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  BERENICE - LoveToKnow Article on BERENICE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BERENICE, daughter of Lagus, wife of an obscure Macedonian soldier and subsequently of Ptolemy Soter, with whose bride Eurydice she came to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting.
BERENICE, daughter of Salome, sister of Herod I., and wife of her cousin Aristobulus, who was assassinated in 6 B.C. Their relations had been unhappy and she was accused of complicity in his murder.
BERENICE, an ancient seaport of Egypt, on the west coast of the Red Sea, in 23 56' N., 35 34' E. Built at the head of a gulf, ;he Sinus Immundus, or Foul Bay, of Strabo, it was sheltered on the north by Ras Benas (Lepte Extrema).
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 Berenice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice I of Egypt, mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I.
Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III.
Berenice IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII and elder sister of Cleopatra.
www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Berenice   (278 words)

  
 Ashoka Fellow Profile - Berenice Assumpção Kikuchi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice Assumpção Kikuchia is the first and perhaps the only person working in Brazil in a comprehensive way to raise awareness of and provide treatment for sickle cell anemia in the Afro-Brazilian community.
Berenice concluded that they were experiencing double discrimination, and that it was necessary to address the social dimension of the disease along with the biology.
Berenice saw the achievement of a public policy response as vital to her success, all the more so after a visit to the Dominican Republic where she saw failure in similar work to be directly related to lack of government support.
www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=96887   (1701 words)

  
 Berenice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Often, Berenice's tail, horn, wings or even her eyes alone appeared out of nowhere startling her parents and her sweet voice could be heard giggling, amused at her parents' faces.
But little Berenice was convinced that, what her mother had always considered a flaw, was actually a unique winking ability they both had been born with, and she expressed so repeatedly.
Because of her flying and winking skills, Berenice was quickly summoned to integrate one of the searching parties that combed the whole Lucicittan territory in order to rescue and bring aid to any foal who might need help, and to find any surviving adult pony (if there was still some hope).
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 Berenice (port) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice or 'Berenice Troglodytica, an ancient seaport of Egypt was founded by Ptolemy II.
Most important of the ruins is a temple; the remnants of its sculptures and inscriptions preserve the name of Tiberius and the figures of many deities, including a (goddess?) Alabarch or Arabarch, also the name of the head magistrate of the Jews in Alexandria under Ptolemaic and Roman rule.
The coastal trade from Berenice along the coast of the Indian Ocean is described in the anonymous 1st century CE handbook Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /berenice_(port).htm   (225 words)

  
 Search Results for "Berenice"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice, c.280–46 B.C., queen-consort of ancient Syria, c.280-46 B.C., queen-consort of ancient Syria; wife of Antiochus II.
Berenice, c.273–21 B.C., queen of ancient Cyrene and Egypt, c.273-21 B.C., queen of ancient Cyrene and Egypt.
His stepmother, Cleopatra Berenice, was joint ruler with her father, Ptolemy VIII, and sole ruler after...
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 Berenice I of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berenice I, daughter of Lagus, was first the wife of Philip, an obscure Macedonian nobleman, with whom she gave birth to the future Magas of Cyrene.
Upon Philip's death, she came to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting to Eurydice, bride of Ptolemy I, Alexander's general and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Ptolemy gave her name to the new port he built on the Red Sea, Berenice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berenice_I_of_Egypt   (216 words)

  
 Berenice II of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gold coin depicting Berenice II If you are looking for something or someone else named Berenice, please go here.
During her husband's absence on an expedition to Syria, she dedicated her hair to Venus for his safe return, and placed it in the temple of the goddess at.
The predecessor of the modern city Benghazi was refounded by her and received her name: Berenice.
lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Berenice_II_of_Egypt   (272 words)

  
 Berenice fiancee of attalus III
For example, one may note Berenice of Chios, a wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus, and his daughter Cleopatra, both named by Plutarch, Lucullus 18.2 and Lucullus 22.5, respectively, who were certainly not Ptolemaic princesses.
While the actual evidence for regarding Berenice to be a Ptolemaic princess is almost non-existent, the conjecture itself is not unreasonable, since her parentage is only one (and in fact the least) of several circumstantial details that seem to fall into place quite easily if we suppose that she was.
Cleopatra II, engaged to Attalus III in the runup to the Syrian wars of the early 140s, we are looking for a place amongst their children that would allow her to be old enough to be engaged to Attalus III in the late 150s but not old enough to have married him immediately.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/berenice_d.htm   (1544 words)

  
 Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Coma Berenices
Queen Berenice was the wife of King Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) of Egypt.
Berenice (meaning "bringer of victory" in Greek) was deeply concerned for her husband's safety, and prayed every day for his return.
Berenice did not hesitate, she was willing to sacrifice anything for her dear husband.
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 Berenice Abbott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, on July 17, 1898 as Bernice.
When Berenice Abbott met her fellow American Man Ray in Paris, who had also moved there in 1921, he was looking for a new darkroom assistant.
In the dispute between pictorialists and modernists, with her taste for photographic realism, she stood clearly on the side of the modernists who thought that soft-focus compromised the inherent clarity of the photographic image and that pictorial subject matter was a form of escapism and denial of modern urban life.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo30/berenice_abbott.htm   (2776 words)

  
 Clark House Gallery: Berenice Abbott: Photographs of New York, Maine and More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Clark House Gallery is proud to announce the opening of our 2004 summer exhibition "Berenice Abbott: Photographs of New York, Maine and More." This show includes many of Abbott's photographs of New York in the 1930s, as well as some of her images of Maine and her science photographs from the 1950s.
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was one of the most prominent photographers of the 20th century.
Berenice Abbott’s work is a part of many museum collections including the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of the City of New York, and is in private collections around the world.
www.artnet.com /ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?G=7&cid=62799   (482 words)

  
 Berenice II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berenice, was the daughter of Magas of Cyrene, and the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes I, the third ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Additional information: Berenice II lived at around 273 B.C.E. and died at approximately 245 B.C.E. She participated in battles and killed several of her enemies.
She also raised an army in rebellion against the man that she was betrothed too because she found him repellent.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berenice_II_of_Egypt   (268 words)

  
 Wind and wine aboard Berenice - ARC 2003 - Yachting World Magazine
Berenice is surprisingly easy to sail in these conditions.
Berenice has a bathroom with a cast iron bath; the saloon is panelled Honduras mahogany; the water maker provides us with plenty of fresh water.
Berenice has been sailing in quite difficult winds for a classic yacht; the typical trade winds seem to have had trouble setting this year and without the ability to run down wind, she has had to snake following a rather tortuous course.
www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20031112104645ywarc03.html   (733 words)

  
 Abbott, Berenice on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Photographers came late to the art party but come they did, and among the medium's female pioneers were Diane Arbus and Berenice Abbott.
This image is among 125 photographs on view in "Berenice Abbott's Changing New York, 1935-1939" at the National Muse
" "El", Second and Third Ave Lines" was taken by photographer Berenice Abbott on April 24, 1936, during her extensive effort to record New York City in the late 1930's.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/abbott-b1.asp   (626 words)

  
 Berenice IV
Also, if the identification were correct, he might be preferable to Philip as being genealogically more closely related to Berenice, being allegedly the son of a Ptolemaic princess rather than the grandson of one.
Dio Cassius, 39.57 says that he "claimed" to be a Seleucid, but was killed because he was seen to be held in low esteem; he does not actually express an opinion as to the truth of this claim.
It is generally accepted that the passage is in origin part of an account of the deeds of the sons of Antiochus X and Philip I. The known ones were two sons of Antiochus X, i.e.
www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/berenice_iv.htm   (1865 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Titus
Here he revealed a sympathy for brutality and humiliation, most evident in the way in which Jews were thrown to wild beasts or forced to fight each other in shows for public enjoyment.
Even so, Berenice visited Rome in A.D. 75 with her brother and openly lived with Titus for a time, although he dismissed her, with mutual regret, upon his accession to the throne..
Before becoming emperor, tradition records that Titus was feared as the next Nero, a perception that may have developed from his association with Berenice, his alleged heavy-handedness as praetorian prefect, and tales of sexual debauchery..
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 Porphyrius: Comments on Daniel - translation
Ptolemaeus led Berenice out to Pelusium, and sent with her an immense amount of gold and silver, so that she was given the name Phernophoros ["dowry-bringer"].
She handed over Berenice and her son by Antiochus to be killed by Icadion and Gennaeus, the leaders of Antioch, and she set up her elder son, Seleucus Callinicus, as king in his father's place.
After the murder of Berenice and the death of her father Ptolemaeus Philadelphus in Egypt, Berenice's brother Ptolemaeus Euergetes became the third king [of Egypt].
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 Encyclopedia: Berenice II
This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
Coma Berenices (Latin for Berenices Hair) is a traditional asterism that has since become a constellation.
Under the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-204 BC), son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II of Egypt, the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom began.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Berenice-II   (611 words)

  
 Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe:
But these reflections partook not of the idiosyncrasy of my disease, and were such as would have occurred, under similar circumstances, to the ordinary mass of mankind.
The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless, and seemingly pupilless, and I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to he contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips.
She had been seized with epilepsy in the early morning, and now, at the closing in of the night, the grave was ready for its tenant, and all the preparations for the burial were completed.
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 Meda, Alberto and Rizzatto, Paolo Berenice Small Table for Luceplan
The Berenice operates with a transformer that allows low voltage currant to reach the lamp through the rods without electric wiring.
With a special distancer housed in the lower part of the head the light can be brought very close to the reading material while maintaining a safe distance.By simply touching the head ring, which is independent from the lamp housing and well insulated, the light can easily be moved in any direction.
Berenice is available in your choice of a fl or silver finish base and arm; then select your reflector finish -- silver or fl (light will not shine through) or tranlucent blue, green, or red (light will shine through).
www.retromodern.com /item_detail.asp?5057.   (256 words)

  
 Berenice III
Rather, the inscription should be dated to Berenice III's reign as queen, at which time she was almost certainly recognised in Cyprus; the choice of title represents her view of her parents.
Since the queen is referred to second, she must be Berenice III rather than his mother, Cleopatra III, who would have been referred to first.
Ptolemy XI was on Cos throughout the period of his father's marriage to Berenice III, he was surely still regarded as a royal son, and probably as the king's heir.
www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/berenice_iii.htm   (2111 words)

  
 Articles - Berenice (port)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica (now known as Medinet-el Haras) is an ancient seaport of Egypt.
From the 1st century BC until the 2nd century AD Berenice was one of the trans-shippings point of trade between India, Arabia, and Upper Egypt.
The coastal trade from Berenice along the coast of the Indian Ocean is described in the anonymous 1st century handbook Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
www.gaple.com /articles/Berenice_(port)   (516 words)

  
 BERENICE by E. A. Poe (1835)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, --not the material of my every-day existence-but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
And at length the period of our nuptials was approaching, when, upon an afternoon in the winter of the year, --one of those unseasonably warm, calm, and misty days which are the nurse of the beautiful Halcyon*, --I sat, (and sat, as I thought, alone,) in the inner apartment of the library.
The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless, and seemingly pupil-less, and I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to the contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips.
bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/poe/works/berenice.html   (2069 words)

  
 NMWA | Private Collection | Profile - Berenice Abbott
When she began her career, photography was not considered a serious art form and women were not regarded as serious artists.
Berenice Abbott overcame these and many other obstacles during her illustrious 60-year career.
She also invented new photographic equipment and techniques, received several honorary doctorates, and was the subject of many retrospective exhibitions.
www.nmwa.org /collection/profile.asp?LinkID=175   (311 words)

  
 Berenice Page 1
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, not the material of my every-day existence, but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
Berenice and I were cousins, and we grew up together in my paternal halls.
I knew her not --- or knew her no longer as Berenice.
www.web-books.com /Classics/Poe/Stories/Berenice_1.htm   (393 words)

  
 Gravesite of Sister Berenice Beck
Sister Berenice Beck was instrumental in establishing the College of Nursing at Marquette University, Milwaukee, and was appointed its first Dean.
In 1932, Sister Berenice moved to Washington DC to teach the School of Nursing at Catholic University and enrolled in its doctoral program, which she completed three years later.
Sister Berenice died March 1, 1960 at St. Mary's Hospital in Racine, Wisconsin and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Racine.
www.aahn.org /Gravesites/beck.html   (371 words)

  
 BERLIN - VIVA BERENICE
I don´t think,I have to introduce the two Berenices,the Gluck one is well preserved on CD in a great recording with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Haydn even better on video with the Concentus Musicus Wien with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting a grand,much slower than Rattle,interpretation.
The Berenices were surrounded by two Haydn symphonies,No 67 and 90.The Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattles baton played wonderful,elegant,powerful,letting Haydn almost sound like a Beethoven symphonie,but never loosing transparency in the orchestration.
After the interval Glucks Berenice was equally great,again Cecilia changed her persona.I personally prefer Haydns Berenice,but that doesn´t mean,I don´t love Glucks.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Berenice Abbott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Berenice Abbott has said of photography, "If it is to be utterly honest and direct, it should be related to the pulse of the times--the pulse of today." In pioneering scientific images and photographs of the fast-changing landscape, Abbott captured the tempo of her times in work of enduring significance.
In this selection of her wide-ranging work, Aperture acknowledges the contribution Berenice Abbott has made to photography.
Besides creating masterful bodies of work of the changing face of New York, scientific phenomena, Route 1, and Maine, Abbott was an inventor of photographic equipment, a pioneer in the teaching of photographic techniques, and the first and most committed person to champion the work of the turn-of-the-century French photographer, Eugène Atget.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0893817511   (443 words)

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