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In 215 BC, at the height of the Second Punic War, a law — the Oppian Law, ( Lex Oppia )— had been passed at the request of the tribune of the plebs Gaius Oppius, to restrict luxury and extravagance on the part of women.
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* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 290 BC – 215 BC, but he may have lived in the early 1st century.
He was Roman Consul five times ( 233 BC, 228 BC, 215 BC, 214 BC and 209 BC ) and was twice Dictator, in 221 and again in 217 BC.
" After serving as Dictator he served as Consul twice more in 215 BC, 214 BC, and for a fifth time in 209 BC.
Hiero's successor, the young Hieronymus ( ruled from 215 BC ), broke the alliance with the Romans after their defeat at the Battle of Cannae and accepted Carthage's support.
To deal with this problem, in 215 BC Hasdrubal marched into Roman territory and offered battle at Dertosa.
The first Carthaginian expedition to Sardinia, in 215 BC, was under the command of Hasdrubal The Bald with his subordinate Hampsicora.
After a military campaign led by General Meng Tian, the region was conquered in 215 BC and agriculture was established ; the peasants, however, were discontented and later revolted.
* 164 BC – Antiochus IV Epiphanes (" God Manifest "), Seleucid king of the Syrian kingdom who has reigned since 175 BC, and has encouraged Greek culture and institutions but also attempted to suppress Judaism, which has led to the uprisings in Judea towards the end of his reign ( b. c. 215 BC )
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Titus Flavius Clemens ( c. 150 – c. 215 ), known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
* 2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
Medical marijuana was explicitly made legal under California state law by Proposition 215 ; however, marijuana is prohibited at the federal level by the Controlled Substances Act.
The largest nearby airports are at Toulouse, France ( 165 km from Andorra ) and Barcelona, Spain ( 215 km from Andorra ).
Suggestions include the need for a stronger state to deal with the Qin unification of China that resulted in a loss of Ordos at the hands of Meng Tian, or the political crisis that overtook the Xiongnu in 215 BC, when Qin armies evicted them from their pastures on the Yellow River ;
Following this, a report into Shipman's activities submitted in July 2002 concluded that he had killed at least 215 of his patients between 1975 and 1998, during which time he practised in Todmorden, West Yorkshire ( 1974 – 1975 ) and Hyde, Greater Manchester ( 1977 – 1998 ).
In 1978 Norman was getting ready to sign with Warner Brothers, when he was injured in an accident as United Airlines flight 215 landed at Los Angeles International Airport at the end of his world tour.
Universal Expositions are also massive in scale, sometimes 300 or 400 hectares in size ( Montreal's Expo 67 was 410 hectares, Osaka's Expo 70 was 330 hectares, Seville's Expo 92 was 215 hectares and Shanghai's Expo 2010 528 hectares ), and Pavilions participating at a Universal Exposition can also be large, sometimes 5, 000 to 10, 000 square metres in size, mini city blocks in themselves and sometimes more than several stories in height.
For around fifty years the neighborhood has been home to National Review, the conservative journal of opinion founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., most of that time at 150 East 35th Street, currently at 215 Lexington Avenue at 33rd Street.
215 and height
At the height of World War II, 600 gunnery students and 215 co-pilots graduated from LVAAF every five weeks, and more than 45, 000 B-17 gunners were trained.
* The Link ( south ), 43 – story, 215 – unit, glass tower condominium ( height = 471 feet ), opened in 2007 < ref >
Compared to the 567 series engine's bore of 8-1 / 2 in ( 215. 9 mm ), the 645 series has a larger bore of 9-1 / 16 in ( 230. 2 mm ) while maintaining the same stroke and deck height.
Menkaure's Pyramid had an original height of 65. 5 metres ( 215 feet ) and was the smallest of the three major pyramids at the Giza Necropolis.
Its main towers reach 122 meters ( 400 ft ) above the water surface, and the roadway height reaches as high as 66 meters ( 215 ft ).
215 and Second
* Marcus Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus, consul in 222, 215, 214, 210, and 208 BC, the great hero of the Second Punic War.
* Christy Desmet, " William Perkins ," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500 – 1660, Second Series, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 215 – 28.
Sobers, remembering the England collapse in the Second Test declared at 92 / 2 leaving England 215 to win in 135 minutes, a run-rate they had yet to achieve in the series.
1.653 seconds.