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Jasmine Brookes

Alexander The Great - 0 views

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    Alexander the Great , Alexander the Great , Alexander the Great , Alexander Alexander THE GreatKing Of Macedonia and GreeceAlexander
Erik Underwood

Alexander the Great - FREE Alexander the Great Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information! - 0 views

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    Basic information on Alexander the Great.
Erik Underwood

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece - Google Book Search - 0 views

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    Has a section on Alexander the Great, but it is quite long.
Bree Oliver

Alexander the Great, home page - 0 views

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    Home page for Skip Knox's essay on Alexander the Great. This source is reliable as it is and education websiter shown through the (.edu) It has alot of helpful hyperlinks so that you can pick what you want to read about on Alexander or the people related to him.
Erik Underwood

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, Project by JJP - 0 views

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    This site is not particullarly reliable, it is more of a third party website made by someone who wants to provide information on Alexander the Great. What it useful about it is it's bibliography, it provides a lot of information on the sources on Alexander. I would recomend using this to find out who the sources are, and then try to research further into them.
Susan Hall

Wired 15.01: Untangling the Mystery of the Inca - 0 views

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      This is a site with some great info on the incas!
    • Susan Hall
       
      THis is a site with some good information on the incas!
  • Some of the knots did survive, though, and for centuries people wondered if the old man had been speaking the truth. Then, in 1923, an anthropologist named Leland Locke provided an answer: The khipu were files. Each knot represented a different number, arranged in a decimal system, and each bundle likely held census data or summarized the contents of storehouses. Roughly a third of the existing khipu don't follow the rules Locke identified, but he speculated that these "anomalous" khipu served some ceremonial or other function. The mystery was considered more or less solved. Then, in the early 1990s, Urton, one of the world's leading Inca scholars, spotted several details that convinced him the khipu contained much more than tallies of llama sales. For example, some knots are tied right over left, others left over right. Urton came to think that this information must signal something. Could the knotted strings also be a form of writing? In 2003, Urton wrote a book outlining his theory, and in 2005 he published a paper in Science that showed how even khipu that follow Locke's rules could include place-names as well as numbers.
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  • Urton knew that these findings were a tiny part of cracking the code and that he needed the help of people with different skills. So, early last year, he and a graduate student, Carrie Brezine, unveiled a computerized khipu database – a vast electronic repository that describes every knot on some 300 khipu in intricate detail. Then Urton and Brezine brought in outside researchers who knew little about anthropology but a lot about mathematics. Led by Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater, they are now trying to shake meaning from the knots with a variety of pattern-finding algorithms, one based on a tool used to analyze long strings of DNA, the other similar to Google's PageRank algorithm. They've already identified thousands of repeated knot sequences that suggest words or phrases. Now the team is closing in on what might be a writing system so unusual that it remained hidden for centuries in plain sight. If successful, the effort will rank with the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics and will let Urton's team rewrite history. But how do you decipher something when it looks completely unlike any known written language – when you're not even sure it has meaning at all?
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    This is a great site with information on the incas
James Larwill

GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA - 0 views

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    Good and reliable information about the Great Pyramid
Linley Morley

Alexander the Great: Historical ... - Google Book Search - 0 views

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    At his death in 323 BC, Alexander the Great ruled an empire stretching from the Balkans to India, yet the best accounts we have of his life were written hundreds of years after his death. This book presents new
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    good information :)
Shanaine Oxlade

The Conquests of Alexander the Great - Cambridge University Press - 1 views

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    analyses primary sources for alexander the great
David Hilton

Multimodal research - 40 views

Hello everyone I've just been reading through the bookmarks people have saved on diigo over the last week. Well done! The comments and sites people have found have been excellent. It's great to ...

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Letitia Dall

The Book of the Acts - Google Book Search - 0 views

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    In a couple of sources it mentions that on alexanders date of birth a temple burnt down. a powerful symbol and great publicity for alexander (to add to his long line of related gods). this source simply corroborates this.
leah thygesen

Alexander the Great - 0 views

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    bad site but good simple information on militray techniques.
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