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At Carthage, a large cemetery exists that combines the bodies of both very young children and small animals, and those who argue in favor of child sacrifice have argued that if the animals were sacrificed then so too were the children.
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At the beginning of the First Punic War, Rome had virtually no experience in naval warfare, whereas Carthage had a great deal of experience on the seas thanks to its centuries of sea-based trade.
At first, Regulus was victorious, winning the Battle of Adys and forcing Carthage to sue for peace.
At this point ( 247 BC ), Carthage sent general Hamilcar Barca ( Hannibal's father ) to Sicily.
* 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
At the start of the first Punic War, Carthage was the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire, while Rome was a rapidly ascending power in Italy, but lacked the naval power of Carthage.
At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage.
At the time of his death in 148 BC, Masinissa's territory extended from Mauretania to the boundary of the Carthaginian territory, and also southeast as far as Cyrenaica, so that Numidia entirely surrounded Carthage ( Appian, Punica, 106 ) except towards the sea.
At the end of the 4th century, Ausonius enumerated Aquileia as the ninth among the great cities of the world, placing Rome, Mediolanum, Constantinople, Carthage, Antioch, Alexandria, Trier, and Capua before it.
At the synod Orosius communicated the decisions of the synod of Carthage and read several of Augustine's writings against Pelagius.
At the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ), and again at the Synod of 397 at Carthage, a list of the books of Holy Scripture was drawn up, which survives to the current day as the Catholic canon ( including some books considered apocrypha by Protestants ).
At around the same time, the Romans were finally the victorious over Carthage.
At the start of the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC ), Masinissa fought for Carthage against Syphax, the King of the Masaesyli of western Numidia ( present day Algeria ), who had allied himself with the Romans.
At the Battle of Bagbrades ( 203 ), Scipio overcame Hasdrubal and Syphax and while the Roman general concentrated on Carthage, Gaius Laelius and Masinissa followed Syphax to Cirta, where he was captured and handed over to Scipio.
At the request of Hyrum Smith ( Joseph Smith's brother ), he twice sang the song " A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief " in Carthage Jail just before the Smiths were killed.
At the time of the siege, the city held approximately 40, 000 people, though the women and children were evacuated to Carthage, an ancient Phoenician colony.
At some time between 268 and 265, Hiero II decisively defeated the Mamertines at the Longanus River which caused the Mamertines to appeal to Carthage and Rome, the other major powers in the region besides Syracuse, for military aid.
At least two bishops of Girba are known, Monnulus and Vincent, who assisted at the Councils of Carthage in 255 and 525 ( Toulotte, Géographie de l ' Afrique chrétienne Proconsulaire, Paris, 1892, pp. 353 and 380 ).
At this point Hannibal was arrested by his own men back in Carthage and crucified for his incompetence.
At one point, blockade runners brought in the only food reaching the city of Carthage,
At Carthage Astarte was worshipped alongside the goddess Tanit.
At Carthage on July 5, Jackson himself took command of 6, 000 State Guards, and drove back a much smaller Union detachment.
At Carthage Augustine had become a Manichean and when on his return home he shared his views regarding Manichaeism Monica drove him away from her table.
At Carthage in North Africa:
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At Hilo large numbers of people ran out to inspect the amazing spectacle of the denuded beach.
At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.
At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a large clay jar which was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.
At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.
At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.
At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.
At the same time, some settlers observed " all natives throughout these ... districts have a tradition ( of ) a very large animal having at one time existed in the large creeks and rivers and by many it is said that such animals now exist.
At N ' Djamena the Logone empties into the Chari, and the combined rivers flow together for thirty kilometers through a large delta and into Lake Chad.
At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and from a local landowner.
At the age of nine, Brâncuși left the village to work in the nearest large town.
At the end of September, Navy reconnaissance aircraft photographed the Soviet ship Kasimov with large crates on its deck the size and shape of Il-28 light bombers.
At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors.
At the individual level, there is a large literature, generally related back to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital of the individual.
At radio and microwave frequencies, EMR interacts with matter largely as a bulk collection of charges which are spread out over large numbers of affected atoms.
At the higher end of the ultraviolet range, the energy of photons becomes large enough to impart enough energy to electrons to cause them to be liberated from the atom, in a process called photoionisation.
At extremely high flows, kolks, or vortices are formed by large volumes of rapidly rushing water.
At that time, the concept corresponded by and large with Ewald Hecker's hebephrenia.
At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.
At the beginning of the 19th century Emsworth had a population of less than 1, 200, this made Emsworth a large village at the time.
At any one time, moreover, a large percentage of intercity buses and Accra city buses are out of service.
At the same time a large Sephardi Jewish emigrant community from the Iberian peninsula established itself in Thessaloniki, while there were population movements of Arvanites and Vlachs, who established communities in several parts of the Greek peninsula.
At 2. 35 Eiffel hoisted a large tricoleur, to the accompaniment of a 25-gun salute fired from the lower level.
At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.
At the start of the 18th century a large house, called Delville-known at first as The Glen-was built on the site of the present Bons Secours hospital.
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