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In 149 BC, Andriskos, at that time ruler of Adramyttium only, and claiming to be Perseus ' son, announced his intention to retake Macedonia from the Romans.
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Andriscus, (-Andriskos ) and often called the " pseudo-Philip ", was the last King of Macedon ( 149 BC – 148 BC ), and ruler of Adramyttium in Aeolis ( in western Anatolia ).
The Third Punic War ( 149 – 146 BC ) involved an extended siege of Carthage, ending in the city's thorough destruction.
In 149 BC, in an attempt to draw Carthage into open conflict, Rome made a series of escalating demands, one being the surrender of three hundred children of the nobility as hostages, and finally ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and rebuilt away from the coast, deeper into Africa.
The denomination 149 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.
Andriscus ' brief success at reestablishing the monarchy in 149 BC was quickly followed by his defeat the following year and the establishment of direct Roman rule and the organization of Macedon as the Roman province of Macedonia.
The Third Punic War ( Latin: Tertium Bellum Punicum ) ( 149 BC to 146 BC ) was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between the former Phoenician colony of Carthage and the Roman Republic.
The Carthaginians endured the siege starting 149 BC to the spring of 146 BC, when Scipio Aemilianus successfully assaulted the city.
Marcus Porcius Cato ( 234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC ) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius ( the Censor ), Sapiens ( the Wise ), Priscus ( the Ancient ), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.
In order to determine the date of Cato's birth, we consider the records as to his age at the time of his death, which is known to have happened in 149 BC.
From the date of his Censorship ( 184 BC ) to his death in 149 BC, Cato held no public office, but continued to distinguish himself in the senate as the persistent opponent of the new ideas.
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The redistricting controversy contributed to Gerry's defeat in 1812 ( once again at the hands of Caleb Strong, whom the Federalists had brought out of retirement ).< ref > Buel, pp. 148 – 149
The Saudi government estimate is at 2, 217, 949 square kilometres, while other reputable estimates vary between 2, 149, 690 and 2, 240, 000 sq.
The company was the world's oldest and also largest zinc producer, producing at its peak at least 149, 000 tonnes per year.
* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
However, as Kalb points out in her book, Congo Cables, the record shows that many communications by Devlin at the time urged elimination of Lumumba ( p. 53, 101, 129 – 133, 149 – 152, 158 – 159, 184 – 185, 195 ).
Manilius was replaced by consul Calpurnius Piso in 149 after a severe defeat of the Roman army at Nepheris, a Carthaginian stronghold south of the city.
In the Windows-1252 and several other Windows code pages, the standard circular bullet character is at 149 ( decimal ).
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, at Thanbyuzayat, Myanmar, has the graves of 3, 617 POWs ( 3, 149 Commonwealth and 621 Dutch ) who died on the Burmese portion of the line.
There were 120, 288 housing units at an average density of 149 per square mile ( 58 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >).
It is made in the form of a circular-pillar brick tower, narrowing upwards, of 9 meters ( 29. 53 ft ) diameter at the bottom, 6 meters ( 19. 69 ft ) overhead and 45. 6 meters ( 149. 61 ft ) high.
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On the final day's play there was time for just four more runs from Botham before Willis was out and Botham was left on 149 not out.
In that issue, # 149 ( 1998 ), Greystone built a time machine meant to take him and his compatriots back to the future.
Cato the Elder ( 234 – 149 BC ) was aware of a time before the so-called " Greek " elements had been added to the Roman Saturnalia .< ref > Palmer, Rome and Carthage, p. 64, citing the implications of Cato, frg.
At the same time, there were 149 non-Swiss men and 128 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.
By this time, Dumitrescu's Third Army had captured 15, 565 prisoners of war, 149 tanks, 128 artillery pieces, and more than 700 machine guns, while suffering 10, 541 casualties ( 2, 555 dead, 6, 201 wounded and 1, 785 missing in action.
Offerings at the time ranged from ladies ' stockings at 10 ¢ a pair to $ 10 men's wool suits and $ 149 upright pianos.
Brearley's extraordinary galvanising of Botham is regarded as one of the greatest feats of sporting psychology of all time: Botham recovered from personal ridicule following his winless captaincy record and his nosedive in form ( he had made a pair in the second Test at Lord's ) to take a first-innings 6 for 95 and score 50 and his famous 149 not out in the third Test at Headingley, bowl a spell of 5 wickets for 1 run in the fourth Test at Edgbaston, score 118 from 102 balls in the fifth Test at Old Trafford, and take a 10-wicket match haul ( 6 for 125 and 4 for 128 ) in the sixth Test at the Oval.
This enabled New Zealand to dismiss Australia for 149, giving the New Zealanders a 10-wicket victory over them, the Australians ' heaviest one day defeat, and although he sat out the final game in the Chappell-Hadlee series, he was instrumental in the eventual 3-0 series win for the first time in Chappell-Hadlee Trophy history.
The Byzantine holdings of materials concerning late classical, early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval art and archaeology, which numbered 8, 000 volumes at the time of the Blisses ’ gift, now number 149, 000 volumes with more than 550 journal subscriptions.
Metro's highest cost route by this measure, route 149 ( Renton Transit Center to Black Diamond ), had a peak time cost of $ 34. 47 per boarding.
Usually done in a " low temp " environment ( 200 ° F to 300 ° F ) ( 93 ° C to 149 ° C ), they take a significant amount of time to prepare, which breaks down the connective tissues and collagens within the meat, and renders out of the fat.
The K-series howitzers were modern designs for their time, with a powerful 149. 1 mm calibre barrel mounted on a heavy field carriage designed for motorized transport.
In the final match, Australia reduced New Zealand to 8 / 149 in pursuit of 284 when time ran out, sealing a 1 – 0 series win.
Varro also states that a vow was made that the Games would be repeated every hundred years, and another celebration did indeed take place in either 149 or 146 BC, at the time of the Third Punic War.
Gupte, who was only 32 at that time and had taken 149 wickets at 29. 55 in 36 Tests, never played for India again and instead went to Trinidad and settled there, where he had married a local girl two years earlier.
He stands in fifth place in River Plate's all time goalscoring records with 149 goals and in 7th place in their all time appearances record with 374 matches played.
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