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  • Did I become a non-consumer b.c. my family consumes food and drink and things so well?

    filing jointly « martinis & mantras 2009

  • On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavianthe future first emperor, Augustus.

    Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston: Book summary 2010

  • That changed around 650 b.c. in Lydia part of what we call Turkey today, where coins were made from precious metals like silver and gold.

    Not Your Parents’ Money Book Jean Chatzky 2010

  • Maybe so, but most fertility statues from b.c. depict that very thing.

    Christina Aguilera: Club Hyde Candids 2008

  • In 31 b.c., Octavian understood that the institutions of the Roman Republic could no longer hold the empire together.

    Broke Glenn Beck 2010

  • In 329 b.c., Alexander and his army marched up the Panjshir valley before striking north through Khawak Pass toward Samarkand.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • To fill the gap between 660 b.c. and the earliest historically documented Japanese monarchs, the chronicles invented 13 other equally fictitious emperors.

    Japanese Roots « Isegoria 2008

  • For our purposes, however, it's the unique circumstances of the Spartan recalcitrance that makes dating of the 490 b.c. battle possible -- allowing us to pinpoint September 12 of last week as the most probable date of the 2,500th anniversary of the battle.

    Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon 2010

  • Posted in B.C. NDP, Carole James, b.c. liberals, gordon campbell.

    2008 August 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • For our purposes, however, it's the unique circumstances of the Spartan recalcitrance that makes dating of the 490 b.c. battle possible -- allowing us to pinpoint September 12 of last week as the most probable date of the 2,500th anniversary of the battle.

    Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon 2010

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