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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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    History of Pythagoras

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    priests. Ten years later‚ when Persia invaded Egypt‚ Pythagoras was taken prisoner and sent to Babylon‚ where he met the Magoi‚ priests who taught him sacred rites. Iamblichus (250-330 AD)‚ a Syrian philosopher‚ wrote about Pythagoras‚ he also reached the acme of perfection in arithmetic and music and the other mathematical sciences taught by the Babylonians In 520 BC‚ Pythagoras‚ now a free man‚ left Babylon and returned to Samos‚ and sometime later began a school called The Semicircle. His methods

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    ORDER -specialization of jobs led to classes -magician priests‚ soldiers‚ farmers‚ -“standard of Ur” (wooden panel) depicted classes -shows conquering of enemies‚ found in royal tomb‚ two slabs double sided Law and the Social Order in Babylon -rulers of Babylon took over after 2000BCE -made babylonian empire -Hammurabi (6th ruler) made Hammurabis code on big rocks‚ from god shamash -written law est. justice and fairness -tells us about class‚ fam‚ rights‚ responsibili -individuals not equal

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    The four elements that this statue was made of signified four kingdoms (Babylon‚ Medo-Persia‚ Greece‚ Rome)‚ each of which transferred world power to the next‚ but ultimately all died out in the end. Newsom tells us‚ “the dream imagery is a visual representation of an internationally known theory of imperial succession called

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    Kyle De Jan Dr. Hosler History 312 11/05/12 Response Essay to History of the First Crusade Robert the Monk’s history of the First Crusade‚ Historia Iherosolimitana (HI)‚ was composed several years after the events it records. There is also no evidence making him an eyewitness for the anything he transcribes except for the Council of Clermont. Robert is generally accepted as a valuable source for the First Crusade as his story is based on the Gesta Francorum and he was commissioned by his abbot

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    and a few years later its purpose came into use. It is the only surviving ancient wonder. The Hanging gardens of Babylon was located on the east

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    Google File System

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    fault tolerance‚ and automatic recovery must be integral to the system. Second‚ files are huge by traditional standards. Multi-GB files are common. As a result‚ design assumptions and parameters such as I/O operation and blocksizes have to be revisited. Third‚ most files are mutated by appending new data rather than overwriting existing data. Random writes within a file are practically non-existent.Given this access pattern on huge files‚ appending becomes the focus of performance optimization

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    Persian Empire

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    The Persian Empire was a series of successive Iranian or Iraniate empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau‚ the original Persian homeland‚ and beyond in Western Asia‚ South Asia‚ Central Asia and the Caucasus.[1] The first Persian Empire formed under the Median Empire (728 BC-559 BC) after defeating and ending the Assyrian Empire with the help of Babylonians. Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BC) was the largest empire of the ancient world[2] and the most widespread entity of it was under Darius

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    Herodotus Research Paper

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    These nine books give us a recollection of the Greco-Persian wars and the history that led to their conflicts. The first two books tell the history of Ancient Near East‚ Egypt‚ and Babylon. The third and forth book show the rise of the Persian Empire. The last five books focus on the Greco-Persian wars in chronological order. Herodotus used existing inscriptions and oral accounts from people who lived through the early Greco-Persian

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    The Bay of Pigs Invasion

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    The Bay of Pigs Invasion HIST102 – American History since 1877 Today‚ April 17‚ 2013‚ marks the 52nd anniversary of the invasion at the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an event that took place on the south shores of Cuba in April 1961. America’s involvement consisted of assisting Cuban exiles in trying to overtake Fidel Castro’s newly seized Communist Cuban government. This involvement has been viewed by many as an utter failure. Set in motion late in the Eisenhower

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