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The Great Wheel, aka the Multiverse AD&D 2nd edition: TSR: 1994-1998 Interconnects campaigns via pathways and portals but also by providing opportunities for characters from different planes to meet in Heaven, Hell, and in the other planes on the Great Wheel. Planet Eris: Sword and Sorcery: The planet Eris OD&D, Generic The Scribes of Sparn ...
City-state 717–1521 AD Kingdom of Cusco: Cusco Kingdom 1200–1438 AD Ichma Kingdom: Pachacamac Kingdom 1100–1469 AD Inca Empire: Cusco Empire 1438–1533/72 AD Iroquois: Onondaga Tribal Confederacy 1450–1660 AD Maya: Various Kingdom City States 2000 BC–900AD Mississippian culture: various 800–1600 AD Moche: Moche-Trujillo. United ...
Early pleasure wheel in Russia, 1807 Amusement rides , sometimes called carnival rides , are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create fun and enjoyment. Rides are often perceived by many as being scary or more dangerous than they actually are.
In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche ) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls.
In 1606, the newly founded city of Mannheim in Germany was the first Renaissance city laid out on the grid plan. Later came the New Town in Edinburgh and almost the entire city centre of Glasgow, and many planned communities and cities in Australia, Canada and the United States. Derry, constructed in 1613–1618, was the first planned city in ...
There as above enough medievalist sources using the correct genitive singular Latin term wikt:fortunae "of Fortuna": e.g. John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy, Andrei Codrescu A Confederacy Of Dunces 2004 - Page 44 "As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the ...
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Primarily a medieval affectation mawr W large, great Pen-y-cae-mawr, Pegwn Mawr, Merthyr Mawr: Fawr is the mutated form mere OE lake, pool Windermere, [62] Grasmere, Cromer, [63] Tranmere: See also Mere (lake). cf. Ger. Meer, also likely a cognate of the Norwegian Møre: minster OE large church, monastery