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Hace 23 horas · Life Theater in Ephesus on the coast of Asia Minor, birthplace of Heraclitus. Heraclitus, the son of Blyson, was from the Ionian city of Ephesus, a port on the Cayster River, on the western coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).In the 6th century BC, Ephesus, like other cities in Ionia, lived under the effects of both the rise of Lydia under Croesus and his overthrow by Cyrus the Great c ...
Hace 23 horas · The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae.Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.It is commonly kept as a house pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat ...
Hace 23 horas · Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. It has been published by several companies on more than 65 platforms, setting a Guinness world record for the most ported game. After a significant period of publication by Nintendo, in 1996 the rights reverted to Pajitnov, who co-founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers to ...
Hace 23 horas · James Madison (March 16, 1751 [b] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the ...
Hace 23 horas · A cyborg (/ ˈ s aɪ b ɔːr ɡ /) (also known as cybernetic organism, cyber-organism, cyber-organic being, cybernetically enhanced organism or cybernetically augmented organism)—a portmanteau of cybernetic and organism—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. In contrast to biorobots and androids, the ...
Hace 23 horas · Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.The city is located in southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and ...
