It dates to the reign of Ptolemy II ( 285 – 246 BC ), and is therefore likely to have been built at about the same time as the Alexandria Pharos.

Strabo says that Dicaearchus ( died about 285 BC ) did not trust the stories of Pytheas.

Dicaearchus of Messana (; ; c. 350 – c. 285 BC ), also written Dicearchus or Dicearch (), was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author.

He died about 285 BC.

Category: 285 BC deaths

* Ptolemy I, Pharaoh of Egypt, r. 305 – 285 BC

* Rhinthon ( c. 323 – 285 BC ), dramatist ;

* Ptolemy II Philadelphus, king of Egypt from 285 BC, second king of the Ptolemaic dynasty, who has extended his power by skilful diplomacy, developed agriculture and commerce, and made Alexandria a leading centre of the arts and sciences ( b. 308 BC )

* Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polygraph ( d. c. 285 BC )

Year 285 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 285 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Crates (; c. 365 – c. 285 BC ) of Thebes was a Cynic philosopher.

He is said to have died at a great age ( c. 285 BC ), and was buried in Boeotia.

* Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school ( d. c. 285 BC )

The rise of Koine is conventionally marked by the accession in 285 BC of ( Greek-speaking ) Ptolemy II, who ruled from Alexandria, Egypt and launched the " Alexandrian period ", when the city of Alexandria and its expatriate Greek-medium scholars flourished.

Diodotus I Soter () ( c. 285 BC – c. 239 BC ) was Seleucid satrap of Bactria, rebelled against Seleucid rule soon after the death of Antiochus II in c. 255 or 246 BC, and wrested independence for his territory.

This possibility is likely, given that many ancient Greek philosophers are thought to have lived over the age of 90 ( e. g., Xenophanes of Colophon, c. 570 / 565 – c. 475 / 470 BC, Pyrrho of Ellis, c. 360 – c. 270 BC, Eratosthenes of Cirene, c. 285 – c. 190 BC, etc .).

Walking 22 miles a day, Fiona had to pull a sledge weighing 285 pounds, and her success is perhaps even more remarkable considering she lost her satellite navigation system 10 days in.

The game finally found success by an attendance standard, drawing 285, 786 attendees over 7 years.

The racial makeup of Freedom was 1, 452 ( 47. 3 %) White, 44 ( 1. 4 %) African American, 31 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 100 ( 3. 3 %) Asian, 1, 285 ( 41. 9 %) from other races, and 158 ( 5. 1 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Lakeland Village was 7, 764 ( 67. 3 %) White, 285 ( 2. 5 %) African American, 131 ( 1. 1 %) Native American, 168 ( 1. 5 %) Asian, 21 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 575 ( 22. 3 %) from other races, and 597 ( 5. 2 %) from two or more races.

The film has grossed $ 178, 406, 268 in the United States and $ 285, 000, 000 in other countries for a total worldwide gross of $ 463, 406, 268.

Since it employed a steel skeleton – with the steel coming from the American Bridge Company in Pennsylvania – it could be built to 22 stories ( 285 feet ) relatively easily, which would have been difficult using other construction methods of that time.

Following the latest deal, DHL have a global workforce of 285, 000 people ( 500, 000 people including DPWN and other sister companies ) and roughly $ 65 billion in annual sales.

Since they do not have any common term, these two sorts of judgments can neither contradict nor agree with each other " ( p. 285 ).

The station broadcasts from the same building as its other Cumulus Atlanta sister stations WWWQ (" Q100 "), W250BC (" Q100 20 @ 97-9 "), WKHX (" Kicks 101-5 "), and 99X in Sandy Springs near the Georgia Highway 400 and Interstate 285 interchange.

During the campaign, the Luftwaffe has lost 285 aircraft – 79 fighters, 78 bombers, 31 dive bombers, and 97 other aircraft – destroyed ; 279 aircraft damaged ; and 413 aircrew killed and 126 wounded.

Net sales as of January 28, 2006, were US $ 2, 285, 000, 000, significantly higher than all other Limited Brands, except Victoria's Secret.

Not receiving government support and only accepting unsolicited gifts, this organisation received and disbursed £ 1, 381, 171 ( approximately $ 2, 718, 844 USD ) – around £ 90 million in today's terms – by the time of Müller's death, primarily using the money for supporting the orphanages and distributing about 285, 407 Bibles, 1, 459, 506 New Testaments, and 244, 351 other religious texts, which were translated into twenty other languages.

Two other articles of impeachment failed – a second count of perjury in the Jones case ( by a 205 – 229 vote ) and one accusing Clinton of abuse of power ( by a 148 – 285 vote ).

The museum employs the Ionic order to articulate the 87 m ( 285 ft .) face of the building, which is the only part of the exterior with any visual sign of the Orders ; the other three remaining facades are of brick and stone banding.

Output jumped up to 285 hp ( 213 kW ) and 402 ft. lbf ( 545 Nm ) that year with numerous other improvements.

As of 2006, 1, 449, 695 Canadians residents stated they had Italian ancestry, in which 741, 045 had sole Italian origins while the other 704, 285 were of partial Italian origin along with other ethnic origins, chiefly with other European ethnic groups e. g. Italian-Irish, Italian-English, Italian-French, etc.

His best result of the Games was a surprise silver medal in the free pistol competition ; his score of 285 was far behind Sumner Paine's 442 but was sufficient to defeat the other three shooters in the event.

From the Perimeter ( Interstate 285 on the northside ) to I-575, the road has already been built with 12 to 16 lanes, which will require other solutions, including possibly via eminent domain.

In March 1963, de Mohrenschildt received a Haitian government contract for $ 285, 000 to set up an industrial enterprise with other investors, which included surveying oil and geological resources on the island.

It's an area larger than Switzerland ( 41, 285 km² ), roughly the size of the US states New Hampshire and Vermont combined.

U. S. Route 285 is a north – south United States highway, running 845 miles ( 1, 260 km ) through the states of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.

As for Bodkin ’ s last major work, Studies of Type-Images in Poetry, Religion and Philosophy, Carré ( 1952: 285 ) states that it “ comprises loose meditations on religious themes, straying through a range of cloudy ideas and culling bunches of quotations from novelists, playwrights, poets and prophets .” The “ basic question ” that Studies of Type-Images in Poetry, Religion and Philosophy explores was “ suggested to the author by Martin Buber ,” while “ the answer, insofar as any answer can be given, is derived from certain philosophical implications of Carl Jung ’ s psychological studies ” ( Hayward 1952: 225 ).

In a similar way the 24 states of Braga contain 285, 000 persons, of whom besides the Bracari themselves may be mentioned, without wearying the reader, the Biballi, Coelerni, Callaeci, Equaesi, Limici and Querquerni ( Naturalis Historia, III, 3, 28 ).

Peace House co-founder John Wolf states that $ 285, 000 was raised in 2005, and was spent legitimately.