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Monday, August 23
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The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
08-16-2004
Today is Monday, August 23, the 235th day of 2004. There are 130 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1305 - Scottish rebel leader William Wallace is hung, drawn and quartered for treason in London.
1514 - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, defeats Shah Ismail of Persia at Tchaldiran.
1572 - On the eve of the Feast of St. Bartholomew, 3,000 French Protestants are massacred in Paris on the orders of King Charles IX, precipitating a fifth religious civil war.
1628 - The unpopular Duke of Buckingham, about to embark at Portsmouth, England ...
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Consult the oracle.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...In 460 B.C., after the reign of Achaea had not won an event in the Olympics for...named Oibotas from the city of Dyme in Achaea had won a race in the Olympics. Now, Oibotas was preventing Achaea from gaining Olympic glory because no...
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DJ New Caterpillar Plague Hits Liberia, Spreads To Ivory Coast.
News Wire article from: FWN Select
; ...destroying caterpillars was identified earlier this month as Achaea Catocaloides, a very destructive pest that attacks a wide range...told the press conference that he had received reports that the Achaea Catocaloides caterpillars had crossed into Ivory Coast. "I...
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DJ CORRECT: New Caterpillar Plague Hits Liberia.
News Wire article from: FWN Select
; ...destroying caterpillars was identified earlier this month as Achaea Catocaloides, a very destructive pest that attacks a wide range...told the press conference that he had received reports that the Achaea Catocaloides caterpillars had crossed into Ivory Coast. "I...
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Games
Magazine article from: The Stranger
; ...Grail maddening. Folks more in the mood for full-body nerd immersion, meanwhile, would do well to check out Achaea (www.achaea.com), a rather insanely ambitious medieval fantasy. Choosing between a variety of races (elf, lizard, dwarf...
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Notes on web and web plasticity and description of the male of Achaearanea hieroglyphica (Mello-Leitao) (Araneae, Theridiidae).(SHORT COMMUNICATION)(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Arachnology
; ...Achaearanea hieroglyphica (Mello-Leitdo 1940) Figs. 1-11 Achaea hieroglyphica Mello-Leitao 1940:202. Chrysso pentagona...Levi 1967:22. [FIGURES 1-4 OMITTED] Type specimens.--Achaea hieroglyphica: holotype female, BRAZIL, Espirito Santo...
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UN-Led Team Gives New Hope for Containing Devastating Caterpillar Plague.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...as had been reported, but larvae of another moth species, Achaea catocaloides rena. The caterpillar infestation swept across...able to fly up to 1,000 kilometres and lay 1,000 eggs. Achaea catocaloides rena, however, pupate on the ground under fallen...
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New allelopathy study findings recently were published by J. Yasur and co-researchers.
Newspaper article from: Chemicals & Chemistry
; ...Journal, "We studied the effects of four major pests [capsule borer, Dichocrocis punctiferalis (Guenee), semilooper, Achaea janata (L), tobacco cutworm, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) and sucking pest, Empoasca flavescens (Fabricius)] feeding...
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Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...than is typically supposed. Next, Amelia Brown contributes an article on the Panhellenic sanctuaries in the Roman province of Achaea, including the famous sanctuary at Delphi. While we know that at the end of the third century most Panhellenic sanctuaries...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Magazine article from: Poetry
; ...renderings of war are. He shows the blood and guts of war and revenge. After Achilles makes his speech to the soldiers of Achaea, Homer gives us a passage that says almost everything about war, about what occurs after Hector's death: The next thing...
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The road to ancient Helike
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...where Helike once stood, are located in one of the most seismically active areas of Greece, at the foot of the mountains of Achaea in the northwest Peloponnese. While the mountains here are moving upward, the coastal plain is slipping downward along the...
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