Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

The Iliad (/ ˈ ɪ l i ə d /; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, Attic Greek: ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version, and was ...

The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.The Ancient Near Eastern cultures are well within the historical era: The first half of the millennium is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia.The alphabet develops. At the center of the millennium, a …

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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos (334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied …

"Hold your horses", sometimes said as "Hold the horses", is an English-language idiom meaning "wait, slow down".The phrase is historically related to horse riding or travelling by horse, or driving a horse-drawn vehicle.A number of explanations, all unverified, have been offered for the origins of the phrase, dating back to usage in Ancient Greece. ...

In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (French: Pays-Bas bourguignons, Dutch: Bourgondische Nederlanden, Luxembourgish: Burgundeschen Nidderlanden, Walloon: Bas Payis borguignons) or the Burgundian Age is the period between 1384 and 1482, during which a growing part of the Low Countries was ruled by the Dukes of …

before 14,000 BC: Jōmon period: 14,000 – 1000 BC: Yayoi period. Civil War of Wa; 1000 BC – 300 AD: Kofun period. Goguryeo–Wa War; 300 AD – 538 AD: Asuka period. Goguryeo–Tang War; ... In the 1380s the kanrei council system was strengthened by Yoshimitsu when he persuaded the western and central shugo lords to take up residence in Kyoto.

Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on an alternate Earth and Mars.These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods.Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science …

In 327 BC Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire provinces of Sogdiana and ... emerged from these struggles in the 1380s as the dominant force in Transoxiana. Although he was not a descendant of Genghis Khan, Timur became the de facto ruler of Transoxiana and proceeded to conquer all of western Central Asia, Iran ...