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    pages long in translation and is addressed to the Syracusan king Gelo II (son of Hiero II). It is considered the most accessible work of Archimedes. First...
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  • Look up gelo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gelo may refer to: Gelo or Gelon (died 478 BC), ruler of Gela and Syracuse (5th century BC) Gelo, son of...
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  • Sosistratus [it] (279 BC–277 BCE) Pyrrhus of Epirus (278–276 BCE) Hiero II (275 BCE–215 BCE) Gelo II (until 216 BCE) Hieronymus (215 BCE–214 BCE) In the aftermath...
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  • Gelo (or Gelon) (before 266 BC – 216 BC) was the eldest son of Hiero II, king of Syracuse, Magna Graecia. Gelo died shortly before his father Hiero, at...
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    the royal family (Hieron II himself, his wife Philistis, his daughter-in-law Nereis, daughter of Pyrrhus, and his son Gelo II), which has encouraged some...
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    fallen to Gela. Gelo, successor of Hippocrates, captured Syracuse and made the city his capital. By using deportation and enslavement, Gelo transformed the...
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    Da gelo a gelo ("From one frost to the next") is an opera in 100 scenes (some lasting as little as 3') by Salvatore Sciarrino. The composer's Italian...
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    LiAngelo Ball (redirect from Gelo Ball)
    with the Bruins in the preseason on November 1, 2017, against NCAA Division II team Cal State Los Angeles, scoring 11 points. On November 7, 2017, days before...
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    rise of the Greek tyrants in Sicily. Two Greeks from Gela, Cleander and Gelo, had been involved in this war and they would become the catalysts of the...
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    Gilo River (redirect from Gelo River)
    river valley was subjected to much prospecting for gold before World War II and in the 1950s, but not enough was found to make commercial extraction viable...
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