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- Ancient Athens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Apple (tree) [r]: Pomaceous fruit of an apple tree, species Malus domestica, family Rosaceae. [e]
- Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
- Banana [r]: The fruit of a wide range of species in the Musa taxonomic genus. [e]
- Bucephalus [r]: A famed horse belonging to Alexander the Great. [e]
- Centers of gravity (military) [r]: A centre of military force or power. [e]
- Command and control [r]: The combination of lawful authority over people and resources, coupled with the methods of directing their execution of missions and tasks directed at goals set by that authority [e]
- Cosmology [r]: A branch of astronomy and of metaphysics committed to the study of the universe as a whole, of the contents, structure, and evolution of the universe from the beginning of time to the future. [e]
- Egypt [r]: A country in the northeastern corner of Africa, bordering Sudan, Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea [e]
- Galen [r]: (ca. 131 - ca. 201) Pergamum-born influential physician of antiquity, who produced a philosophically sophisticated synthesis of earlier medical theories of the body that was dominant until the seventeenth century. [e]
- Grand strategy [r]: The application of all national means of affecting the actions of other nations and non-national actors; specifically includes but is not restricted to military means [e]
- Henry the Navigator [r]: 15th-century Portuguese prince who sponsored voyages of exploration. [e]
- Herophilus [r]: (335 B.C. - 280 B.C.) Alexandrian physician, often called the father of anatomy. [e]
- Historical examples of military swarming [r]: A military paradigm that refers to a continuous series of coordinated attacks, each of relatively short duration, which tend to exhaust and overwhelm the opponent's command and control capabilities. [e]
- History of geography [r]: Chronology of the development and history of geography. [e]
- Infanticide [r]: Intentionally causing the death of an infant [e]
- Iran [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Kuwait [r]: Country on the Persian Gulf bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south; population of 2.5 million. [e]
- Lebanon [r]: a country in the Middle East. It borders Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Its official language is Arabic, although French is widely spoken. The capital and largest city of Lebanon is Beirut. [e]
- Lyceum (Aristotle) [r]: Grove and gymnasium near Athens, sacred to Apollo Lyceius, where Aristotle taught philosophy, and whose members were the Peripatetics. [e]
- Olympias [r]: (c. 375 – 316 BC) Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great. [e]
- Oswald Spengler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Positivist calendar [r]: Alternative calendar proposed by Auguste Comte in 1849, with each day and month celebrating a different person. [e]
- Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
- Red Dwarf (science fiction series) [r]: A science fiction situation comedy originally aired on British television by the BBC in 1988. [e]
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World [r]: A group of seven monuments (in the territory of ancient Greece) famous since antiquity. [e]
- Socrates [r]: (ca. 470–399 BCE) Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the foundations of western philosophy; sentenced to death in Athens for heresy. [e]
- Staff (military) [r]: A military organization to extend the capabilities of a commander, by providing services from personal assistance to presenting alternative plans and managing the details of warfare [e]
- Syria [r]: Country in the Middle East, facing the Mediterranean Sea, and sharing borders with Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. [e]
- The Prince [r]: A book on politics by Niccolo Machiavelli. [e]
- Theory of divine right of kings [r]: Political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism, which asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. [e]
- USS Roxane (AKA-37) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- Zoroaster [r]: Avestan prophet of Zoroastrianism whose Gathas are the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism. [e]
- Zoroastrianism [r]: The religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht). [e]
