cyrene in A Sentence

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    Cyrene became a place of cultivation, where knowledge blossomed.

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    The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene.

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    Annual rainfall here, especially around Cyrene, can reach 500 millimetres 20 inches.

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    Her student Synesius, bishop of Cyrene, wrote a letter describing his construction of an astrolabe.

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    Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time.

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    There is another translation that calssifies the Libertines who formed this synagogue as coming from Cyrene and Alexandria.

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    During his youth, Archimedes may have studied in Alexandria, Egypt, where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene were contemporaries.

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    Ptolemy Soter(323- 285 BC) deported the Jews from Palestine and forced them to live in Cyrene Josephus Against Apion ii.

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    On this day, the record of Cyrene Perkins, whose portrait adorned the hall of fame in Australia, was beaten by Sadov.

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    Today I found out about a man who fairly accurately estimated the circumference of the Earth well over 2,000 years ago: Eratosthenes of Cyrene.

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    The majority of tourists that visit Eastern Libya use Benghazi as a base for which to explore the Greek ruins in Cyrene or to make desert excursions south in Kufra.

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    It was a real miracle, Eugene beat Cyrene at a distance of 400 meters for as much as 1.47 seconds, that in the world of sports- a very large gap.

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    Earlier and later lists by the historian Herodotus(484 BC- ca. 425 BC) and the architect Callimachus of Cyrene(ca. 305- 240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survived only as references.

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    Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis(North Africa), a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia.

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    Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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    Alexander the Great conquered Cyrene in 332 BC, and following his death in 323 BC, its rule was given to one of his generals, Ptolemy I Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

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    Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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