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Archimedes died during the Second Punic war, when Syracuse was captured by Romans.
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The Archimedes Claw was a big crane that picked up ships and dropped them to sink them.
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In 214 BC Archimedes invented a large mirror called the Death Ray that burned attacking Roman ships.
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Archimedes returns to help his cousin in the Punic Wars.
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The Archimedes Screw pumped water out of ships.
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In 270BC Archimedes developed the Theory of Water Displacement, known in history as the "Eureka Moment." When he got into the bathtub he observed that the water spread to the side in equal proportion to his weight.
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When Archimedes invented Pi, he did not interperate it as 3.14. Instead he thought of it as 3.125.
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Archimedes went to school in Alexandria Egypt
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Punic Wars between Hannibal of Carthrige and Italy.
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Born in 287B.C. in the port of Syracuse, Sicily in the colony of Magna Graecia.
