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He began playing golf at an early age, [13] and, by age 14, he could beat his father at the game. [10] For a time, Scott had dreams of becoming a professional golfer, and he was teammates with future-pro Phil Mickelson at the University of San Diego High School. [13] By the end of high school, he was one of the top junior golfers in San Diego. [10]
As a consequence of Roman customs, society, and personal preference, Claudius' full name varied throughout his life: . Tiberius Claudius D. f. Ti. n. Drusus, the cognomen Drusus being inherited from his father as his brother Germanicus, as the eldest son, inherited the cognomen Nero when their uncle the future Emperor Tiberius was adopted by Augustus into the Julii Caesares and the victory ...
The tragic poets usually describe Gaia as mother of all, all-nourishing and all-productive who must be honoured. In Aeschylus' Prometheus Unbound, Gaia is the mother mother of all ("pammetor") and in a fragment of Euripides chthon has the same epithet. [28] In Persai of Aeschylus offerings are recommended to Ge and the spirit of the departed ...
Flavia Julia Helena [a] (/ ˈ h ɛ l ə n ə /; Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē; c. AD 246/248–330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, [b] was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]), was a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
The expression "macaroni and cheese" is an irreversible binomial.The order of the two keywords of this familiar expression cannot be reversed idiomatically.. In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, [1] frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair [2] is a pair of words used together in fixed order as an idiomatic expression ...
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ ˈ d ɑː m ər /; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, [4] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. [5]
John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive.On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared.