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Greek expansion into the East was not built upon the mass mixing or disappearance of the Greek people. It was achieved through selective integration.A smaller part of the Greek population entered foreign dynasties, ruling families and local populations through intermarriage and political alliance. This allowed Hellenic ancestry, language, Gods and institutions to take root in lands whose native populations vastly outnumbered the Greek settlers.The greater body of the Greek population continued t

For thousands of years, the number 144,000 has been a deep mystery, famously appearing in ancient texts like the Book of Revelation. what if it wasn’t just a spiritual metaphor? What if it was an advanced mathematical blueprint?To understand it, we look to Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect who popularized the geodesic dome (think of the giant sphere at EPCOT). Fuller found a simple formula to count the exact number of intersecting points (nodes) on a spherical grid , 10 times the "frequen

Calculating the area of compound shapes - BBC Bitesize