Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant ...

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Genetic vectors are vehicles for delivering foreign DNA into recipient cells. Vectors can replicate autonomously and typically include features to facilitate the manipulation of DNA as well as a ...

Vectors are equal if they have the same magnitude and direction regardless of where they are. Triangle ABC is isosceles. X is the midpoint of AB, Y is the midpoint of BC and Z is the midpoint of AC.

Scientists spent the next three decades teasing apart the underpinnings of viral biology to create a new generation of vectors. Among these, lentivirus-based vectors, derived from the HIV-1 ...

Vectors are equal if they have the same magnitude and direction regardless of where they are. Triangle ABC is isosceles. X is the midpoint of AB, Y is the midpoint of BC and Z is the midpoint of AC.

Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in the 5th century B.C., 500 years before Christ, is the earliest known chronicler and historian of the Egyptian Pyramid Age. By his accounts, the labor ...

This second attempt at gaining power was described by Herodotus as "the silliest trick which history has to record.". Dressed in gleaming armor, he arrived in the city accompanied by a tall and ...

In this free chapter from Complicated Women, Bee Wilson describes the ways that Edith Piaf’s life and art embodied the needs of her public, and how she became a symbol of postwar French resilience.

Kennan's world of one adversary seems as distant as the world of Herodotus. Most people believe ... explosions of birth rates, vectors of disease. Henceforward the map of the world will never ...

Aesop is believed to have been born around 620 B.C.E. and to have died around 560 B.C.E. This seems consistent with the first ...