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- Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
11: ... ford, Rome was at a crossroads of traffic and trade.
13: ...al or semi-mythical kings are (in chronological order): [[Romulus]], [[Numa Pompilius]] (Good King Num...
23: ...rs]], conquering [[Sicily]] and [[Iberia]]. After defeating [[Macedonia]] and the [[Seleucids]] in the...
25: ...and [[Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius]], on the [[Ides of March]] [[44 BC]].
27: ...ransformed Rome from a Republic to an Empire. His designated successor, [[Tiberius]], took power witho... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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48: | 0.769 86°<br>(6.48? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 74.229 88° - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
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10: | [[Clyde Tombaugh|Clyde W. Tombaugh]]
48: | 17.141 75°<br>(11.88? to Sun's equator)
50: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
51: | 110.303 47° - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...e town where he first took the vows. His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''.
7: ...hich we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatifie...
9: ...n became famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintin...
13: ...the Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed for the Church of th...
15: ...s city; as a fresco-painter, he may have worked under, or as a follower of, [[Gherardo Starnina]]. Fro... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ... years of civil war that followed, Octavian would defeat such enemies as [[Marcus Brutus]], [[Gaius Ca...
5: ...[police force]] and the world's first [[fire brigade]]. He finished, repaired or rebuilt almost every ...
7: ...borders he established to become the [[natural borders]] for the Empire for over 400 years. His surnam...
10: ...ble but undistinguished family of the equestian order on [[September 23]], [[63 BC]]. His father was t...
12: ...y against Caesar’s orders that turned the tide of the battle and granted Caesar his last victory... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
7: ...for the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]], is murdered by his own men.
10: ... By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, Nort...
20: ...s and communications facilities in [[Germany]] be destroyed.
21: ... [[Martinique]] and [[R鵮ion]] become overseas [[departement|d鰡rtements]] of [[France]].
22: *[[1953]] - [[Academy Awards]] are first televised. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]] and sacks the city, stealing th...
10: ..."Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
16: ...Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon...
17: ...er of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days late...
24: *[[1956]] – [[Tunisia]] gains independence from [[France]]. - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves...
7: ...]] with a temporary [[Papal Tiara|papal tiara]] made of [[papier-m⣨靝.
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civ...
19: ...en fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
20: *[[1963]] - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francis... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
11: ... IV Adolf of Sweden|Gustav IV Adolf]] to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] throne.
12: ...871]] - In [[North Carolina]], [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the first governor of a [[U.S. state]]...
16: *[[1933]] - President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] signs into law a bill legalizing ...
19: ...]: In the [[Mediterranean sea]], [[Regia Marina]] defeats [[Royal Navy]] in the [[Second Battle of Sir...
20: *[[1945]] - The [[Arab League]] is founded when a charter is adopted in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...ar of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] make substa...
9: ...his famous speech - "[[give me liberty or give me death]]" at St. John's Church in [[Richmond, Virgini...
10: ...word, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
12: *[[1839]] - First recorded use of "[[Okay|OK]]" as an abbreviation for "oll...
13: ...din]], [[New Zealand]]. [[Otago]] province is founded. - Columbus, Ohio (27104 bytes)
6: ...y]]. It also extends into [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]] and [[Fairfield County, Ohio|Fairfield]] ...
19: founded = |
20: ... County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Delaware County, Ohio|Delaware]],<br> and [[Fairfield County, Ohio|Fairfie...
28: density = 1,306.4|
35: ...] (CCAD), [[Otterbein College]] in Westerville, [[DeVry University]], [[Ohio Dominican University]], a... - Rome (33048 bytes)
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15: |align="center" colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|<small>City [[motto]]: '...
17: |Founded|| [[21 April]][[753 BC]] mythical,<br> [[1st mil... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
1: ...f their Iron Age forebears, which were often recorded in written form during the [[Middle Ages]].
4: ...so wrote that their priests, the [[druids]], forbade using writing to record anything of religious sig...
6: ...nity]]; indeed, many Gaelic myths were first recorded by Christian [[monks]], albeit without most of t...
9: ...s did other populations: Apollo dispels sickness, Minerva encourages skills, Jupiter is in charge of the sk...
12: ...f the Celtic pantheon as a large number of local deities is gainsaid by the numerous well-testified g... - Storks (8536 bytes)
18: ...] and are mute; bill-clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest. Many species ...
20: ...f "longest wingspan of any landbird" with the [[Andean Condor]].
22: ...eer]] [[Otto Lilienthal]]'s [[experiment]]al [[glider]]s of the late [[19th century]].
26: ...[[foot|feet]]) diameter and about 3m (10 feet) in depth. A stork's nest may be utilized for many years...
32: The storks are members of the order '''Ciconiiformes''', along with several other gr... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
1: '''December 9''' is the 343rd day (344th in leap years)...
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6: ...ity]]'s first daily [[newspaper]], the ''American Minerva'', is established by [[Noah Webster]]
7: *[[1824]] - [[Battle of Ayacucho]] - [[Peru]] defeats [[Spain]]
10: *[[1856]] - [[Bushehr]] surrenders to the [[British]].
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