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  2. Althaea (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Althaea was the daughter of King Thestius [3] and Eurythemis, and was sister to Leda, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus. [4] She was also the wife of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and mother of sons, Meleager, Toxeus, Thyreus (Pheres or Phereus), Clymenus, Agelaus (), Periphas and daughters, Deianeira, Gorge, Melanippe and Eurymede (the latter two were included in the Meleagrids). [5]

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Homininaeid Era – Period prior to the existence of Homininae Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East : c. five thousand years ago).

  4. Erathem - Wikipedia

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    In stratigraphy, paleontology, geology, and geobiology, an erathem is the total stratigraphic unit deposited during a certain corresponding span of time during an era in the geologic timescale.

  5. Book of Gates - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Gates is an ancient Egyptian funerary text dating from the New Kingdom. [1] The Book of Gates is long and detailed, consisting of one hundred scenes. [2] It narrates the passage of a newly deceased soul into the next world journeying with the sun god, Ra, through the underworld during the hours of the night towards his resurrection.

  6. Yingtian Gate - Wikipedia

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    Yingtian Gate. The Yingtian Gate, Ying Tian Men or Ōtenmon (Traditional Chinese: 應天門; Simplified Chinese: 应天门, Kyūjitai: 応天門) was the southern gate of the imperial palace in Luoyang during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it may have been the largest city gate in ancient China.

  7. Dhu al-Qarnayn - Wikipedia

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    According to al-Tabari's Tarikh, some say Dhu al-Qarnayn the Elder (al-akbar), who lived in the era of Abraham, was the mythical Persian king Fereydun, who al-Tabari rendered as Afrīdhūn ibn Athfiyān. [66] In an account attributed to Umar bin Khattab, Dhu al-Qarnayn is said to be an angel or part angel. [67]

  8. 1642 in literature - Wikipedia

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    During his time there he may be writing "To Althea, from Prison". [2] September 2 – The theatres in London are closed by the Puritan government; the "lascivious mirth and levity" of stage plays are to "cease and be forborn" for the next 18 years, during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.

  9. Geologic time scale - Wikipedia

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    An era is the second largest geochronologic time unit and is equivalent to a chronostratigraphic erathem. [ 14 ] [ 13 ] There are ten defined eras: the Eoarchean , Paleoarchean , Mesoarchean , Neoarchean , Paleoproterozoic , Mesoproterozoic , Neoproterozoic , Paleozoic , Mesozoic and Cenozoic , with none from the Hadean eon.