If all you know of Bratislava are the snippets you saw in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, then you’re missing most of the Slovak city’s charms. Overshadowed by Prague when Czechoslovakia still existed, Bratislava has emerged in the wake of Slovakia’s independence as one of Europe’s loveliest “new” capitals, a must-see for tourists ...
The following summary is based on the Latin text of Virgil’s Aeneid presented online by The Latin Library. The URL is in the reference section. I also consulted a translation by Allan Mandelbaum to check my own translation of the text. In addition, I am indebted to a course taught by the late Professor Erwin ...
Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon in the whole solar system with a diameter of 5268km. This moon of Jupiter was one of the four discovered by Galileo in 1610. It has an old, ice surface with many dark and pale areas. Craters are widespread, with recent ones showing up huge areas of white, where ...
Statistics Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun, between Mars and Saturn. It is the largest planet in the solar system, having a diameter of about 88,846 miles, compared to Earth, which only has a diameter of 7,926 miles. Its average distance from the sun is 483,631,840 miles, one day is equal to nearly ...
