Definition of ordnance. 1  1a : military supplies including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment bombers dropped heavy concentrations of ordnance on every targeted airfield â Ron Dickb : a service of the army charged with the procuring, distributing, and safekeeping of ordnance.
Hasdai ibn Shaprut born about 915 at JaÃ©n, Spain; died about 970 at CÃ³rdoba, Andalusia, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science. His father, Isaac ben Ezra, was a wealthy and learned Jew of JaÃ©n. Hasdai acquired in his youth a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, the last-named language being at that time known only to the higher clergy of Spain. He also studied medicine, and is said to have discovered a panacea, called Al-Faruk. Appointed physician to ...
Tyndareus , the King of Sparta , Ledaâs husband and Helenâs stepfather . Hermoine , Helenâs young daughter by Menelaus . Leda , Helenâs mother by Zeus and the wife of Tyndareus . Clytemnestra , Helenâs half-sister , daughter to Tyndareus and Leda , and the wife of Agamemnon , the King of Argos , Menelausâ brother . Menelaus , originally a prince of Argos , Helenâs husband and the King of Sparta after Tyndareus . and the Dioscuri , Castor and Pollux , sons to Tyndareus and Leda and Zeus and Leda , respectively .