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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: ASWAN
 Aswan - the high dam and Suez
- and Abu Simbel
 asylums - for the insane in 18th century
- conditions in 19th century
- become mental hospitals
- emptied under Adolf Hitler
As You Like It - by Shakespeare
 - brief account
Atacama desert - and nitrates
Atatürk - joins the Young Turks in 1908
Aten - Egyptian sun-disk
Athabasca, Lake - and Alexander Mackenzie
Athanasius - and the New Testament
Athelney - and Alfred the Great
Athenaeum (London club)
Athenia - sunk in 1939
ATHENS
 - tour through time
- and democracy
- and homosexuality
- and the City Dionysia
- employment of slaves
- first book trade
- population of Attica
- the boule or council
- the ecclesia or assembly
- the ten tribes imposed by Cleisthenes
- theatre of Dionysus
- sacked by Persians in 480 BC
- and St Paul
Atholl - earls and dukes of
Atholl Highlanders - and Blair Castle
Atkinson, Robert - Barber Institute
Atkinson, William - Scone Palace
Atkinson Morley Hospital - receives first brain scanner
Atlanta - captured by Sherman in 1864
Atlantic, Battle of the (1940--43)
Atlantic Charter - in 1941
- brief account
atlas - the first, by Mercator
atmospheric pressure - and Torricelli
atom bomb - tested in 1945
- dropped on Hiroshima
- dropped on Nagasaki
atomic theory - and Democritus
atoms - the first
Atreus, Treasury of - at Mycenae
Attica - the region of Athens
- population
Attila - leader of the Huns
- and Leo I
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