For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

The first of the five books begins with some geographical background, and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Caesar's invasion in 55 BC.

But the poems include references to events of 55 and 54 BC.

The southern Britons met Julius Caesar with chariots in 55 and 54 BC, but by the time of the Roman conquest of Britain a century later chariots were obsolete even in Britannia.

The first extensive Roman campaigns in Britain were by the armies of Julius Caesar in 55 and in 54 BC, but the first significant campaign of conquest did not begin until AD 43, in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

The first direct Roman contact came when the Roman general and future dictator, Julius Caesar, made two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC as an offshoot of his conquest of Gaul, believing the Britons had been helping the Gallic resistance.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

In 55 BC, Caesar repelled an incursion into Gaul by two Germanic tribes, and followed it up by building a bridge across the Rhine and making a show of force in Germanic territory, before returning and dismantling the bridge.

Lucretius's work De Rerum Natura ( 55 BC ) contains many majestic passages.

55 BC ) reflects the mechanistic philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus.

Antonia Tryphaena, Queen of Thrace, 10 BC – 55 AD, had 4 children

25 ), Julius Caesar describes an incident at the start of his first invasion of Britain in 55 BC that illustrated how fear for the safety of the eagle could drive Roman soldiers.

Leap year not formally recognized until Caesar in 55 BC.

55 BC ) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

Also, the two consuls of 70 BC, Pompey and Crassus, stood together as consuls again in 55, not 53.

However, if 55 BC is Lucretius's most likely year of death, and if Jerome is accurate about Lucretius's age ( 43 ) when he died, it can then be concluded he was born in 99 or 98 BC.

The first invasion of Britain took place in 55 BC, after a rapid and successful initial conquest of Gaul, in part as an exploratory expedition to see the land across the sea, and more practically to try to put an end to the reinforcements sent across by the native Britons to fight the Romans in Gaul.

His successors managed to cling to power until the last known Indo-Greek ruler, a king named Strato II, who ruled in the Punjab region until around 55 BC.

In 55 BC, after the Triumvirate met at the Lucca Conference, he was again consul with Pompey, and a law was passed assigning the provinces of the two Hispanias and Syria to Pompey and Crassus respectively for five years.

* 55 BC – Second consulship of Crassus and Pompey.

* Lucretius, Latin philosopher and poet ( d. c. 55 BC )

Year 55 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 55 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.

Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.

Britannicus was secretly poisoned on Nero ’ s orders during a banquet in February 55.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.

It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon ( 208 l ) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called " Rainbow Herbicides ".

Animal species diversity was also significantly impacted: in one study, a Harvard biologist found 24 species of birds and 5 species of mammals in a sprayed forest, while in two adjacent sections of unsprayed forest there were 145 and 170 species of birds and 30 and 55 species of mammals.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

The P < small >< sub > k </ sub ></ small > ( kill probability ) of the AIM-7E was less than 10 %; US fighter pilots shot down 55 aircraft using the Sparrow.

For comparison, Internet penetration in the Ukraine was 33. 7 %, in Romania 35. 5 %, Russia 42. 8 %, and Serbia 55. 9 %.

The percentage was highest in Labourd and Soule ( 55. 5 % speakers ) and lowest in the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz conurbation ( 8. 8 %).

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40. 6 %, 55. 9 % was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3. 5 % was 65 years or older

The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40. 4 %, 55. 6 % was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 4 % was 65 years or older

The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40. 9 %, 55. 3 % was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3. 8 % was 65 years or older

The Paleocene – Eocene Thermal Maximum of 55. 8 mya was a significant global warming event.

The racial makeup of the city was 96. 55 % White, 0. 21 % Black or African American, 0. 92 % Native American, 0. 63 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 28 % from other races, and 1. 38 % from two or more races.

The population was 55, 274 at the 2010 census.