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* Philadelphus kansuensis – Chinese Evergreen Mock-orange ( northwest China )
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King Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( 309 – 246 BC ) is said to have set 500, 000 scrolls as an objective for the library.
Ptolemy Philadelphus (, " Ptolemy the brother-loving ", August / September 36 BC – 29 BC ) was a Ptolemaic prince and was the youngest and fourth child of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and her third with Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.
He was a noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian – Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes.
Demetrius I Soter's relations with Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon ( reigned 159 – 138 BCE ), Ptolemy VI of Egypt ( reigned 163 – 145 BCE ), and Ptolemy's co-ruler Cleopatra II of Egypt were deteriorating, and they supported a rival claimant to the Seleucid throne: Alexander Balas, who purported to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and a first cousin of Demetrius.
Philadelphus and Evergreen
Philadelphus and Mock-orange
Mock-orange ( Philadelphus, ) is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs from 1 to 6 m tall, native to North America, Central America, Asia and ( locally ) in southeast Europe.
Philadelphus and northwest
Philadelphus and China
kansuensis and China
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* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
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* 1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
* 1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
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