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  Sunga Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sunga dynasty ruled the Sunga empire of Northern India from 185 BCE to around 73 BCE.
The kingdom of Pushyamitra was extended up to Narmada in the south, and controlled Jalandhar and Sialkot in the Punjab in the north-western regions.
Agnimitra (149 - 141 BCE), son and successor of Pushyamitra
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunga_dynasty   (223 words)

  
 BCE Reports its Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results
BCE Inc.'s decision was based on a number of factors, including a revised business plan and outlook of the principal operating segment of Teleglobe with associated funding requirements, a revised assessment of its prospects, and a comprehensive analysis of the state of its industry.
BCE recorded a gain of $1,042 million, relating primarily to the tax benefit from (i) reinstating non-capital losses that were previously used to offset the gain on sale of Nortel Networks shares in 2001; and (ii) applying a portion of the capital losses against the gain on the sale of the Directories business in 2002.
BCE recorded a charge of $316 million in 2002 ($191 million in the second quarter and $125 million in the fourth quarter), representing a write-down of its investment in BCI to an estimate of its net realizable value.
www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bce/2003/01/29/69761.html   (5180 words)

  
 Qumran
143 from Alexander Jannaeus (103 - 76 BCE)
16 from Herod Archelaus (4 BCE - 6 CE)
Trench A was the location north of the compound where the rubble from the destruction of level Ib was dumped.
www.menorahcoinproject.org /qumran.htm   (440 words)

  
 CAIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS ::: GENS SEMPRONIA
Caius Sempronius Gracchus (153—121 B.C.E), younger brother of Tiberius, was a man of greater abilities, bolder and more passionate, although possessed of considerable powers of self-control, and a vigorous and impressive orator.
In the year 131 BCE he supported the bill of C. Papirius Carbo, which made it legal for a tribune to offer himself as candidate for the office in two consecutive years.
After serving as quaestor in Sardinia in 126 BCE, he returned to Rome and was elected tribune in 123 BCE.
www.villaivlilla.com /GensSempronia/cai-gracchus.htm   (317 words)

  
 Acta Diurna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first form of Acta appeared around 131 BCE during the Roman Republic.
Senatorial acta were originally kept secret, until then-consul Julius Caesar made them public in 50 BCE.
Publication of the Acta Diurna stopped when the seat of the emperor was moved to Constantinople.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acta_Diurna   (222 words)

  
 What is Chanukah Jewish Holidays 800-830-8660 - Menorahs Jewelry Dreidels Decorations
Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers in the year 165 BCE, to be celebrated annually with joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.
After having recovered Jerusalem and the Temple, Judah ordered the latter to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one, and new holy vessels to be made.
168 BCE: Under the reign of Antiochus IV, the Temple is looted, Jews are massacred, and Judaism is outlawed.
www.milechai.com /judaism/chanukah.html   (1040 words)

  
 BCE Incorparation Article Archives by KeepMedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Supreme Court of Canada seeking leave to appeal the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissing both lawsuits as failing to disclose a reasonable cause of action.
BCE is announcing the date of the final order for its plan of arrangement
The BCE Arrangement is subject to final approval by the Superior Court of Quebec and to the issuance of a certificate of arrangement.
www.topix.net /com/bce/keepmedia?removemenu=com/bce   (505 words)

  
 Solar Eclipses of Saros 131
olar eclipses of Saros 131 all occur at the Moon’s ascending node and the Moon moves southward with each eclipse.
The total duration of Saros series 131 is 1262.11 years.
However, for annular eclipses, the instant of greatest duration may occur at either the time of greatest eclipse or near the sunrise and sunset points of the eclipse path.
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros131.html   (923 words)

  
 [No title]
[BCE] Kuhn, R. Speech recognition and the frequency of recently used words: A modified Markov model for natural language.
[BCE] Nakamura, J. On the methodologies of quantitative groupings of English texts.
[BCE] Renouf, A. The elicitation of spoken English.
helmer.hit.uib.no /icame/icame-bib2.txt   (4840 words)

  
 BCE: Annual Report 1998
At December 31, 1998, there were 640,131,136 BCE common shares outstanding and 200,304 registered common shareholders, and 68,000,000 preferred shares outstanding, and 758 registered preferred shareholders.
Join BCE's Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan and increase your investment in BCE common shares without brokerage costs.
Dividends on BCE shares paid or credited to non-residents of Canada are subject to withholding tax at 25%, unless reduced by treaty.
bce.ca /en/investors/reports/annual/bce/1998annual/other/shareholder   (332 words)

  
 Benjamin - The Migration of the Yuezhi through Sogdia - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran
Even as early as the last three decades of the second century BCE Kangju proved to be an ideal buffer for the Yuezhi between their new homeland north of the Amu Darya, and the Wusun and Xiongnu to the north and east.
As a result of their defeat by the Wusun in 133/2 BCE, and after almost three decades of residency in the Ili Valley, the confederation of the Da Yuezhi was forced to resume its migration westwards, moving initially into the Ferghana Valley.
131 BCE, Sogdia went on to become an integral and stable member (through direct incorporation or alliance) of the greater Kushan sphere of influence until the dissolution of the Kushan Empire in the mid-third century of the Common Era.
www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/benjamin.html   (8390 words)

  
 Cyprus Heads
BCE 520-15 Ruler Pheretima of Cyrene of Salamis
BCE 131-29 Co-ruler Cleopatra of Egypt of Cypros
After the death of her father, Amalric I of Cyprus-Jerusalem she was Joint regent together with husband Gautier de Montfaucon-Montbeliard, during the minority of her brother, Hugh or Hugo, who came of age in 1205.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /cyprus_heads.htm   (1440 words)

  
 The Hanukah Story
Around 200 BCE Jews lived as an autonomous people in the land of Israel, which at this time was controlled by the Seleucid King of Syria.
By 180 BCE Antiochus IV Epiphanes ascended to the Seleucid throne.
By 165 BCE the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid monarchy was successful.
www.greatjewishmusic.com /Midifiles/Hanukka/Hanukkah_Story.htm   (1100 words)

  
 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Coinage was considered an important symbol of sovereignty and so when Antiochus VII gained sufficient control in Jerusalem, he struck small bronze coins there that appear to be half Jewish, half Syrian.
One side features a Syrian anchor (upside down) with the Greek inscription "Of King Antiochus, Benefactor," and below is the date APR (Year 181 of the Seleucid era = 132/1 BCE) or the following year BPR.
The reverse is typically Judaean - a lily - a symbol associated with Jerusalem.
www.amuseum.org /book/page4.html   (133 words)

  
 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Physcon
In 130 BCE, the older Cleopatra led a revolt to drive him from Egypt.
HIs rule was peaceful, although he was a despotic ruler who was very cruel and backwards.
Ptolemy VIII died on June 26, 116 BCE, leaving his power to his wife Cleopatra III and one of her sons.
www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/08pto8.html   (330 words)

  
 CNW Group
These warrants are related to the Desjardins warrant exercised on March 22nd, 2006 in connection with a 10-year strategic alliance signed in 2001.
BCE Inc. received the warrants in accordance with its pre-emptive rights under the former CGI Shareholders' Agreement, which was terminated on January 12th, 2006.
Warrants are securities issued by a company, which give their owners the right to purchase shares in the company at a specific price at a future date.
www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/April2006/06/c2993.html   (349 words)

  
 Adar 5760 (February - March 2000)
Also not present were the Urim V'tumin by which the high priest could consult God and the "divine fire" which lit the sacrifices (Yoma 21b).
Outwardly, it was greatly beautified by Herod in 20 BCE.
Nicanor, who previously boasted that he would burn the Temple to the ground, was killed near Jerusalem.
philologos.org /bpr/files/Calendar/5760/06.adar.htm   (375 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Elst 1999: 131 sq., who even uses words such as pRdAku 'panther' which clearly are loans (Witzel 1999 a,b).
The attested use of pRdAku for 'panther' and 'snake' as indicating closeness to the original designation is not only linguistically impossible (loanwords!) but also cognitively light-weight: animals similar in appearance (spots!) are named by the same word.
Such as is the case (only 5 instead of 6 lumbar vertebrae) with some early horse finds in Egypt, from the mid-1st millennium BCE, horses that all were imported from the Near East (and ultimately from the steppe zone).
www1.shore.net /~india/ejvs/ejvs0703/ejvs0703f.txt   (4981 words)

  
 BCE Foodservice Equipment - Products
Our latest BCE catalogue for 2005 is now available online.
BCE's main focus is on industrial countertop catering equipment.
BCE has the sole agency in Southern Africa for the following product ranges and many more: DIHR, Orved, Rheninghaus, Hamilton Beach, Carlisle and Brema.
www.bce.co.za /products.htm   (126 words)

  
 CLCIV 131 Overheads for Test 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Middle Minoan I and II (1st Palace) Period: 2000 - 1800 (1700) BCE
Ossuaries: Mochlos, Mallia, Tholos (-oi) at Platanos -- seal of Hammurabi of Babylon, 1792 &endash; 1750 BCE
Cist Graves: MH Shaft Graves: MH - LH I
www.classics.uiuc.edu /clciv131/overheads1.htm   (273 words)

  
 Classical Studies Courses Fall 2004
The goddess Demeter (left) and her daughter Persephone (right, with pine-torch) bid farewell to Triptolemos, the king of Eleusis, who has learned from Demeter how to cultivate the soil and grow wheat and will now teach these skills to mankind.
In the last decades of the fifth century B.C.E., Socrates started to roam Athens in his search for truth and true wisdom.
330-30 BCE), including the worship of the Magna Mater in Asia Minor, the Egyptian cult of Isis and Serapis, the Syrian worship of Bel (Ba'al), Persian Mithraism and Babylonian Astrology.
www.willamette.edu /cla/classics/fall2004/fall2004classes.html   (1312 words)

  
 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Before There Were Coins (13th - 8th Century BCE)
Early Greek Coins (8th Century BCE - 66 CE)
You are invited to e-mail the author with comments, questions, corrections, etc.
www.amuseum.org /book/page0.html   (46 words)

  
 Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
The 131 givers helped us get a good start down the road toward reducing our red ink after the first five months of the year and getting BCE back on a sound footing.
Sunday school teacher asked her class to make financial support of BCE a class project.
A Tennessee Baptist layman emailed, “BCE has often been and today is probably the only voice of reason and light that I receive from any Baptist-affiliated organization.”
ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=5937   (350 words)

  
 Greek Architecture: Athens
447-438 BCE, Temple of Hephaistos, by Kallikrates, Athens
438-432 BCE, The Parthenon, by Iktinos & Kallikrates, Athens, Acropolis
500-400 BCE (rebuilt 338-326 BCE) C BCE, Theater of Dionysos, Athens
www.oberlin.edu /staff/jromano/ARCH/gaathens.html   (217 words)

  
 2003 USACK National Pool Slalom Results
BCE: St. Alban's/Bethesda Center of Excellence, Washington, DC, March 8
C-2 Race Cadet Eichfeld, Casey/Dickerson, Willy 146.6 BCE (Was : C. Eichfeld/W. Dickerson, 163.6, SABCE 200)
C-2M Race Master Hearn, Jennifer/Hearn, David 122.7 BCE (Was: M. Ryan/M. Wellhouse, 166.4, KCWC 2000)
www.whitewaterslalom.org /results/2003/pool-slalom.html   (203 words)

  
 Solar Eclipses: -0399 to -0300   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The terms BCE and CE are abbreviations for "Before Common Era" and "Common Era," respectively.
They are the secular equivalents to the BC and AD dating conventions.
Note that Great Britian did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752.
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEcat/SE-0399--0300.html   (766 words)

  
 BCE exercises warrants for 3,131,236 shares of CGI @ SYS-CON CANADA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
BCE exercises warrants for 3,131,236 shares of CGI @ SYS-CON CANADA
MONTREAL, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BCE Inc. has exercised warrants resulting in the issuance of 3,131,236 class A subordinate voting shares of CGI Group Inc. on April 6th at a price of $6.55 each.
CGI's shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.SV.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in the SandP/TSX Composite Index as well as the SandP/TSX Capped Information Technology and MidCap Indices.
ca.sys-con.com /read/204559.htm   (871 words)

  
 Classical Studies Courses Fall 2005
117 C.E.), one of the truly great historians of all time, focus on the dramatic events after the assassination of the emperor Nero, the so-called Four Emperor Year (69 B.C.E.).
Since the Julio-Claudian dynasty had died out with Nero, four Roman generals, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, supported by their legions, wrestled for the succession to the throne.
Greek 131 Elementary Ancient Greek I (1) (Bachvarova)
www.willamette.edu /cla/classics/fall2005   (1096 words)

  
 Background Essay no. 131 | Japanese History | AskAsia.org
Era: Classical traditions (1000 BCE - 300 CE)
Era: Expanding zones of exchange and encounter (300 - 1000 CE)
Draw on your knowledge of Japan's geography, history, and cultural values to predict how its influence will be modified by other peoples and nations.
www.askasia.org /teachers/essays/essay.php?no=131   (1110 words)

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