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What do we really know about Herod the Great? The Bible gives us a clear picture, but history fills in even more detail. Writers like Josephus and Strabo record the brutal, volatile, and complex life of Herod, and remarkably, he is one of the few figures to have been called “the Great” during his lifetime, an honor shared with Ramses the Great, Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, and Constantine the Great. But why was Herod called great? He was a great politician, a great builder, a great arch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch(GPGP) is the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic, trapped in the North Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California by circulating currents known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Despite its name, it is not a solid island of trash but a widely dispersed area. While it covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers, the vast majority of the debris consists of microplastics, which are tiny fragments not always visible to the naked e