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  TheStreet.com: BCE Makes $1.58 Billion bid for Canadian TV Network
BCE, Canada's largest telecommunications company, said it wanted to buy CTV to acquire Canadian local and national content for the joint-venture Web portal the company has set up with Lycos (LCOS:Nasdaq - news) called Simpatico-Lycos.
BCE said its bid is contingent on approval of the Netstar deal.
BCE said the proposal is conditional on 50% of common shares being tendered to the offer, approval by Canada's telecommunications regulatory agency, agreement with CTV over an Internet distribution arrangement, and the abandonment of CTV's poison pill plan.
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 romhist.html
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.
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 Sample Test Items   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sulla was one of a series of "political generals" who surfaced in the Roman republic around 100 bce in the midst of civil war.
The founding of the city of Ur, approximately 3000 bce, was important because it signified the start of civilization in the West.
bce which set in motion the chain of events that led to the dictatorship and assassination of Julius Caesar.
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 CBS - The Amazing Race
Although there is evidence that a small settlement was founded on the site between 3400 and 3100 BCE, the earliest monuments remaining in what is now called Thebes date from the 11th dynasty (2081-1939 BCE), the period during which regional governors consolidated Egypt under their rule and made the city its capital.
During the reign of Akhenaton (1353-1336 BCE), worship of Amon was prohibited and the court abandoned the city, which fell into decline.
The city was sacked in 661 BCE by the Assyrians and again by the Romans in 29 BCE.
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 The Celtic Tribes of Roman Gaul
This was the spark that ignited the rebellion of Vercingetorix.
By 58 BCE, probably under pressure from Germanic tribes on their northern borders the entire tribe of the Helvetii, under the leadership of their chieftain, Orgetorix were planning to migrate to Gaul.
In 58 BCE they were part of the host of the Suebian leader, Ariovistus who viewed north-eastern Gaul as a territory that was rightfully his.
www.celtnet.org.uk /gaulish-tribes.html   (17096 words)

  
 Livia
Livia was born in 59 or 58 BCE.
She gave birth to her first son, Tiberius, in 42 BCE, and by 40 BCE the family had fled from Rome to the protection of Mark Antony.
They soon returned to Rome, however, and by 38 BCE we find a pregnant Livia divorcing her husband to marry Octavian, himself newly divorced from his first wife Scribonia, who had just given birth to their daughter, Julia.
www.vroma.org /~bmcmanus/livia.html   (855 words)

  
 history1
By 600 to 500 BCE Celtic Culture existed from Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to Turkey and Northern Greece in the East.
In 225 BCE, the Romans defeated the Cisalpine Celts at the Battle of Telamon.
In 125 BCE Rome conquered southern Gaul, and apart from the set back of the defeat of the Roman General Arausio in 105 BCE, they continued to expand into `Celtic` lands.
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 What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
There were a number of temples built to the Ephesan fertility goddess Artemis all on the same spot, including in 600 BCE by the architect Cherisphron, 550 BCE by the architect Theodorus, and one by the architect Scopas of Paros that was under construction when Alexander the Great visited Ephesus in 333 BCE.
In 353 BCE, Mausolus, the ruler of Halicarnassus, died.
Although it survived the conquest of Alexander the Great in 334 BCE and pirate attacks in 62 and 58 BCE, a series of earthquakes beginning in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries reduced it to its base.
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 Gallia - Province of the Roman Empire
By the 5th century BCE the Gauls had migrated south from the Rhine River valley to the Mediterranean coast.
In 390 BCE the Gauls seized and plundered the city of Rome.
In 218 BCE during the Second Punic War, Gauls joined with Hannibal as he crossed the Rhine to invade Italy.
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 All Empires History Forum: BRUTUS: EID MAR, Denarius
Born in 85 BCE, Marcus Junius Brutus was the son of Marcus Junius Brutus and Julius Caesar’s former mistress, Servilia.
In 53 BCE he served in Cilicia as quaestor to Appius Claudius Pulcher, whose successor, Cicero, found that ‘the honourable Brutus’ was extracting 48 per cent interest on a loan to the city of Salamis in Cyprus, contrary to the lex Gabinia.
The Senate’s resolution to declare him a 'public enemy' on 28 November 44 BCE was soon repealed and in February 43 BCE he was appointed governor of Crete, the Balkan provinces and later Asia.
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 Art and Propaganda in Ancient Rome
In 44 BCE he declared himself dictator for life, but was murdered by a crew of strict republicans on the Ides of March 44 BCE.
It was founded by the Senate in 13 BCE in honor of Augustus' safe return from his campaigns in Spain and Gaul and dedicated in 9 BCE.
She was remarried to Octavian in 38 BCE and in 35 BCE was declared sacrosanct.
www.students.sbc.edu /smith04/ancientrome.html   (3282 words)

  
 Livia
FIRST WOMAN OF Livia was born in 58 BCE, the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alfidia.
She gave birth to her first son, Tiberius in 42 BCE and by 40 BCE, the family fled Rome to the protection of Mark Antony, specifically to Antony’s brother L. Antonius and then, after the fall of Perusia in 40, fled to Sicily where Sextus Pompey as attracting the remnants of Rome’s upper class.
In 9 BCE a second statue followed, on the surface, to console her on the recent death of her son Drusus and to call attention to her as a mother of important sons.
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 Re: orion-list Cave 4 linen and deposit date
Likewise, at the 98% level of confidence, that is of 100 measurements 98 of them would fall within that range, 19 times out twenty, the range is from 197 BCE-46 CE or 150 years.
This tells us the measures are skewed toward the bottom end of the range and so the 58.5 BCE Mean is suspect.
So here we have an indicator that, even with the con- tamination certain to have occurred, a 60's BCE date is more than a little certain.
orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1999b/msg00346.html   (484 words)

  
 Overheads - LIT 102 - Spring 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
56 BCE: the conference at Luca: the Triumvirate was renewed.
53 BCE: Crassus was defeated by the Parthians in the battle of Carrhae and lost his life.
44 BCE the Ides of March: killed by a conspiracy of aristocratic partisans led by Cassius and Brutus.
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 eras used with the Gregorian calendar
That the era used with the Gregorian calendar in the West is based on the ostensible birth year of Christ (see Christian era) grates on many, especially in non-Christian countries that have adopted this calendar.
To remove the religious association, the initials ce, for “of the common era,” are widely substituted for ad, bce replaces bc and stands for “before the common era.” That is the policy of this Web site.
In Indonesia, on the island of Java, an era known as Aji Saka is used with a 354-day lunar calendar, which is all we have been able to learn about it.
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 Galatia.htm
In 180 BCE, Galatian troops fought on the side of Antiochus the Great against the Romans.
Roman Conul Manlius defeated the Galatians in 181 BCE.
Amyntas served as a cavalry commander in the Roman army of Brutus and Cassius during the civil war.
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 Roman Public Religion; roman history, roman civilization
Rather than give up the practice, beginning with the war with Pyrrhus in 280 BCE, the Romans decided that they would deem the temple of Bellona (the goddess of war) to be "enemy territory." The fetiales then threw their spears into a strip of land in front of the temple.
As it happens we have a a fairly extensive record of the priesthood dating from 21 BCE on, and fragments of their hymn.
By the third century BCE, moreover, prominent Roman politicians and generals had begun to claim that their families were descended from the gods (Scipio Africanus, Aemilius Paullus and Julius Caesar).
abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/public.relig.htm   (2952 words)

  
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In 390 BCE the Celts resume their expansion over Europe by invading Central Italy, where in 387 BCE, allied with Etruscans, they destroy the Roman army, capture and plunder Rome.
And in 187 BCE, the last heir of the Asokan dynasty was killed by one of his commanders.
Weakened by its isolation, Galatia became in the 2nd century BCE, the protectorate of the Pontic kingdom, and by the next century, became a province of Rome.
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 Livia Drusilla: A Woman for the Ages
At the age of 15 or 16, Livia was married to Tiberius Claudius Nero, her cousin and rival to Octavian.
Then, in 27 BCE, Octavian recieved the honorary title "Augustus," which acknowledged his position of supreme prestige and his protection by the gods.
In 23 BCE, Augustus became gravely ill. Because he feared that he was dying, "Augustus made no secret of his intention that the descendants of Julia [his daughter from his previous marriage to Scribonia] were to be his political heirs" (Africa 26).
www.richeast.org /htwm/Greeks/Romans/livia/livia.html   (1051 words)

  
 Discoveries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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
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.
In 52 BCE, following his victory over Vercingetorix at the Battle of Alesia, Caesar was preparing to establish his winter quarters when he learned that the
www.culture.gouv.fr /fr/arcnat/aerien/en/decou5a-pg1.htm   (318 words)

  
 Pompey-Jerusalem through Coins
Marcus Scaurus, General under Pompey, was sent by Pompey to Judaea and intervened in the siege of Jerusalem after receiving a large payment from Aristobulus II, he forced Hyrcanus and Aretas to withdraw.
When Pompey conquered Judaea and Jerusalem in 63 BCE he entered the Temple and the Holy of Holies thereby desecrating the Temple, though he did not touch any of the sacred items.
In 55 BCE Crassus was slain in Syria.
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 late_republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Between 107-100 BCE Marius was consul six times, and reformed the army by conscripting people from the lower classes.
This was a further step in the "Romanization" of the Italian peninsula, which increasingly came to provide political leaders at Rome and also troops for the army.
in 58); he is killed in mob action in 52.
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 Latin 323: First Day Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Catullus was born in Verona (in Northern Italy) in 84 BCE, the son of a wealthy provincial family.
It is rumored that Catullus died in 54 BCE, at the age of 30, having authored a series of occasional poems of vastly different tone, meter, and genre.
Both G and R derive from a lost copy of V; all other extant manuscripts of Catullus are dependent on O, G, and R. Only one poem survives outside of this line of transmission--62, which is preserved in an 8th century florilegium (collection of poems by various authors made for the owner of the manuscript).
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His method is almost conversational as he tells the story of the excavation of the library, the deciphering of these difficult texts, and the significance of Philodemus' place in the history of Epicureanism.
In the end he maintains a connection between the Villa and Roman Epicureanism and believes the best candidate for ownership of the Villa is Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, consul in 58 BCE and friend of Philodemus.
The library grew in the first century BCE as works written by Philodemus himself were added to the collection, as well as were other Epicurean treatises written after his death.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.09.24.html   (1645 words)

  
 Pompey-Jerusalem through Coins
Marcus Scaurus, General under Pompey, was sent by Pompey to Judaea and intervened in the siege of Jerusalem after receiving a large payment from Aristobulus II, he forced Hyrcanus and Aretas to withdraw.
When Pompey conquered Judaea and Jerusalem in 63 BCE he entered the Temple and the Holy of Holies thereby desecrating the Temple, though he did not touch any of the sacred items.
In 55 BCE Crassus was slain in Syria.
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 1st Century BCE, part 2; roman history, roman civilization
Despite the retrospective inevitability of the civil wars that would plague Rome until Octavian established his principate, it is important to remember that Romans did not believe that one man rule was inevitable.
The year 63 BCE saw an attempted military revolt by Catiline and his allies (rumored to include slaves and Gauls), the decision of the Senate to grant Cicero a senatus consultum ultimum, and Cicero's decision to execute associates of Catiline without a trial.
But Julia dies in 54 and Crassus is killed in Parthia in 53.
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 CTCWeb Glossary: C (Cacus to custos)
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, Roman poet, born in 84 BCE and died in 54 BCE; composed poems to Lesbia, whom scholars have identified as Clodia, a married Roman matron with whom Catullus may have had an affair.
485 BCE; regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy; served as chief archon in Athens in 525 BCE; promulgated the law of ostracism in 510 BCE; after the fall of the tyrant Hippias, Kleisthenes established a democratic institution based on individual political responsibility on citizenship of a city rather than on membership of a clan.
Caesar and Pompey; following his final consulship, Crassus goes to Syria as its proconsul in 55 BCE and is killed at the Battle of Carrhae 53 BCE.
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 Legio XII Fulminata
The eleventh and twelfth legions were recruited by the Roman general Julius Caesar for the campaign against the Helvetians in 58 BCE.
When Antony was defeated in the naval battle off Actium (31 BCE) by Octavian, some veterans were settled at Patras (in Greece), where they were accompanied by soldiers of X Fretensis.
The capitals Artaxata (modern Yerevan) and Tigranocerta were captured (in 58 and 59) and he gave the Armenians a new, pro-Roman king, Tigranes (a great-grandson of the Jewish king Herod the Great).
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 Vangiones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They threw in their lot with Ariovistus in his bid of 58 BCE to invade Gaul through the Doubs river valley and lost to Julius Caesar in a battle probably near Belfort.
After some Celts evacuated the region in fear of the Suebi the Vangiones, who had made a Roman peace, were allowed to settle among the Mediomatrici in northern Alsace.
They continued to cross the Rhine until in 58 BCE 120,000 of them (Caesar's numbers) were in Gaul.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vangiones   (2451 words)

  
 History of the Hellenistic and Roman World
A short timeline of the major events of the Hellenistic and Roman World from 300 BCE to the year 1 CE.
The most famous person of his age of whom it was said that "one man alone was the prop of the Roman Empire", he was instrumental in shaping the policies that made Rome the unchallenged mistress of the Mediterranean.
As dictator of Rome, he launched a series of political and social reforms before he was assasinated by a group of nobles in the Senate House on the Ides of March.
www.fenrir.dk /history   (314 words)

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