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History Resource Center: World -- Reference Article on 2009-11-19
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to begin his conquest of Persia (in 334). By 331 he had defeated the Persian king Darius in two important battles and crossed into Egypt. The priests there crowned him Pharaoh, and he founded the city of Alexandria (later a center of learning and Greek culture). He invaded Mesopotamia next, where he defeated Darius yet again, pushed across the m
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History Study Center - Maps & Reference Article on 2009-11-19
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His finest achievement was perhaps the defeat of the Carthaginian forces in Spain, where he accomplished in five years (210-206 b.c.) what his father and uncle had failed to accomplish in eight (218-211 b.c.). But
although his later strategy of invading Africa led
B. H. Liddell Hart to describe him as "greater than Napoleon," it was pedestrian compared with the
grandeur of Hannibal's invasion of Italy, being merely a repeat of what the Romans had already tried once before, in 256-255 b.c., and had been planning before Hannibal seized the initiative.
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Julius Caesar: Historical Background on 2009-11-19
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Caesar,
on the staff of a military legate, was awarded the civic crown (oak leaves) for
saving the life of a citizen in battle. His general sent him on an embassy to
Nicomedes, the king of Bithynia, to obtain a fleet of ships; Caesar was
successful, but subsequently he became the butt of gossip that he had persuaded
the king (a homosexual) only by agreeing to sleep with him. When Sulla died in
78, Caesar returned to Rome and began a career as a orator/lawyer (throughout
his life he was known as an eloquent speaker) and a life as an elegant
man-about-town.
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History Study Center - Image on 2009-11-19
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Thessaly in Northern Greece in 48 BC, brought an end to this civil war. Pompey, the sole Consul of the Roman Republic, and his republican
army outnumbered Caesar's forces by almost two to one, and it is estimated that his cavalry outnumbered that of Caesar by almost seven to one. Despite thi
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Biography Resource Center -- Biography Display on 2009-11-19
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aius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was a Roman general and politician who overthrew the Roman Republic and established the rule of the emperors.
At the time of Julius Caesar's birth the political, social, economic, and moral problems created by the acquisition of a Mediterranean empire in the 3d and 2d centuries B.C. began to challenge the Roman Republic. The senatorial oligarchy that ruled Rome was proving inadequate to deal with these new challenges. It could not
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- Ancient Greece for Kids - Greek Democracy in Athens on 2009-11-19
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BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Democratic Experiment on 2009-11-19
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But who were the people to whom the power belonged? Was it all the people - the 'masses'? Or only some of the people - the duly qualified citizens? The Greek word demos could m
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GIC | Article on 2009-11-18
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Economic numbers will never be the same again. A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you are talking about real money. The bank rescue pales everything else into insignificance, even if it has not yet calmed jittery markets.
Gordon Brown's blueprint is big, though his critics hate any credit going to him. After all, if you take some of those critics at face value, he created the American subprime crisis, told bankers to behave irresponsibly and set up a regulatory system that uniquely failed to spot this coming.
It is about as daft as the new fas -
ut just look at the scale of the recapitalisations alone - long-term taxpayer stakes in organisations that until a few weeks ago would have regarded such things with as much enthusiasm as a drunk being invited to a temperance evening. If we take just four countries, admittedly the biggest four affected, America, Germany, Britain and France, they have between them announced $500 billion (Pounds 285 billion) o
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The Inventor's Workshop on 2009-11-18
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any ancient machines were in common use in Leonardo's time. For example, water wheels turned millstones to grind grain and Archimedes' screws lifted water from streams providing a ready supply for drinking and washing.
Artists and craftsmen in Leonardo's time knew how to build and repair the familiar kinds of machines. The idea of inventing new kinds of machines, however, would not have occurred to them.
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Modern Times (1936) on 2009-11-18
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Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression era, the film's
main concerns (and those of the oppressed Tramp) echo those of millions of
people at the time - unemployment, poverty, and hunger. It has a number of
wonderfully inventive and memorable routines and scenes that proclaim the
frustrating struggle by proletarian man against the dehumanizing effects of
the machine in the Industrial Age (at the time of Henry Ford's assembly line),
and various social institutions. -
(e.g., the feeding machine), television
screens (i.e., the Big Brother screen - pre-dating George Orwell's book 1984,
written/published in 1949), and Chaplin's actual voice is heard singing
an imaginary, nonsense song of gibberish. Special sound effects and an original
musical score (by composer Chaplin, including various musical themes from
"Hallelujah, I'm a Bum," "Prisoner's Song," "How
Dry I Am," and "In the Evening By the Moonlight") enhance the
pantomime. - 2 more annotations...
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