Historians have noted the many similarities between the story of Publius Decius Mus, and an event said to have taken place on Sicily in 258 when the Romans were fighting the First Punic War against Carthage.

Both the First and the Second Samnite War starts with an invasion of Samnium by a Cornelius, the way in which a Roman army was led into a trap resembles the famous disaster at the Caudine Forks in 321, and there are similarities to the campaigns of Publius Cornelius Arvina in 306 and Publius Decius Mus ( the son of the hero of Saticula ) in 297.

Following the initiative of the Villa Decius Association, the Prize of Sergio Vieira de Mello-the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the years 2002-2003 was established in the year 2003 with an aim to promote human rights, democracy and tolerance and had its First Edition already in 2004.

With her predecessor, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Bush dedicated the First Ladies Red Dress Collection at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in May 2005.

Far from being a mere " stop gap " pope, to great excitement, John called an ecumenical council fewer than ninety years after the First Vatican Council ( Vatican I's predecessor, the Council of Trent, had been held in the 16th century ).

First, Grant's relationship with his predecessor Johnson had deteriorated badly, culminating with Johnson's appointment of Grant antagonist William Rosecrans as minister to Mexico.

Hot Tuna, for instance, had released a second ( electric ) LP during 1971, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, which proved even more successful than its predecessor.

First, Callahan was the first head coach since 1956 not to be hand-picked by his predecessor.

Qasim, reluctant to tie himself too closely to Nasser ’ s Egypt-and warned by various groups within Iraq ( notably the communists ) that such an action would be dangerous-instead found himself echoing the views of his predecessor, Said, by adopting a wataniyah policy of ‘ Iraq First ’

" One hundred and fifty years ago, my predecessor Robert Lowe, later First Viscount Sherbrooke, brought forward the Bill that created the joint stock limited liability company.

The first professional team to win in the modern era were the Richmond Kickers of the USISL ( the predecessor to the A-League, USL First Division, and USL Pro ) in 1995, one year before the start of MLS.

During the Issy-les-Moulineaux Congress, Alain Savary was elected First Secretary with the support of his predecessor Guy Mollet.

The Maryland Toleration Act influenced related laws in other colonies and was an important predecessor to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law over a century later.

Its predecessor, the First Continental Congress, had sent entreaties to the British King George III to stop the Coercive Acts and had created the Continental Association to establish a coordinated protest of the Coercive Acts ; in particular, a boycott had been placed on British goods.

When considering ideas for a project as First Lady, Pat refused to do ( or be ) something simply to emulate her predecessor, Lady Bird Johnson.

) On 13 December 1944, First, Second, Third and Fourth Air Force were all were placed under the unified command of the Continental Air Forces, the predecessor of the later established Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command, and Air Defense Command, which were all established in 1946.

He was elected First Minister following the resignation of his predecessor Henry McLeish, and led the Scottish Labour Party to its second election victory in the 2003 election.

Although Elizabeth Monroe regained a measure of respect and admiration during her husband's second term, she compared poorly to her predecessor, Dolley Madison, who had captivated Washington society, setting a standard by which future First Ladies were measured.

Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg ( until 1919 Kurt Alois Josef Johann Edler von Schuschnigg, 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977 ) was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Nazi Germany ’ s annexing of Austria, ( Anschluss ), in March 1938.

The album was the follow-up to the successful Love at First Sting and had some musical differences when compared to its predecessor.

In South Korea, he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Constabulary, the predecessor of the ROK Army.

Its predecessor, the First Leiter Building, was designed by Jenny in 1879 and stood at Wells and Monroe until it was demolished in 1972.

* William Preston Few – First president of Duke University and the fifth and last president of its predecessor, Trinity College.

The banking firm was the predecessor of Farmers and Merchants Bank ( 1870 ), which was the predecessor of Security First National Bank.

Chile's First National Fleet and the Academy for Young Midshipmen ( predecessor of the current Naval Academy ) were founded, as were the Marine Corps and the Supply Commissary.

* 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty ( b. 1726 )

" During that same year, the Greek cities in Sicily were induced to revolt against Roman political control, while the Macedonian king, Philip V, pledged his support to Hannibal – thus initiating the First Macedonian War against Rome.

When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison ( the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales ), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development.

First published in Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd, Norstrilla Press.

Early historians described him as a military genius, but by the 20th century his tactical acumen was reconsidered ; Philip Haigh suspects that the earl largely owed some of his victories, such as the First Battle of St Albans, to being in the right place at the right time.

* Philip V of Macedon makes a temporary peace ( the Peace of Phoenice ) with Rome on favourable terms for Macedonia ending the First Macedonian War.

After concluding the First Macedonian War, Philip of Macedon, seeing his chance to defeat Rhodes, forms an alliance with Aetolian and Spartan pirates who begin raiding Rhodian ships.

* Major Asshole and Gunner's Mate First Class Philip Asshole are two cross-eyed Spaceballs serving aboard the Spaceball One, both being generic parodies of Imperial personnel from the Star Wars films.

First, it was claimed that his uncle Philip V had him poisoned.

He and his brother Philip ( the second Herbert son who, for some profitable time, was the adored object of " bisexual " King James I's affections ) are the " incomparable pair of brethren " to whom the First Folio of Shakespeare is inscribed.

In 1878, after 38 years without a resident padre, Father Philip Farrelly became the " First Pastor " of Mission San Miguel Arcángel.

First United Methodist ( www. shallowaterumc. org ), St. Philip Catholic Church, and the

After graduating with a First Class Honours degree from the University of Hull, he worked in the Brynmor Jones Library under Philip Larkin.

Prince Louis of Battenberg changed his surname to Mountbatten ( its literal English translation ) during the First World War at the request of King George V. When then-Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( the royal house of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece ) took British citizenship, he used this surname since he descends from the Battenberg family through his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.

* Brauner, David ( 1969 ) Getting in Your Retaliation First: Narrative Strategies in Portnoy's Complaint in Royal, Derek Parker ( 2005 ) Philip Roth: new perspectives on an American author, chapter 3

First, in the summer of 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early cleared the valley of its Union occupiers and then proceeded to raid Maryland, Pennsylvania and D. C. Then during the Autumn, Union General Philip Sheridan was sent to drive Early from the valley and once-and-for-all destroy its use to the Confederates by putting it to the torch using scorched-earth tactics.

* with Philip J. Birtles, De Havilland Comet: The World's First Jet Airliner: ( Paladwr, 1999 ) ( Pictorial )

Her first novel, Reclamation, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1996, and in 1997 won ( tied ) the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U. S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor " Dr. Seuss " Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf.

* Straffin, Philip D. " Liu Hui and the First Golden Age of Chinese Mathematics ," Mathematics Magazine ( Volume 71, Number 3, 1998 ): 163 – 181.

* Ziegler, Philip Addington, A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth ( New York: The John Day Company, c1965 ), 478p.

Charles Philip Yorke succeeds Mulgrave as First Lord of the Admiralty.

The First Macedonian War ( 214 BC – 205 BC ) was fought by Rome, allied ( after 211 BC ) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War ( 218 – 201 BC ) against Carthage.

The First Macedonian War against Philip V had been over the issue of Illyria and was resolved by the Peace of Phoenice in 205.