Cnidus
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Mechanics Sirs: Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus.
From Time Magazine Archive
She discovered the head in London's British Museum among fragments brought back from Cnidus by the English archaeologist Sir Charles Newton more than a century ago.
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Cnidus and Halicarnassus on the coast were colonized by Dorians.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Corinth, Cnidus, Samos and other places were also famous for their clays, and at the first named tablets have 713 been found bearing representations of the digging of clay for pottery.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Cnidus lay on the western edge of a long and narrow promontory.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max
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