Colt‚ make reference to crime‚ violence and‚ by association‚ to the fear that comes with them. This is a different kind of

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    towards the Greeks at the end of the war. Pausanias’ actions in particular as well as Sparta’s attitude that the Ionians should return to the mainland for protection‚ this greatly angered the larger Ionian settlements being Chios‚ Lesbos and Samos. Plutarch states that the allies

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    “Cannibalism on the High Seas: the Common Law’s Perfect Storm. www.duhaime.org. 20 Aug. 2011: Web. 18 March‚ 2013. 3. A. W. Brian‚ Simpson. “Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy”. “The Hambledon Press”. 1994. 18 March‚ 2013 4. Plutarch‚ John Dryden‚ Arthur Hugh. “Plutarch’s Lives: The translation called Dryden’s Volume 4”. “Little‚ Brown and Company”. Boston. 1884. 18 March‚ 2013

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    Hypothyroidism

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    Hypothyroidism A Goitre is a Thing of Beauty When earthquakes damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in March 2011‚ a large quantity of radioactive caesium-137 and iodine-131 were released into the water supply. The Japanese government was accused of responding too slowly‚ and for not administering iodide prophylaxis to the exposed population. Iodine-131 is readily taken up by the thyroid gland‚ and the radioactivity can destroy the gland. However‚ this uptake of radioactive iodine

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    "Shakespeare and His Sources: Observations on the Critical History of Julius Caesar." Shakespeare Survey 40 (1987)‚ 69-76. 14.Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Trans. Thomas North. Ed. Judith Mossman. Ware: Wordsworth Editions‚ 1998. 15.Rabkin‚ Norman. "Structure‚ Convention‚ and Meaning in Julius Caesar." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 63 (1964)

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