Aristotle's notable students included Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Demetrius of Phalerum, Eudemos of Rhodes, Harpalus, Hephaestion, Meno, Mnason of Phocis, Nicomachus, and Theophrastus.

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

Presuming that Timaeus would not have written until after he was 20 years old at about 330 BC and Dicaearchus would have needed time to write his most mature work, after 300 BC, there is no reason not to accept Tozer's window of 330 BC – 300 BC for the voyage.

If one presumes that Pytheas would not have written prior to being 20 years old, he would have been a contemporary and competitor of Timaeus and Dicaearchus.

Ephorus gives 1135 BC, Sosibius 1172 BC, Eratosthenes 1184 BC / 1183 BC, Timaeus 1193 BC, the Parian marble 1209 BC / 1208 BC, Dicaearchus 1212 BC, Herodotus around 1250 BC, Eretes 1291 BC, while Douris 1334 BC.

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

Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in the Lyceum.

Dicaearchus was highly esteemed by the ancients as a philosopher and as a man of most extensive information upon a great variety of things.

The geographical works of Dicaearchus were, according to Strabo, criticised in many respects by Polybius ; and Strabo himself is dissatisfied with his descriptions of western and northern Europe, where Dicaearchus had never visited.

* Life of Greece ()-The Bios Hellados, in three books is Dicaearchus ’ most famous work.

* Circuit of the Earth ()-This work was probably the text written in explanation of the geographical maps which Dicaearchus had constructed and given to Theophrastus, and which seem to have comprised the whole world, as far as it was then known.

Following Aristotle, Dicaearchus divided all governments into three categories: the democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical, He advocated a " mixed " government, echoing the Spartan system, in which elements of all three categories play a part.

In it Dicaearchus endeavoured to prove that the soul was mortal.

There are lastly some other works which are of a grammatical nature, and may be the productions of Dicaearchus, viz.

On Alcaeus (), and Summaries of the plots of Euripides and Sophocles (), but may have been the works of Dicaearchus, a grammarian of Lacedaemon, who, according to the Suda, was a disciple of Aristarchus, and seems to be alluded to in Apollonius.

* David C. Mirhady, " Dicaearchus of Messana: The Sources, Texts and Translations ," in Fortenbaugh, W., Schütrumpf, E., ( editors ) Dicaearchus of Messana: Text, Translation, and Discussion.

* Fortenbaugh, W., Schütrumpf, E., ( editors ) Dicaearchus of Messana: Text, Translation, and Discussion.

* Alonso-Núñez, J. M., ' Approaches to world history in the Hellenistic period: Dicaearchus and Agatharchides ' Athenaeum 85 ( 1997 ) 53-67

This apparently illogical situation is explained by the relative importance of the two places in historic times.

He also explained the apparently paradoxical behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing large amounts of electrical charge.

Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar ( often robotic ) appendage.

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In the years since, however, scholarly consensus has shifted to consider that ethnic groups may in fact be counted as rational actors, and the puzzle of their apparently irrational actions ( for example, fighting over territory of little or no intrinsic worth ) must therefore be explained some other way.

In 1887, Carl Lederer proposed that the existence of two apparently contradictory sets of text for Pekah could be explained if there really were two systems in use for reckoning the reign of Pekah, and these were the consequence of a rivalry between Pekah and Menahem.

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The letter indicates that when she first discovered Hill was injured, he explained to her that Appelquist had shot him, apparently due to jealousy.

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As explained by Leo in the episode, " Exit Strategy ", " powers work by slowing down molecules, and apparently now can speed them up as well.

While the contemporaneous Muslim writers usually explained Yakub Beg's death by poisoning, and the suicide theory was apparently the accepted truth among the Qing generals of the time, modern historians, according to Kim Hodong, think that the natural death ( of a stroke ) is the most plausible explanation.

While Dawes explained this as an attempt to make sure the XFree86 developers get their due credit ( apparently in response to the Xouvert fork ), the decision was contested in the XFree86 community, notably by Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, and the dissenters subsequently forked the project into the X. Org Server.

Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar ( often robotic ) appendage.

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Despite apparently being written off the team, writer James Robinson explained that Cyborg will continue to have a presence on the JLA, and will even be given a co-feature in the back of the book for Justice League of America # 48-50.

He explained his plans to them about founding a French colony in the Araucanía, a territory until then abandoned and apparently irrelevant to the Chilean state.

As Holmes himself explained his apparently miraculous survival:

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In " The Major Adams Story " it is explained that Seth Adams had commanded a militia group ( apparently in Philadelphia ) and they enlisted en masse in the Union Army in 1861, that Bill Hawks was Sergeant to Major Adams and that Wooster was a late enlistment as a private ( in various episodes it's mentioned that their regiment was under Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant ).

He explained to McAuliffe that he had seen enough of war and apparently McAuliffe understood his position, but explained that he was needed because of his command experience.