BC Rail (reporting mark BCOL, BCIT) is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918.In 1972 it was renamed to the British Columbia Railway, and in 1984 it took on its present name of BC Rail.. Until 2004 it operated as the third …

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, singular: Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size.They were known for the Gigantomachy (or Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods. According to Hesiod, the Giants were the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from …

Herodotus of Herodotos (Grieks: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos; ca. 485 - ca. 425 v.Chr.) was een Grieks historicus afkomstig uit Halicarnassus.. Hij staat bekend als de vader van de geschiedschrijving, een titel die hij toegedicht kreeg in het werk De Legibus van Cicero.Volgens de Suda, een Griekse encyclopedie samengesteld in de middeleeuwen, was Herodotus uit een prominente familie …

The history of chocolate began in Mesoamerica.Fermented beverages made from chocolate date back to at least 1900 BC to 1500 BC. The Mexica believed that cacao seeds were the gift of Quetzalcoatl, the god of wisdom, and the seeds once had so much value that they were used as a form of currency. Originally prepared only as a drinks, chocolate was served as a bitter liquid, …

現在（21世紀初頭）の地球上の人類が観測することができる最も古い時代に放たれた光は、約138億年前に約4100万光年離れた空間から放たれた光だ、などと、最近数十年は考えられており、「その光源がある空間は、現在450億光年の彼方にあり、光は138億年かけて138億光年の道のりを旅してきた。

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.

An ebook (short for electronic book), also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent.

The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece.It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes.The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.The Greek army inflicted a crushing defeat on the more …

Herodotus (/ h ə ˈ r ɒ d ə t ə s / hə-ROD-ə-təs; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ().He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the ...

Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage (see: Roman metallurgy).From its introduction to the Republic, during the third century BC, well into Imperial times, Roman currency saw many changes in form, denomination, and composition. A persistent feature was the inflationary debasement and replacement of …