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1. Berenice
   Daughter of Herod, with whom Titus fell in love.
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2. Berenice
   the wife of King Ptolemy I of Egypt; she was made queen of Egypt in 290 BCE; she was the mother of Ptolemy II.
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3. Berenice
   (born AD 28) Eldest daughter of Herod Agrippa I, ruler of Palestine. She was married at 13 years old to her uncle, Herod of Chalcis, but after his death in AD 48 she lived, not without suspicions of incest, with...
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4. Berenice
   Ancient name for the Libyan city of Benghazi. ...
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5. Bérénice
   (from the article `Racine, Jean`) Bérénice (1670) marks the decisive point in Racine`s theatrical career, for with this play he found a felicitous combination of elements that he ... ...ballet sequences, and striking a note of lyrical tenderness. A year earlier, however, he had presented Tite et Bérénice, in ...
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6. Berenice
   daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe I of Egypt. She was married to the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II Theos, supplanting his first wife, ... [2 related articles]
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7. Berenice
   lover of the Roman emperor Titus and a participant in the events leading up to the fall of Jerusalem.
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8. Berenice
   Berenice is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Victorious` Where is it used? The name Berenice is mainly used In English and In Italian.How do they say it elsewhere? Veronica ( In English, Italian and In Portuguese) Bernice ( In English and In the bible) Berniece ( In English) See ...
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9. Berenice
   Berenice, city of ancient Cyrenaica: see Benghazi.
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10. Berenice
    Berenice or Berenike,city of ancient Egypt, on the Red Sea. Founded by Ptolemy II and named in his mother's honor, it commanded the trade with Arabia and India, flourishing from the 3d cent. B.C. to the 4th cent. Its harbor subsequently silted up.
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11. Berenice
    Berenice (berunī'sē) , b. c.340 B.C., d. 281 or 271 B.C., consort and half sister of Ptolemy I, king of ancient Egypt. A Macedonian, she was the widow of Philip, one of the officers of Alexander the Great, and was by this marriage the mother of Magas, king of Cyrene; Antigone, wife o...
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12. Berenice
    Berenice, c.273–21 B.C., queen of ancient Cyrene and Egypt. She was the daughter and successor of King Magas of Cyrene. In 247 B.C. she married Ptolemy III, thereby effectively annexing Cyrene to Egypt. According to Callimachus and Catullus, he named a constellation after her, Berenice's Hair ...
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13. Berenice
    Berenice, c.280–46 B.C., queen-consort of ancient Syria; wife of Antiochus II. She was called Berenice Syra. She was the daughter of Ptolemy II, and her marriage (252) to Antiochus II marked a temporary cessation in the wars between the Egyptian monarchs and the Seleucids. On the death of Anti...
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14. Berenice
    Berenice, fl. 6 B.C., Jewish princess; daughter of Costobarus and Salome, sister of Herod the Great. She was married to her cousin Aristobulus and bore him a son, Herod Agrippa I. She was accused of having instigated the murder of her husband by Herod the Great in 6 B.C. Later she married Theudion, ...
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15. Berenice
    Berenice, b. c.A.D. 28, Jewish princess; daughter of Herod Agrippa I. A very beautiful woman, she was often involved in intrigue. After her first husband died, she was married to her uncle Herod of Chalcis. After his death (A.D. 48) she lived in incest with her brother, Herod Agrippa II, causing som...
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16. Berenice
    Berenice was the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes. When her husband went to war in Syria she vowed that if he returned safe she would dedicate her hair to the gods. Upon his safe return she hung her hair in the temple of Venus, from where it disappeared and is said to have been used to form the constellation Coma Berenices.
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17. Berenice
    The Onera Berenice was a French four-stage solid-propellant rocket vehicle designed for research into re-entry at Mach 12 during the 1960's. The Onera Berenice was 1325 cm long with a maximum diameter of 56 cm. The Berenice was launched at an angle of 85 degrees so as to limit the altitude to which the rocket reached to 270 km.
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18. Berenice
    `Berenice` or `Berenike` (Greek: , Berenikē) is the Ancient Macedonian form for Attic Greek Φερενίκη (Pherenikē), meaning "bearer of victory", from φέρω (pherō) "to bear" + νίκη...
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19. Berenice
    (rocket) `Berenice` was the designation of a four-stage French experimental rocket. Berenice 001 to Berenice 012 were tested from 1962 to 1966. The Berenice was 13.25 meters long, possessed a diameter of 0.56 meters and weighed at launch 3340 kg. The takeoff thrust of the Berenice, w...
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20. Berenice
    (Seleucid queen) `Berenice`, also called `Berenice Syra`, was the daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his first wife Arsinoe I of Egypt. In 261 BC she married the Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos, who, following an agreement with Ptolemy (249 BC), had divorced his wife Laodice I and tr...
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21. Berenice
    (play) `Berenice` () is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. Berenice was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries. Today it is one of Racine`s more popular plays, after Phèdre, Andromaque and Britannicus. ...
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22. Berenice
    (opera) `Berenice` (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto, written in Italy in 1709 and originally entitled Berenice, regina d`Egitto (Berenice, Queen of Egypt), by Antonio Salvi. It was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre in...
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23. Berenice
    (short story) "`Berenice`" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense focus durin...
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