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Topic: Mesopotamian Campaign


  
  Maldives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heyerdahl's research indicates that as early as 2000 BC, Maldives lay on the maritime trading routes of early Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Indus Valley civilizations.
In November 1988, Tamil mercenaries from Sri Lanka invaded the Maldives.
After an appeal by the Maldivian government for help, India launched a military campaign to throw the mercenaries out of Maldives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maldives   (2604 words)

  
 Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The Atomist (Epicurean) school rejected astrology and divination by dreams and omens because they believed there is no causality and purpose in Nature, so there is no means of producing these 'signs' or correspondences and no means of prediction by way of them.
Babylonian astrology was not wholly unknown to the Greeks prior to Alexander's campaign.
Plato, for instance, demonstrates an awareness of divination by the stars in the Timaeus dialogue, in which the protagonist criticizes divination by the stars without the means of astronomical calculation (logizethai) and a model (mimêmaton) of the heavens:
www.iep.utm.edu /a/astr-hel.htm   (18995 words)

  
 TIMELINE 2nd CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
Telling his readers that his quest is to write the whole story, to record ad scientiam proficiet plenam ("with a view toward complete knowledge"), Ammianus describes wars, happenings at court, heroic acts, and the current state of the Roman empire, including growing turbulence along the frontiers.
The principle focus of his main written work, the Rerum gestarium, is the Persian campaign led by Julian the Apostate in AD 363, of which Ammianus provides an eyewitness account.
He later served under Julian in the campaign that saw the Emperor killed and the army defeated near Nisibis in the summer of 363.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline2.html   (9588 words)

  
 Jak's View From Vancouver
This year's increased poppy cultivation follows a 21 percent drop the previous year, suggesting the government has not followed through on warnings to farmers against planting poppies.
Although 37,065 acres of poppies were eradicated this year, according to the Ministry for Counternarcotics, a campaign by police to destroy crops fell short of expectation.
This was the start of the largest and most sustained chemical warfare campaign launched by man against man.
jakking.typepad.com   (3628 words)

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