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, 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.

As Aston Martin required greater investment, he also agreed to sell his share holding to American importer and Greek shipping tycoon Peter Livanos, who invested via his joint venture company with Nick and John Papanicalou, ALL Inc. Gauntlett remained chairman of the AML company 55 % owned by ALL, with Tickford a 50 / 50 venture between ALL and CHI.

Epictetus (; AD 55 – AD 135 ) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

Analysis of the electrum composition in ancient Greek coinage dating from about 600 BC shows that the gold composition was about 55. 5 % in the coinage issued by Phocaea.

Neith also was one of the three tutelary deities of the ancient Egyptian southern city of Ta-senet or Iunyt now known as Esna ( Arabic: إسنا ), Greek: Λατόπολις ( Latopolis ), or πόλις Λάτων ( Polis Laton ), or Λάττων ( Laton ); Latin: Lato ), which is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor, in the modern Qena Governorate.

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

At the age of 55, Anna took it upon herself to finish her husband's work, calling the completed work the Alexiad, the history of her father's life and reign ( 1081 – 1118 ) in Greek.

In 57 – 55 BCE, Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Samaria, and Judea, with five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin ( Greek: συνέδριον, " synedrion "): " And when he had ordained five councils ( συνέδρια ), he distributed the nation into the same number of parts.

At 07: 55, the Trento group encountered Admiral Pridham-Wippell's cruiser group south of the Greek island of Gavdos.

It does not include OpenType features and kerning, but it adds support to Latin Extended-B and Greek characters, with Frutiger 55 supporting extra IPA characters, spacing modifier letters.

Started in 1872 and re-established in 1922 by Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Sorority ; the MSU Greek system now consists of 55 Greek lettered student societies.

After 55 BC and probably before 48 BC, Burebista conquered the Black Sea shore, subjugating the Greek fortresses from Olbia to Apollonia, as well as the Danubian Plain all the way to the Balkans.

According to Diogenes Laertius, Solon “ diminished the honours paid to Athletes who were victorious in the games, fixing the prize for a victor at Olympia at five hundred drachmae, and for one who conquered at the Isthmian games at one hundred ” ( Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Philosophers 1. 55: Solon ; Greek ).

The term Deltic ( meaning in the form of the Greek letter Delta ) is used to refer to both the Deltic E. 130 opposed-piston high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as ( TOPS ) Class 55.

* Greek National Road 55: Xanthi-Kotyli-Bulgaria

A minority of ( Alexandrian, Western ) Greek manuscripts in Matthew 13: 55 read " Joseph " ( Ἰωσήφ ) the standard spelling of the name.

Examples include the Dodecanese union set ( twenty-three values released between 1947 and 1951 ), the Marshall Plan set ( six values, 1951 ), the National products set ( seven values, 1953 ), the ancient art series ( 1954 – 55, 1958 – 60 ), the ancient coins series ( 1959, 1963 ), the tourist publicity set ( seventeen values, 1961 ), the King Paul set ( ten values, 1964 ), the labors of Hercules set ( eleven values, 1970 ), the national costumes series ( 1972 – 74 ), the Homer's epics set ( fifteen values, 1983 ), the capitals of prefectures series ( 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 ), the Greek dances set ( 2002 ) and the Greek islands series ( 2004, 2006 ).

* Greek Catholic: 89, 149 ( 55, 0 %)

* Greek Orthodox: 215, 904 ( 55, 9 %)

* Greek Orthodox: 230, 907 ( 55, 7 %)

* Greek Orthodox: 55 ( 0, 0 %)

In 1941: 203, 438 Hungarians, 18, 879 Slovaks, 2581 Bunjevacs, 904 Germans, 623 Roma, 256 Ruthenians, 72 Romanians, 3 Croatians, 105 other ; 140, 377 Roman Catholics, 45, 384 Protestants, 22, 476 Greek Catholics, 14, 764 Jewish, 4773 Evangelicals, 339 Greek Orthodox, 116 Baptists and 55 Unitarians.