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In the summer of 68 BC Lucullus resumed the war against Tigranes, crossing the Anti-Taurus Range in a long march through very difficult mountain country directed at the old Armenian capital Artaxata.
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Maximum temperature ranges from 5 – 10 ° C ( 41 – 50 ° F ) in the winter to 20 – 25 ° C ( 68 – 77 ° F ) in the summer, although temperatures have been known to reach 35 ° C ( 95 ° F ) in recent years.
A mean summer temperature of at least 20 ° C ( 68 ° F ) is considered necessary to produce tolerable wine, but in ordinary seasons this is much exceeded in many of the great valleys of the Alps.
This has an obvious attraction in the summer, when the sea reaches temperatures up to 20 ° Celsius ( 68 ° F ).
On completion of his studies in political science and international relations, he taught and held administrative offices in various universities: teaching assistant and research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1960 – 62 ); visiting lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ( summer 1962 ); assistant professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, ( fall 1962 ); lecturer / senior lecturer, University of Ibadan, where he became professor ( 1965 – 88 ), head of department ( 1965 – 72 ), and dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences ( 1966 – 68 ); Cadbury Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Birmingham Center for West African Studies, Birmingham, UK ( 1972 – 73 ); founding vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria ( 1975 – 79 ); visiting professor and head of department ; dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Development Studies ; and member of the Governing Council, all of the University of Cross River State, Uyo, Nigeria ( 1984 – 86 ).
Health problems with his spleen and trouble adjusting to wearing contact lenses meant that Boycott missed the tour of Pakistan in 1967 – 68, but he returned to the team by the summer of 1969, scoring 128 against the West Indies at Old Trafford, and another century at Lord's.
The waters experiences lows of 68 – 72 ° F ( 20 – 22 ° C ) in winter, and highs of 75 – 82 ° F ( 24 – 28 ° C ) during the summer months.
A rough cut of the film was previewed for audiences in Los Angeles in the summer of ' 68 under the name of " Movee Untitled ".
The ocean temperature ranges between 12 and 20 degrees Celsius ( 54 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit ) in the summer and falls to between 0. 5 and 4. 5 degrees Celsius ( 33 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit ) in the winter.
In the wet summer of 1888, Peel took 100 wickets for the first time and, on a series of sticky wickets, took 24 wickets for less than eight runs each in three Tests against Australia, including 11 for 68 in the deciding match at Old Trafford.
In the summer of 68, X Fretensis destroyed the monastery of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to have originated.
In the summer of 68 BC Lucullus marched against Tigranes and crossed the Anti-Taurus range heading for the old Armenian capital Artaxata.
In a match in the Pune summer league in 1957-58, he had a hand in all ten dismissals in addition to scoring 68 out of 117 allout.
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Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.
He spent the provincial command year summer 57 to summer 56 BC in Bithynia on the staff of the commander Gaius Memmius.
However, by the summer of 501 BC, the three hereditary families had succeeded in expelling Yang Hu from Lu.
After her funeral, in the spring or early summer of 69 BC, Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Spain.
Crassus was rising steadily up the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices held by Roman citizens seeking political power, when ordinary Roman politics were interrupted by two events – first, the Third Mithridatic War, and second, the Third Servile War, which was the organized two-year rebellion of Roman slaves under the leadership of Spartacus ( from summer 73 BC to spring 71 BC ).
Around 8300 BC the temperature rose drastically, now with summer temperatures around 15 degrees, and the landscape changed into dense forests of aspen, birch and pine and the reindeer moved north, while aurochs and elk arrived from the south.
Since Judean regnal years were measured from Tishri in the fall, this would place the end of his reign and the capture of the city in the summer of 586 BC.
This reckoning makes year 598 / 597 BC, the year Zedekiah was installed by Nebuchadnezzar according to Judah's Tishri-based calendar, to be year " one ," so that the fall of Jerusalem in his eleventh year would have been in year 588 / 587 BC, i. e. in the summer of 587 BC.
According to the Book of Jeremiah in the summer of 605 BC Carchemish was the site of an important battle was fought by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadrezzar II and that of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt.
It is not certain how Seleucus took Babylon from Docimus, but according to one Babylonian chronicle an important building was destroyed in the city during the summer or winter of 320 BC.
She was the mother of Ptolemy V. In summer, 204 BC she was murdered in a palace coup, shortly after her husband's own death.
Hamilcar, upon taking command in the summer of 247 BC, punished the rebellious mercenaries ( unruly because of overdue payment ) by murdering some of them at night and drowning the rest at sea, and dismissing many to Africa.
Artaxerxes V, also known as Bessus ( died summer 329 BC ) was a prominent Persian ( Iranian ) satrap of Bactria in Persia, and later self-proclaimed king of the Persian Empire.
Overcoming formidable resistance and the ingenious devices of Archimedes, the Romans finally took the city in the summer of 212 BC.
The 8-fold system of pa yin (" 8 sounds "), from the same source, occurred gradually, and in the legendary Emperor Shun's time ( 3rd millennium BC ) it is believed to have been presented in the following order: metal ( chin ), stone ( shih ), silk ( ssu ), bamboo ( chu ), gourd ( p ' ao ), clay ( t ' u ), leather ( ko ), and wood ( mu ) classes, and it correlated to the 8 seasons and 8 winds of Chinese culture, autumn and west, autumn-winter and NW, summer and south, spring and east, winter-spring and NE, summer-autumn and SW, winter and north, and spring-summer and SE, respectively ( Kartomi, 1990 ).
He began to transcribe the Old Persian portion of the trilingual inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ) written by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC.
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