Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Alexandria” in book 9 of Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture:

...n and shorten. 1. IT is due to the divine intelligence and is a very great wonder to all who reflect upon it, that the shadow of a gnomon at the equinox is of one length in Athens, of another in Alexandria , of another in Rome, and not the same at Piacenza, or at other places in the world. Hence drawings for dials are very different from one another, corresponding to differences of situation. This is be...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Alexandria (Egypt) 256 16 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) 1,230 0 476 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Louisiana, United States) 234 0 136 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Afghanistan) 16 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Tennessee, United States) 14 0 14 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Romania) 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Australia) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Canada) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Canada) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Indiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Jamaica) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Minnesota, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Missouri, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Missouri, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Nebraska, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Pakistan) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (South Africa) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (South Dakota, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (United Kingdom) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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