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The Floralia was a festival of ancient Roman religion in honor of the goddess Flora, held on 27 April during the Republican era, or 28 April in the Julian calendar.The festival included Ludi Florae, the "Games of Flora", which lasted for six days under the empire.
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Assadi's mother lived in Florala, Alabama, where her family was the only Jewish family in town, before moving to New York City. [2] [3] The couple met in Tribeca in the 1983, [2] [4] and married the following year. [5] Assadi was born in New York City, and the family moved to Arizona when she was five. [2]
2d Battalion, 141st Field Artillery, expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 17 January 1927 as the 117th Field Artillery with headquarters at Florala, and remained assigned to the 31st Division. Consolidated 15 March 1929 with the 55th Machine Gun Squadron (organized December 1921–January 1922 in the Alabama National Guard) and consolidated ...
With him, the spirit of history was born into Greece; and his work, called after the nine Muses, was indeed the first utterance of Clio. — R. C. Jebb , [ 25 ] Though Herodotus is generally considered a reliable source of ancient history, many present-day historians believe that his accounts are at least partially inaccurate, attributing the ...
Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), [8] [9] who were Afro-Jamaicans.
VisiCalc is considered the first killer app in computer history. [98] Self-stabilization (Self-stabilizing distributed systems) Edsger W. Dijkstra: Structured programming: Edsger W. Dijkstra: World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee [99] The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Visual Basic: Alan Cooper [100] XML: Jon Bosak [101] Wi-Fi: Vic Hayes
Florala is located along the Alabama–Florida state line at (31.007712, -86.324957 It is bordered by the town of Lockhart to the west and the town of Paxton, Florida , to the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 11.0 square miles (28.4 km 2 ), of which 10.5 square miles (27.3 km 2 ) is land and 0.46 square ...