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  • Exclusive Video: The Link Explores Connections Between Ancient And Modern Tech

    wired.com 4 days, 13 hours ago

    In this exclusive sneak preview of the new National Geographic Channel show, The Link , we see the history of the humble chain drive, which was invented in ancient Greece, yet didn?t find widespread use until the 20th century when the bicycle-repairing Wright Brothers used it to help build the first powered airplane.

  • In A Tech-Optimized World, Get Your Resume Noticed

    toptechnews.com 5 days, 16 hours ago

    In ancient Greece, priests gathered at the Temple of Apollo on Mount Parnassus, the better to interpret the deity-inspired prophecies of Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi. Google, for all its omnipresence, is no deity, yet legions practice search-engine optimization in an effort to divine the secret algorithms that move certain Web sites to the top of an online search. Now comes candidate optimization, essentially the same idea applied to job seekers, with services that help them tweak their resumes so they end

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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
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