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  Liu Bingyi (Xuandi), Liu Shi (Yuandi), Liu Ao (Chendi), Liu Xin (Aidi) Han Emperor Biographies
In the year 74 BC, Emperor Zhao-di died, Huo Guang deposed the original heir to the Han throne, and Liu Bingyi was placed on the throne instead.
Yuan-di’s son, Cheng-di, became Emperor in 32 BC, at nineteen; he had little enthusiasm for governing and was most concerned with personal pleasure, including visiting houses of prostitution at night.
In 6 BC, Cheng-di was succeeded by Ai-di, who lived in the company of homosexual boys, one of whom he appointed commander-in-chief of his armies.
www.kongming.net /novel/han/whruler.php   (294 words)

  
  The Bible UFO Connection - UFOs In History - 45,000 BC - 9 BC
BC China: From the book " Memories of the Sovereigns and the Kings " published in the 3rd century AD, in China, in the third millennium B.C., before the birth of Huang Ti or of Chi You, "sons from the sky", would descend to Earth on a star which was the shape of a saucer.
BC Phoenicia, Tyre: During the siege of the trade capital of Phoenicia by the Greeks a fleet of flying shields is described as plunged from the sky and crashed upon the city walls.
BC Rome: Glowing lamps were seen in the sky at Praeneste, a shield was observed at Arpi and in the Amiterno district, the sky was all on fire, and men in white garments appear.
www.bibleufo.com /ufos.htm   (1145 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
73 is a repdigit in base 8 (111).
The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 717 BC July 16 and ended on 582 September 3.
The duration of Saros series 73 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 solar eclipses.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=73_(number)   (450 words)

  
 Roman Timeline of the First Century BC
84 BC The new Italian citizens enfranchised by the lex Julia, lex Pompeia and lex Papiria are redistributed throughout all thirty-five tribes of Rome.
75 BC Caecilius Metellus Pius annihilates the army of the Sertorian lieutenant Lucius Hirtuleius at the Battle of Segovia.
68 BC Julius Caesar marries Pompeia Sulla, the granddaughter of Sulla and a relative of Gn.
www.unrv.com /empire/roman-timeline-1st-century.php   (2481 words)

  
 HoyaSaxa.com: Georgetown Basketball
BC owns a considerable advantage on rebounding and Smith will certainly be a key--he averaged 20 points and 13 rebounds in two games against GU last season.
BC's bench sees limited action but is led by sophomore guard Jermaine Watson, fourth on the team in scoring at 10.8 ppg and averaging nearly 22 minutes a game off the bench.
BC is near the bottom of the conference in three point shooting; but frankly, they haven't needed it as much, either.
www.hoyasaxa.com /sports/bb-gameday0519.htm   (701 words)

  
 CAESAR, Gaius Julius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 69 bc, Caesar was elected quaestor and in 65 bc curule aedile, gaining great popularity for his lavish gladiatorial games.
When Caesar returned to Rome in 60 bc after a year as governor of Spain, he joined forces with Crassus and Pompey in a three-way alliance known as the First Triumvirate; to cement their relationship further, Caesar gave his daughter Julia to Pompey in marriage.
Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
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 Warrior Challenge. Gladiators. Time Capsule | PBS
Rome saw its first recorded combat in 264 BC, when patricians Marcus and Decimus Brutus had three pairs of slaves fight each other in a cattle market to honor the death of their father.
This native of Thrace in Greece led a two-year uprising of gladiators, slaves and poor peasants that engulfed all of southern Italy and led to the defeat of five Roman armies.
The so-called "Gladiator Wars" (73 BC - 71 BC) started at the gladiator school in Capua, south of Rome, where Spartacus, thought to be an army deserter, was in training.
www.pbs.org /wnet/warriorchallenge/print/print_gladiators_time.html   (1094 words)

  
 Eagles bounced in their ACC opener - The Boston Globe
It was the same at the end, as the Eagles went to the final tick of the clock before they gave up the quest of spoiling Maryland's ACC opener, and making their first game in their new conference a memorable one.
They had used all their timeouts, so Skinner could only give his team a general idea of what he wanted it to do, which was for guard Louis Hinnant to find Jared Dudley for a tying or winning basket.
BC's last lead came when Dudley put in a jumper with 5:27 left to make it 62-60.
www.boston.com /sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2005/12/12/eagles_bounced_in_their_acc_opener   (786 words)

  
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 BC has the final say - The Boston Globe
BC, ranked 23d in the nation and seeded fifth in the Big East tournament, has been to the finals only twice before.
BC's Jessalyn Deveny pounced on the ball and called a timeout.
When BC inbounded, Deveny was fouled by Taurasi and sank both free throws.
www.boston.com /sports/colleges/womens_basketball/articles/2004/03/09/bc_has_the_final_say   (682 words)

  
 Facts about 73 bc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Years: 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC - 73 BC - 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC
73 BC - Reference Library - Reference Library
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/73_bc.html   (136 words)

  
 Julius Caesar - MSN Encarta
Marius was seven times consul (chief magistrate), and the last year he held office, just before his death in 86 bc, he exacted a terrifying toll on the Optimates.
At the same time he saw to it that young Caesar was appointed flamen dialis, one of an archaic priesthood with no power.
This identified him with his uncle's extremist politics, and his marriage in 84 bc to Cornelia, the daughter of Marius's associate, Cinna, further confirmed him as a radical.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578066/Caesar_Gaius_Julius.html   (601 words)

  
 TEMPLE OF SPARTACUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 73 BC he escaped with other runaway gladiators and took refuge on Mount Vesuvius, where he was joined by large numbers of escaped slaves.
In 72 BC he defeated three more Roman armies and reached Cisalpine Gaul, where he planned to disperse his followers to their homes.
In 71 BC the Roman commander Marcus Licinius Crassus forced Spartacus and his followers into the narrow peninsula of Rhegium (now Reggio di Calabria), from which, however, they escaped through the Roman lines.
sangha.net /messengers/spartacus.htm   (214 words)

  
 73 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC
Years: 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC - 73 BC - 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC
Third Servile War begins - Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus begins in Italy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/73_BC   (114 words)

  
 Herod the Great Summary
Herod the Great (73 BC-4 BC), King of Judea, was an example of a class of client princes who kept their thrones by balancing between being overthrown by their own peoples for too much subservience to Rome and being dismissed by the Romans for too much independence.
Circa 10 BC The newly expanded temple in Jerusalem is inaugurated.
Before this, from February 1 BC to May 1 BC there was 3 months of a "Guiding Star" due to a near-conjunction of Jupiter-Regulus that was highly visible in the night sky [Onischuk-www.parkfoto.com].
www.bookrags.com /Herod_the_Great   (3970 words)

  
 Roman Republic
It marked the northernmost border of the territory in which the Latin language was spoken and the southern edge of Etruria, the territory in which the Etruscan language was spoken.
The Spartacist Rebellion - 73 - 71 BC Large-scale agriculture in the Italian peninsula came to depend on slavery in the latifundia system, and was rocked by a severe slave revolt led by Spartacus that lasted from 73 BC to 71 BC
In 73 BC he and some of his comrades rebelled at Capua and fled towards mount Vesuvius.
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/r/ro/roman_republic_1.shtml   (1696 words)

  
 Marcus Licinius Crassus Summary
Praetor in 73, Crassus was chosen by the Senate, after the defeat of both consuls in 72, to take over command in the war against Spartacus, although he held no public office at the time.
His legions were defeated at Carrhae (modern Harran in Turkey) in 53 BC by a numerically inferior Parthian force consisting mainly of armoured heavy cavalry and horse archers, against which Crassus was unable to manouvre.
According to some sources, this trophy was revealed to the king in a particularly dramatic fashion during a performance of the The Bacchae of Euripides: it was used as a prop, standing in for Pentheus' head in the final scene.
www.bookrags.com /Marcus_Licinius_Crassus   (1530 words)

  
 Time Line
560 BC The temples of Diana, Fortuna and Mater Matuta are built.
497-451 BC Temples of Saturnus, Ceres, Castor, Apollo are built.
390 BC Rome is plundered by the Gauls and rebuilt.
library.thinkquest.org /CR0210200/ancient_rome/time_line.htm   (195 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Spartacus
Spartacus (d.71 bc) Thracian gladiator in Rome who led a slave revolt known as the Third Servile (Gladiatorial) War (73–71 bc).
He led a revolt against Rome in 73, increasing his army from some 70 gladiators at the outset to several thousand rebels.
He commanded an army for Sulla in 83 bc, amassed a vast personal fortune, and raised and led the troops who defeated the slave rebellion of Spartacus in 71.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Spartacus&StartAt=1   (709 words)

  
 boys clothes : 1st century BC
Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate (52 BC).
Octavian and Anthony defeat Casius and Brutus at the battle of Philippi (42 BC).
In spite of the disastrous civil strife which occured in the first century BC, it is theGolden age of Roman literature.
histclo.com /chron/bc000.html   (3451 words)

  
 Penn's heroics lift BC, 73-72: 3/04/96
Penn missed his first seven attempts from the floor, but hit 4-of-5 in the final 10:32 to spark BC's first win at home after four consecutive losses.
BC, which finished in fifth place in the conference, will play No. 12 Pittsburgh in the opening round of the Big East tournament Wednesday afternoon.
BC came back to tie the game at 59-59 on Penn's two free throws with 4:07 left and again at 61-61 on Granger's jumper before the Scarlet Knights grabbed the lead on Santiago's 3-pointer.
www.s-t.com /daily/03-96/03-04-96/2penn.htm   (955 words)

  
 SteelEye : News > Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Among the more encouraging findings released were those that showed not only that 73% of organizations have formalized BC plans in place, but also that 87% of those plans include a remote disaster recovery site as a failover option.
For example, although 95% of organizations test their BC plans at least annually, organizations that have needed to invoke their BC plans test their plans more than twice as often as those who have not yet encountered a potential disaster (19 times per year vs. nine).
As well, while a strong majority (65%) of organizations with BC plans have implemented an automated data replication solution between their primary and disaster recovery sites, the majority (54%) have not yet implemented an automated failover cluster solution, seen by experts as another key component in a comprehensive business continuity plan.
www.steeleye.com /news/press_releases/032106.html   (775 words)

  
 Spartacus
- 71 BC Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator, who led seventy of his comrades in a revolt from a gladiatorial school in Capua in 73 BC.
At last, however, he was defeated by the army of Crassus in 71 BC.
Spartacus himself was killed in the battle, and all prisoners taken by Crassus were crucified.
dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Fall_of_Republic/names/spartacus.htm   (118 words)

  
 Rome Unleashed - Roman Historical Timelines (755 BC to 27 BC)
390 BC Conquest of Rome by the Gauls
46 BC Final defeat of Pompey's sons at Thapsus in Africa.
43 BC Octavian, Caesar's heir, with the consuls defeat Antony at Mutina and is elected consul.
www.classicsunveiled.com /romeh/html/timelines1.html   (627 words)

  
 D&D Rome 27 B.C. Main
The wealth in Rome was spread more evenly among the plebeians and patricians during this time.
133 BC: Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus elected as a tribune and later, killed.
27 BC Ocatvian assumes the title Augustus in January and claims to have restored the Republic, but was effectively sole ruler.
us.share.geocities.com /rome27bc/history.html   (396 words)

  
 Marian Roman (DBA II/49)
Meanwhile, in 73 BC, a slave uprising in Sicily and Southern Italy led by Spartacus occupied Rome's military attentions.
From 40-36 BC, Octavian was occupied suppressing the rebellion of Pompey's son, Sextus Pompeius, in Spain.
By 35 BC, Lepidus had grown dissatisfied with his diminished status in the triumvirate and rebelled only to be defeated and forced into retirement by Octavian.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/II49.html   (2522 words)

  
 Roman Civil Wars - Military History Wiki
Third Servile War (73 BC - 71 BC), between Rome and a slave insurrection in Italy led by Spartacus - Roman victory
Fulvia's civil war (41/40 BC), between the forces of Lucius Antonius and Fulvia Antonia (the younger brother and wife of Marc Antony) and Octavian's Triumvirate army - Triumvirate victory
In 27 BC Octavian was granted the title of Augustus by the Senate, considered the end of the Republic and the birth of the Empire.
www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=Roman_Civil_Wars   (424 words)

  
 Geodesic Domes and Charts of the Heavens
A brief history of the astronomical devices that led to these inventions follows; it is a story of the foremost breakthrough in astronomers' attempts to "create the illusion of the mysterious, silent march of the worlds of nature."
Although the concept of the sky as a sphere may have occurred as early as 2,000 BC in China, it is recorded that in the 6th century BC.
In 73 BC, in Italy, a white marble statue was discovered, depicting the god Atlas supporting a celestial sphere which is 26" in diameter.
telacommunications.com /geodome.htm   (1361 words)

  
 RCGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Squamish, B.C. — After finishing as a runner-up four times, Laura Matthews of Essex, Ont. finally broke through and captured her first Canadian title at the 2005 Royale Cup National Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in Squamish, B.C. on Friday.
A pair of B.C. natives rounded out the top-five with Caroline Kim of Port Coquitlam, in fourth and Samantha Richdale of Kelowna in fifth.
B.C. finished with a two-day score of 449 while Ontario was second at 464 and Alberta was third at 471.
www.golfforethecure.ca /english/News/news_details.asp?ID=1018   (845 words)

  
 America's Dream Loft - Jim Gabler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Her grandparents are a double Super 73 with 049 and 083.
This is a double Super 73 with 083 and 049 as the grandparents.
Dam: OHF 4788/94 Super 88 Campbell quotes "Jim, this is a bird you have to have." This is one of Campbell's original breeders, a daughter directly off the famous 083.
www.adlpigeons.com /vanloon.htm   (12215 words)

  
 A timeline of the Roman empire
189 BC : Antiochus III, king of the Seleucids, is defeated at the battle of Magnesia and surrenders his possessions in Europe and Asia Minor
70 BC : Crassus and Pompey are elected consuls
13 BC : Augustus expands the borders to the region of the Danube
www.scaruffi.com /politics/romans.html   (2247 words)

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