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Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De Occulta Philosophia libri III) is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's study of occult philosophy, acknowledged as a significant contribution to the Renaissance philosophical discussion concerning the powers of magic, and its relationship with religion.
On August 8, 2014 (almost 5 years later), during UNICON 17 in Montreal, Christoph Hartmann rode 32.230 km, beating the previous record by plus 2.2 km on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (the circuit on which the UNICON marathon was held and where he finished 2nd behind Scott Wilton). He became the first rider to take the hour record beyond 30 km.
The horseman was a common Palaeo-Balkan hero. [9]The motif depicted on reliefs most likely represents a composite figure, a Thracian heroes [clarification needed] possibly based on Rhesus, the Thracian king mentioned in the Iliad, [10] to which Scythian, Hellenistic and possibly other elements had been added.
Robert Caro. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the ...
v. t. e. The Sibylline Books (Latin: Libri Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition, were purchased from a sibyl by the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Roman Republic and the Empire.
Transhumanism. Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי [juˈval ˈnoaχ haˈʁaʁi]; born 1976) [1] is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, [2][3][4] and writer. He currently serves as professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [1] He is the author of the popular science ...
Michel Bussi (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl bysi]; born () 29 April 1965) is a French author, known for writing thriller novels, and a political analyst and Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen, [1] where he leads a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (French: Unité mixte de recherche, "UMR") in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (French ...
Astronomy. Institutions. Harvard College Observatory. Signature. Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming(15 May 1857 – 21 May 1911) was a Scottishastronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatoryto help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra.