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Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view
Olympus
Book 13 of his "Elements" deals with regular solids
Euclid
2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist"
The martian
A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L")
Illiteracy
This age came in with Britain's new queen in 1837
Victorian
Heracles got in on an expedition with the Argonauts, led by this man
Jason
A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point
tangent line
A 2003 cartoon:
"All drains lead to the ocean"
Finding nemo
A stamp had this big landmark; not the original in N.Y. Harbor, but the lady in front of Vegas' New York-New York casino
Statue of Liberty
The golden age of this buccaneering activity began around 1650
Piracy
In addition to being god of the sea, he's also the god of earthquakes
Poseidon
It's (13 + 14) x 15
405
2009:
"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"
Avatar
On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president
FDR
Wet cultivation of this crop marks the start of Japan's Yayoi Period
Rice
Thought to be the center of the Earth, this town at Mt. Parnassus' foot was known for its oracle--ya see that coming?
Delphi
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers
Prime Numbers
2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock:
"Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"
Gravity
A 1932 Philippine stamp honored Pagsanjan Falls but showed Vernal Falls in this California national park
Yosemite
In history's stages per Karl Marx, feudalism gave way to this -ism, AKA the free market
capitalism
Home dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong
Ares
In 1640 16-year-old Blaise Pascal came to math fame with an essay on these "sections"
conic sections
2017:
"I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"
Wonder Woman
A 1968 Chinese stamp, "The Whole Country is Red", did not red out this island, & the authorities soon recalled it
Taiwan
For warships, the iron age began at the same time as the age of this type of power
steam