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...most famous figures of ancient history, a name synonymous with beauty, yet no one knows what she really looked like. A Macedonian Greek, she ruled Egypt and was known for her liaisons-political and romantic-with the two great Roman leaders of her time, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Her legend-wrapped in intrigue, conflict and romance-lives on to this day. As Shakespeare wrote of Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety...
...EIRP. Radiated power--words that make me want to duck for cover--drops off precipitously with distance, so that at 20 ft. (about how far my bed is from the lamppost), 6 watts is negligible. "It falls way below a level that would put anyone at risk," says Julius Knapp, an engineer at the FCC's office of engineering and technology...
...saccharine about these matters. One conqueror, Julius Caesar, had a famous dream in which raped his mother. What did that mean...
...tale of how Rudenstine asked Gates to make a “fantasy list” of scholars for the department is practically Harvard legend. Rudenstine handed Gates a blank sheet of legal paper. Gates made a list that included Lani Guinier, Cornel West, William Julius Wilson, the Higginbothams, Lawrence D. Bobo and Suzanne P. Blier. A decade later, he notes, they’re all at Harvard, and the Afro-American Studies program—ranked number one in the nation—is planning to accept its first class of doctoral candidates this fall...
...Rome became Judea's ruler, succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from the neighboring province of Idumea (which included part of today's West Bank), won and maintained his position as the empire's proxy King of the Jews by allying himself successively with Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Emperor Augustus, a dance involving very tricky pirouettes...