Adverbs: Who Ya Gonna Call?Parts of SpeechGrammarNouns: Prime-Time PlayersVerbs: All the Right MovesConjunctions: The Ties That BindPrepositions: Good Things Come in Small PackagesAdjectives: Happy…
Conjunctions: The Ties That BindParts of SpeechGrammarNouns: Prime-Time PlayersVerbs: All the Right MovesConjunctions: The Ties That BindPrepositions: Good Things Come in Small PackagesAdjectives:…
Verbs: All the Right MovesParts of SpeechGrammarNouns: Prime-Time PlayersVerbs: All the Right MovesConjunctions: The Ties That BindPrepositions: Good Things Come in Small PackagesAdjectives: Happy…
The Ten Commandments, also called the Decalogue (Greek, “ten words”), were divine laws revealed to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai. Appearing in both Exodus (Ex. 20: 2–17) and Deuteronomy (Deut. 5…
Invented by the Greeks in 400 B.C., catapults were used in ancient and medieval times to hurl stones, spears, and other objects at fortifications.
The crossbow was invented in China but developed…
(Encyclopedia) Nadelman, ElieNadelman, Elieāˈlē nädˈəlmən [key], 1882–1946, Polish-American sculptor, b. Warsaw. He spent some time in Paris and is said to have influenced Picasso. Before he settled…
(Encyclopedia) HyksosHyksoshĭkˈsōs [key] [Egyptian,=rulers of foreign lands], invaders of ancient Egypt, now substantiated as the XV–XVIII dynasties. They were a northwestern Semitic (Canaanite or…
(Encyclopedia) catapultcatapultkătˈəpŭltˌ [key], mechanism used to throw missiles in ancient and medieval warfare. At first, catapults were specifically designed to shoot spears or other missiles at…
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