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1655 BC
The 1650s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC. Events and trends * c. 1655 BC— Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies. * c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae. * c. 1650 BC— Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC—Second Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC – "Flotilla" fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri (prehistoric city), Thera, is made. Second Palace period. It is now kept in National Archaeological Museum, Athens. * Egypt—Start of Seventeenth Dynasty. * c. 1650 BC—Between Rapperswil and Hurden, on the so-called Seedamm, a first wooden bridge was constructed on Lake Zürich in Switzerland * c. 1650 BC—The last Woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island, rendering the species extinct. * c. 1650 BC— The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is produced.Jan Gullberg, C13 Trigonometry, ''Maths from Birth of Numbers,'' W. W. Norton in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1655 BC
The 1650s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1659 BC to December 31, 1650 BC. Events and trends * c. 1655 BC— Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, dies. * c. 1650 BC—Greeks start to live in Mycenae. * c. 1650 BC— Middle Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC—Second Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 1674 BC). * c. 1650 BC – "Flotilla" fresco, from Room 5 of West House, Akrotiri (prehistoric city), Thera, is made. Second Palace period. It is now kept in National Archaeological Museum, Athens. * Egypt—Start of Seventeenth Dynasty. * c. 1650 BC—Between Rapperswil and Hurden, on the so-called Seedamm, a first wooden bridge was constructed on Lake Zürich in Switzerland * c. 1650 BC—The last Woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island, rendering the species extinct. * c. 1650 BC— The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is produced.Jan Gullberg, C13 Trigonometry, ''Maths from Birth of Numbers,'' W. W. Norton in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil
Rapperswil ( Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, , p. 727. short: ''Rappi'') is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located at the east side of the Lake Zurich. Geography Rapperswil is located on Lake Zürich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm. Sights The town's main sights are concentrated in the Altstadt of Rapperswil and can be seen while strolling through the medieval alleys. The main sights of Rapperswil are its rose gardens, Rapperswil Castle, the reconstructed wooden bridge to Hur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Point
Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (french: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana, though evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much of the Southeastern Woodlands of the Southern United States. The culture extended across the Mississippi Delta and south to the Gulf Coast. The Poverty Point site has been designated as a state historic site, U.S. National Monument, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is from the current flow of the Mississippi River,Milner, George R. (2004). ''The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America''. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd. and is situated on the edge of Macon Ridge, near the village of Epps in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. The Poverty Point site contains earthen ridges and mounds, built by indigenous people between 1700 and 1100 BCE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Gullberg
Jan Gullberg (1936 – 21 May 1998) was a Swedish surgeon and anaesthesiologist, but became known as a writer on popular science and medical topics. He is best known outside Sweden as the author of ''Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers'', published by W. W. Norton in 1997 (). Life Gullberg grew up and was trained as a surgeon in Sweden. He qualified in medicine at the University of Lund in 1964. He practised as a surgeon in Saudi Arabia, Norway and Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle in the United States, as well as in Sweden. Gullberg saw himself as a doctor rather than a writer. His first book, on science, won the Swedish Medical Society's Jubilee Prize in 1980, and saw him promoted to honorary doctor at the University of Lund the same year. He was twice married: first to Anne-Marie Hallin (d. 1983), with whom he had three children; and Ann Richardson (b. 1951) with whom he adopted twin sons, Kamen and Kalin. He died of a stroke in Nordfjordeid, Norway at the hospital where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
