John Fergus Slattery (born 12 February 1949 in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland) is a former rugby union player who represented Ireland.He played schools rugby for Blackrock College and then moved on to play senior rugby for UCD, before earning a call up to the Ireland team in 1970. He subsequently left UCD to join Blackrock College R.F.C. During his career Slattery earned 61 …

The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century.Named after its capital city, Palmyra, it encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt, as well as large parts of Asia Minor. The Palmyrene Empire was ruled by Queen Zenobia, officially as regent for her son …

La naissance de Jésus de Nazareth est fêtée par les chrétiens le jour de Noël, qui tombe le 25 décembre.Pour l'Église russe et les anciennes Églises d'Orient qui utilisent toujours le calendrier julien, le 25 décembre julien correspond au 7 janvier du calendrier grégorien.Elle marque en principe le début de l'ère chrétienne. Ni le jour ni l'année de la naissance de Jésus ne sont ...

Cameron Michael Henderson Gibson MBE (born 3 December 1942) is a former rugby union player who represented Ireland and the British and Irish Lions at international level.. Gibson is regarded as one of the greatest rugby union players; upon his induction into the IRB Hall of Fame in May 2011, former teammate and fellow Hall of Fame inductee Syd Millar said about Gibson …

Cesare Tito Elio Adriano Antonino Augusto Pio, nato come Tito Aurelio Fulvo Boionio Arrio Antonino (in latino: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus Pius; Lanuvio, 19 settembre 86 – Lorium, 7 marzo 161), è stato un imperatore romano dal 138 al 161.Imperatore saggio, l'epiteto pius gli venne attribuito per il sentimento di amore filiale che manifestò nei confronti del …

Elagabalus was born in 203 or 204, to Sextus Varius Marcellus and Julia Soaemias Bassiana, who had probably married around the year 200 (and no later than 204). Elagabalus's full birth name was probably (Sextus) Varius Avitus Bassianus, the last name being apparently a cognomen of the Emesene dynasty. Marcellus was an equestrian, later elevated to a senatorial …

Commagene (Greek: Κομμαγηνή) was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Iranian Orontid dynasty that had ruled over Armenia. The kingdom was located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which served as its capital.The Iron Age name of Samosata, Kummuh, probably gives its name to Commagene. Commagene has been …

Dux (/ d ʌ k s, d ʊ k s /; plural: ducēs) is Latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.).During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops, both Roman generals and foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank.

Based on (); a point summary is given in Duffy 1883, pp. xv–xvi Numerals refer to those in the point summary and in Duffy's text itself.The legendary historical setting of the story is the end of the dominion of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Ireland, and the corresponding rise of the Milesians. [2-9] Bodb Derg was elected king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, to the annoyance of Lir, who felt that …

In the annalistic tradition of Livy and Dionysius, the distinction between patricians and plebeians was as old as Rome itself, instituted by Romulus' appointment of the first hundred senators, whose descendants became the patriciate. Modern hypotheses date the distinction "anywhere from the regal period to the late fifth century" BC. The 19th-century historian Barthold Georg …