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  Dating Creation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basically, the patriarchs from Adam to Terach, the father of Abraham, were often 100 years older when they begat their named son in the Septuagint than they were in the Hebrew or the Vulgate (Genesis 5, 11).
Traditional Catholics use the year 5199 BCE, which is taken from Catholic Martyrologies, and referred to as the true date of Creation in the "Mystical City of God," a 17th-century mystical work written by Ven.
This epoch was Tishri 1, AM 1 or October 7, 3761 BCE, the latter being the corresponding tabular date (same daylight period) in the proleptic Julian calendar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dating_Creation   (1217 words)

  
 Timeline of Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
563 BCE: Siddhārtha Gautama, Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India.
383 BCE: The Second Buddhist Council was convened by King Kalasoka and held at Vaisali.
220 BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, the son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya Tissa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Buddhism   (3299 words)

  
 BCE Announces Third Quarter Results
As a result the revenue range of BCE's guidance is reduced by approximately $1.5 billion, which corresponds to Excel's planned 2001 contribution to BCE's revenue, to an adjusted range of $21.5 to $23.5 billion.
BCE's management continues to believe it is on track to meet the lower end of this guidance.
BCE is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of the new standards and therefore has not yet assessed their effect on BCE's financial statements.
www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bce/2001/10/24/6491.html   (3188 words)

  
 T-BCE for Mr. PARAGON on Wednesday-Night.com by David T. Nicholson
BCE signals dawning of new information era The announcement by BCE Inc. that it intends to move its entire communications system to an Internet protocol standard signals the launch in Canada of a new and highly competitive era in how we send and receive information.
BCE indicated that it is currently in discussions with Manitoba Telecom regarding the buyback of Manitoba Tel's interest in their Bell West joint venture.
BCE paid $2.3 billion in the spring of 2000 to acquire CTV, and later created Bell Globemedia after acquiring The Globe and Mail and other assets from Thomson Corp. At the time of its creation, Bell Globemedia was valued at $4 billion.
www.wednesday-night.com /t-bce.asp   (9042 words)

  
 Nortel: Corporate Information - Investor Relations - BCE/Nortel Networks Plan of Arrangement - Background
On January 26, 2000, BCE and Nortel Networks announced they had entered into an agreement to implement a Plan of Arrangement under which BCE would distribute an approximately 37 percent ownership interest (approximately 36% as of February 29, 2000) in Nortel Networks to BCE's shareholders.
BCE common shareholders will also continue to own a BCE common share, which will represent the value of an interest in BCE's remaining assets.
The distribution of New Nortel common shares to BCE common shareholders generally will not be taxable to Canadian residents who hold their shares as capital property but will be a taxable dividend to United States taxpayers.
www.nortelnetworks.com /corporate/investor/bce/summary.html   (483 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Canada
BCE Chief Executive Officer Michael Sabia is unwinding a C$13 billion expansion into the media business led by his predecessor Jean Monty, who formed Bell Globemedia in 2000.
BCE and Thomson's holding company have been discussing the transaction for more than a year, and decided to bring in outside investors, said Jim Leech, head of the private equity arm of the Teachers' pension plan, which manages C$88 billion.
BCE shares may have fallen because some investors were expecting the media unit to be sold in an IPO of common shares or as an income trust, said Rick Hutcheon, chief investment officer of RKH Financial, which runs the equivalent of $171 million in Toronto, including BCE.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a4MA.dWL9OFY   (1259 words)

  
 History of Iran: Parthian Empire
After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
In July 141 BCE Mithradates captured the Seleucid capital Seleucia, and in October he reached Uruk in the south of Babylonia.
In 69 BCE, the two enemies concluded a treaty: the Euphrates would be the border.
www.iranchamber.com /history/parthians/parthians.php   (1968 words)

  
 Hebrew Temple Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The patriarch Abram departed a settled existence in "Ur of the Chaldees" according to a divine command, and embarked on a nomadic adventure, in which he is regularly described as living in a tent.
Temple 0.1 The Tabernacle of the Covenant 1250 - 960 BCE
It was the "Temple of Jerusalem" whose destruction signalled the end of temple-based Judean religious forms under Roman rule, and thus set the stage for the emergence of Christianity (which had a slight head-start in its adjustment to cataclysm) and synagogue-based Rabbinical Judaism as its successors and offspring.
www.hermetic.com /dionysos/htemple.htm   (460 words)

  
 New Testament Chronology - Calendars from the Exile to the First Century BCE
In the fifth century BCE the Exile calendar of the Jews was for a time identical with the Babylonian calendar.
Then, by the end of the fourth century BCE the Macedonian calendar of the Seleucid Era was supposed identical with the Babylonian calendar, except that the Syro-Macedonian version began the new year in the fall, Dios 1.
First Maccabees reads: "In the year 170, (142 BCE) the yoke of the Gentiles was lifted from Israel, and the people began to write as the dating formula in bills and contracts, `In the first year, under Simon, high priest, commander, and chief of the Jews.'" (1 Macc.
www.doig.net /NTC02.htm   (7314 words)

  
 Vergil's Aeneid (Myth-Folklore Online)
He was born in 70 BCE., as the country was recovering from the slave uprising led by Spartacus, that had lasted from 73-71 BCE.
By the time Vergil came to Rome in 41 BCE, all the members of the first triumvirate were dead, and Rome was being ruled by a new triumvirate: Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian (who was a close relation of Julius Caesar).
In 29 BCE Octavian was named imperator (emperor), in 28 BCE he was given the title of princeps (prince), and in 27 BCE he was given the title augustus (majestic).
www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/aeneid/background.htm   (877 words)

  
 BCE :: 2003 Q4 Event Archive
BCE's Third Quarter 2003 Results Conference Call was Webcast on October 29, 2003.
BCE's Third Quarter 2003 Results Media Conference Call was Webcast on October 29, 2003.
BCE Executive Vice-President, Lawson Hunter was the keynote speaker at the Canadian Telecommunications Forum.
www.bce.ca /en/news/eventscalendar/q4_03/index.php   (137 words)

  
 BBC - Religion & Ethics - History of Paganism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Some historians think these are images of a goddess, a Great Mother of the sort who we know was worshipped in the last half-millennium BCE in the Near East.
Between 4000 BCE and 1500 BCE we begin to see more evidence of religious activity in the form of great stone structures.
And around 3,000 BCE (500 years before the Egyptians built the Pyramids) standing stones like those at Stonehenge in England and Carnac in Brittany, were built.
www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/paganism/history   (398 words)

  
 Buddha
He was born about 563 BCE with the family name of Gotama and the personal name of Siddhattha.
It was not until about 29 BCE that his teaching was written down with any degree of completeness, in the Pali language, the predecessor of Sanskrit.
29 To avoid being caught in the current of desires, a person must learn at the very beginning not to grasp at things lest he or she should become accustomed to them and attached to them.
www.humanistictexts.org /buddha.htm   (4115 words)

  
 The Slowing Spin of the Earth
A trend is then indicated in that from 2000 BCE to 2000 CE (or for a time-span of 4,000 years) the length of the modern day appears to have increased by a surplus of + 0.04 seconds from the length of the ancient day.
Essentially, it is considerably more straightforward to interpet 29 or 30 growth markers in correspondence with the passage of the lunar month than to try and interpret 365 or more growth markers in correspondence with the passage of the solar year.
Furthermore it is easier to detect changes in the prior lunar-month cycle from bivalve mollusk fossils that may have lived only 5 or 10 million years ago than it is to detect changes in the prior solar year from coral fossils that may have lived over 100 million years ago.
www.creation-answers.com /slowing.htm   (5104 words)

  
 The D'Agostino Chronology
5:15 Mahalalel 65 at the birth of Jared 65 3714 BCE Gen 5:18 Jared 162 at the birth of Enoch 162 3552 BCE Gen.
5:21 Enoch 65 at the birth of Methuselah 65 3487 BCE Gen.
11:24 Nahor 29 at the birth of Terah 29 2296 BCE Gen.
members.tripod.com /~toncxjo/chronos.html   (1560 words)

  
 The Modern Magazine for Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 211 BCE, Artabanus I became ruler and increased Parthian domains over his rule, including the annexation of the Iranian Plateau and Tigris/Euphrates River Valley.
In 92 BCE, Mithridates II struck the first treaty between Parthia and Rome wehre Euphrates was established as a mutual boundary.
In 53 BCE, the Parthians won against the Romans and beheaded Crassus, the Roman Emperor.
www.persianmirror.com /culture/history/sassanid.cfm   (766 words)

  
 TheStar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
BCE annonce ses résultats du deuxième trimestre de 2006
BCE Inc. mailing of Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund Units
BCE Inc. met à la poste les parts du Fonds de revenu Bell Aliant Communications régionales
www.financials.com /custom/torontostar/co_search.cfm?term=BCE&type=tick   (119 words)

  
 Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Agesilaus in Asia; Lysander in the Hellespont (396-395 BCE) Xen.
R.M. Errington, 'From Babylon to Triparadeisos, 323-320 BCE' JHS 90, 1970, pp.
In 306 BCE the forces of Ptolemy and Antigonus clashed at the battle of Salamis.
www.juyayay.com /outline/greece   (5307 words)

  
 cointemp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
AFTER ACTIUM: Between 31 and 27 BCE, Octavian had successfully led his followers to a victory in a civil war that had eliminated all rivals to sole power.
Octavian needed to change the outlook to one of confidence in the new stability, in the favor of the gods, and in continuing peace.
The steps he took between 31 and 27 included holding the consulship several years in succession, accepting a number of honors and prerogatives from the state, and demobilizing the legions significantly after celebrating his triple-triumph in 29 (i.e., signs of return to normalcy).
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classic/wilson/coin/ric271.htm   (388 words)

  
 E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> The E-sangha Timeline Project
383 BCE At Vesali the Second Buddhist Council is held declaring a minority orthodox (Theravada) and the majority heretic (Mahayana).
250 BCE Under the auspices of King Asoka the Buddhist canon (Tipitaka) is completed during the Third Buddhist Council at Patna.
He renounced at the age of 29 and gained enlightenment at the age of 35, died at an age of 80.
www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=4461&st=0   (3726 words)

  
 Review
211-209 BCE Rome tries to form alliances with enemies of Philip V. 208 BCE, Philip V invades Aetolians and continues to gain land in the area of the Eastern Adriatic Sea.
Spartacus was at first a soldier of Rome, but eventually he was sold into slavery in Capua as punishment for deserting his unit, and became a gladiator.
Spartacus was defeated and killed in a battle against the Romans in Brandisium, 71 BCE.
www.mindspring.com /~josiemae/AStuyMsDunkel/HumSem1/H1SumeriansFINALCh7.html   (2642 words)

  
 Mariamme
In the 60's BCE two brothers of this family, Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, were bitter rivals for the throne; but their children married, the former's daughter, Alexandra, wedding the latter's son, Alexander.
The Roman Senate had three years before (40 BCE) appointed him King of the Jews, due to his friendship with Marc Antony; the defeat of Mariamme's uncle Antigonus now secured his position.
Her living sons were Alexander and Aristobulus, which were the names of her father and paternal grandfather; her daughters were Salampsio and Cypros, the latter named after Herod's mother.
members.aol.com /fljosephus/Mariamme.htm   (5572 words)

  
 Mariamne
The beautiful granddaughter of both Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, married Herod [32 BCE], the de facto ruler of Judea, not long after he had drowned her brother, a popular 16 year old high-priest.
His Edomite mother [Cypros] and older sister [Salome] poisoned his mind by feeding him false rumors that Mariamne had often committed adultery and was even preparing to win his lustful patron, Marc Antony, from the aging Cleopatra.
After Antony and Cleopatra were defeated at Actium [Sept. 31 BCE], Herod placed Mariamne and her mother, Alexandra, in custody while he went to Rome [30 BCE] to placate the new emperor, Augustus.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Mariamne.html   (208 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | September 29 | Michaelmas St Michael William Topaz ...
Horatio, Lord Nelson, English admiral, born on September 29, 1758, said at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
The story was long told that the reason that people eat goose at Michaelmas is that when Queen Elizabeth I was dining with Sir Neville Umfreyville on September 29, 1588, she heard news that the Spanish Armada had been defeated.
It was commemorated for centuries on March 24, the day before the Annunciation (or, Lady Day, which remembers the day Mary conceived Jesus), but has been transferred by the Catholic Church to September 29, which Gabriel now shares with fellow archangels, Michael and Raphael.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/sep29.html   (3624 words)

  
 New Testament Chronology - Exact Dating of the Birth and Crucifixion of Jesus
Reckoning by this calendar leads to the conclusion that Jesus was born about Dec 25, 5 B.C.E. and was crucified on Fridy, April 7, 30 C.E. after a ministry of 2 years and 3 months.
Calendars from the Exile to the First Century BCE 29, I. The Exile Calendar - Sixth to Fifth Century BCE 29, II.
December 25, 5 BCE 143, I. The Annunciation 143, II.
www.doig.net /NT_Chronology.htm   (1018 words)

  
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Gnaeus Pompeius, better known as Pompey, was born on September 29, 106 BCE, four years before Julius Caesar.
In 59 BCE Pompey returned to Rome to find that tensions between himself and Crassus had grown.
Crassus had other plans, and by 57 BCE both men were in Italy with their armies.
www.saintjoe.edu /~daved/PAPERS/c3ppr2.html   (720 words)

  
 Mahabharata as the sheet-anchor of Bharatiya Itihaasa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Krishna's departure on Revati Sept. 26, 3067 BCE
Krishna's arrival in Hastinapura on Bharani Sept. 28, 3067 BCE
Phanindralal Gangooly notes: "From all of which we gather that the summer solstitial colure of the earliest Brahmana period when this was the case was 3100 BCE (PC Sengupta, Age of the Brahmana, in Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol.
www.hindunet.org /saraswati/colloquium/mahabharata01.htm   (406 words)

  
 CBC News: TSX post modest gain as investors pore over flood of earnings reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
TORONTO - Golds, telecoms, and information technology stocks were the winners on the TSX Wednesday, leading the benchmark index to its third up day in a row.
The telecom index advanced 1.4 per cent, powered by a 45-cent rise in BCE shares to $29.45.
BCE reported higher profits on higher internet and wireless revenues.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/10/29/markets291003   (896 words)

  
 Who is this Ovid person anyway
Metamorphoses 2 BCE – 8 CE Exiled from
Dies 17 or 18 CE in exile in Tomis
Aeneid 29 BCE—formal epic of empire, narrates Aeneas, son of Venus, leaving Troy at its fall and traveling to Italy, where he founds Roman civilization and his descendants later found Rome itself.
www.rci.rutgers.edu /~kabbey/cblit/lec_whoisovid.htm   (385 words)

  
 globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Financial Community Advisory, Reminder: BCE Emergis to Discuss Third Quarter ...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 29, 2004) - BCE Emergis Inc. (TSX: IFM) will hold a teleconference/webcast for financial analysts and members of the press to discuss its third quarter results on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 8:30 a.m.
BCE Emergis' third quarter 2004 financial results and news release will be posted on www.emergis.com and will also be available on CCNMatthews newswire after 6:30 a.m.
BCE Emergis Inc. John Gutpell Vice-President, Investor Relations (514) 868-2232 john.gutpell@emergis.com
www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20041029&archive=ccnm&slug=1029090n   (310 words)

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