Ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning "to the stars". The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote in his Aeneid: "sic itur ad astra" ('thus one journeys to the stars') and "opta ardua pennis astra sequi" ('desire to pursue the high[/hard to reach] stars on wings'). Another origin is Seneca the Younger, who wrote in Hercules: "non est ad astra mollis e terris via" ('there is no easy way from the ...

The 1858 San Diego hurricane was a very rare hurricane that impacted Southern California.It is the only known tropical cyclone to directly impact California as a hurricane, although other systems have impacted California as tropical storms. The storm caused considerable damage to many homes and other structures in southern California, mainly around San Diego.

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Torino sorge nella pianura delimitata dai fiumi Stura di Lanzo, Sangone e Po (quest'ultimo attraversa la città da sud verso nord), di fronte allo sbocco di alcune vallate alpine: Val di Susa, che collega la città con la vicina Francia attraverso il traforo del Frejus, Valli di Lanzo, Val Sangone.Torino è detta "la città dei quattro fiumi" perché la Dora Riparia la taglia da ovest a est ...

カーディフのキャラハン男爵レナード・ジェームズ・キャラハン（英語： Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff 、1912年 3月27日 - 2005年 3月26日）は、イギリスの政治家。 財務大臣、内務大臣、外務・英連邦大臣、首相を歴任した。 労働党の「巨人」と称された他にも「サニー・ジム」や ...

ダムの黎明. 人類史上、初めてダムが建設されたのは古代エジプト・エジプト第2王朝時代の紀元前2750年に建設されたサド・エル・カファラダム（en:Sadd el-Kafara、意味は「異教徒のダム」）と考えられている。 このダムは堤高11.0メートル、堤頂長が106メートルで、石切り場の作業員や家畜に水を ...

Bharuch (listen (help · info)), formerly known as Broach, is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India.Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District.. The city of Bharuch and surroundings have been settled since times of antiquity. It was a ship building centre and sea port in the pre-compass coastal trading routes to points West, …

Luke the Evangelist (Latin: Lucas; Ancient Greek: Λουκᾶς, Loukâs; Hebrew: לוקאס, Lūqās; Aramaic: /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, Lūqā') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels.The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which would mean Luke contributed over a quarter ...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.. Ancient Rome began as an Italic …

The Gurjara-Pratihara was a dynasty that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century. They ruled first at Ujjain and later at Kannauj.. The Gurjara-Pratiharas were instrumental in containing Arab armies moving east of the Indus River. Nagabhata I defeated the Arab army under Junaid and Tamin in the Caliphate campaigns in India.Under Nagabhata II, the …