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  Amalthea (moon) Discovered by E. E. Barnard Discovery date 9 September 1892 Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered, so it is also known as Jupiter V. Edward Emerson Barnard discovered the moon on 9 September 1892 and named it after Amalthea of Greek mythology. Amalthea was the last moon in the solar system to be discovered through direct visual observation. Barnard using the 91 cm telescope at Lick Observatory. It was also the first moon of Jupiter to be discovered since Galileo's discovery of Galilean Moons in 1610. Amalthea has two known mountains, Mons Lyctas and Mons Ida with local relief reaching up to 20 kilometers. The surface is dark and reddish in color apparently caused by a dusting of sulfur originating from Io's volcanoes. I t is exposed to the intense Jovian radiation field. It continuously receives high doses of energetic ions, protons, and electrons pro

 Revolt Against the Sun.  Iraqi female poet and is considered by many to be one of the most influential contemporary Iraqi poets.  Arabic literature and culture. It is a key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of modern Arab culture. hough Revolt Against the Sun, for example, might seem like a typically Romantic meditation on the beauty of the night, the stars, and the power of poetic inspiration,  but in this superb book the poet’s use of political terminology (thawrah, “revolution,” tamarrud, “revolt,” etc.) that in outstanding writing and her insistent, almost defiant tone ask that we read her assumption of the elegiac, nocturnal, and melancholic position (stereotypical for women poets in the Arabic tradition) as a distinctly political act.  Spanning from the 1940s until the 1970s and reflecting the arc from romantic to politically committed poetry, the collection is organized ch

  In medieval history, the Polyptych (or Polyptyque was a document detailing the lands that a noble owned. Bernardo Zenale 1463 was born in Treviglio Italy he was engaged by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, to paint a room in the Castello Sforzesco Zenale worked also in Brescia. ART PROJECTOR Flagellation Bernardo Zenale, Between 1515 and 1520 The painting was probably not executed personally by Bernardo Zenale, but by one of his collaborators who perhaps worked to his master's cartoon. The scene is set in the courtyard of a building that recalls early sixteenth-century Milanese architecture, where architectural classicism coexists with typically Lombard motifs such as bronze capitals, balustrades, and plant-candelabra columns. Details Title: Flagellation Creator: Bernardo Zenale (circle of) Date Created: Between 1515 and 1520 Location: Castello Sforzesco, Pinacoteca, Milan Physical Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm Provenance: Purchase of 1994 Type: Painting Rights: Comune di Milano - Civiche