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List of Greek mythological figures. Dionysus. The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed.

Dionysus

He holds a fennel staff, tipped with a pine-cone and known as a thyrsus. Ares god of war in Greek Mythology. Ares god of war is the son of Zeus and Hera and one of the twelve Olympians.

Ares god of war in Greek Mythology

His Roman name is Mars - although the Roman god is quite different. He was said to live in Thracia, a region where there were many warriors. Aphrodite Greek Goddess of Love. Aphrodite Greek goddess of love was the most beautiful among the Olympian goddesses.

Aphrodite Greek Goddess of Love

Her Roman name was Venus. (If you're in a hurry to see pictures of Aphrodite, you'll find some when you scroll down the page and others when you click here.) Powered by Translate. Metabolism. Metabolism (from Greek: μεταβολή metabolē, "change" or Greek: μεταβολισμός metabolismos, "outthrow") is the set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within the cells of living organisms.

Metabolism

These enzyme-catalyzed reactions allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. The word metabolism can also refer to all chemical reactions that occur in living organisms, including digestion and the transport of substances into and between different cells, in which case the set of reactions within the cells is called intermediary metabolism or intermediate metabolism.

Metabolism is usually divided into two categories. Catabolism, that breaks down organic matter and harvests energy by way of cellular respiration, and anabolism that uses energy to construct components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids. How strong can a human get? Quote: True.

How strong can a human get?

Paul Edward Anderson. Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, United States of America.[4] As a teenager, he began his early weight training on his own in his family's backyard at Toccoa, Georgia to increase his size and strength so that he would be able to play on the Toccoa High School football team, where Anderson earned a position as first-team blocking back.[5]

Paul Edward Anderson

Anti-gravity. Anti-gravity also known as non gravitational field is an idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity.

Anti-gravity

It does not refer to the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit, or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force, such as electromagnetism or aerodynamic lift. Anti-gravity is a recurring concept in science fiction, particularly in the context of spacecraft propulsion. Examples are the gravity blocking substance "Cavorite" in H. G. Electromagnetic field. The field can be viewed as the combination of an electric field and a magnetic field.

Electromagnetic field

Electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic waves that compose electromagnetic radiation can be imagined as a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields.

Electromagnetic radiation

This diagram shows a plane linearly polarized EMR wave propagating from left to right. The electric field is in a vertical plane and the magnetic field in a horizontal plane. EmergentGravity. Silicone. What role does silicon play in human body. Poliomyelitis - PubMed Health. American Cultural History - 1950-1959. The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs.

With an energy never before experienced, American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs. Growth everywhere. Information Please: 1955. - Get Events. Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1] Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in the U.S. states of California and Ohio.

Rosa Parks

Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement. Bereavement in Judaism. Bereavement in Judaism (Hebrew: אֲבֵלוּת, aveilut ; mourning) is a combination of minhag and mitzvah derived from Judaism's classical Torah and rabbinic texts. The details of observance and practice vary according to each Jewish community. Japanese-American internment. Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States.

The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.[2][3] The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200[4] to 1,800 were interned.

Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens.[5][6] President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded. " After Pearl Harbor[edit] San Francisco Examiner, February 1942. Executive Order 9066 and related actions[edit] Executive Order 9066. Vyacheslav Molotov. Biography[edit] Early life and career (1890–1930)[edit] United Nations. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. Utopia. Etymology[edit] Will religion exist in Utopia. Great Tribulation.