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  Toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In trains they may have a reservoir, or the urine and feces may simply fall on the tracks, hence the notice which appears in many train toilets: "Please do not flush while the train is standing at a station".
In the year 2500 BCE, the people of Harappa in India had water borne toilets in each house that were linked with drains covered with burnt clay bricks.
The invention of the flush toilet is credited to Sir John Harington in 1596, though it took improvements in the Victorian era (likely spearheaded by Alexander Cummings rather than Thomas Crapper as is commonly stated) for flushing toilets to become widely used.
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 11. Intro Sumerian Kinglist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of the Greeks, Herodotus of Halicarnassus (5th century BCE, a contemporary of Xerxes I and Artaxerxes I) was the first to report on "Babylon and the rest of Assyria"; at that date the Assyrian empire had been overthrown for more than 100 years.
In the late 19th century, a series of excavations was undertaken at Lagash by French archaeologists working under the direction of the Louvre Museum and at Nippur by Americans under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
Around 2500 BCE: King Lugalanemundu of Adab extends Sumer to cover the area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, bordering the Taurus mountains in the north, and the Zagros mountains in the east.
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 Science Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the seventeenth century bce, an Egyptian papyrus listed many diagnoses of head and neck injuries and their treatment and is the "first known document in which the brain's role in controlling limbs or organs at a considerable distance is established" (Changeux 1983:4; Breasted 1930).
In the second millenium bce, in the Rig-Veda it was maintained the Earth was a globe and in the Yajur-Veda that the Earth circled the Sun.
About 510 bce, Almaeon of Crotona, a member of the Pythagorean medical circle, located the seat of perception in the brain, or enkephalos, and maintained that there were passages connecting the senses to the brain, a position he was said to have arrived at by dissections of the optic nerve.
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 The use of CE and BCE  to identify dates
BCE stands for "Before the common era." It is eventually expected to replace BC, which means "Before Christ." BC and BCE are also identical in value.
Most theologians and religious historians believe that the approximate birth date of Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus) was in the fall, sometime between 7 and 4 BCE, although we have seen estimates as late as 4 CE and as early as the second century BCE.
Although CE and BCE were originally used mainly within theological writings, the terms are gradually receiving greater usage in secular writing, the media, and in the culture generally.
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 Ancient Nubia -- Map and History - 25th Dynasty Egypt
This is the end of the 25th Dynasty Egypt; withdrew to Nubia; moved their administrative center further south, from Napata to Meroë.
By 653 BC, Nubian 25th Dynasty dominance of Egypt was at an end, and also the old dynastic culture that the Nubians tried to restore.
From the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries the region of Darfur, to the west, also saw the rise of an Islamic state.
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 India [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire Emperor Valerian I is taken captive by the Persian King of Kings Shapur I. End of Yayoi era and beginning of Kofun period, the first part of the Yamato period in Japan.
These dynasties came into existence in the later centuries BCE and were in constant conflict with one another.
Mostly, these are inherited from a system first enunciated in Jyotish Vedanga (one of the six adjuncts to the Vedas, 12th to 14th century BC), standardized in the Surya Siddhanta (3rd century) and subsequently reformed by astronomers such as Aryabhata (499), Varahamihira (6th century) Bhaskara (12th century), and Fatehullah Shirazi (16th century)....
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 Timeline, 45,000 BCE to 4 CE
A century or so after the arrival of the Philistines, Hebrews, occupying hilly regions in the Land of Canaan, combine their forces for the first time and confront an army of Philistines near the Philistine outpost at Aphek, and they lose the battle.
In the coming century the writings called Upanishads begin, by persons interested in the relations between self and universe, an addition to Hinduism often associated with the Vedas and beyond Hinduism's routines of ritual sacrifices - a collection of as many as two hundred books to be written across two centuries.
The city of Carthage, on the coast of North Africa, is founded by Phoenicians from the city of Tyre.
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 Bible Chronology
Born in 2970 BCE, he was the first great patriarch of the post-Flood society and the common ancestor of all mankind born after the Flood.
Born in 2333 BCE, he was the son of Arpachshad, the father of Eber, and the third generation from Noah.
Born in 2008 BCE, she was the daughter of Terah and the half-sister and wife of Abraham.
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By the end of the sixteenth century, however, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing—all were sources of income for composers...
Indeed, before the advent of public education in the mid-nineteenth century, in order to receive any education at all a boy or a girl had to be born into the middle or upper classes and have parents who valued education enough to pay for it.
'Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement.
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The century between 650 and 550 BCE was Lydia's Golden Age.
In 390 BCE the Celts resume their expansion over Europe by invading Central Italy, where in 387 BCE, allied with Etruscans, they destroy the Roman army, capture and plunder Rome.
Weakened by its isolation, Galatia became in the 2nd century BCE, the protectorate of the Pontic kingdom, and by the next century, became a province of Rome.
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 Diamond [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Popularity of diamonds as gemstones increased starting in the 19th century(18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
This was shown in the late 18th century, and previously described during RomanHistory - Ancient history - Ancient Rome This is a List of Ancient Rome-related topics, that aims to include aspects of both the Ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire....
However, within a century diamonds were popular gems among the moneyed aristocratic and merchant classes, and by at latest 1477 Events January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated by the Swiss, and this time is killed.
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 History
century CE unfortunately preserving only inland Iamneia, which is denominated 'Jabne'el, also named Iamneia'.As was usual along the southern section of the Israeli Mediterranean coast in antiquity, cities had both coastal and inland settlements.
The year 166 BCE was crucial: at Modiin, in the Judean Hills, Mattathias and his 5 sons, John, Simeon, Judas, Eleazar and Jonathan called the "Maccabees" or the "Hasmoneans", refused to obey the King’s officer sent to Modiin in order to insist upon the presentation of the sacrifice.
century BCE, there is insofar only scanty archaeological evidence of the existence of the city during this time.
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 Rejection of Pascal's Wager:Mythological Elements in the Story of Abraham and the Patriarchal Narratives
Some estimate the document to be written as early as the tenth century BC (during the reign of Solomon, David’s son), while others estimate it to have been written as late as the sixth century (during the time of the Babylonian exile).
Even in Mari; the kingdom that is situated next to the Arabian deserts; which would have had the greatest use for camels; and of which archaeologists have a large collection of documents; not a single mention is made of camels in contemporaneous text.
In fact, it was only in the 11th century BC that references to camels started to appear in cuneiform texts and reliefs.
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 Winter solstice celebrations of Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, etc
About 50 BCE, both were later converted into two day celebrations.
There is sufficient evidence in the Gospels to indicate that Yeshua was born in the fall, but this seems to have been unknown to early Christians.
Antiochus, the king of Syria, conquered Judea in the 2nd century BCE.
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Whatever we make of the original myth, however, Isis seems to have been originally a virgin (or, perhaps, sexless) goddess, and in the later period of Egyptian religion she was again considered a virgin goddess, demanding very strict abstinence from her devotees.
In nearby Alexandria there was a similar Greek celebration on December 25th of the birth of a divine son to Kore (the "virgin").
For them, the sun was figured as a fiery wheel; and as late as the nineteenth century there were parts of France where a straw wheel was set on fire and rolled down a hill, to give an augury of the next harvest.
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 ExodusJosephusVSManetho
Josephus quotes at some length, from the 3rd century BCE Egyptian historian Manetho, who wrote a History of Egypt in Greek for his Ptolemaic overlords, evidence of the antiquity of his people from Egyptian records.
In the later Iron II (9th-6th century BCE) "re-working" of this Hyksos concept, the the going "forth from Egypt" from the port of Avaris to Levantine ports, has been _transferred_ to Yam Suph, "the sea of Reeds," Professor Kitchen and Hoffmeier's Lake Timsah or Ballah, to the east of the Delta.
The 14th century BCE Armana Letters from the Egyptain appointed Canaanite mayor of Jerusalem mention that he is alone in holding the city against Apiru in the Hill Country.
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 Maat
She was defined as the world order as this had been established upon the creation of the world.
There were actual cults of Maat, as early as in the 5th dynasty (25th century BCE).
Few cults were big, but there is much evidence for her being revered for centuries.
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 The Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235)
The evidence of the festivals themselves indicate that the practice was the ancient fertility festival and the blessing of the produce.
By the fourth century, the worshippers of the god Attis were complaining bitterly that Christians had made a spurious imitation of their theology or the resurrection of Attis, and the Christians asserted that the resurrection of Attis was a diabolical counterfeit of the resurrection of Christ.
Her cultic systems flourished at Beth-shan from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BCE and, in the second century BCE, there was a cult centre at Delos to Astarte of Palestine (ibid., p.
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 20th Century Military Books - WW I and WW II Military Books
Clausen, Henry C. and Bruce Lee PEARL HARBOR: FINAL JUDGEMENT Crown 1992 The author was a special investigator for Secretary of War Stimson who submitted an 800 page top-secret report that "would have torn apart the government of the U.S." due to our ability to read the German and Japanese codes.
Cookridge, E.H. GEHLAN-SPY OF THE CENTURY Random House 1972 Reinhard Gehlan first served as Hitler's chief intelligence officer against the Soviet Union.
King and Kutta IMPACT: The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II Sarpedon 1998 Provides an operational context to the Third Reich's missiles that was previously ignored and documents how neither side fully grasped the implications of guided missiles at the time.
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 Twentieth Century Atlas - 21st Century Predictions - American Empire
The syndicated columnists liken the US to the Roman Empire at its decadent peak, the Rome of Russell Crowe, when the better comparison is to Rome at the end of the Second Punic War.
After whipping the Carthaginians at the battle of Zama in 202 BCE, the days when enemies like Hannibal would threaten the homeland and march to the gates of the city had finally ended.
Carthage, the only expanding rival in the Mediterranean world, had been knocked out of the fight and shorn of its empire, but it was mercifully left alive as a nation.
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 Lands of the Bible Journey II - June 22-July 7, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After breakfast spend the day sightseeing in Damascus, said to be "the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world." Damascus is mentioned in the earliest historic texts - Egyptian records of the 19th century BCE, and the archives of Mari, dating from the 25th century BCE.
Nestled in a green and fertile valley in the biblical land of Gilead, Jerash is one of the most beautifully preserved and restored Greco-Roman provincial cities in the world.
Buried under the dust of centuries were streets of columns, a great oval and two theaters.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Christmas Day)
It is important to note that for two centuries after Christ's birth, no one knew, and few people cared, exactly when he was born.
We hold this day holy, not like the pagans because of the birth of the sun, but because of him who made it.
Although centuries later, social scientists would write of the psychological power of group celebrations — the unification of ranks, the solidification of collective identity, the reinforcement of common objectives — the principle had long been intuitively obvious.
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 doubleZero by hamish macdonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
People are all very tall and multidimensional in the 38th century, and they have a very poor grasp of ancient history.
The information age, in this scenario, ultimately comes to an end because the media cannot comprehend or convey the vastness of the destruction of the entire city of Volgograd and an ensuing string of earthquakes that ravages the Pacific Rim.
Though he loses control of the story after the first couple of centuries, Case gets us through some credible, and creditable, projections that, in the best tradition of utopian literature, enable us to see our own time through a different lens.
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 Main Events In The History Of Jerusalem Timeline @ CenturyOne Bookstore
Judaism and on December 25th, profanes the Temple
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 3,000 B.C. - 1 A.D.
Composed centuries after the times they refer to, the Sumerian King Lists were copied by generations of scribes and standardized in the process until the cononical version appeared in Old Babylonian times with kings extending up to that period.
Far more trustworthy is an Egyptian source of the sixteenth century B.C.E. that recounts the exploits of Pharoah Ahmose, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who sacked Avaris and chased the remnants of the Hyksos to their main citadel in southern Canaan - Sharuhen, near Gaza - which he stormed after a long siege.
The earliest datable source for the Hebrew calendar is the Gezer Calendar, written probably in the age of Solomon, in the late 10th century B.C. The inscription indicates the length of main agricultural tasks within the cycle of 12 lunations.
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 Lands of the Bible Journey IV - March 5 - 23, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Visits to the Temple of Hercules and a 6th century Byzantine church conclude are visit to the Museum complex.
The Aramaic spoken in Maalula is the language spoken by Christ in 1st century Israel.
After breakfast spend the day visiting sites in Damascus, said to be "the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world." Damascus is mentioned in the earliest historic texts - Egyptian records of the 19th century BCE, and the archives of Mari, dating from the 25th century BCE.
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 NASA - World Atlas of Solar Eclipse Paths
The following atlas of world maps show the path of every total, annular and hybrid[1] solar eclipse visible from Earth during the five millennium period -1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE[2]).
[2] BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) are secular alternatives for the terms BC and AD, respectively.
First Millennium BCE (1000 BCE to 0001 BCE)
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 Articles - New Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The New Kingdom is the period in Egyptian history between the 16th century BCE and the 11th century BCE, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt.
Under his reign, in the 14th century BCE, Egyptian art flourished and attained an unprecedented level of realism.
Another celebrated pharaoh was Ramesses II ("the Great"), who sought to recover territories in modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria that had been held by Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt.
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 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Theatrical Film (1979) & TV Series (1979-81) Timeline
Ultimately all contact between Earth and these colonies is lost, although Earth and the colonies remain in touch from the early twentieth century through to the last 23rd century.
This clearly indicates that faster than light capability had been refined and was more broadly in use by humans in the late 21st century.
The mandatory age of 85 has been changed in his case - he retires when he reaches the biological age of 85.
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