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* 255 BC: The Carthaginians employ a Spartan general, Xanthippus, to organize their defenses and defeat the Romans at the Battle of Tunis.
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After their conquests in the Agrigentum campaign, and following several naval battles, Rome attempted ( 256 / 255 BC ) the second large scale land operation of the war.
On at least two occasions ( 255 and 253 BC ) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather ; the disaster off Camarina in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.
Although the Carthaginians recaptured the city in 255 BC the final peace settlement gave Punic Sicily and with it Akragas to Rome.
Considerable difficulties faced by the Seleucid kings and the attacks of Ptolemy II of Egypt gave Diodotus, satrap of Bactria, the opportunity to declare independence ( about 255 BC ) and conquer Sogdiana.
The island remained in the Epirotic alliance until 255 BC when it became independent after the death of Alexander, last King of Epirus.
Year 255 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
The denomination 255 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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His son and successor, Nicomedes I, founded Nicomedia, which soon rose to great prosperity, and during his long reign ( c. 278 – c. 255 BC ), as well as those of his successors, Prusias I, Prusias II and Nicomedes II ( 149 – 91 BC ), the kingdom of Bithynia held a considerable place among the minor monarchies of Anatolia.
Nicomedes I (; lived c. 300 BC – c. 255 BC, ruled 278 BC – c. 255 BC ), second king of Bithynia, was the eldest son of Zipoetes I, whom he succeeded on the throne in 278 BC.
The duration of the reign of Nicomedes himself, after this event, is unknown but his death is assigned to around the year 255 BC.
255 and general
There are 256 general purpose architectural registers in an < tt > MMIX </ tt > chip, designated by $ 0 through $ 255 and 32 special physical architectural registers.
* Guo Huai, general of Wei ( d. 255 )
* Sima Shi, general of Wei ( d. 255 )
The general approach to this question was summed up in Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U. S. 255 ( 1980 ) which states that the application of land-use regulations to a particular piece of property is a taking only " if the ordinance does not substantially advance legitimate state interests ... or denies an owner economically viable use of his land.
In the general election, Hindman defeated the Republican challenger, William M. Crosby, by a vote of 18, 255 to 2, 853.
Sima Shi ( 208 – 255 ), style name Ziyuan, was a military general and regent of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.
In reaction to the removal of Cao Fang, in 255, the general Wuqiu Jian, the commander in the important eastern city of Shouchun ( 壽春, in modern Lu ' an, Anhui ), along with another general Wen Qin ( 文欽 ), raised a rebellion against the Simas, but were quickly crushed by Sima Shi's army.
Legend assigns to Felix a martyr's death either in the year 255 under Emperor Valerian ( 253-260 ) or, in another version, in the general persecution instigated by the Emperor Decius ( 249-251 ).
255 and organize
LANs could now support more than 255 nodes, and zones were no longer associated with physical networks, but were entirely virtual constructs used simply to organize nodes.
255 and their
Note that due to the reduced number of colors in the image, there are obvious display issues. GIF is palette-based: the colors used in an image ( a frame ) in the file have their RGB values defined in a palette table that can hold up to 256 entries, and the data for the image refer to the colors by their indexes ( 0 – 255 ) in the palette table.
1 ) The Fultondale American Legion Post 255, it appears, has decided to relocate from their location on US Hwy 31 ( Decatur Hwy )
255 governments participated, with 144 sending their heads of state or government.
The AEWA covers 255 species that depend on wetlands for part of their life.
For this reason federal courts, and courts from other states, can certify questions about Oregon law to the Oregon Supreme Court in order to clarify what the law in Oregon is in regards to the specific fact pattern that the federal court has before it in their case ( see ORS 28. 200 to 28. 255 and ORAP 12. 20 ).
Along with Jeff Heath of the Indians, who had batted. 343, Gordon was one of the AL's top rookies, hitting. 255 with 97 RBI and placing second to Gehringer in the AL with 450 assists as the Yankees won their third straight pennant.
* The Chief Cornplanter Boy Scout Council, headquartered in Warren, as well as their Order of the Arrow lodge, Gyantwachia Lodge # 255 are named in his honor.
He rushed for a total of 255 yards, caught 8 passes for 99 yards, and scored 3 touchdowns in their 2 playoff games prior to the Super Bowl.
A 2. 8 L twin turbo V6 was installed, producing 284 PS ( 209 kW ), reaching a top speed of 255 km / h ( 158 mph ) while the Italians even had a " tax special " 2 litre version producing 287 PS ( 211 kW ) on their price list.
On the other hand, if team A, batting first, scored 254 – 6 but team B, batting second, scored 255 – 8, it would be said that " team B won by 2 wickets " because they chased down their target with 2 wickets in hand.
Patriots running back Craig James was their main contributor on offense, rushing for a career postseason high 105 yards of the Patriots 255 total rushing yards in a game played in a steady rain.
Cambridge UCCE had a good start to their 2005 first-class season, setting Essex a target of 270 to win, after declaring in their second innings on 255 for 4.
Finally came the heavyweight clash against India, but despite the Indians reducing their opponents to 84 / 5, 100 from Steve Waugh and 78 * from Moody contributed to a total of 255 / 5 that proved far too much as India stuttered to 109ao.
255 and defeat
In 255, on one of Jiang Wei's campaigns, he dealt Wei forces a major defeat in the Battle of Didao, nearly capturing the important Wei border city Didao ( 狄道 ; in present-day Dingxi, Gansu ), but in 256, as he tried to again confront the Wei forces, he was instead dealt a defeat by Deng Ai, and this was a fairly devastating loss that left Jiang Wei with a weakened standing with the people.
255 and Romans
Some other historians believe that its weight on the prow compromised the ship's navigability and the Romans lost almost two entire fleets to storms in 255 and in 249 BC, largely due to the instability caused by the device.
The Romans occupied the island as the Fasti Triumphales record in 255 BC, lost it again the next year, and recovered it in 217 BC.
255 and at
A two-family house at 255 Brook Street has been purchased by Brown University from Lawrence J. Sullivan, according to a deed filed Monday at City Hall.
* 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
The old Herald headquarters at 255 Washington Street ( built 1878 )
There were 17, 162 housing units at an average density of 661. 4 per square mile ( 255. 3 / km² ).
Early computers permitted only a few letters or digits in the name of a file, but modern computers allow long names ( some up to 255 characters ) containing almost any combination of unicode letters or unicode digits, making it easier to understand the purpose of a file at a glance.
In 1971, the nuclear physics team at the University of California at Berkeley successfully performed a whole series of experiments aimed at measuring the nuclear decay properties of the lawrencium isotopes with mass numbers from 255 through 260.
* 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $ 2. 9 billion in damage ( 1997 USD ).
The images covered a discontinuous swath of Mars starting near 40 ° N, 170 ° E, down to about 35 ° S, 200 ° E, and then across to the terminator at 50 ° S, 255 ° E, representing about 1 % of the planet's surface.
Eighty elements have at least one stable isotope never observed to decay, amounting to a total of about 255 stable isotopes.
After his fast start, Clemente finished his rookie season with an average of. 255, owing at least in part to the recurrence, or perhaps persistence, of the counterproductive batting tics noticed three years before by Dodger scout Al Campanis-and, more to the point, the fact that National League pitchers were noticing as well.
The measurement of a spontaneous fission activity was assigned to < sup > 256 </ sup > Rf ,< ref > while later studies done at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Institute ( GSI ), also measured decay properties for the isotopes < sup > 257 </ sup > Rf, and < sup > 255 </ sup > Rf .< ref >< ref name = 97He01 >
In 1974 researchers at Dubna investigated the reaction of lead-207 with titanium-50 to produce the isotope < sup > 255 </ sup > Rf .< ref name = Rf255 >
* The official count of bodies found at the site of the World Trade Center is 314 ; 255 have been identified.
* May 30 – Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the ( rain-shortened ) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles ( 408 km ).
It was located at 255 – 257 Pearl Street in Manhattan on a site measuring 50 by 100 feet, just south of Fulton Street.
In 1850, he and his family moved into a home at 255 Main Street ; he stayed there until his death.
Pacifico just won against another American, Mel Hennessey, at 110 kg, both with enormous benches of 260 kg and 255 kg.
| cruise speed main = 255 mph at 6, 500 ft
As of the 2010 census, the population was 255, 793, up from 210, 554 at the 2000 census.
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