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Seleucides alba
Bird of paradise Bird" of par"a*dise (Zo["o]l.) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. Note: The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (P. minor) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red is P. rubra or sanguinea; the Golden is Parotia aurea or sexsetacea; the King is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group (Epimachin[ae]) from the same region. The Twelve-wired (Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod.

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- The Seleucid Empire (/sɪˈljuːsɪd/; Ancient Gr****: Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, romanized: Basileía tōn Seleukidōn, lit. 'Kingdom of the Seleucids') was a...
- The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (/sɪˈluːsɪˌdiː/; Gr****: Σελευκίδαι, Seleukídai, "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian royal family, which...
- Anno Graecorum The Seleucid era ("SE") or Anno Graecorum (literally "year of the Gr****s" or "Gr**** year"), sometimes denoted "AG," was a system of numbering...
- The Seleucid–Mauryan War was fought between 305 and 303 BC. It started when Seleucus I Nicator of the Seleucid Empire sought to retake the Indian satrapies...
- The Seleucid army was the army of the Seleucid Empire, one of the numerous ****enistic states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great. As with...
- The Roman–Seleucid war (192–188 BC), also called the Aetolian war, Antiochene war, Syrian war, and Syrian-Aetolian war was a military conflict between...
- c. 140 and c. 116 BCE the dynasty ruled Judea semi-autonomously in the Seleucid Empire, and from roughly 110 BCE, with the empire disintegrating, Judea...
- מרד החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against ****enistic influence on Jewish life. The main phase...
- The Seleucid–Parthian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Seleucid Empire and the Parthian Empire which resulted in the ultimate expulsion of the...
- include the four wars with Macedonia, in addition to one war with the Seleucid Empire, and a final minor war with the Achaean League (which is often considered...