Thursday, December 31, 2020

Fundamentals of electromagnetism

This post is a list of fundamental principles of electromagnetism. There are 16 principles listed below.
  1. Charged particles have an electric field in all directions (positive or negative)
  2. Particles of the opposite charge attract eachother
  3. Particles of the same charge repel eachother
  4. Electrons have a negative charge
  5. Charged particles have a magnetic field (north and south orientation)
  6. Opposite magnetic poles attract eachother
  7. Magnets have coordinated particles pointing in the same magnetic field
  8. Electrons moving in a wire is an electric current in the opposite direction
  9. Electric current is caused by a charge imbalance in a circuit or change in an magnetic field
  10. An electric current creates a magnetic field curling around it (near field)
  11. An accelerating electric field creates a perpendicular magnetic field (far field)
  12. An accelerating magnetic field creates a perpendicular electric field (far field)
  13. Electric and magnetic fields propagate together through space (far field)
  14. Electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light
  15. Electromagnetic waves vary in frequency
  16. Visible light is an electromagnetic wave in a specific frequency range

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Friday, December 25, 2020

List of versions of M-theory

This post is a list of versions of M-theory. M-theory is a physics theory proposed by Edward Witten in 1995 as an attempt to unify the 5 versions of string theory. There are 5 versions listed below alphabetically. Source: Wikipedia

  • E8xE8
  • SO(32)
  • Type I
  • Type IIA
  • Type IIB
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

List of Millennium Prize Problems

This post is a list of the Millennium Prize Problems. The Millenium Prize Problems are a list of mathematics problems proposed by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. There are 7 problems listed below alphabetically. Source: claymath.org

  • Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
  • Hodge conjecture
  • Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness
  • P versus NP
  • Poincare conjecture
  • Riemann hypothesis
  • Yang-Mills existence and mass gap
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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Collection of quotes from Knowledge and Representation

This post is a list of quotes from my essay Knowledge and Representation (2018). There are 35 quotes and 7 chapters listed below chronologically.

A. Truth (3)
B. Knowledge (4)
C. Language (7)
D. Representation (4)
E. Reason (6)
F. Understanding (7)
G. Phenomena (4)

A. Truth


1. "Reality is the actual state of affairs."

2. "True is the attribute of being an accurate representation of reality."

3. "When our propositions correctly display reality, we are saying something that is true. I believe that determining whether a proposition is true or false is central to epistemology."

B. Knowledge


4. "Knowledge is a correctly justified true belief."

5. "It's necessary that knowledge is correctly justified. This means that correct justification has to be used."

6. "I believe there is a subjective line between justified and not-justified. I don't have a strict criteria for what constitutes as a good reason."

7. "Over the course of a lifetime, a person will form a giant list of beliefs about reality."

C. Language


8. "Every word corresponds to a concept (or multiple concepts)."

9. "Language is almost always subjective to a degree."

10. "A concept is a mental general representation... Concepts are mental because they only exist in the mind. Reality is full of potential concepts and only the mind or viewer can create concepts."

11. "A meaning is an underlying representation."

12. "I believe that language is formed through establishment rather than usage... Maybe with enough misuses, a new meaning can get established to coincide alongside the original meaning, but still establishment is what truly gives a word meaning."

13. "Syntax is a system of rules for the combination of words."

14. "With two exceptions, I believe it's impossible to make a 100% objective proposition about reality. The only exceptions I can think of are mathematical equations such as 2 + 3 = 5 and symbolic logic equations. I believe some of the most objective looking statements can be twisted to be purposefully misinterpreted."

D. Representation


15. "If establishing knowledge is a central goal, another goal is to create true physical representations of reality. This includes all of our models, descriptions, equations and illustrations."

16. "Although we can use pictures to display information, sometimes it's more effective to use words. This is why we often see captions attached to pictures. In this regard, descriptions have greater potential to provide knowledge than images alone."

17. "Explanations are important for understanding reality... Explanations shine light on the mysteries of reality."

18. "Mathematics is the study of numbers, lines and shapes."

E. Reason


19. "Reason is the process of forming conclusions using explicit justifications or premises."

20. "A reason is something intended to support the accuracy of a proposition."

21. "Reasons fit together to support or deny a proposition."

22. "Science is a method of establishing knowledge through controlled experiments."

23. "Logic is the process of forming conclusions using objective reasons or premises."

24. "Intuition is the process of forming beliefs based on unclear reasons."

F. Understanding


25. "Understanding is the condition of knowing the explanation of something."

26. "Understanding is the condition of having competent knowledge in something."

27. "I believe that many of our thoughts can be represented in quote form. While some thoughts can be expressed in a single sentence, other thoughts are more complex and require an entire paragraph."

28. "I enjoy collecting quotes and organizing them into clear structures. To me, structured quotes are easier to understand than continuous prose. Even when I write normally, I try to keep my paragraphs short and clear. Either way, I'm trying to organize thoughts into coherent structures."

29. "A principle is a proposition that contributes to the structure of a topic."

30. "A fundamental is a core principle."

31. "A system is a set of interrelated things that form a unified whole."

G. Phenomena


32. "I believe that every detail of experience is a phenomenon. Everything you can notice is a phenomenon. This includes every event, attribute, object, piece of information, thought, sense and anything else that can be observed."

33. "All knowledge begins with phenomenology."

34. "Memory is a bookcase that we can grab knowledge from."

35. "Experience is the totality of past and present sense data."

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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Collection of ancient Egyptian scarab photos

This post is a collection of ancient Egyptian scarab photos. There are 18 photos listed below chronologically.

1981-1550 BC
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1981-1550 BC
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1981-1550 BC
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1981-1550 BC
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1981-1550 BC
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1700 BC
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1648-1540 BC
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1640-1550 BC
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1635-1458 BC


1550-1458 BC
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1479-1458 BC
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1479-1458 BC
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1390-1353 BC
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1390-1353 BC
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1390-1352 BC
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1070-343 BC
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664-380 BC
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664-332 BC
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

List of major political issues in the United States

This post is a list of major political issues in the United States. There are 23 issues listed below alphabetically.

  • Animal rights
  • Birth control
  • Climate change
  • Caronavirus
  • Economic inequality
  • Environmental regulation
  • Financial regulation
  • Foreign policy
  • Gender inequality
  • Gun ownership
  • Healthcare
  • Housing
  • Immigration
  • International trade
  • Labor rights
  • Monetary policy
  • Police brutality
  • Public debt
  • Racial inequality
  • Racism
  • Taxation
  • Vaccinations
  • Unemployment
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Friday, November 27, 2020

List of Legend of Zelda video games (main series)

This post is a list of Legend of Zelda video games (main series). There are 19 video games listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • 1986: The Legend of Zelda
  • 1987: The Adventure of Link
  • 1991: A Link to the Past
  • 1993: Link's Awakening
  • 1998: Ocarina of Time
  • 2000: Majora's Mask
  • 2001: Oracle of Ages
  • 2001: Oracle of Seasons
  • 2002: A Link to the Past & Four Swords
  • 2002: Wind Waker
  • 2004: Four Swords Adventures
  • 2004: Minish Cap
  • 2006: Twilight Princess
  • 2007: Phantom Hourglass
  • 2009: Spirit Tracks
  • 2011: Skyward Sword
  • 2013: A Link Between Worlds
  • 2015: Tri Force Heroes
  • 2017: Breath of the Wild
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Basic timeline of electromagnetism

This post a basic timeline of electromagnetism. There are 34 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • 1600: William Gilbert proposes that the world is a magnet
  • 1663: Otto von Guericke invents the electrostatic generator
  • 1745-1746: Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek invent the Leyden Jar
  • 1747: Benjamin Franklin proposes positive and negative charge
  • 1771: Henry Cavendish proposes electric potential
  • 1780: Luigi Galvani performs electrical experiments on dead frogs
  • 1785: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb discovers Coulomb's law
  • 1799: Alessandro Volta invents the electric battery
  • 1802: Humphry Davy invents incandescent light
  • 1809: Humphry Davy performs public demonstrations of arc light
  • 1820: Hans Oersted discovers Oersted's law
  • 1820: Johann Schweigger invents the galvanometer
  • 1821: Michael Faraday constructs a rotary motor
  • 1825: William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet
  • 1825: Andre-Marie Ampere discovers Ampere's law
  • 1827: George Ohm discovers Ohm's law
  • 1828: Joseph Henry improves on the electromagnet and invents the telegraph
  • 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
  • 1832: Hippolyte Pixii invents the alternating current motor
  • 1861-1862: James Clerk Maxwell publishes Maxwell's equations
  • 1875: William Crookes invents the Crookes tube
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the electric telephone
  • 1876: Thomas Edison establishes Menlo Park research lab
  • 1884: Oliver Heaviside reformulates Maxwell's equations
  • 1886-1889: Heinrich Hertz performs experiments on electromagnetic waves
  • 1888: Nikola Tesla invents an improved alternating current motor
  • 1895: Guglielmo Marconi invents long range radio telegraph
  • 1895: Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
  • 1897: J.J. Thompson discovers the electron
  • 1900: Reginald Fessenden invents AM radio
  • 1905: Albert Einstein discovers the photoelectric effect
  • 1911: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity
  • 1931: Edwin Howard Armstrong invents FM radio
  • 1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invent the working transistor
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Basic timeline of physics

This post is a basic timeline of physics. There are 32 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • 5th century BC: Leucippus and Democritus propose the existence of atoms
  • 1589-1592: Galileo Galilei performs falling object experiments
  • 1609-1619: Johannes Kepler discovers the laws of planetary motion
  • 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  • 1704: Isaac Newton publishes Opticks
  • 1801: Thomas Young performs the double-slit experiment
  • 1805: John Dalton publishes atomic weight estimates
  • 1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
  • 1861-1862: James Clerk Maxwell publishes Maxwell's equations
  • 1895: Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
  • 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radiation
  • 1896: Ludwig Boltzmann publishes a statistical interpretation of thermodynamics
  • 1897: J.J. Thompson discovers the electron
  • 1900: Max Planck discovers quanta and the Planck constant
  • 1905: Albert Einstein discovers special relativity
  • 1910: Albert Einstein discovers general relativity
  • 1911: Ernst Rutherford discovers the nucleus of the atom
  • 1913: Niels Bohr publishes the Bohr model of the atom
  • 1925: Erwin Schrodinger discovers the Schrodinger equation
  • 1927: Werner Heisenberg discovers the uncertainty principle
  • 1927: Georges Lemaitre proposes the big bang theory
  • 1928: Paul Dirac discovers the Dirac equation and antimatter
  • 1932: James Chadwick discovers the neutron
  • 1948: Richard Feynman introduces Feynman diagrams
  • 1957: Hugh Everett III proposes the many-worlds interpretation
  • 1964: Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig discover the quark
  • 1967: Stephen Weinberg and Abdus Salam discover the standard model
  • 1968: Gabriele Venziano discovers string theory
  • 1974: Stephen Hawking discovers Hawking radiation
  • 1995: Edward Witten discovers M-Theory
  • 2012: Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN
  • 2016: Gravitational waves are discovered by LIGO
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Basic timeline of economics

This post is a basic timeline of economics. There are 25 events listed below chronologically.

  • 1755: Richard Cantillon publishes Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
  • 1758: Francois Quesnay publishes Tableau Économique
  • 1767: James Steuart publishes An Enquiry in the Principles of Political Economy
  • 1776: Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
  • 1798: Thomas Robert Malthus publishes An Essay on the Principle of Population
  • 1817: David Ricardo publishes On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
  • 1847: Leon Walras publishes Elements of Pure Economics
  • 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
  • 1848: John Stuart Mill publishes Principles of Political Economy
  • 1862: William Stanley Jevons publishes A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy
  • 1871: Carl Menger publishes Principles of Economics
  • 1879: Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty
  • 1890: Alfred Marshall publishes Principles of Economics
  • 1911: Joseph Schumpeter publishes Theory of Economic Development
  • 1934: Simon Kuznets publishes national income accounts for the United States
  • 1936: John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  • 1944: Friedrich Hayek publishes Road to Serfdom
  • 1948: Paul Samuelson publishes Economics: An Introductory Analysis
  • 1956: Robert Solow publishes A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
  • 1958: John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
  • 1960: Piero Sraffa publishes Productions of Commodities by Means of Commodities
  • 1962: Milton Friedman publishes Capitalism and Freedom
  • 1963: Kenneth Arrow publishes Uncertainty and the Welfare Economcis of Medical Care
  • 1972: Robert Lucas Jr. publishes Expectations and the Neutrality of Money
  • 1990: Paul Romer publishes Endogenous Technological Change
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Friday, November 20, 2020

List of famous Roman ruins

This post is a list of famous Roman ruins. There are 92 ruins listed below alphabetically.

Alexander Severus Arch
Dougga, Tunisia
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Aphrodisias Theatre
Caria, Turkey
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Aphrodisias Tetrapylon
Caria, Turkey
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Aphrodite Temple
Caria, Turkey
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Apollo Hylates Sanctuary
Kourion, Croatia
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Artemis Temple
Jerash, Jordan
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, David Bjorgen
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Augustus Mausoleum
Rome, Italy
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Bacchus Temple
Baalbek, Lebanon
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Basilica of Baelo Claudia
Baelo Claudia, Spain
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Basilica of St. Crispinus
Tipaza, Algeria
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Beit She'arim National Park
Beit Shearim, Israel
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Davidbena
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Butrint Agora
Butrint, Albania
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Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea, Israel
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Fallaner
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Capua Amphitheatre
Capua, Italy
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Caracalla Arch (Djemila)
Djemila, Algeria
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Caracalla Arch (Volubilis)
Volubilis, Morocco
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Caracalla Baths
Rome, Italy
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Canterbury Castle
Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Capitoline Temple
Dougga, Tunisia
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Cardo Maximus
Jerash, Jordan
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Cartagena Theatre
Cartagena, Spain
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Cecilia Metella Mausoleum
Rome, Italy
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Circus of Maxentius
Rome, Italy
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Colosseum
Rome, Italy
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Constantine Arch
Rome, Italy
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Diana Temple (Merida)
Merida, Spain
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Diana Temple (Nimes)
Nimes, France



Djemila Theatre
Djemila, Tunisia
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Domus Augustana
Rome, Italy
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Dougga Theatre
Dougga, Tunisia
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Noomen9
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El Jem Amphitheatre
El Djem, Tunisia
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Évora Temple
Évora, Portugal
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Frontinus Gate
Hierapolis, Turkey
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Gymnasium (Butrint)
Butrint, Albania
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Pudelek
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Hadrian Temple (Ephesus)
Ephesus, Turkey
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Hadrian's Wall
Northern England
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Heraclea Lyncestis Theatre
Heraclea Lyncestis, Macedonia
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Explorer1940
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Herculaneum
Campania, Italy
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Hercules Temple
Rome, Italy
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Herodes Atticus Theatre
Athens, Greece
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Hierapolis Theatre
Hierapolis, Turkey
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Janus Arch
Rome, Italy
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Jerash Theatre
Jerash, Jordan
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Jerash Theatre (South)
Jerash, Jordan
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Juno Caelestis Temple
Dougga, Tunisia
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Jupiter Temple
Baalbek, Lebanon
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Largo di Torre Argentina
Rome, Italy
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Licinian Baths
Dougga, Tunisia
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Ludus Magnus
Rome, Italy
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Lugo Walls
Lugo Spain
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Maison Carree
Nimes, France
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Merida Amphitheatre
Merida, Spain
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Merida Theatre
Merida, Spain
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Milagros Aqueduct
Merida, Spain
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Necropolis of Hierapolis
Hierapolis, Turkey
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Nimes Amphitheatre
Nimes, France
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Orange Theatre
Orange, France
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Ostia Antica
Rome, Italy
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Oval Forum
Jerash, Jordan
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Palatine Stadium
Rome, Italy
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Pantheon
Rome, Italy
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Perge Cardo
Perge, Turkey
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Perge Stadium
Perge, Turkey
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Philippi Basilica
Philippi, Greece
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Philippi Theatre
Philippi, Greece
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Plovdiv Theatre
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Pompeii Amphitheatre
Pompeii, Italy
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Pompeii Basilica
Pompeii, Italy
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Pompeii Forum
Pompeii, Italy
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Pont Du Gard
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
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Ponte Rotto
Rome Italy
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Porta Nigra
Trier, Germany
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Portuno Temple
Rome, Italy
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Puente Romano
Merida Spain
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Pula Amphitheatre
Pula, Croatia
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Roma and Augustus Temple
Pula, Croatia
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Roman Baths
Bath, United Kingdom
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Roman Forum
Rome, Italy
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Romano de Baelo Claudia Theatre
Baelo Claudia, Spain
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Sabratha Theatre
Sabratha, Libya
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Saranda Kolones
Paphos, Cyprus
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Septimius Severus Arch (Leptis Magna)
Leptis Magna, Libya
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Septimius Severus Arch (Rome)
Rome, Italy
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Theseus House
Paphos, Cyprus
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Timgad Arch
Timgad, Algeria
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Titus Arch
Rome, Italy
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Trajan's Forum
Rome, Italy
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Trier Imperial Baths
Trier, Germany
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Trifolium House
Dougga, Tunisia
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Valens Aqueduct
Istanbul, Turkey
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Villa dei Quintili
Rome, Italy
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Vindolanda Fort
Vindolanda, United Kingdom
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