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An Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a multi-purpose URL suited to being a persistent identifier for information objects of any type. It is widely used by libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, and government agencies to provide reliable references to scholarly, scientific, and cultural objects.
Ventricose ark shell Arca ventricosa: Arcidae: Ark clam N Nahawele 'ili 'ili [1]: 182 Bronchriatus: Hawaiian mussel Bronchriatus crebristriatus: Mytilidae: Mussel Y [1]: 182 Pinna: Prickly pin clam Pinna muricata: Pinnidae: Pin clam N Nahawele [1]: 184 Pinna: Baggy pen shell Streptopinna saccata: Pinnidae: Pin clam N Pā [1]: 184 Pinctada
Ilium or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον), also known as Troja (Τροΐα), [1] was a city of ancient Epirus. [2] It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia. [3] Its site is located near the modern village of Despotiko in Greece. [4] [5] The village was formerly known as ...
A new city called Ilium (from Greek Ilion) was founded on the site in the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. It flourished until the establishment of Constantinople , which became a bishopric in the Roman province Hellespontus (civil Diocese of Asia ), but declined gradually in the Byzantine era .
Wilkens argues that Troy was located in England on the Gog Magog Hills in Cambridgeshire, and that the city of Ely refers to Ilium, another name for Troy. He believes that Celts living there were attacked around 1200 BC by fellow Celts from the European continent to battle over access to the tin mines in Cornwall as tin was a very important component for the production of bronze.
In many other respects, Ilium closely resembles Schenectady, New York, with the fictional Iroquois River standing in for the real Mohawk River, which flows west–east through Schenectady. The Ilium Works is in roughly the same geographic location as the General Electric (GE) plant in Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked as a public relations ...
Ilium (band), a metal band from Australia; Ilium, a 2003 novel by Dan Simmons; Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut), a fictional New York town in many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels; Illium, a fictional location in the video game Mass Effect 2
The ilium (/ ˈ ɪ l i ə m /) (pl.: ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish.All reptiles have an ilium except snakes, although some snake species have a tiny bone which is considered to be an ilium.