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The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Altar Around Asia Came Center Cultural Cures Defeating Famous Giants God Gods Great Library Medicine Mediterranean Minor Monumental Olympian People Sculptures Seeking Spectacular Temple Theater Vast

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In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.

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Topics: Among Anything Canada Century Could Even French Horn Legend Missionary Monster Pierce Reported Rock Strange

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Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: About Asked Canada Compete Encountered European Fossil Historical Horns Ivory Looking Natives Other Records Russian Show Sources Teeth Trade

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Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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