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	NASA Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses
		-1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
		During the 50 century period -1999 to 3000 (i.e.: 2000 BCE to 3000 CE), Earth experiences 12186 lunar eclipses as follows:
		The eclipses during this period are arranged into 100 year long tables where each table includes data described as follows.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/LEcat/LEcatalog.html (532 words)

	History of Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Buddhist tradition, the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama was born to the Shakya clan, at the beginning of the Magadha period (546–324 BCE), in the plains of Lumbini, Southern Nepal.
		In particular, after 250 BCE, the Sarvastivadin (who had been rejected by the 3rd council, according to the Theravada tradition) and the Dharmaguptaka schools became quite influential in northwestern India and Central Asia, up to the time of the Kushan Empire in the first centuries of the common era.
		The Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I invaded India in 180 BCE as far as Pataliputra, establishing an Indo-Greek kingdom that was to last in various part of northern India until the end of the 1st century BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Buddhism (5955 words)

	BCE 3rd Quarter Earnings
		BCE's consolidated net income applicable to common shares for the third quarter was $262.8 million, up 9.3 per cent from $240.4 million for the same period last year.
		BCE consolidated earnings per share are calculated after deducting preferred dividend requirements equivalent to $0.04 per common share in the third quarter of 1986 ($0.04 in 1985).
		BCE has the largest number of registered shareholders of any Canadian corporation, and its common shares are listed on exchanges in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan.
	www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bce/1986/10/22/4062.html (883 words)

	BCE Web Site : Investors : Financial Reports : Quarterly Reports : BCE : Q4 FY01 - Quarterly Report
		BCE's management is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of the new standards, and although it is likely that the transitional impairment test will result in a significant impairment charge, BCE's management has not yet completed the assessment of the quantitative impact on its financial statements.
		BCE's management is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of the new standard, and therefore has not yet assessed the impact on its financial statements.
		BCE's percentage ownership in BCI after the settlement date of February 15, 2002 is expected to be diluted to approximately 62%, subject to further dilution upon settlement of the put obligation.
	www.bce.ca /en/investors/reports/quarterly/bce/2001q4/report (3766 words)

	Edicts of Ashoka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 272 to 231 BCE.
		Antiochos refers to Antiochus II Theos of Syria (261-246 BCE), who controlled the Seleucid Empire from Syria to Bactria, in the east from 305 BCE to 250 BCE, and was therefore a direct neighbor of Ashoka.
		Ptolemy refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphos of Egypt (285-247 BCE), king of the dynasty founded by Ptolemy I, a former general of Alexander the Great, in Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka (2182 words)

	A CHRONOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
		771 BCE The Chou dynasty in China is forced to abandon its western capital in Hao, of the Wei River Valley and move its seat eastward to Loyang due to the threat of a barbarian invasion.
		400-300 BCE The Celts settle in the Danube-Sava basin.
		312 BCE Seleucus Nicator, one of Ptolemy's generals in Syria, establishes a kingdom ranging from Syria in the west to India in the east (approximately the scope of the ancient Assyrian or Babylonian Empires) and founds the Seleucid empire.
	www.humanitas-international.org /perezites/archive/timeline.htm (19687 words)

	13. Nibiru or Planet X p1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the period between 49,000 BCE and 30,400 BCE (the rule of King Ubara-Tutu, who ruled for 18,600 years until the Flood) the intervals stayed constant to 3,000 years except for the last orbit who lasted again as in the past for 3,600 years.
		During the period between 30,378 BCE and 1,578 BCE the Gods stayed on Earth and instructed their creations (Men) to be aware of the "older" creations of the Gods of which a lot had survived the Flood.
		With an interval of 1 orbit : 91,600 BCE, 88,000 BCE, 84,400 BCE, 80,800 BCE, 77,200 BCE, 73,600 BCE, 70,000 BCE, 66,400 BCE, 62,800 BCE, 59,200 BCE, 55,600 BCE, 52,000 BCE, 48,400 BCE, 44,800 BCE, 41,200 BCE, 37,600 BCE, 34,000 BCE,30,400 BCE.
	www.earth-history.com /Earth-13.htm (9423 words)

	History of Buddhism
		According to the Buddhist tradition, the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama was born to the Shakya clan that belonged to the Hindu warrior caste (Kshatriya), at the beginning of the Magadha period (546—324 BCE), in the plains of Lumbini, Southern Nepal.
		Before the royal sponsorship of Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE, Buddhism seems to have remained a relatively minor phenomenon, and the historicity of its formative events is poorly established.
		The Kushans were supportive of Buddhism, and a fourth Buddhist council was convened by the Kushan emperor Kanishka, around 100 CE at Jalandhar or in Kashmir, and is usually associated with the formal rise of Mahayana Buddhism and its scission from Theravada Buddhism.
	www.buddhaindex.com /browse.php?cat=273345 (3438 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rulers of Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Buyeo is believed to have risen from the areas of Joseon in the 2nd to the 3rd centuries BCE.
		Bukbuyeo was later succeeded by Goguryeo, but Dongbuyeo, ruled by the heirs of Emperor Haemosu, was shattered by Goguryeo in 22 CE.
		The rulers of Dongbuyeo submitted to the overlordship of Bukbuyeo in 86 BCE, and thus used the title Wang, which means king.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rulers_of_Korea (1655 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan
		In 317 BCE, however, the Indian Mauryan Dynasty took Oddiyana from the Seleucids and thus the area was only superficially Hellenized during this short period.
		In 197 BCE, the Graeco-Bactrians conquered Oddiyana and Gandhara from the Mauryans.
		Balkh had been the birthplace of Zoroaster in about 600 BCE It was the holy city of Zoroastrianism, the Iranian religion that grew from his teachings and which emphasized the veneration of fire.
	www.berzinarchives.com /islam/history_afghanistan_buddhism.html (5651 words)

	Timebase Multimedia Chronography(TM) - Timebase 2000-01
		1738 BCE Perez IBN JUDAH (Phares), son of Judah ibn Jacob ISRAËL and progenitor of the Perezite Clan of the tribe of Israel, is said to have been born near Hebron, Palestine.
		052 BCE The Han Chinese empire succeeds in subjugating Turkish-speaking nomands from the northern steppes.
		043 BCE Britain is finally conquered by Rome and remains under Roman occupation until 410 A.D. 042 BCE October The army of Roman Emperor Octavian defeats the army of Marcus Junius Brutus and Baius Cassius Longinus, two of Julius Caesar's assassins.
	www.humanitas-international.org /showcase/chronography/timebase/b-c-e.htm (5647 words)

	SECTION 2
		In 753 BCE a god (Romulus, actually a half-Immortal, son of the god Mars and a human king's daughter) was supposed to have harnessed a plough and ploughed a furrow around the Palatine hill where the city was to be.
		In 250 BCE after a Roman victory over Carthage, 104 elephants were taken to Rome and slaughtered in the circus to amuse the people.
		In 197 BCE, a short 5 years later, Rome conquered Macedonia, its king had to surrender his fleet and all his possessions in Greece, and be an ally of Rome in future.
	www3.sympatico.ca /nimbus/z23f.htm (15100 words)

	Anakeion to Apaturia * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		A Greek poet from the late sixth century BCE; he was originally from the city of Teos, in Asia Minor, but lived in Athens.
		Sparta traditionally had two kings who ruled jointly; one king was required to be a descendant of king Agis I and the other was required to be a descendant of king Eurypon (respectively known as the Agiadai and the Eurypontidai).
		Antigonus II (319-239 BCE) A king of Makedon (Macedon) from 283-239 BCE; the son of Demetrius I.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_a1006.html (4148 words)

	Primary sources for the study of the period
		Written in the second half of the second century BCE, the first book of Maccabees is a detailed account of the history of Judah from the accession of Antiochus IV in 175 B.C.E. to the death of Simon in 134 B.C.E. Thus the book describes the history of the Maccabean revolt.
		Nebuchadnezzar (604-652 BCE) was a Babylonian monarch whose residence was not Nineveh, the Assyrian capitol, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 612 BCE.
		Nebuchadnezzar had campaigned in Syro-Palestine late in the seventh century B.C.E. It is possible that the figures of Holofernes and his colleague Bagoas are memories of Orophernes and Bagoas who were generals in the campaign of the Persian king Artaxerxes III Orchus (359-338) against Phoenicia and Egypt.
	www.sonoma.edu /users/p/poe/Excursus/Sources482.htm (3846 words)

	CBC News - Bell Canada cuts 1,900 jobs, BCE reports higher earnings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		BCE made the cuts public as it reported its first quarter earnings and said it took a $239 million charge for severance packages.
		BCE said its cash baseline earnings grew by 29 per cent in the first quarter to hit $302 million, or 37 cents a share, slightly beating analysts expectations.
		For the second quarter, BCE expects revenue in the $5.6 billion to $6 billion range.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/04/25/bce_jm_010425 (421 words)

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		By the 3rd century (BCE) the tuning of court instruments was set to standard pitched pipes held by the imperial court.
		By 239 BCE, there was a predetermined set of mathematical ratios for musical intervals in the Chinese scale system.
		By 300 BCE it was expected that any man who was a scholar and a gentleman would be required to learn to play the Qin.
	www.aug.edu /~cshotwel/2002HUMN/2002.Chineseopera.htm (6557 words)

	Julian Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Following his conquest of Mizr (Greek-Aegyptus) in 48 BCE Julius Caesar, while in Alexandria, consulted the astronomer, Sosigenes about calendar reform1.
		(we now call 46 BCE) was identical to the Alexandrian Aristarchus' calendar of 239 BCE, and consisted of a solar year of twelve months and of 365 days with an extra day every fourth year.
		The fiscal administration in Northern Iran from the 1st Century BCE used Zoroastrian months and days in official documents in the Pahlavi script and the Zoroastrian Calender of 12 months of 30 days + 5 Gatha days and it became official during Sassanian times (CE 224-641)2.
	jullian-kalendar.net.ru (518 words)

	outline 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Age of the Successors: A Question of Legitimacy
		Antigonus the One-Eyed (382-301 BCE, of the "older" generation)
		After the Death of Antipater in 319 BCE
	www.utexas.edu /courses/macedonia/outline_9.htm (115 words)

	Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
		Ptolemy I Soter (305-283) born in 367/6 BCE of a certain Lagos and Arsinoe, both Macedonian nobility.
		In 306 BCE the forces of Ptolemy and Antigonus clashed at the battle of Salamis.
		Seleucus I Nicator (312-280) In 311 Seleucus recaptured the satrapy of Babylon from Antigonus and from 308 he was able to conquer the entire eastern half of Alexander's empire as far as the Indus.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/greece (5307 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Quintus Ennius
		What we really know of Ennius’; life is very little; the stories we have date from the late Republic, when real knowledge of the lives of the early poets had already faded, and it is clear that distortion and rationalization abound in what our sources have to tell us.
		What we can say with reasonable certainty is that he was born in 239 BCE, that he was of Messapic (i.e.
		Ennius’; arrival in Rome is traditionally dated 204 BCE, but the story that he was brought there from Sardinia by Cato has been questioned by scholars.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1431 (508 words)

	Macedonian Rulers
		This space/timeline is a schematic diagram of the tenure of major protagonists in the power struggles that shaped the history of Hellenism in the eastern Mediterranean basin during the last 3 centuries BCE.
		It begins with the election of Philip II as leader (hegemon) of the league of Greek city states and ends with the death of Cleopatra VII in Egypt.
		Hellenistic World After the Breakup of Alexander's Empire 310 BCE - map posted for Barry D. Smith's course on The Intertestamental Period (Atlantic Baptist U).
	virtualreligion.net /iho/macedon.html (559 words)

	Phonecia Part 2
		This was during the Golden Age of Israel, around 1000 to 900 BCE, in which Israelite ships sailed around the world collecting gold, silver, exotic animals, and, in particular, copper for use in the making of bronze or use in the Temple or both.
		In 239 BCE, Erosthenes had calculated the circumference of the world as being about 28,000 miles, an error of excess of only 13 percent.
		The astronomical observations were set into an early type of astrolabe, which, combined with the cross staff for measuring the elevation of the midday sun or other celestial objects at the time of their meridional passage, yielded a direct reading of latitude.
	www.uhcg.org /Lost-10-Tribes/walt3b-Phonecia.html (4749 words)

	Philo of Alexandria [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		When Hebrew mythical thought met Greek philosophical thought in the first century B.C.E. it was only natural that someone would try to develop speculative and philosophical justification for Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy.
		Philo's philosophy represented contemporary Platonism which was its revised version incorporating Stoic doctrine and terminology via Antiochus of Ascalon (ca 90 B.C.E.) and Eudorus of Alexandria, as well as elements of Aristotelian logic and ethics and Pythagorean ideas.
		470 B.C.E.), contemporary of Socrates, interpreted the gods of Homeric stories as personifications of those natural substances that are useful to human life [e.g., bread and Demeter, wine and Dionysus, water and Poseidon, fire and Hephaestus].
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/philo.htm (9233 words)

	The Crimea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Justinian was warned of the plan by his wife, Busir's sister, and fled Tmutarakan, but not before killing Papatzys and his Tmutarakanian counterpart Balgitzin.
		Later it appears to have become aristocratic, and most of the power was concentrated in the hands of the first archon or "Proteuon", who in time was superseded by the strategus sent out from Byzantium.
		Its most interesting political document is the form of oath sworn by all the citizens in the 3rd century BCE.
	www.hostkingdom.net /crimea.html (1518 words)

	The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: Eclipses
		The phenomenon has been identified as the eclipse on April 6, 648 BCE, which was total in the Aegean and occurred during Archilocus' lifetime.
		One that has attracted the attention of students of astronomy and of the Roman calendar alike is stated by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BCE) to have occurred in what may have been the 350th year from the founding of Rome.
		The Romans were at that time at war with Macedonia, and the Roman historian Polybius (200 – after 118 BCE) says that this eclipse was interpreted as an omen of the eclipse of a king and thus encouraged the Romans and discouraged the Macedonians.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_eclipse.htm (2121 words)

	KET DL \| Latin 1 \| Mores \| Roman Medicine
		It was said that the gods placed his image among the stars as a constellation where he could look down upon all whom he had helped.
		In 239 BCE Rome was devastated with plague.
		Messengers were sent to consult the oracle at Delphi, which suggested that one of the snakes be taken from Epidaurus to Rome.
	www.dl.ket.org /Latin1/mores/medicine/asclepius.htm (619 words)

	The Julian and Gregorian Calendars
		Note that "BCE" is not used with dates in the Common Era Calendar.
		101 B.C.E. = year -100 is a leap year in the (proleptic) Julian Calendar but not in the (proleptic) Gregorian Calendar.
		Every date recorded in history prior to October 15, 1582 (Gregorian), such as the coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas day in the year 800, is a date in the Julian Calendar, since on those dates the Gregorian Calendar had not yet been invented.
	www.hermetic.ch /cal_stud/cal_art.html (3479 words)

	Ennius
		Scholars believe that Ennius was born in 239 BCE in Rudiae in Calabria, in the southern part of Italy.
		As this area has a lot of Greek influence, it is believed that Ennius was introduced to Greek culture and language at a very early age.
		It is thought that while serving in the Roman army in Sardinia, Ennius became acquainted with Cato, who ultimately influenced Ennius' relocation to Rome.
	latin.agnesscott.edu /Roman_Comedy/playwrights/ennius.html (212 words)

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