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    University of California Press‚ Berkley‚ 1968 Hsia‚ C.T.‚ The Classic Chinese Novel‚ A Critical Introduction‚ Indiana University Press‚ Bloomington‚ 1980‚ reprint form Colombia U Lo Kuan-Chung‚ Romance of the Three Kingdoms‚ Translator; Roberts‚ Moss‚ Pantheon Books‚ New York‚ 1976 PL2690s3e5 Liu I-Ch ’ng‚ Commtary by Liu Chun‚ Shih-shuo Hsin-yu‚ (A New Account of Tales of the World)‚ Translator‚ Richard B Needham‚ Joseph‚ Science and Civilization in China‚ vol II History of scientific thought‚ Cambridge

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    B.c.e. Roman Period

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    Apollo Belvedere‚ c.a. 325 B.C.E. Nike of Samothrace‚ c.a. 190 B.C.E. Lacoön and His Sons (Lacoön Group)‚ c.a. 140 B.C.E. Venus de Milo‚ ca. 200 B.C.E. Roman Period Augustus of Primaporta‚ c.a. 20 B.C.E. Colosseum‚ Rome‚ 70-82 C.E. The Pantheon‚ 118-125 C.E. Maisson Carree‚ Nimes‚ France‚ c.a. 19 B.C.E. Trajan’s Victory Column‚ Rome‚ 113 C.E. Detail from Trajan’s Column‚ Rome‚ 113 C.E. Arch of Titus‚ Rome‚ c.a. 81 C.E. Spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem‚ Relief from the Arch of

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    Darda‚ Joseph. "Graphic Ethics." Theorizing the Face in Marjane Satrapi ’s "Persepolis" 40.2 (2013): 31-51. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. Journalist Joseph Darda discusses the implications of the Iranian revolution Satrapi‚ Marjane. Persepolis. New York‚ NY: Pantheon‚ 2003. Print. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis tells the story of her childhood and the trials she faced with her family during the Iranian Revolution

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    Arch of Constantine

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    After many years of war‚ Constantine’s army finally defeated the over-powering army of Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD. With this victory‚ much needed peace was brought to the Roman Empire. In order to venerate Constantine’s grand conquest‚ the Senate of Rome honored him with a triumphal arch just 3 years later. This arch is said to be the oldest obtainable arch in Rome made with spolia (See fig.1). The arch‚ positioned in the valley of the Colosseum between the Palatine Hill

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    Foucault’s Pendulum In 1851‚ a French physicist named Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault suspended an iron ball with a radius of approximately 0.5 feet from the ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris with a wire that was over 200 feet long. The ball was used as a pendulum‚ and it could swing more than 12 feet back and forth. Beneath the ball he placed a circular ring with sand on top of it. Attached to the bottom of the ball was a pin‚ which scraped away the sand in its path each time the ball went by. To get

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    the more was expected. Blood was drawn by jabbing spines through the ear or bladder‚ or by drawing a thorn-studded cord through the tongue; it was then spattered on paper or otherwise collected as an offering to the gods. The Maya worshipped a pantheon of nature gods‚ each of which had both a benevolent side and a malevolent side. The most important deity was the supreme god Itzamna‚ the creator god‚ the god of the fire and god of the hearth. Another important Mayan god was Kukulcan‚ the Feathered

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    poorly. Not much more could have been said for him even a year later‚ when Lincoln thought that he would lose his bid for reelection. It would take Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and his own death a week later to propel Lincoln into the pantheon of presidential greatness. And Lincoln’s canonization began almost immediately. Within days of his death‚ his life was being compared to Jesus Christ. Lincoln was portrayed to a worshipping public as a self-made man‚ the liberator of the slaves

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    Poseidon Poseidon or Posidon (Greek: Ποσειδῶν) is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain is the ocean‚ and he is called the "God of the Sea". Additionally‚ he is referred to as "Earth-Shaker" due to his role in causing earthquakes‚ and has been called the "tamer of horses". The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.Linear B tablets show that Poseidon

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    Oxford: Blackwell. Haidt‚ J.‚ &Joseph‚ C. (2004). Sexual morality: The cultures and reasons of liberals and conservatives. Journal of Applied Social Psychology‚ 31 191-221. Wright‚ R. (1994). The moral animal: Why we are the way we are. New York: Pantheon.

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    the supreme creator of not only all life but also heaven and the underworld. He was the ancient Egyptian god of fertility and life as well as the sun and air. (ancient history encyclopedia) Amun was “arguably the most important god in the Egyptian pantheon” (the met website). Amun is most often identified as Amun-Re. Egyptians often blended their deities and Amun-Re was the combination of Amun and the deity Re who

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