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Derek J. de Solla Price (1922–1983) with a model of the Antikythera mechanism. Captain Dimitrios Kontos (Δημήτριος Κοντός) and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island discovered the Antikythera wreck in early 1900, and recovered artefacts during the first expedition with the Hellenic Royal Navy, in 1900–01. [32]
Like all other Dragon Quest games, this one takes place in a medieval world with scarce modern technology. Characters fight with swords, clubs, and magic instead of guns or other modern weapons. The quest takes the Hero and his party to many exotic locations, such as a fairy village, a mansion made of ice, several caves, and a volcano.
Pyro is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.. Known as St. John Allerdyce, Pyro is depicted as a recurring enemy of the X-Men and later becomes an agent of the U.S. government.
This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world.. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill.
Location Length Mass Period Alabama: Auburn: Auburn University: Birmingham: Samford University: Alaska: Anchorage: University of Alaska, Consortium Library 52 ft (15.8 m) 240 lb (108.8 kg) 7.9 s Arizona: Tempe: Arizona State University, Bateman Physical Sciences Center 70.5 ft (21.5 m) 238 lb (108 kg) 9.3 s Arkansas: Conway: Hendrix College ...
2.5D datasets can be conveniently represented in a framework of boxels (axis-aligned, non-overlapping boxes). They can be used to directly represent objects in the scene or as bounding volumes . Leonidas J. Guibas and Yuan Yao's work showed that axis-aligned disjoint rectangles can be ordered into four orders so that any ray meets them in one ...
Street Fighter V [a] is a 2016 fighting game developed by Capcom, Dimps and Taito and published by Capcom for PlayStation 4 and Windows. [3] The major follow-up to Street Fighter IV (2008) as part of Capcom's Street Fighter series, it was developed using the Unreal Engine 4 engine and was a console-exclusive on Sony's platform.
Inland water is almost as valuable as gold, and wells are jealously guarded. Notable locations of Dorne are Starfall, the seat of House Dayne, and Yronwood, the seat of House Yronwood, the most powerful of the Martell bannermen. Planky Town is a trade port town at the mouth of the River Greenblood. Dornishmen have a reputation for hot-bloodedness.