Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively.The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east–west highways that …

Publius Terentius Afer (/ t ə ˈ r ɛ n ʃ i ə s,-ʃ ə s /; c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (/ ˈ t ɛr ə n s /), was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic.His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his ...

Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient peoples whose language is uncertain, but have cultural and stylistic similarities with speakers of Celtic languages.. Celtic art is a difficult term to define, covering a huge expanse of time, geography …

Etymology. The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name "Judah", which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name Judah (written in Assyrian cuneiform as Yaudaya or KUR.ia-ú-da-a-a).. Judea was …

ギムリー・グライダー （ Gimli Glider ）もしくはエア・カナダ143便滑空事故（Air Canada Flight 143）は、民間航空史上に残る有名な航空事故。 1983年7月23日に起きたエア・カナダ143便不時着事故、並びに事故を起こした旅客機の通称である。

Belgium. 2004: A major natural gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, Belgium near Ath (50 km [ 31 mi ] southwest of Brussels), killing 24 people and leaving 122 wounded, some critically on July 30, 2004.; Canada. A TransCanada pipeline ruptured and exploded in North Bay, Ontario, in the early 1960s and again in 1978. [citation needed]1958: The Slater Street explosion: A massive …

The Thirty Years' Peace was first tested in 440 BC, when Athens's powerful ally Samos rebelled from its alliance with Athens.The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens faced the prospect of revolts throughout its empire.The Spartans, whose intervention would have been the trigger for a massive war to determine the fate of the empire, called a …

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, a book published in 2001, discusses the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins and content of the Hebrew Bible.The authors are Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, an archaeologist, historian and …

Darius I (Old Persian: ???????????????????????????? Dārayavaʰuš; Greek: Δαρεῖος Dareios; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.He ruled the empire at its territorial peak, when it included much of Western Asia, parts of the Balkans ...

Character reference overview. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;. where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include …