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strategies for reproductive success. Sea lion mating is often polygamous as males usually mate with different females to increase fitness and success, leaving some males to not find a mate at all. Polygamous males rarely provide parental care towards the pup. Strategies used to monopolize females include the resource-d... | Japanese sea lion) in five genera. Their range extends from the subarctic to tropical waters of the global ocean in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with the notable exception of the northern Atlantic Ocean. They have an average lifespan of 20–30 years. A male California sea lion weighs on average about and ... |
120 kg with between 180 and 200 cm. As with all ear seals, the males are significantly larger and heavier than the females. The males are dark brown in color, the females are lighter. In contrast to the other ear seals, the males do not have a clearly defined mane. In the Galapagos species the males weigh about 250 kg ... | Californian species, between 300 and 380 kg with 240 cm long, and the females 80 to 120 kg with between 180 and 200 cm. As with all ear seals, the males are significantly larger and heavier than the females. The males are dark brown in color, the females are lighter. In contrast to the other ear seals, the males do not... |
naming, and of whether a naming convention provides identifiers that are unique; and this depends on the scope given by context. Strong and weak proper names Because they are used to refer to an individual entity, proper names are, by their nature, definite; so a definite article would be redundant, and personal names ... | Price. Proper names based on noun phrases differ grammatically from common noun phrases. They are fixed expressions, and cannot be modified internally: beautiful King's College is acceptable, but not King's famous College. As with proper nouns, so with proper names more generally: they may only be unique within the app... |
which probably helps them decrease their energy usage. Pinnipeds can move around on land, though not as well as terrestrial animals. Otariids and walruses are capable of turning their hind-flippers forward and under the body so they can "walk" on all fours. The fore-flippers move in a transverse, rather than a sagittal... | follow and defend lactating females in their vicinity—usually one or two at a time, and wait for them to reach estrus. Younger or subdominant male pinnipeds may attempt to achieve reproductive success in other ways. Subadult elephant seals will sneak into female clusters and try to blend in by pulling in their noses. T... |
the great development of their anal scent glands, which they use to deter predators. Skunks were formerly classified as a subfamily of the Mustelidae (the weasel family); however, recent genetic evidence has caused skunks to be treated as a separate family. Similarly, the stink badgers had been classified with badgers,... | in the skunk family. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Ailuridae (red pandas and allies) and Procyonidae (raccoons and allies). There are twelve extant species of mephitids in four genera: Conepatus (hog-nosed skunks, four species); Mephitis (the hooded and stripe... |
had keyword messages, so to avoid that Self requires that the first part of a keyword message selector start with a lowercase letter, and subsequent parts start with an uppercase letter. valid: base bottom between: ligature bottom + height And: base top / scale factor. can be parsed unambiguously, and means the same as... | system would need to be re-designed (or refactored) to break out the objects in a different way. Experience with early OO languages like Smalltalk showed that this sort of issue came up again and again. Systems would tend to grow to a point and then become very rigid, as the basic classes deep below the programmer's co... |
dialogue deleted. This ruling did not affect books published elsewhere, which continued to contain the offending material. Adaptation A film version of Funeral in Berlin was made in 1966, starring Michael Caine and directed by Guy Hamilton. In 1973, the TV series Jason King (starring Peter Wyngarde), used the plot from... | dialogue went on to say the Home Office was hampered from taking action by vested interests, and mentioned Brock's, one of the U.K.'s fireworks makers, by name. Brock's objected to this, and sued for libel. The complaint was upheld, and the 1972 Penguin edition had the dialogue deleted. This ruling did not affect books... |
fact that a package Newbegin wants delivered from England to Finland contains virus-contaminated eggs, stolen from a British research institute, the protagonist treks from Finland through Riga, Leningrad, New York City, Texas and back to London. He infiltrates Midwinter's organization, braving unforgiving environments,... | of the Cold War in favour of the West. After discovering this and also the fact that a package Newbegin wants delivered from England to Finland contains virus-contaminated eggs, stolen from a British research institute, the protagonist treks from Finland through Riga, Leningrad, New York City, Texas and back to London.... |
adventure in the novel. By chance, Kim's father's regimental chaplain identifies Kim by his Masonic certificate, which he wears around his neck, and Kim is forcibly separated from the lama. The lama insists that Kim should comply with the chaplain's plan because he believes it is in Kim's best interests, and the boy is... | in the mountains, and he orders the porters to take them back. Here Kim and the lama are nursed back to health after their arduous journey. Kim delivers the Russian documents to Hurree, and a concerned Mahbub Ali comes to check on Kim. The lama finds his river and is convinced he has achieved Enlightenment, and wants t... |
in 1979, Atwood discussed the relationship of Canadian writers and writing to the 'Imperial Cultures' of America and Britain.<ref>Findlay, Bill (1979), Interview with Margaret Atwood', in Bold, Christine (ed.), Cencrastus No. 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 2 - 6.</ref> Atwood's contribution to the theorizing of Canada is not limi... | tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, to critical acclaim, winning both the Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize in 2000. The Blind Assassin was also nominated for the Governor General's Award in 2000, Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002. In 2001, Atwood was inducted into Canada's Wal... |
the early 19th century. First patents Progress in developing a reliable pen was slow until the mid-19th century because of an imperfect understanding of the role that air pressure plays in the operation of pens. Furthermore, most inks were highly corrosive and full of sedimentary inclusions. The first English patent fo... | ink cartridges. History Early prototypes of reservoir pens According to Qadi al-Nu'man al-Tamimi (d. 974) in his Kitab al-Majalis wa 'l-musayarat, the Fatimid caliph Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah in Arab Egypt demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir, a... |
& Bevy Jaegers, Krause Publications McGraw's Book of Antique Inkwells Volume 1, Vincent D McGraw, published privately 1972 Edwardian Shopping 1898-1913 selection facsimile, Army & Navy Stores, David & Charles Pens & Writing Equipment, Jim Marshall, Miller's English Silver Hallmarks, Judith Bannister, W Foulsham & Co Lt... | Faber Ltd Walter's Inkwells of 1885 Book 1, Leo G Walter, published privately 1968 Inkbottles & Inkwells, William E Covill Jnr, William S Sullwold 1971 Inkstands & Inkwells A Collector's Guide, Betty & Ted Rivera, Crown Publishers Inc, Inkwells Identification & Values Book 1,Veldon Badders, Schroeder Publishing Inc, In... |
Roman pewter is rare. Lidless mugs and lidded tankards may be the most familiar pewter artifacts from the late 17th and 18th centuries, although the metal was also used for many other items including porringers (shallow bowls), plates, dishes, basins, spoons, measures, flagons, communion cups, teapots, sugar bowls, bee... | in lower grades of pewter, imparting a bluish tint. Pewter has a low melting point, around , depending on the exact mixture of metals. The word pewter is probably a variation of the word spelter, a term for zinc alloys (originally a colloquial name for zinc). History Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Br... |
50 60 Helix 2 and helix 3 form a so-called helix-turn-helix (HTH) structure, where the two alpha helices are connected by a short loop region. The N-terminal two helices of the homeodomain are antiparallel and the longer C-terminal helix is roughly perpendicular to the axes established by the first two. It is this thir... | to the ancestor of all eukaryotes. Phylogenetic analysis of homeobox gene sequences and homeodomain protein structures suggests that the last common ancestor of plants, fungi, and animals had at least two homeobox genes. Molecular evidence shows that some limited number of Hox genes have existed in the Cnidaria since b... |
fisting carries risks of colorectal perforation; participants are advised to use latex gloves and lubricant, and designate a safeword, the utterance of which will call an immediate halt to the activity. The practice, along with the insertion of hard objects into the anus, has been significantly related to the traumatiz... | those honored include Steve McEachern, owner of the fisting club the Catacombs, and Bert Herman, leader of the fisting community, author, and publisher. Techniques The "silent duck", also called "duck-billing", is the technique often used in which the person engaging in hand insertion shapes the hand to resemble a duck... |
the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series. The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner's Go Fish, one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. Smith was dating Adams at t... | Chasing Amy was screened at a further 494 locations, where it earned $1,642,402 and moved into the Top 10. Critical reception Chasing Amy received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 87% based on reviews from 85 critics, with a rating average of 7.30/1... |
Schwalbach Smith in eight and Ben Affleck in seven. Writer In 1997, New Line hired Smith to rewrite Overnight Delivery, which was expected to be a blockbuster teen movie. Smith's then-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams almost took the role of Ivy in the movie, instead of the female lead in Chasing Amy. Eventually she lost ou... | revealed at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con that he had written the script for a film called Moose Jaws, which he described as "Jaws with a moose", and which is planned to be the third and final film in his True North trilogy. Smith wrote and directed one segment, Halloween, of the 2016 horror anthology film Holidays, in ... |
on the minimum cost of transport for California sea lions. A 2007 study of Steller sea lions found that a majority of thrust was produced during the drive phase of the fore flipper stroke cycle. Although previous findings on eared seals suggested that thrust was generated by the initial outward movement of the foreflip... | their northern range in Alaska. Description Adult animals are lighter in color than most sea lions, ranging from pale yellow to tawny and occasionally reddish. Steller sea lion pups are born almost black, weighing around , and remain dark in coloration for several months. Females and males both grow rapidly until the f... |
released on January 19, 1988 by Capitol Records. It was the band's only album recorded with drummer Chuck Behler and guitarist Jeff Young, both of whom were fired from the band in early 1989, several months after the completion of the album's world tour. So Far, So Good... So What! features music performed at fast temp... | several months after the completion of the album's world tour. So Far, So Good... So What! features music performed at fast tempos with technical ability; lyrically, frontman and guitarist Dave Mustaine addresses a variety of topics, including nuclear holocaust and freedom of speech. So Far, So Good... So What! was wel... |
In a 2002 interview, Mustaine declared that they "really didn’t make the record with [Clink]" as at the time he was focused on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II — which were also being recorded at Rumbo — and stated most of the work in the album was done by himself, Norman, and engineer Micajah Ryan. The album ... | release, Rust in Peace has often been named as one of the best thrash metal records of all time, by publications such as Decibel and Kerrang!, and listed in the reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 33rd Grammy Awards. At th... |
while the second session took place after a one-month break, in the fall of 1991. The album was recorded in the first half of 1992, when the Rodney King Riots took place. These events negatively affected the recording process, as the band was forced to leave the studio every night at six o'clock because of the enacted ... | changed the songs "a million times" before recording them on demo and entering the studio. The music for Countdown to Extinction was written in two different sessions. The first session was done following the conclusion of Clash of the Titans tour, while the second session took place after a one-month break, in the fal... |
title track. Youthanasia received positive reviews upon its release. It was commercially successful, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and in 1995 was certified platinum for shipping one million copies in the United States. A remixed and remastered edition featuring several bonus tracks and detailed liner... | our music and what their future holds for them. It's like you have a choice, you can become proactive or you can choose 'Youthanasia'." The title is a combination of the words "youth" and "euthanasia". Mustaine has stated that the idea for the title stems from hearing about Jack Kevorkian, as well as the declining stat... |
The band contributed three songs to soundtracks in 1993. "Angry Again", recorded during the sessions for Countdown to Extinction, appeared on the soundtrack to Last Action Hero and received a nomination for "Best Metal Performance" at the 1993 Grammy Awards. The song has appeared on several of the band's compilations. ... | to film soundtracks. In 1989, Megadeth recorded a version of Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy" for the soundtrack to the Wes Craven-directed horror film Shocker. It marks drummer Nick Menza's recording debut with the band. The recording was released as a single and peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart in 199... |
out. The album was produced by Dann Huff, who had his producing debut with Megadeth. The band chose to work with Huff because they were not satisfied with Max Norman, the producer of their previous record. Mustaine explained why he decided to quit the collaboration with Norman: "Max came up with this bullshit formula t... | Rattlehead collectible card which promoted "The Cryptic Writings Of Megadeth", an issue run by Chaos Comics. Later US pressings features the same artwork with a black background instead. The black background album cover is also featured in the remasters. The album sold 75,000 copies in its first week of release and deb... |
decision resulted in mixed reviews for both the band and the album; a good portion did not favor the new sound and image, while others were more receptive to the band's attempts at experimenting with their sound and trying something different. Megadeth chose to produce the album once again with Dann Huff in Nashville, ... | again." The title stems from a comment by Dave Mustaine's former Metallica bandmate Lars Ulrich, who suggested to Mustaine that he should take more "risks" with his music. According to Mustaine, he was also encouraged to experiment by Marty Friedman’s desire to indulge in his pop sensibilities. On the other hand, newco... |
about any particular person, Mustaine said that there were "a whole bunch of people that'd probably deserve that song," but didn't single out anyone in particular. "Silent Scorn" is an instrumental song which is often played over the sound system at concerts; this can be heard on the band's live album Rude Awakening (2... | a hero. He then proceeded to contrast a perceived lack of image of then current music scenes with the image of 1980s metal bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. In another interview, Mustaine offered a more straightforward interpretation of the album title. Commenting on negative stories in the news, such as wars an... |
Stirlingshire and reject most technology. They run their lives according to a collection of beliefs and rituals "revealed" to Salvador after he washed ashore on Harris in the Western Isles and "married" two young Asian ladies (Aasni and Zhobelia Asis). (Haggis pakora becomes a staple of the cult's cuisine.) The novel o... | Luskentyrians. They are a religious cult who live in a commune in Stirlingshire and reject most technology. They run their lives according to a collection of beliefs and rituals "revealed" to Salvador after he washed ashore on Harris in the Western Isles and "married" two young Asian ladies (Aasni and Zhobelia Asis). (... |
"a far better encapsulation of the band's career to date than the spotty Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years compilation." The album won a 2002 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for Compilation/Live Album of the Year. Since it was generally believed to be Megadeth's swan song at the time (until their reformation in 2... | and Canada. Reception Brian O'Neill of AllMusic rated Rude Awakening a 3 out of 5, opining that, while he believes the album is "fraught with" limitations, it is "a far better encapsulation of the band's career to date than the spotty Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years compilation." The album won a 2002 Metal Edge ... |
head of the Patriarchate of Aquileia respectively Dolfin Dolfin, a Venetian nobleman who played a role in the 1453 siege of Constantinople Giampaolo Dolfin, (1736-1819) a Roman Catholic bishop Giovanni Dolfin (died 1361), 57th Doge of Venice Other | spelled Delfin), an ancient noble Venetian family Caterina Dolfin (1736-1793), Venetian poet Daniele and Dionigio Dolfin, last and second-to-last head of the Patriarchate of Aquileia respectively Dolfin Dolfin, a Venetian nobleman who played a role in |
novel The Sea, the Sea, Sam Jordison, creator of the poll Crap Towns, declared that the book contained 'scenes of absurd melodrama' and 'mystical bollocks'. He did, however, praise Murdoch's comic set-pieces, and her portrayal of self-deceit. Political views Murdoch won a scholarship to study at Vassar College in 1946,... | first-class honours degree in 1942. After leaving Oxford she went to work in London for HM Treasury. In June 1944 she left the Treasury and went to work for the UNRRA. At first she was stationed in London at the agency's European Regional Office. In 1945 she was transferred first to Brussels, then to Innsbruck, and fin... |
DeLeo, Flea, and Meshell Ndegeocello. Under Rug Swept debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, eventually going platinum in Canada and selling one million copies in the U.S. It produced the hit single "Hands Clean", which topped the Canadian Singles Chart and received substantial radio play; for her work on "H... | act for rapper Vanilla Ice. Morissette was nominated for three 1992 Juno Awards: Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won), Single of the Year and Best Dance Recording (both for "Too Hot"). In 1992, she released her second album, Now Is the Time, a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy product... |
or aspect of self-interacting for the maintenance or betterment of the collective. Culture consists of explicit and implicit patterns of historically derived and selected ideas and their embodiment in institutions, cognitive and social practices, and artifacts. Cultural systems may, on the one hand, be considered as pr... | unconscious; it is the center of this totality...". The Self in Jungian psychology is "the archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche ... a transpersonal power that transcends the ego." As a Jungian archetype, it cannot be seen directly, but by ongoing individuating maturation and analytic observati... |
2003 opinion polls following the 2003 Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest. However, things changed during the winter of 2003. The federalist Charest government lost popularity. Then, in February 2004, the Auditor General of Canada uncovered the sponsorship scandal, s... | therefore more likely to attract voters. A "tripartite agreement" mapping out the plan for accession to independence was written and signed by the leaders of the Parti Québécois, the Bloc Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec on 12 June 1995. It revived René Lévesque's notion that the referendum should be fol... |
cable car technology developed by DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car: the Cable Liner. The section of the Antioch-SFO/Millbrae line east of the Pittsburg/Bay Point station runs on conventional unelectrified rail. Schedules call for trains to operate at up to , but certain segments (in particular, the Transbay Tube) are designed ... | they would begin updating ticket add-fare machines inside the paid area to accept debit and credit cards for payment (for Clipper cards only). In December 2020, BART completed the changeover to Clipper and stopped issuing magstripe paper tickets. Existing paper tickets remain valid. During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthqua... |
of San Pablo. 79.8% of Richmonders have a high school diploma or equivalent, compared with 84.2% nationally. But 27.1% have a bachelor's degree compared with a statistically similar 27.2% nationally. Since an exit exam requirement was implemented for California high schools, the CAHSEE, some Richmond high school studen... | tank farm, which Chevron still operates. There is a pier into San Francisco Bay south of Point Molate for oil tankers. The Santa Fe Railroad's western terminus was established in Richmond with ferry connections at Ferry Point in the Brickyard Cove area of Point Richmond to San Francisco. At the outset of World War II, ... |
of the main Mahayana Abhidharma doctrines, in a traditional Buddhist Abhidharma style similar to non-Mahayana expositions. Survives in Sanskrit. According to Walpola Rahula, the thought of this work is closer to that of the Pali than is that of the Theravadin Abhidhamma. Xianyang shengjiao lun, variously retranslated i... | widely agreed by ancient and modern scholars to be by Asaṅga: Mahāyānasaṃgraha (Summary of the Great Vehicle), a systematic exposition of the major tenets of the Yogacara school in ten chapters. Considered his magnum opus, survives in one Tibetan and four Chinese translations. Abhidharma-samuccaya, a short summary of t... |
by the Exner equation. This expression states that the rate of increase in bed elevation due to deposition is proportional to the amount of sediment that falls out of the flow. This equation is important in that changes in the power of the flow change the ability of the flow to carry sediment, and this is reflected in ... | also wind (aeolian processes) and glaciers. Beach sands and river channel deposits are examples of fluvial transport and deposition, though sediment also often settles out of slow-moving or standing water in lakes and oceans. Desert sand dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. Glacial moraine ... |
class and forthcoming America class Lateral hypothalamic area, a part of the brain that has been implicated in the control of feeding behavior Lesbian Herstory Archives, a New York–based lesbian history archive and museum Lha, a letter of Cyrillic alphabet LHA | amphibious assault ships of the Tarawa class and forthcoming America class Lateral hypothalamic area, a part of the brain that has been implicated in the control of feeding behavior Lesbian Herstory Archives, a New York–based lesbian history archive and museum Lha, a letter of Cyrillic alphabet LHA (file format), a fre... |
including the Buddha, the four noble truths and nirvana. According to Chandrakirti, the apophatic method of madhyamaka is a thoroughgoing negation of all concepts, propositions (pratijñā) and views (dṛṣṭi) which affirms neither existence nor non-existence. Due to this radical negation, madhyamaka is seen as a middle wa... | the point of view of ordinary beings and conventions that do not reflect the world (alokasaṃvṛti) and are thus deceptive even by worldly standards. "Conventional" (saṁvṛti) can also mean "covering" according to Chandrakirti and is also associated with delusion or ignorance (avidyā). Furthermore, he also glosses the ter... |
members include, among others, modern literature and poetry critic William H. Pritchard, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar Ilan Stavans, novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer William Taubman, Africa... | of Asian Languages and Literatures, which was later to become the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. In 1984, on-campus fraternities were abolished. The former fraternity buildings, which were owned by the college, were converted into residence halls. The Department of Women's and Gender Studies, which la... |
of Albany was 10,128 (54.6%) White, 645 (3.5%) African American, 88 (0.5%) Native American, 5,790 (31.2%) Asian, 37 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 607 (3.3%) from other races, and 1,244 (6.7%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,891 persons (10.2%). The Census reported that 18,454 people (99.5% of t... | Census reported that Albany had a population of 18,539. , Albany had a population of 18,969. The population density was 3,392.1 people per square mile (1,309.7/km2). The racial makeup of Albany was 10,128 (54.6%) White, 645 (3.5%) African American, 88 (0.5%) Native American, 5,790 (31.2%) Asian, 37 (0.2%) Pacific Islan... |
an Evans Hall include: Agnes Scott College Becker College Berry College Carleton College Connecticut College Emory University Florida Institute of Technology Gordon College (Massachusetts) Henderson State University Indiana Wesleyan University Loma Linda University Mississippi State University (dormitory, 1964–2014) Oh... | Nazarene University Prairie View A&M University Ripon College Simmons College Southwestern Adventist University Sterling College University of Central Oklahoma University of Delaware University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Oklahoma University |
will compare an investment in a new plant versus an extension of an existing plant based on the IRR of each project. To maximize returns, the higher a project's IRR, the more desirable it is to undertake the project. To maximize return, the project with the highest IRR would be considered the best, and undertaken first... | choose between mutually exclusive projects. In cases where one project has a higher initial investment than a second mutually exclusive project, the first project may have a lower IRR (expected return), but a higher NPV (increase in shareholders' wealth) and should thus be accepted over the second project (assuming no ... |
or stream, also known as the benthic zone. This community lives in or near marine or freshwater sedimentary environments, from tidal pools along the foreshore, out to the continental shelf, and then down to the abyssal depths. Many organisms adapted to deep-water pressure cannot survive in the upperparts of the water c... | than about 0.1 mm in size. Some examples are nematodes, foraminiferans, tardigrades, gastrotriches and smaller crustaceans such as copepods and ostracodes. Microbenthos Microbenthos, prefix from the Greek mikrós 'small', comprises microscopic benthic organisms that are less than about 0.1 mm in size. Some examples are ... |
as adaptation to desert habitats. Some desert mammals are also uricotelic, so since practically all known mammals are ureotelic, uricotelic adaptation is a likely result of convergence among desert species. Therefore, turtles would have to be the only known case of a uricotelic reptile reverting to ureotelism. Anapsida... | reptiles that had anapsid skulls might be only distantly related. Scientists still debate the exact relationship between the basal (original) reptiles that first appeared in the late Carboniferous, the various Permian reptiles that had anapsid skulls, and the Testudines (turtles, tortoises, and terrapins). However, it ... |
The era in which we observe other Illyrian kingdoms begins approximately at 400 BC and ends at 167 BC. The Autariatae under Pleurias (337 BC) were considered to have been a kingdom. The Kingdom of the Ardiaei began at 230 BC and ended at 167 BC. The most notable Illyrian kingdoms and dynasties were those of Bardyllis o... | the north. Salona (near modern Split in Croatia) functioned as its capital. After subduing a troublesome revolt of Pannonians and Daesitiates, Roman administrators dissolved the province of Illyricum and divided its lands between the new provinces of Pannonia in the north and Dalmatia in the south. Although this divisi... |
the scene of Agrajag's final death. He sees Ford laughing wildly at this turn of events and experiences a "tremendous feeling of peace". The Grebulons destroy the Earth, believing that their horoscopes will improve if it is removed from their astrological charts. It is revealed that the Vogons designed the Guide Mk. II... | inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy". It was the last Hitchhiker's book written by Adams and his final book released in his lifetime. Title The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the ... |
live recordings and remixes. However, this period also saw a proliferation of side projects, an inordinate number of which involved De Meyer. Earlier, Richard 23 played in the Revolting Cocks, and De Meyer had a side project doing vocals for Bigod 20 for their single, "The Bog" in 1990. In 1995, De Meyer met Marc Heal ... | roles, however, the band sought to project a more anonymous, mysterious image, replete with dark sunglasses and militaristic uniforms so that they could not be easily identified. Bressanutti took this anonymity to the extreme, leaving stage entirely to run live shows from the sound board behind the audience. The band s... |
is Karina's potent portrayal of a prostitute in Vivre sa vie. In 1960s Paris, the political milieu was not overwhelmed by one specific movement. There was, however, a distinct post-war climate shaped by various international conflicts such as the colonialism in North Africa and Southeast Asia. Godard's Marxist disposit... | he didn't complete and whose footage eventually became part of the 1976 film Ici et ailleurs. In this film, Godard seems to view the Palestinian cause as one of many worldwide Leftist revolutionary movements. Elsewhere, Godard has explicitly identified himself as an anti-Zionist but has denied the accusations of anti-S... |
of wool-carding, for which brass-wire combs were preferred, and battery pieces (brassware formed by hammering sheet brass in a battery mill). The only known method for producing the alloy was by heating copper and calamine together in the cementation process and in 1568 a royal charter was granted to the Society of the... | In the 16th century demand for latten (brass) in England came from the needs of wool-carding, for which brass-wire combs were preferred, and battery pieces (brassware formed by hammering sheet brass in a battery mill). The only known method for producing the alloy was by heating copper and calamine together in the ceme... |
using 8-bit bytes this left the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity, flag bit, or meta data control bit. 7-bit systems and data links are unable to directly handle more complex character codes which are commonplace in non-English-speaking countries with larger alphabets. Binary files of octets cannot be trans... | characters, e.g., ETX, as control characters. Other assumed a stream of seven-bit characters, with values between 0 and 127; for example, the ASCII standard used only seven bits per character, avoiding an 8-bit representation in order to save on data transmission costs. On computers and data links using 8-bit bytes thi... |
1959 for the IBM 709 and used on its successor, the IBM 7090. It was developed by SHARE, an early IBM users' group, and based on the File Maintenance and Report Generator System developed by General Electric for the IBM 702, led by | and Report Generator System developed by General Electric for the IBM 702, led by Harry Tellier. Charles Bachman worked on its design in 1957, and although his company's order for the 709 was cancelled, he later included |
allioli (). The most common term in Spanish is alioli, an adaptation from Catalan, although it is also called ajoaceite, ajiaceite, ajolio or ajaceite. It is also spelt alioli in Galician. Basic recipe Garlic is crushed in a mortar and pestle and emulsified with salt, and olive oil. Today, aioli is often made in a food... | yolk is the usual emulsifier. Since about 1990, it has become common in the United States to call all flavored mayonnaises aioli. Purists insist that flavored mayonnaise can contain garlic, but true aioli contains garlic and no other seasoning (except salt). Etymology The word is a compound of the words meaning "garlic... |
system was developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953 and released to customers by the end of that year. Customers were provided the source code for A-2 and invited to send their improvements back to UNIVAC. Thus, A-2 could be considered an example of the result of an early philosophy similar to free an... | by Grace Murray Hopper in 1951 and 1952 for the UNIVAC I, was an early compiler related tool developed for electronic computers. The A-0 functioned more as a loader or linker than the modern notion of a compiler. A program was specified as a sequence of subroutines and its arguments. The subroutines were identified by ... |
103 A0, two versions of the German Heinkel Tourist moped A0 paper size, an international ISO 216 standard paper size (841 × 1189 mm), which results in an area very close to 1 m2 A0 highway (Zimbabwe), a highway which orbits Zimbabwe A0, the lowest A (musical note) note on a standard piano A0, a climbing grade A00, Irre... | Heinkel Tourist moped A0 paper size, an international ISO 216 standard paper size (841 × 1189 mm), which results in an area very close to 1 m2 A0 highway (Zimbabwe), a highway which orbits Zimbabwe A0, the lowest A (musical note) note on a standard piano A0, a climbing grade A00, Irregular chess openings code in the En... |
oblast, type of Russian administrative division Autonomous okrug, type of Russian administrative division NSDAP/AO, Foreign Organization branch of the Nazi Party Officer of the Order of Australia, postnominal AO Military Area of operations, a U.S. military term AO, a U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for an oiler AO... | organisation dedicated to the treatment of trauma and disorders of the musculoskeletal system AO World, a UK retailer of household appliances trading under the brand name ao.com or (), a type of Russian corporate entity; see open joint-stock company Athletics Ontario, formally Ontario Track and Field Association (OTAF)... |
We Can Conquer Unemployment, 1929 manifesto by David Lloyd George and the Liberal Party The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, by members of the British Liberal Democrat party Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, published by the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research The IUPAC Compe... | Liberal Party The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, by members of the British Liberal Democrat party Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, published by the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research The IUPAC Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature informally known as the Orange Book One o... |
the capital of the newly created country. Location The province was bordered by Karachi (within The Federal Capital Territory after 1948) and the princely states of Las Bela and Kalat on the west. To the north were the provinces of Baluchistan and West Punjab. The province bordered the princely state of Bahawalpur on t... | the princely state of Khairpur. The Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat bordered to the east and south. On the southwest lay the Arabian Sea, with the Sind's coastline consisting entirely of river deltas, including the Indus River Delta up to Sind's border with the city of Karachi, now the capital of modern Sindh. H... |
known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC. Some ARITH-MATIC subroutines See also A-0 System References | mathematics. ARITH-MATIC is an extension of Grace Hopper's A-2 programming language, developed around 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing |
based on technologies developed for Project Apollo Aircraft Acceptance Point, a term used by the Royal Flying Corps to designate Lympne Aerodrome (later RAF Lympne) Business Accredited ACH Professional, an Electronic Payments Professional Advance Auto Parts, an American vehicle parts retailer Associated Artists Product... | NASA's vision for long-range space exploration based on technologies developed for Project Apollo Aircraft Acceptance Point, a term used by the Royal Flying Corps to designate Lympne Aerodrome (later RAF Lympne) Business Accredited ACH Professional, an Electronic Payments Professional Advance Auto Parts, an American ve... |
higher education). AAP also honors the very best in professional and scholarly publishing with PROSE Awards, which draws attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content. The awards have been judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976. In late 2019, AAP sued Audible fo... | their Captions feature, in which machine-generated text would be displayed alongside the audio narration. The lawsuit was settled in early 2020, with Audible agreeing not to implement the Captions feature without obtaining express permission. Controversy AAP was criticized after it contracted Eric Dezenhall's crisis ma... |
for the work from AAP. The consortium, sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center, recommended that the DTDs developed by the Electronic Manuscript Project should become an American standard. With the support of the AAP and the Graphic Communications Association, the AAP DTDs were ratified in 1988 as the American ... | Computer Library Center, recommended that the DTDs developed by the Electronic Manuscript Project should become an American standard. With the support of the AAP and the Graphic Communications Association, the AAP DTDs were ratified in 1988 as the American National Standards Institute's Electronic Manuscript Preparatio... |
it was selling a number of software products to HCL Technologies for $1.8bn, including IBM Notes, Domino, Commerce, Portal, Connections, BigFix, Unica and AppScan. Their location within HCL Technologies' umbrella is named HCL Software. This acquisition was completed in July 2019. Design HCL Domino is a client-server cr... | server next connect. Local replicas are also sometimes maintained for use while connected to the network in order to reduce network latency. Replication between an HCL Notes client and Domino server can run automatically according to a schedule, or manually in response to a user or programmatic request. Since Notes 6, ... |
a member of Vitus Bering's crew as a painter and surveyor who drew a figure of a female sea cow on Steller's request. Most of Plenisner's depictions were lost during transit from Siberia to Saint Petersburg. Another drawing of Steller's sea cow similar to the Pallas Picture appeared on a 1744 map drawn by Sven Waxell a... | mammals of genes related to metabolic and immune function, including leptin associated with energy homeostasis and reproductive regulation. Ecology and behavior Whether Steller's sea cow had any natural predators is unknown. It may have been hunted by killer whales and sharks, though its buoyancy may have made it diffi... |
rule of Susa began in 647 BCE and lasted till Median capture of Susa in 617 BCE. Susa after Achaemenid Persian conquest Susa underwent a major political and ethnocultural transition when it became part of the Persian Achaemenid empire between 540 and 539 BCE when it was captured by Cyrus the Great during his conquest o... | in the area is Chogha Bonut, that was discovered in 1976. Susa I period (4200–3800 BC) Shortly after Susa was first settled over 6000 years ago, its inhabitants erected a monumental platform that rose over the flat surrounding landscape. The exceptional nature of the site is still recognizable today in the artistry of ... |
and back pages were already missing from the manuscript (possibly around 50 lines each): an earlier catalogue described it as ('mutilated at head and heel'). As a result, vital clues about the purpose of the poem and perhaps its date have been lost. At the time of battle, English royal policy of responding to Viking in... | and back pages were already missing from the manuscript (possibly around 50 lines each): an earlier catalogue described it as ('mutilated at head and heel'). As a result, vital clues about the purpose of the poem and perhaps its date have been lost. At the time of battle, English royal policy of responding to Viking in... |
of the Badonic Hill"; Bellum in monte Badonis, "Battle on Badon Hill"; Bellum Badonis, "Battle of Badon"; Old Welsh: Badon; Middle Welsh: Gweith Vadon, "Battle of Badon"; , "Battle of Badon Mount/Hill") was a battle purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain in the late 5th or early 6th c... | the battle, though most agree that it took place in southern England sometime around the turn of the sixth century. Date Dates proposed by scholars for the battle include 493, 501 and 516. Daniel McCarthy and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín have posited that Gildas' 44 years and one month is not a reference to the simple chronology b... |
hongmeia is a net-like texture of microscopic circular openings, which can be interpreted as the remains of Papillae. History of study Hallucigenia was originally described by Charles Walcott as a species of the polychaete worm Canadia. In his 1977 redescription of the organism, Simon Conway Morris recognized the anima... | as how it would walk on the stiff legs, but it was accepted as the best available interpretation. An alternative interpretation considered Hallucigenia to be an appendage of a larger, unknown animal. There had been precedent for this, as Anomalocaris had been originally identified as three separate creatures before bei... |
of flowering plants. Protein coding RNAs in mitochondria are spliced and edited using organelle-specific splice and editing sites. Nuclear copies of some mitochondrial genes, however, do not contain organelle-specific splice sites, suggesting a processed mRNA intermediate. The cDNA hypothesis has since been revised as ... | allowing cells to withstand growing amounts of free molecular oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. However, it now appears that peroxisomes may be formed de novo, contradicting the idea that they have a symbiotic origin. (Provides evidence that contradicts an endosymbiotic origin of peroxisomes, and suggests instead that ... |
were named after characters from the comics. Anarchie, one of the earliest graphical FTP clients was named for its ability to perform Archie searches. How Archie worked The earliest versions of Archie would simply search a list of public anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites using the Telnet protocol and create ... | of Warsaw's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling. Origin Archie began as a project for students and volunteer staff at the McGill University School of Computer Science in 1987, when Peter Deutsch (systems manager for the School), Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan were asked to connect the Sc... |
Fantasy, which depicted Riverdale's most famous resident coming out of the closet and moving to New York. The day before the play was scheduled to open, Archie Comics issued a cease and desist order, threatening litigation if the play proceeded as written. Dad's Garage artistic director Sean Daniels said, "The play was... | season, it aired in reruns for the next decade, and was followed by several spin-off programs, which used segments from this original Archie show and new material. In 1970, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch got her own animated series, also produced by Filmation. In 1970, another Archie property received the Saturday morning ... |
the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers or other below-ground facilities. An und... | conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers or other below-ground facilities. An underground explosion releases a ... |
BNC T-connectors or separate 50 Ω terminators. Instead of a single BNC connector that was inserted into a T-connector placed inline, the FriendlyNet transceiver had two BNC connectors, one on each side, to which the cables were attached. The transceiver would automatically terminate the network if a cable was not attac... | off the name. Macintosh Quadra, Centris, PowerBook 500, Duo Dock II (for PowerBook Duo) and early Power Macintoshes had AAUI ports, which required external transceivers. By the time AAUI was nearing the end of its life, an AAUI transceiver could cost even more than an inexpensive Ethernet card on a PC—a disproportionat... |
of test programming effort. The first ATLAS specification developed by the international committee was published in 1968. The basic document has been revised several times. An ATLAS implementation typically consists of an online compiler (OLC), test executive (TEX or Test Exec), and file manager and media exchange (FMX... | are also used on commercial and military programs for testing of systems; ATLAS typically requires another computer system to either optically scan test results, or read a tape, disk, or locked memory stick/data key from a test station and then perform statistical analysis on test results for a variety of uses. Subsets... |
algebra (symbolic mathematics). Despite its advances, it was never used as widely as Algol proper. | intended for computer algebra (symbolic mathematics). Despite its advances, it was never used as widely as Algol |
approximate a Faraday cage, such as elevator cabins, and parts of trains, cars, and ships. The same problem can affect signals in buildings with extensive steel reinforcement. Radio horizon The radio horizon is the locus of points at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth. If the E... | rooftop or hilltop positioning of base stations many base stations (usually called "cell sites"). A phone can typically see at least three, and usually as many as six at any given time. "sectorized" antennas at the base stations. Instead of one antenna with omnidirectional coverage, the station may use as few as 3 (rur... |
necessarily a rule of strict necessity. In the same year, Peirce wrote that reaching a hypothesis may involve placing a surprising observation under either a newly hypothesized rule or a hypothesized combination of a known rule with a peculiar state of facts, so that the phenomenon would be not surprising but instead e... | offered a variation on modus ponens instead, and by 1911 he was unconvinced that any one form covers all hypothetical inference). The Natural Classification of Arguments (1867) In 1867, Peirce's "On the Natural Classification of Arguments", hypothetical inference always deals with a cluster of characters (call them P′,... |
from an error message from the IBM OS/360, IBM zOS operating systems. Usually capitalized, but may appear as "abend". Some common ABEND codes are ABEND 0C7 (data exception) and ABEND 0CB (division by zero). Abends can be "soft" (allowing automatic recovery) or "hard" (terminating the | ABEND 0CB (division by zero). Abends can be "soft" (allowing automatic recovery) or "hard" (terminating the activity). Errors or crashes on the Novell NetWare network operating system are usually called ABENDs. Communities of NetWare administrators sprung up around the Internet, such as abend.org. The term is jocularly... |
Agencia Boliviana de Información, a Bolivian press agency Association of British Insurers Associazione Bancaria Italiana Anheuser-Busch InBev, a multinational Belgian-Brazilian beverage and brewing company People Abi (actor) (1965–2017), Indian impressionist, comedian, and actor Abi (singer) (born 1997), American count... | (name), abbreviation of female given name Abi Kusno Nachran (1940–2006), Indonesian environmental activist Abijah (queen), mother of King Hezekiah, called Abi once in the Kuran Mustafa Abi (born 1979), Turkish basketball player Abi Masatora (born 1994), Japanese sumo wrestler Places Abi, Iran, a village in Zanjan Provi... |
hardware-dependent format. In contrast, an API defines this access in source code, which is a relatively high-level, hardware-independent, often human-readable format. A common aspect of an ABI is the calling convention, which determines how data is provided as input to, or read as output from, computational routines. ... | writing a program in a mix of programming languages, or even compiling a program written in the same language with different compilers. Description Details covered by an ABI include the following: Processor instruction set, with details like register file structure, stack organization, memory access types, etc. Sizes, ... |
when used in prose to discern a rule name. Terminal values Terminals are specified by one or more numeric characters. Numeric characters may be specified as the percent sign %, followed by the base (b = binary, d = decimal, and x = hexadecimal), followed by the value, or concatenation of values (indicated by .). For ex... | individual characters: to match “aBc”, the definition would be %d97.66.99. A string can also be explicitly specified as case-insensitive with a %i prefix. Operators White space White space is used to separate elements of a definition; for space to be recognized as a delimiter, it must be explicitly included. The explic... |
data transmission system, to abort means to terminate, usually in a controlled manner, a processing activity because it is impossible or undesirable for the activity to proceed or in conjunction with an error. Such an action may be accompanied by diagnostic information on the aborted process. In addition to being a ver... | process. In addition to being a verb, abort also has two noun senses. In the most general case, the event of aborting can be referred to as an abort. Sometimes the event of aborting can be given a special name, as in the case of an abort involving a Unix kernel where it is known as a kernel panic. Specifically in the c... |
timer restricts the order of messages to ensure receivers send messages in turn while using a window of 1 bit. Design Messages are sent from transmitter A to receiver B. Assume that the channel from A to B is initialized and that there are no messages in transit. Each message from A to B contains a data part and a one-... | B contains a data part and a one-bit sequence number, i.e., a value that is 0 or 1. B has two acknowledge codes that it can send to A: ACK0 and ACK1. When A sends a message, it resends it continuously, with the same sequence number, until it receives an acknowledgment from B that contains the same sequence number. When... |
east of Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States ABR, ICAO designation for ASL Airlines Ireland, a freight airline Athens Line, a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Georgia Other uses Abr, a village in Iran Accredited Buyer Representative, a designation of the National Association of Realtors Abron dialect, a major d... | of Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States ABR, ICAO designation for ASL Airlines Ireland, a freight airline Athens Line, a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Georgia Other uses Abr, a village in Iran Accredited Buyer Representative, a designation of the National Association of Realtors Abron dialect, a major dialec... |
type of baud rate detection mechanism are supported by many hardware chips including processors such as STM32 MPC8280, MPC8360, and so on. When start bit length is used to determine the baud rate, it requires the character to be odd since UART sends LSB bit first. Often symbols 'a' or 'A' (0x61 or 0x41) are used. For e... | data from a variety of transmitting devices operating at different speeds without needing to establish data rates in advance. During the autobaud process, the baud rate of received character stream is determined by examining the received pattern and its timing, and the length of a start bit. These type of baud rate det... |
first and second coordinate of a point in a coordinate system: abscissa -axis (horizontal) coordinate ordinate -axis (vertical) coordinate Usually these are the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point in a two-dimensional rectangular Cartesian coordinate system. An ordered pair consists of two terms—the abscissa... | his 1892 work ("Lectures on history of mathematics"), volume 2, German historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor writes: At the same time it was presumably by [Stefano degli Angeli] that a word was introduced into the mathematical vocabulary for which especially in analytic geometry the future proved to have much in store... |
A function γ is called a concretization function if it maps an element x′ in the abstract set L′ to an element γ(x′) in the concrete set L. That is, element γ(x′) in L is a concretization of x′ in L′. Let L1, L2, L′1 and L′2 be ordered sets. The concrete semantics f is a monotonic function from L1 to L2. A function f′ ... | homonyms are rare in practice. However, in all rigor, we cannot say for sure that somebody was present in the room; all we can say is that he or she was possibly here. If the person we are looking up is a criminal, we will issue an alarm; but there is of course the possibility of issuing a false alarm. Similar phenomen... |
be expressed in concise and elegant ways. All of these, when used correctly, improve both the programmer's efficiency and the clarity of the code by making the intended purpose more explicit. A consequence of syntactic abstraction is also that any Lisp dialect and in fact almost any programming language can, in princip... | process is the generational development of programming languages from the machine language to the assembly language and the high-level language. Each stage can be used as a stepping stone for the next stage. The language abstraction continues for example in scripting languages and domain-specific programming languages.... |
an abstract machine. For example, a stack can be specified in terms of operations on an abstract machine with an array of memory. Through the use of abstract machines, it is possible to compute the amount of resources (time, memory, etc.) necessary to perform a particular operation without having to construct a physica... | set of allowable operations used to turn the former into the latter. The best-known example is the Turing machine. More complex definitions create abstract machines with full instruction sets, registers and models of memory. One popular model more similar to real modern machines is the RAM model, which allows random ac... |
finally withdraw from Greece. With the Roman legions under Flaminius returning to Italy, the Greek states are once again on their own. The Romans leave the dominant powers in the region; the kingdom of Macedonia, the Aetolians, the strengthened Achaean League and the weakened Sparta. The Aetolians, who have opposed the... | the Roman legions under Flaminius returning to Italy, the Greek states are once again on their own. The Romans leave the dominant powers in the region; the kingdom of Macedonia, the Aetolians, the strengthened Achaean League and the weakened Sparta. The Aetolians, who have opposed the Roman intervention in Greek affair... |
dies and is succeeded by his son Demetrius I of Bactria (approximate date). South America The city of Tiwanaku is founded as a village near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia (approximate date). The Early Horizon period in the Andes comes to an end as the Chavin culture vanishes and is succeeded by the Nazca culture (appr... | begins. The Han emperor Gaozu is defeated by the Xiongnu, led by Modu Chanyu, in the Battle of Baideng. By topic Art Alexander the Great, head from a Hellenistic copy of a statue, possibly after a 4th century BC original by Lysippos is made. It is now kept at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Lost-wax casti... |
is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office has over the years become insignificant in Carthaginian politics, but Hannibal restores its power and authority. He sets out to reform the administration and finances of Carthage and reduce the power of the oligarchy which has ruled Carthage before and ... | 200 talents per year for 50 years, allow Masinissa to rule Numidia as an independent kingdom, make no war without Rome's permission, and destroy all but 10 of the Carthaginian warships. Following the conclusion of the peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage. The office has over ... |
has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Carthage Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marri... | the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Carthage Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marries Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's daughter, who, until his ... |
used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Carthage The Roman general, Publius Cornelius Scipio, while undertaking peace negotiations with the Carthaginians at Utica, makes a surprise attack on the Carthaginian camp and... | the Massaesyli tribes in Numidia and remains a loyal ally to the Romans. Hasdrubal Gisco persuades the Carthaginians to raise a new army and to send for Hannibal to return home from Italy. Hannibal finally leaves Italy and returns to Carthage. The Carthaginian general, Mago Barca, is defeated and wounded by the Romans ... |
the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Tappulus (or, less frequently, year 555 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 199 BC for this year has been used since the early | year 555 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 199 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic The Roman general Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus attacks the Insubres in Gaul, but loses over... |
able to force the Aetolians to accept a peace treaty based on his terms. China A period of civil war known as the Chu-Han contention begins. Xiang Yu divides China in a power-sharing arrangement known as the Eighteen Kingdoms, with himself the de facto supreme ruler as Hegemon-King of Western Chu. Xiang Yu appoints Hua... | Bactria. Antiochus III marches across the Hindu Kush into the Kabul valley and renews his friendship with the Indian king Sophagasenus. Greece The war between Macedonia and Rome drags on with no decisive advantage on either side. Rome's interest lies not in conquest, but in keeping Macedon, the Greek city-states and Gr... |
a bilingual Punic/Greek inscription describing his accomplishments in the temple of Juno Lacinia near Crotone. Egypt The native Egyptian population rises in rebellion against their Greek rulers. The revolt spreads to Upper Egypt. Ptolemy IV dies and is succeeded by his five-year-old son Ptolemy V. However, no public an... | and later Attalus I of Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Athens and Knossos. With the Rhodian fleet and economy suffering from the depredations of the pirates, Philip begins attacking the lands of Rhodes' allies in Thrace and around the Sea of Marmara. Roman Republic Publius Cornelius Scipio boldly determines to disregard ... |
by the Carthaginians ends Hannibal's hopes of success in Italy. Greece The general leading the Achaean League, Philopoemen, introduces heavier Macedonian armour and phalanx tactics. His army then crushes the Spartans under the Spartan regent and general, Machanidas, in the battle of Mantinea. Machanidas is killed by Ph... | and Gaius Claudius Nero. The Carthaginian army is defeated by the Romans and Hasdrubal is killed in the battle. This major loss by the Carthaginians ends Hannibal's hopes of success in Italy. Greece The general leading the Achaean League, Philopoemen, introduces heavier Macedonian armour and phalanx tactics. His army t... |
the Pyrenees with his remaining troops into Transalpine Gaul, with the intention of joining his brother Hannibal in Italy. The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal inconclusively near Venusia, Apulia. Hannibal destroys a Roman force at the Battle of Petelia. Seleucid Empir... | Marcus Claudius Marcellus is killed in battle while fighting Hannibal inconclusively near Venusia, Apulia. Hannibal destroys a Roman force at the Battle of Petelia. Seleucid Empire Antiochus III advances into Bactria, which is ruled by the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I, and defeats Euthydemus at the Battle of the Ar... |
in Spain, launches a combined military and naval assault on the Carthaginian headquarters at Carthago Nova (modern-day Cartagena). He successfully besieges and captures the city. In capturing this city, Scipio gains access to copious stores and supplies, Spanish hostages, the local silver mines, a splendid harbour and ... | general Hannibal has held for three years. The Battle of Canusium is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and a Roman force led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus. The battle is indecisive. From his headquarters at Tarraco (Tarragona), Publius Cornelius Scipio, the Roman commander in Spain, launches a combined militar... |
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