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Julius Caesar Primary Source - HOME Julius Caesar Primary Source Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars includes the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliability. His biographies cover the ancestry and career of each emperor in turn; however, his interest is not so much analytical or historical, but anecdotal and salacious -- which gives rise to a lively and provocative succession of portraits. The account of Julius Caesar does not simply mention his crossing of the Rubicon and ...
Debt Reduction Forum - HOME Debt Reduction Forum Post-HIPC Debt Sustainability and Commonwealth HIPCs The debt problem facing poor countries has been at the heart of Commonwealth concerns since the 1980s. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative has made important strides in providing comprehensive debt relief to the world's poorest, most heavily indebted countries, cutting the total external debt of 26 out of the 42 eligible countries by two-thirds. The report presents discussions held at the 2003 Dar es Salaam HIPC Ministerial Forum and calls for a number of actions to deal with both immediate concerns and the issues surrounding long-term debt sustainability in HIPCs ...
Marble Blast Gold - HOME Marble Blast Gold Best Of Unsolved Mysteries, The (Full Frame) "The Best Of" Collection includes 3 discs with 23 of the best segments, including: 4 Ghost stories (Available on DVD for the first time) plus "Ghost Boy," "Elvis's Last Night," "Roswell," "Frightened Family," "Mexico UFO," "Sleepwalking," "Texas Most Wanted," "After Death Visits" and "Campus Murder Expose & Update," and more! Disc Episodes Include: Disc 1 - "Allagash Abductions;" "Lucky School;" "Life After Lightning;" "Elvis's Last Night;" "(New) Fritz And The Soldiers;" "Ghost Boy" and "Scared To Death." Disc 2 - "(New) Goldies Girl;" "Brandon Lee;" "Black Hope Curse;" "Twins;" "Fertility Statues;" "Lucky Choir" and "Colorado Cop ...
Male Organ - HOME Male Organ XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience by Judith Rafaela, The title reflects the biological marker of maleness, the "XY" chromosome.The poetic documentary of 170 poems celebrates the complex lives of men at the end of the twentieth century. The poets, male and female, young and old, straight, gay, adopted personas, and ethnically diverse have written about masculine myths, mysteries, and every day life with honesty and tenderness. The book is organized into files representing facets of the male experience: work, love, fathers and sons, outdoor life, the body, risk taking, archetypes, elegies and what men talk about. The editors note that ...
Oil Painting of Child - HOME Oil Painting of Child Painting and Drawing Children by John Norton, In this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, one of the great children's portraitists covers every aspect of painting and drawing children. He starts by showing how children's anatomy differs from that of adults and telling how to get to know the child. Further chapters are devoted to the artist's studio and equipment; preliminary sketches; planning the portrait; developing a likeness; finished portrait drawings; color and composition; pastel portraits, watercolor portraits, oil sketches, and finished oil portraits; and framing and hanging the portrait. The final chapter considers fees, exhibitions, agents, public relations, and ...
Ashoka Emperor - HOME Ashoka Emperor Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, The reign of Emperor Yongle, or "Perpetual Happiness" -- which began with civil war and a bloody coup, and saw the construction of the Forbidden City, completion of the Grand Canal, and consolidation of the imperial bureaucracy -- was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. In 1368 Yongle's father, the Buddhist monk Zhu Yuanzhang, led the rebels who reclaimed China from the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty and reigned for 30 years as Emperor Hongwu, establishing the Ming dynasty. But Yongle (Zhu Di, 1360-1424) did not directly succeed his ...
Colosseum Rome - HOME Colosseum Rome Access Rome With Access Rome, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Vatican City, and the magnificence and charm of a city in perennial bloom are at your fingertips. Rome has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed. Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best: hotels restaurants Attractions Shopping sights Parks and Outdoor Spaces Large, easy-to-read maps show where each of these numbered listings are located -- ensuring that you will instantly find what you must not miss. Chronicle of the Roman ...
Ancient History Rome - HOME Ancient History Rome The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World by Greg Woolf, From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its fall in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that would be hard to overestimate. Written for the general reader by leading international scholars, this new illustrated history examines Rome's sense of self and its place in the wider world. It vividly explores a broad range of topics, including religion, Rome's relationship with Greece, warfare and Empire, and science and culture. Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Greg ...
Annuity Life Insurance Lead - HOME Annuity Life Insurance Lead The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement by Jeffrey R. Brown, Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that they exhaust their resources. This book examines the role that life annuities can play in helping people protect themselves against such outcomes.A life annuity is an insurance product that ...
Debt Reduction Forum - HOME Debt Reduction Forum Post-HIPC Debt Sustainability and Commonwealth HIPCs The debt problem facing poor countries has been at the heart of Commonwealth concerns since the 1980s. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative has made important strides in providing comprehensive debt relief to the world's poorest, most heavily indebted countries, cutting the total external debt of 26 out of the 42 eligible countries by two-thirds. The report presents discussions held at the 2003 Dar es Salaam HIPC Ministerial Forum and calls for a number of actions to deal with both immediate concerns and the issues surrounding long-term debt sustainability in HIPCs ...
Debt Reduction Forum - HOME Debt Reduction Forum Post-HIPC Debt Sustainability and Commonwealth HIPCs The debt problem facing poor countries has been at the heart of Commonwealth concerns since the 1980s. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative has made important strides in providing comprehensive debt relief to the world's poorest, most heavily indebted countries, cutting the total external debt of 26 out of the 42 eligible countries by two-thirds. The report presents discussions held at the 2003 Dar es Salaam HIPC Ministerial Forum and calls for a number of actions to deal with both immediate concerns and the issues surrounding long-term debt sustainability in HIPCs ...
Annuity Life Insurance Lead - HOME Annuity Life Insurance Lead The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement by Jeffrey R. Brown, Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that they exhaust their resources. This book examines the role that life annuities can play in helping people protect themselves against such outcomes.A life annuity is an insurance product that ...
Masturbation and Christianity - HOME Masturbation and Christianity Every Young Man's Battle Guide: Weapons for the War Against Sexual Temptation by Stephen Arterburn, It's handy, it's powerful, it's designed specifically for older teenage boys and young adult men: " Every Young Man's Battle Guide reflects the same format and purpose as "Every Man's Battle Guide, but with a distinctive approach designed for a younger audience. Young men struggling with sexual temptation, masturbation, Internet or video pornography, and other situations will find this collection of 520 Scripture passages, along with stories, advice, and comments from the authors' books, to be a vital part of their arsenal ...
Debt Reduction Forum - HOME Debt Reduction Forum Post-HIPC Debt Sustainability and Commonwealth HIPCs The debt problem facing poor countries has been at the heart of Commonwealth concerns since the 1980s. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative has made important strides in providing comprehensive debt relief to the world's poorest, most heavily indebted countries, cutting the total external debt of 26 out of the 42 eligible countries by two-thirds. The report presents discussions held at the 2003 Dar es Salaam HIPC Ministerial Forum and calls for a number of actions to deal with both immediate concerns and the issues surrounding long-term debt sustainability in HIPCs ...
The Twelve Caesars (Unabridged) : From the dignified grace of Augustus to the cruel debauchery of Nero, this history chronicles all the vices ...
Lives of the Twelve Caesars : Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the ext...
The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) : Author: Suetonius/ Graves, Robert/ Grant, Michael. Number of Pages: 363. Published On: 2003/04/01. Language:...
Lives Of The Caesars (Oxford World S Classics) (Paperback) : Author: Suetonius/ Edwards, Catharine (EDT)/ Edwards, Catharine. Number of Pages: 392. Published On: 2001/03...