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* Two Roman consuls, Spurius Postumius Albinus and Titus Veturius Calvinus, leading an invading force into Samnium, are trapped in a mountain pass known as the Caudine Forks ( Caudium ) near Beneventum, where they can neither advance nor retire, and after a desperate struggle, they are forced to submit to the humiliating terms imposed by the Samnite victor, Gaius Pontius.
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Two and Roman
Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.
Two versions of Blackwood are common: " standard " Blackwood, developed by Easley, and " Roman key card " or " RKC " Blackwood, named for the Italian team which invented it.
Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.
Two heads found in the sanctuary and the Roman theatre at Nemi, which have a hollow on their back, lend support to this interpretation of an archaic Diana Trivia, in whom three different elements are associated.
Two other bronze doors of the Roman period are in the Lateran Basilica.
The ancient Roman Catholic tradition overcame this idea with the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and so achieved, for the very first time, a balanced constitution for states.
However, this overlooks those parts of scripture which provide for the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and for the medieval Roman Catholic concept of the powers of kings to protect the Christian Constitution of states, to defend and extend the boundaries of Christendom by lawful means only, to protect and defend the innocent, the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, and to protect the church and the papacy with the king's own life, if necessary.
Two years later, Francis personally wound up the moribund Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
* Two fasces appear on either side of the flag of the United States behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, representing the Roman power over the House and the country.
Two types of ink were prevalent at the time: the Greek and Roman writing ink ( soot, glue, and water ) and the 12th century variety composed of ferrous sulfate, gall, gum, and water.
Two centuries of Gothic control of Iberia incrementally suppressed the ancient institutions, classic learning, and manners of the Roman Empire.
Two 1st-century AD revolts did not permanently damage their cordial relations with Rome, and the Treveri adapted readily to Roman civilization.
Two years later, Weber completed his Habilitationsschrift, The Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law, working with August Meitzen.
Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.
Two days later, on Christmas Day 800, Leo crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor.
In 1633, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo and found him " vehemently suspected of heresy " and banned Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
Later on, the Kingdom of Sicily lasted between 1130 and 1816, subordinated to the crowns of Aragon, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and finally the Bourbons, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.
Meanwhile, in these efforts to retain the guise of a Roman Catholic reformer as opposed to a heretical revolutionary, and to appeal to German princes with his religious condemnation of the peasant revolts backed up by the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, Luther's growing conservatism would provoke more radical reformers.
* Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity.
Two of the first official senates were the Spartan Gerousia ( Γερουσία ) and the Roman Senate.
The concept of Pax Romana was first described by Edward Gibbon in Chapter Two of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Two Roman funerary steles in the archaeological museum of Bologna show such mortars.
* Two moral anecdotes from the Progymnasmata: ( in English ) on the harshness of classical Roman education and an encomium of Thersites
Two typical router bits: ( top ) a ¼-inch shaft Roman Ogee with bearing, ( bottom ) 1 / 4-inch shaft dovetail bit.
Two and consuls
Two messages from American consuls in Great Britain were also received at the same time.
Two consuls ruled at a time and one could serve up to two terms.
Two of the squadrons, commanded by the consuls Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, led the way.
Two consuls were elected each year, serving together, each with veto power over the other's actions, a normal principle for magistracies.
Two and Albinus
Two of the rivals, Clodius Albinus and Septimius Severus, initially formed a political alliance.
Two and Titus
Two legions, with eight cavalry squadrons and ten auxiliary cohorts, were therefore dispatched under the command of Vespasian while his elder son, Titus, arrived from Alexandria with another.
In 1981, John Barton followed the 1957 Old Vic model and directed a heavily edited version of the play as a double bill with The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, starring Patrick Stewart as Titus, Sheila Hancock as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Leonie Mellinger as Lavinia.
) Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays ( The RSC Shakespeare ; London: Macmillan, 2008 )
Two praetors were appointed by Claudius for matters relating to Fideicommissa ( trusts ), when the business in that department of the law had become considerable, but Titus reduced the number to one ; and Nerva added a Praetor for the decision of matters between the Fiscus ( treasury ) and individuals.
Another major influence on Shakespeare was the story of the intimate friendship of Titus and Gisippus as told in Thomas Elyot's The Boke named the Governour in 1531 ( the same story is told in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, but verbal similarities between The Two Gentlemen and The Governor suggest it was Elyot's work Shakespeare used as his primary source, not Boccaccio's ).
Two days after the Horseshoe meeting Titus resigned from his job at the Las Vegas Hilton and went to work for newly formed Progressive Games, Inc .. Progressive Games started by sharing space with a Las Vegas Sign Company called City Lites which provided signage and jackpot meters for the game.
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Two days later, Titus goes to visit Violet again.
Two and leading
Two days after McClellan's return to command, General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
Two different routes to Apulia diverged at this point, one ( Via Aurelia Aeclanensis ) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other ( the Via Appia of the Empire ) passing the Lacus Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and Venusia ; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum ( mod.
Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the " cooling rings " of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.
Two batters later, and to the horror of the packed stadium, Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez misplayed an inning ending double play, loading the bases and leading to eight Florida runs and a Marlin victory.
Two of the leading centres have been the University of Rennes ( France ) and the University of Birmingham ( UK ).
Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States ( 1776 ) and in France ( 1789 ), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights.
* 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
* 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
Two of which signed, and one resigned, with the Miami Heat, leading to a season that was heavily centered on their eventual success or failure at taking home the championship.
On 27 June Ludvík Vaculík, a leading author and journalist, published a manifesto titled The Two Thousand Words.
Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed police officers, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats and hats, according to witnesses who saw the " police " leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting.
Two days later, in Upsettlington, the Guardians of the Realm and the leading Scottish nobles gathered to swear allegiance to King Edward I as Lord Paramount.
Two leading theories about objecthood are substance theory, wherein substances ( objects ) are distinct from their properties, and bundle theory, wherein objects are no more than bundles of their properties.
Two leading media determinists are the Canadian scholars Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan.
Two world religions sprung from within its borders, and its inhabitants played important roles in Abolitionism in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Two weeks later it announced its intention to acquire Impsat, a leading provider of telecom and Internet services in Latin America.
In the episode " The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons ", Apu enjoys a brief period as Springfield's leading ladies ' man after being spontaneously drawn into a bachelor auction.
The 1996 drama Shine achieved an Academy Award for Best Actor award for Geoffrey Rush and Gregor Jordan's 1999 film Two Hands gave Heath Ledger his first leading role.
In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).
Two of the country's leading directors, Mikio Naruse and Yasujiro Ozu, did not make their first sound films until 1935 and 1936, respectively.
Two other conductors, German-born Henry Christian Timm and French-born Denis Etienne, led parts of the eclectic, three-hour program, which included chamber music and several operatic selections with a leading singer of the day, as was the custom.
Two of the leading trumpeters of the 1980s Jazz Resurgence, Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard signed with the label in 2003.
Two leading forms of direct democracy are participatory democracy and deliberative democracy.
Two leading Expressionist journals published in Berlin were Der Sturm, published by Herwarth Walden starting in 1910, and Die Aktion, which first appeared in 1911 and was edited by Franz Pfemfert.
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