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The Colosseum (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ s iː ə m / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo], ultimately from Ancient Greek word "kolossos" meaning a large statue or giant) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum.
Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems. . Located deep within the Rocky Mountains in the United States, and powered by its own nuclear reactor and radioactive moat making access impossible, Colossus is impervious to any att
Advanced Placement (AP) Art History (also known as APAH) is an Advanced Placement art history course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States.. AP Art History is designed to allow students to examine major forms of artistic expression relevant to a variety of cultures evident in a wide variety of periods from the present to the past.
Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin engraved by J.M.N. Frémy after a portrait by Paulin Guérin, 1817. Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de Forbin (19 August 1777 in La Roque-d'Anthéron, Bouches-du-Rhône – 23 February 1841 in Paris) was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France.
History of Rome. Founding of Rome; Kingdom of Rome. Kings of Rome; Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238-146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16-7 BC) were later added.
The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to be minor forms of Roman art, [1] although they were not considered as such at the time.
Dennis Feltham Jones OBE VRD [1] (15 July 1918 – 1 April 1981) was a British science fiction author who published under the name D.F. Jones.He was a Royal Navy commander during World War II and lived in Cornwall.
Colossus, the codename for a new version of the Google File System COLOSSUS, the software program controlling the Apollo Guidance Computer in the command module of the Apollo missions Colossus (supercomputer) , the world's largest AI supercomputer