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Topic: 51 BCE


  
  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)

  
 Ptolemy XII of Egypt
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos (117 BCE - 51 BCE) was son of Ptolemy IX[?] Soter II.
He was king of Egypt from 80 BCE until his death.
At first, he was coregent with Cleopatra VI[?] Tryphania, but she mysteriously disappears from the records in 69 BCE.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pt/Ptolemy_XII.html   (278 words)

  
 Posidonius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school.
He settled around 95 BCE in Rhodes, a maritime state which had a reputation for scientific research, and became a citizen.
Posidonius met Pompey when he was Rhodes's ambassador in Rome and Pompey visited him in Rhodes twice, once in 66 BCE during his campaign against the pirates and again in 62 BCE during his eastern campaigns, and asked Posidonius to write his biography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Posidonius   (2196 words)

  
 romhist.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa.
The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius) began a reform movement to redistribute senatorial lands to the landless poor; Tiberius was slain in 133 BCE.
In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East.
publish.uwo.ca /~kolson2/romhist.html   (1155 words)

  
 /FIRST AND FINAL ADD - MO200 - BCE INC. COMPANY EARNINGS/ - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed by BNP Paribas (Canada) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on December 23, 2004 against BCE Inc. and five former directors of Teleglobe.
As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware against BCE Inc. and the former directors and officers of Teleglobe and certain of its subsidiaries on May 26, 2004.
As indicated in Note 24 to BCE's audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2004, a lawsuit was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on July 12, 2002 against BCE Inc. by certain of the members of the Teleglobe and Teleglobe Holdings (U.S.) Corporation lending syndicate.
www.forbes.com /prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2005/05/04/prnewswire200505040606PR_NEWS_B_GBL_HS_MO200A.html   (6185 words)

  
 CNW Telbec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BCE Financial Performance Revenues for the quarter were $4,859 million compared to $4,638 million for the first quarter of last year, representing a 4.8% increase.
BNP Paribas (Canada) Lawsuit As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed by BNP Paribas (Canada) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on December 23, 2004 against BCE Inc. and five former directors of Teleglobe.
Teleglobe Unsecured Creditors Lawsuit As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware against BCE Inc. and the former directors and officers of Teleglobe and certain of its subsidiaries on May 26, 2004.
www.cnw.ca /fr/releases/archive/May2005/04/c4275.html   (13775 words)

  
 Hist6
Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Longinus Cassius, part of a conspiracy to restore the Roman republic.
In 40 BCE Antigonus, the son of Aristobolus, having allied himself with the Parthians, and succeeded in taking control of Jerusalem.
In the meantime, Herod fled from Masada to the Romans, and in 40 BCE he came to Rome, gaining the confidence of Antonius and Octavian (Lepidus was out of the picture at this point).
www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/NTIntro/InTest/Hist6.htm   (3676 words)

  
 filmhist.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Traditional date of the founding of Rome was April 21 753 BCE; there were two mythological traditions (Romulus and Remus: The twins were members of the royal house of Alba Longa— sons of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor deposed by Amulu/ Aeneas: the Trojan hero who escaped to Italy to found Rome (his destiny).
Lucius Junius Brutus (Superbus' nephew) expelled the kings and liberated Rome in 509 BCE and became her first consul (along with L. Tarquinius Collatinus, cousin to Superbus).
After 510 BCE Rome was ruled by an oligarchy and became a Republic.
publish.uwo.ca /~kolson2/filmhist.html   (1608 words)

  
 Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
On the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BCE, Cleopatra married her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII, with whom she was to be co-ruler of Egypt.
In 44 BCE, however, Caesar was assassinated and shortly afterwards the same fate befell her brother and co-regent, Ptolemy XIV.
After 37 BCE their relationship became more public; they were married (a ceremony not acknowledged by the Romans) and ruled Egypt jointly.
www.tnstate.edu /edachowski/cleopatra.htm   (1073 words)

  
 africanfront.com (AUF)
The remainder of the sea is trapped ni the depression, by basalt volcanic dykes, and gradually the water evaporates leaving massive salt flats, salt lakes and salt mines.
1518 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thutmosis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
327 BCE At Makaranda in Samarkand, Persia, during a drunken rage Alexander murders Cleitus Niger, the African King of Bactria, foster brother of Alexander and commander of the "royal squadron" of the Greek/Macedonian armies under Phillip and Alexander.
www.africanfront.com /calendar.php   (7778 words)

  
 Egyptian History: Graeco-Roman Dynasties
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, (reigned 284-246 BCE), married to his full sister, Asinoe II, and sharing power with her, continued the reorganisation of Egypt, basing his decisions on facts gathered during extensive censuses.
Ptolemy XII Auletes, (c.112-51 BCE, r.80-51) was the illegitimate son of Ptolemy IX (r.
At the sea battle of Actium the Egyptian navy was decisively defeated and Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria.
www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/history-g-r.htm   (1671 words)

  
 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy XIII
51 - 47 BCE co-regent with Cleopatra VII
Ptolemy XIII was only ten years old when his father died and left him to rule with his sister Cleopatra VII (who was seventeen at the time).
The young king is responsible for the death of Pompey in 48 BCE.
www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/14pto13.html   (123 words)

  
 Mr. Dowling's Cleopatra Page
Cleopatra was born in 69 BCE, after the era of the pharaohs had passed, but in some parts of her kingdom the Egyptian people worshipped her.
When he died in 51 BCE, Ptolemy XII willed that seventeen-year-old Cleopatra and her twelve-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII, were to marry and rule Egypt.
In 48 BCE, Cleopatra’s generals found they could not control her, so they ousted Cleopatra and made her brother the sole monarch of Egypt.
www.mrdowling.com /604-cleopatra.html   (674 words)

  
 Background
In 80 BCE, Sulla, then dictator of the Roman Republic, intervened diplomatically to force the then queen of Egypt, Cleopatra-Berenice, to marry her nephew, Ptolemy XI.
During Caesar's consulship in 59 BCE, the king had guaranteed his shaky hold on Egypt by paying an outrageous price of 6,000 talents (in today's funds, it would be tens of millions of dollars) to confirm him as 'friend and ally' of Rome.
In the end, the New Dionysus died in the early summer of 51 BCE within four years of his restoration at the age of about fifty five.
cornellia.fws1.com /Ancientworlds/Background.htm   (726 words)

  
 Hist5
Earlier, in 89 BCE, Mithridates invaded parts of Asia massacring all the Roman inhabitants of the province.
While in Damascus in 63 BCE, three delegations from three Jewish parties met with Pompey in order to influence Pompey’s decision; these were Aristobolus' party, Hyrcanus' party and a theocratic party that wanted rule by High Priest.
Gnaeus Pompeius, born in 106 BCE, supported the victorous patrician Cornelius Sulla in the civil war against the supporters of the populist Gaius Marius (84-78 BCE).
www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/NTIntro/InTest/Hist5.htm   (2692 words)

  
 Discoveries
Between 58 and 51 BCE, the conquest of what Caesar referred to as "the three Gauls" was the logical extension of the conquest of southern Gaul, which had
In 57 BCE he penetrated Belgian Gaul and forged an alliance with the
After having subjugated the tribes along the Atlantic in 56 BCE, he isolated the Gauls from their natural allies thanks to a campaign in Germania.
www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/arcnat/aerien/en/decou5a-pg1.htm   (318 words)

  
 Kalender Liturgi Bulan Maret 2003
BcE 2Sam 7:4-5a.12-14a.16; Mzm 89:2-3.4-5.27.29; Rm 4:13.16-18.22; Mat 1:16.18-21.24a atau Luk 2:41-51a.
BcE Kel 20:1-17 (Kel 20:1-3.7-8.12-17); Mzm 19:8.9.10.11; 1Kor 1:22-25; Yoh 2:13-25.
BcE 2Taw 36:14-16.19-23; Mzm 137:1-2.3.4-5.6; Ef 2:4-10; Yoh 3:14-21.
www.st-andreas.org /kal_liturgi/2003/003.htm   (160 words)

  
 From Gutenberg to the Internet: Timeline 300 BCE to 51 BCE
Up to 256 B.C.E. In China up till the end of the Chou dynasty (255 BCE), through China's classical period, writing is done with a bamboo pen, with ink of soot, or lampfl upon slips of bamboo or wood, with wood being used mainly for short messages and bamboo for longer messages and for books.
197-159 B.C.E. Rulers of Pergamum (now Bergama in Turkey) decide to challenge the position of the Alexandrian Library by founding a competing library of their own.
This process of comparing different manuscript texts, such as would have been preserved at the Alexandrian Library, to arrive at what might be the "canonical" text, is the beginning of philology.
historyofmedicine.com /G2I/docs/timeline/timeline_300BCE_51BCE.shtml   (1330 words)

  
 Lucius Vitellius
Lucius Vitellius was born as the son of Publius Vitellius, a knight from Luceria in southern Italy, who served as steward under the emperor Augustus.
This is not strange, because his father had not been a senator but a mere knight.
Vitellius died unexpectedly from a paralytic stroke and received a statue on the speaker's platform on the Roman Forum, with the inscription 'Of unwavering loyalty to the emperor'.
www.livius.org /vi-vr/vitellius/lucius.html   (1131 words)

  
 /FIRST AND FINAL ADD - MO200 - BCE INC. COMPANY EARNINGS/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Revenues from the Other BCE segment for the first quarter of the year were $748 million or 14.9% higher than Q1 2004.
As indicated in the BCE 2004 AIF, a lawsuit was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on July 12, 2002 against BCE Inc. by certain of the members of the Teleglobe and Teleglobe Holdings (U.S.) Corporation lending syndicate.
The interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with BCE Inc.'s annual consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2004, on pages 82 to 121 of BCE Inc.'s 2004 annual report.
www.tmcnet.com /scripts/print-page.aspx?PagePrint=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/May/1140815.htm   (6811 words)

  
 Re: orion Armchair Speculations
For a variety of reasons, including relationships with other texts, paleographic descriptions, and C14 dating, most scholars consider some of the Qumran copies (and even moreso the composition) of D to be earlier than that.
Not all of these datings agree precisely, but, e.g.: Ada Yardeni dated 4Q266 to "from about the first half or the middle of the first century BCE" [DJD XVIII p26]; a C14 test gave a 2-sigma range of 45 BCE-120 CE.
One of the reasons that >Akivah thought that Bar Kosiba was the messiah is because >of that chronology as I will attempt to show.
orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1997b/msg01293.html   (693 words)

  
 Architecture of BCE Place - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
fter the CN Tower, BCE Place is the second most distinctive piece of Toronto's skyline.
It is actually several buildings connected by a shopping mall, but from a skyline perspective it is the Canada Trust Tower and its sibling the Bay Wellington tower that steal the show.
The Canada Trust Tower is 51 stories tall and owned by Brookfield Commercial Properties, OMERS Realty, and Truscan Property Corporation.
www.glasssteelandstone.com /CA/ON/TorontoBCEPlace.html   (456 words)

  
 Bell Canada Enterprises reports first quarter results
Please refer to the section of BCE Inc.'s 2005 First Quarter MDandA, dated May 3, 2005, entitled "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" included in this news release for more details on free cash flow including a reconciliation of free cash flow to cash from operating activities.
We also encourage you to read BCE Inc.'s MDandA for the year ended December 31, 2004 dated March 2, 2005 (BCE 2004 MDandA).
This management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations (MDandA) comments on BCE's operations, performance and financial condition for the three months (Q1) ended March 31, 2005 and 2004.
www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bce/2005/05/04/72341.html   (14066 words)

  
 Solar Eclipses: -1299 to -1200   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The terms BCE and CE are abbreviations for "Before Common Era" and "Common Era," respectively.
Historians should note the numerical difference of one year between astronomical dates and BCE dates.
Thus, the year 0 corresponds to 1 BCE, and year -100 corresponds to 101 BCE, etc..
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEcat/SE-1299--1200.html   (760 words)

  
 hist/sis 225 lecture 3
Mao-tun (209-174 BCE) responds to the Qin offensive.
Han emperor Wu-ti (141-87 BCE) goes on the offensive.
The meaning of the "new" tributary status of the Xiongnu beginning in 53 BCE.
faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/hist225/lectures/05225lec3.html   (422 words)

  
 Outline for Week III
Cicero (106-43 bce): translated Plato’s Timaeus; taught that God = Nature = Fire; Stoics’ theory of successive conflagration and regeneration.
55 bce): On the Nature of Things, Epicurean treatise expounding that the fear of death can be removed by grasping the nature of atoms and the void; infinity of worlds
Outposts of Greek culture established by Alexander the Great (4c bce) in Asia and Africa become centers of Hellenistic thought and culture in later centuries (esp. Alexandria in Egypt, and Bactria).
home.wlu.edu /~lubint/msr/week3.htm   (977 words)

  
 Julius Caesar: Historical Background
He did just that, with the help of volunteers, as a warning to other pirates, but he first cut their throats to lessen their suffering because they had treated him well.
Pompey and Crassus were to be consuls again, and Caesar's command in Gaul was extended until 49 BCE.
Caesar led a three-month expedition to Britain (the was the first Roman crossing of the English Channel), but he did not establish a permanent base there.
www.vroma.org /~bmcmanus/caesar.html   (2411 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BCE [At Athenapub]
Horace (65-8 BCE): Secular hymn, and Vergil (70-19 BCE): Aeneid, VI.ii.789-800, 847-853.
Strabo (64/3 BCE- c.21 CE): The Grandeur of Rome, c.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook09.html   (3375 words)

  
 eBay - hc bce, Fiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
THE WITNESS by DEE HENDERSON (2006) NEW HC/DJ BCE
Thunder At Dawn by Jill Gregory BCE HC
Three From the Legion by Jack Williamson (1975) HC BCE
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=hc+bce&newu=1&krd=1   (552 words)

  
 Lifelong Learning: Distant Mirrors Dimly Lit - The Ancients
Greek historian, author of The Histories, a narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece (490 BCE, 480/79 BCE)
The most famous of ancient physicians; the many medical tracts surviving under his name may not all be his.
Author of a history covering Rome from its irgins to 9 BCE in 142 books.
www.abc.net.au /rn/learning/lifelong/features/classics/ancients.htm   (363 words)

  
 Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
He is undergoing chemotherapy treatment at Vanderbilt Medical Center.
Gary Burton, vice chairman of BCE’s board of directors, asked fellow board members to join him in praying for Parham and his family in an e-mail announcing the illness.
Parham, 51, founded BCE in 1991 and is its first executive director.
www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=5500   (224 words)

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