When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Battle of Lake Trasimene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Trasimene

    The shoreline has changed since, but at the time of the battle, the road led along the north shore of the lake then turned south, still along the lakeshore, before climbing away from the lake through a defile. To the north of the road were a range of low hills that came closer to the lake towards the east, steadily reducing the open ground ...

  3. Livy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy

    Titus Livius (Latin: [ˈtɪtʊs ˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy (/ ˈ l ɪ v i / LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own ...

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations

    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers for NYT's Tricky ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/connections-hints-answers-nyts...

    Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #206 on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Connections game on Wednesday, January 3 , 2024 New York Times

  6. Roman roads - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads

    Roman road builders aimed at a regulation width (see Laws and traditions above), but actual widths have been measured at between 3.6 feet (1.1 metres) and more than 23 feet (7.0 metres). Today, the concrete has worn from the spaces around the stones, giving the impression of a very bumpy road, but the original practice was to produce a surface ...

  7. List of Milton Bradley Company products - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Milton_Bradley...

    High School Musical 3 Mystery Date Game (2008) Hit the Beach (American Heritage magazine) 1961-1965; The Hobbit: The Adventures of Bilbo in Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings (1978) Hopalong Cassidy Game (1950) Hotel (1986) Hotel Tycoon (1974) The Houndcats Game (1973) Huckleberry Hound (1981) Huckleberry Hound Tiddledy Winks Tennis (1959)

  8. History of Rome (Livy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_(Livy)

    The History of Rome originally comprised 142 "books", 35 of which—Books 1–10 with the Preface and Books 21–45—still exist in reasonably complete form. [1] Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in large gaps in Books 41 and 43–45 (small lacunae exist elsewhere); that is, the material is not covered in any source of Livy's text.

  9. Hannibal's crossing of the Alps - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal's_crossing_of_the...

    After the final Carthaginian naval defeat at the Aegates Islands, [3] the Carthaginians surrendered in the First Punic War. [4] Hamilcar Barca (Barca meaning lightning), [5] a leading member of the patriotic Barcine party in Carthage and a general in the First Punic War, sought to remedy the losses that Carthage had suffered in Sicily to the Romans.