WHAT ARE THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD?
Written by Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish
Illustrated by Richard Beards
Published by Folio Society
in 2005
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WHAT ARE THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD?
Written by Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish.
Illustrated by Richard Beards.
Stock no. 1830519
2006.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
And 60 Other Great Cultural Questions. Black cloth spine with gilt title, colourful pictorial paper boards. Brown endpapers. B/w illustrations. Third printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is slightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- THREE
- 1 Who were the 3 sons of Adam and Eve?
- 2 Who are the 3 gods of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti)?
- 3 Who are the 3 daughters of King Lear
- 4 Who are the 3 Musketeers?
- 5 Who were the 3 sons of Noah?
- 6 What are the 3 ages of Vico's historical cycle?
- 7 Who were the 3 Magi, and what gifts did they bring?
- 8 What are the 3 components of the Freudian psyche?
- 9 What 3 beasts confront Dante in Canto I of the Inferno
- 10 Who were the 3 Furies?
- 11 What are Newton's 3 laws of Motion?
- 12 What were the 3 temptations of Christ?
- 13 Who were teh 3 Fates?
- FOUR
- 14 What were the 4 elements and their associated humours?
- 15 What are the 4 voyages of Lemuel Gulliver?
- 16 What were the 4 chief winds in ancient Greece?
- 17 What 4 US Presidents were assassinated, and who were their killers?
- 18 Who are the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
- 19 Who were the Big Four, and what nations did they represent at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)?
- 20 Who were the 4 Bronte siblings?
- 21 Who were the 4 Evangelists, and what were their symbols?
- FIVE
- 22 What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
- 23 What were the 5 events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon?
- 24 What the 5 classical architectural orders?
- 25 Who were the Russian composers knows as the Mighty Five?
- 26 What were the 5 rivers of he classical underworld?
- SIX
- 27 What are the 6 flavours of Quarks?
- 28 Who were the 6 wives of Henry VIII?
- 29 Who were the 6 French composers known as Les Six?
- SEVEN
- 30 What are the 7 wonders of the ancient world?
- 31 What were the works of the 7 days of creation?
- 32 What were the 7 hills of Rome?
- 33 What were the 7 liberal arts of the medieval curriculum?
- 34 Where do the English names of the 7 days of the week come from?
- 35 What are the 7 Sacraments>
- 36 Who were the 7 against Thebes?
- 37 Who were the 7 Sages of Greece
- 38 What are the 7 deadly sins?
- 39 What are the 7 virtues?
- 40 What are the 7 ages of man according to SHakespeare?
- 41 What were the 7 metals of alchemy and their associated gods and planets?
- 42 What are the 7 voyages of Sinbad the Sailor?
- EIGHT
- 44 What are the components of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism?
- 45 What are the 8 beatitudes?
- NINE
- 46 Who were the 9 great gods of ancient Egypt (the Great Ennead)?
- 47 Who were the 9 muses, and what were their associated arts?
- 48 What are the 9 orders of angels (from lowest to highest)
- 49 Who were the 9 Worthies?
- 50 Who were the 9 lyric poets of ancient Greece
- 51 What are the 9 planets, and how long do they take to orbit the sun?
- 52 What are the 9 Circles of Dante's Inferno?
- TEN
- 53 What are the 10 Commandments?
- 54 What were the 10 plagues of Egypt?
- ELEVEN
- 55 Which were the 11 states of Confederacy?
- TWELVE
- 56 What were the Latin names of the 12 months , and what did they mean?
- 57 Who were the 12 Olympian gods and their Roman equivalents?
- 58 What were the 12 labours of Heracles?
- 59 Who were the 12 Apostles?
- 60 Who were the 12 Knights of the Round Table?
- 61 What are the 12 signs of the Zodiac and the sources of their names?
- Index