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What is the Hero's engine?

A globe

Steam turbine

The airship

A hot air balloon

An aeolipile (or aeolipyle, or eolipile), also known as a Hero's engine, is a simple bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated. In the 1st century AD, Hero of Alexandria described the device in Roman Egypt, and many sources give him the credit for its invention.

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Whom were the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon built for by order of the king Nebuchadnezzar II?

for Nebuchadnezzar's wife queen Amytis

to the memory of Assyrian queen Semiramis

for daughter of Esther

it is not known

What area was called the "Magna Graecia" in antiquity?

Peloponnese with Sparta and Mycenae

Boeotia with Athens and Thebes

Thessaly with Larissa and Olympos

Southern Apennine Peninsula with Sicily

Who wrote "The Art of Poetry"?

Sidonius Apollinaris

In which Asian city one can admire this characteristic building?