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The Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 EX DG lens is a professional-level telephoto zoom lens made by Sigma Corporation. [1] It is notable for being the first lens with an aperture of f / 2.8 and a focal length of 500mm. [2] This combination allows very distant objects to be photographed at high shutter speeds in dimmer light, compared to other telephoto ...
(As the table only reaches 180°, the Greek numerals for 200 and above are not used.) The fractional parts of chord lengths required great accuracy, and were given in sexagesimal notation in two columns in the table: The first column gives an integer multiple of 1 / 60 , in the range 0–59, the second an integer multiple of 1 / 60 ...
Shakespeare is thought to have written the following parts of this play: Act I, scenes 1–3; Act II, scene 1; Act III, scene 1; Act V, scene 1, lines 34–173, and scenes 3 and 4. [36] Summary Two close friends, Palamon and Arcite, are divided by their love of the same woman: Duke Theseus' sister-in-law Emelia.
200 IV 2 Athens. A room in Quince's house. 36 V 1 ... in edited form, are from The Annotated Shakespeare for Colleges and Schools by Rev. David Bain, 1892. Act
The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical consolidation—by renovating the inherited material—and artistic expressiveness—by covering a wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones. Both writers cemented the sonnet's ...
Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 1 deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, as the English political system is torn apart by personal squabbles and petty jealousy; Henry VI, Part 2 depicts the King's inability to ...
An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International.
The comparison of the world to a stage and people to actors long predated Shakespeare. Richard Edwards' play Damon and Pythias, written in the year Shakespeare was born, contains the lines, "Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage / Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage". [2]