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Bas-relief sculpted on the Palazzo della Ragione of the scrofa semilanuta ("half-woolly sow") from which, according to tradition, the city's toponym derives. Milan was founded with the Celtic name of Medhelanon, [2] [1] later latinized by the ancient Romans into Mediolanum.
Quadriga of the Sun, sixth century BC, Temple C, Selinunte. Helios was an important god in Corinth and the greater Corinthia region. [308] Pausanias in his Description of Greece describes how Helios and Poseidon vied over the city, with Poseidon getting the isthmus of Corinth and Helios being awarded with the Acrocorinth. [140]
In the Bible, Malachi 4:2 mentions the "Sun of Righteousness" (sometimes translated as the "Sun of Justice"), [15] [16] which some Christians have interpreted as a reference to the Messiah . [17] In ancient Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the sun god. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination.
It is traditionally considered the second most important church in the city of Milan. 386: Milan Cathedral: The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Milan Cathedral (Dòmm de Milan in Milanese dialect), is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Milan.
Athens is served by the Athens International Airport (ATH), located near the town of Spata, in the eastern Messoghia plain, some 35 km (22 mi) east of center of Athens. [112] The airport, awarded the "European Airport of the Year 2004" Award, [ 113 ] is intended as an expandable hub for air travel in southeastern Europe and was constructed in ...
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies. It is by far the most important source of energy for ...
Milan (/ m ɪ ˈ l æ n / mil-AN, US also / m ɪ ˈ l ɑː n / mil-AHN, [5] [6] Milanese: ⓘ; Italian: Milano ⓘ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban population [7] and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Aristarchus of Samos (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s t ɑːr k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.