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The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
Bird's-eye view of Verdun in 1638 Map of the city and citadel of Verdun (c. 1770) Verdun (Verodunum, a latinisation of a place name meaning "strong fort" in Gaulish) was founded by the Gauls. [citation needed] It has been the seat of the bishop of Verdun since the 4th century, with interruptions. [6]
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One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 . The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5. [18] The findings at Oxyrhynchus also turned up the oldest and most complete diagrams from Euclid's Elements. [18]
Oldest Roman wall in Britain, best-preserved Roman gateway in Britain, remains of two Roman theatres, oldest Roman church in UK and Castle museum; Great Dunmow; Heybridge, Maldon (Anglo-Saxon: Tidwalditun) Othona (Roman Bradwell-on-Sea)
The Great Pyramid of Giza [a] is the largest Egyptian pyramid.It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Built c. 2600 BC, [3] over a period of about 26 years, [4] the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only wonder that has remained largely intact.
It is a two-story wood-frame structure, finished with wooden clapboards and topped by a gable roof with a small belfry. Decoration is relatively plain, with pilastered corners, a plain entablature along the side walls, and transom windows above the pair of entrances on the main facade. Built in 1870, it is the oldest surviving building in ...
In 5th-century BC accounts of the building, the structure is simply called ὁ νᾱός (ho naos; lit. "the temple"). Douglas Frame writes that the name "Parthenon" was a nickname related to the statue of Athena Parthenos, and only appeared a century after construction.