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Sign at 17.9 km on route SS4 Salaria, north of Rome, Italy. Roman numerals may also be used for floor numbering. [77] [78] For instance, apartments in central Amsterdam are indicated as 138-III, with both an Arabic numeral (number of the block or house) and a Roman numeral (floor number). The apartment on the ground floor is indicated as 138-huis.
0–9 Series is a 1989 series of ten compilation albums released by ABC for Kids. [1] It won the ARIA Award for Best Children's Album in 1990 [2] and was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Cover Art in the same year. [3] The ten albums are aimed at children of each age from 0 to 9: 0 (or Zzzero) for 0 year olds through to 9 (or Nine) for 9 ...
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
Romanos II was a son of the Emperor Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos and his wife Theodora. [1] The Theophanes Continuatus states that he was 21 years old at the time of his accession in 959, meaning that he was born in 938. [2]
Romanos the Melodist (Greek: Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Μελωδός; late 5th-century – after 555) was a Byzantine hymnographer and composer, [1] who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music.
Romanos derived his epithet, now usually treated as a family name, from his birthplace of Lakape (later Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata. [2] It is found mostly as Lakapenos in the sources, although English-language scholarship in particular prefers the form Lekapenos, in large part due to Sir Steven Runciman's 1928 study on the emperor. [3]