Heraclea

Her·a·cle·a

[her-uh-klee-uh]
noun
an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.
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Heraclea (ˌhɛrəˈkliːə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
any of several ancient Greek colonies. The most famous is the S Italian site where Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans (280 bc)

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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