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Triumvirate
Triumvirate , in ancient Rome, ruling board or commission of three men. Triumvirates were common in the Roman republic. The First Triumvirate was the alliance of Julius Caesar , Pompey , and Marcus Licinius Crassus formed in 60 BC This was not strictly a triumvirate, since the alliance had no ...
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Antony
Antony or Marc Antony, Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 BC-30 BC, Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar . Antony was notorious from his youth for riotous living, but even his enemies admitted his courage.
Antony and Caesar
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro 116 BC-27? BC, Roman man of letters. Known as the most erudite man and the most prolific writer of his times, Varro is estimated to have written about 620 volumes. He served as Pompey's legate in Spain and fought at Pharsalus, but was reconciled with Caesar, who made him dire...
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Augustus
Augustus , 63 BC-AD 14, first Roman emperor, a grandson of the sister of Julius Caesar . Named at first Caius Octavius, he became on adoption by the Julian gens (44 BC) Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian); Augustus was a title of honor granted (27 BC) by the senate.
The Second Triumvira...
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Boer Wars
Boer Wars (or South African Wars, Anglo-Boer Wars, First and Second Wars of Freedom) (1880–81; 1899–1902) Wars fought between Britain and Transvaal and between Britain and Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The first arose from the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and the ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-82, American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he created a new body of romantic American legends. Descended from an established New England family, after college he spent t...
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), 100? BC-44 BC, Roman statesman and general.
Rise to Power
Although he was born into the Julian gens, one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, Caesar was always a member of the democratic or popular party. He benefited from the patronage of his unc...
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Cicero
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) or Tully, 106 BC-43 BC, greatest Roman orator, famous also as a politician and a philosopher.
Life
Cicero studied law and philosophy at Rome, Athens, and Rhodes. His political posts included those of curule aedile (69 BC), praetor (66 BC), and consul (...
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Artur da Costa e Silva
Artur da Costa e Silva , 1902-69, president of Brazil (1967-69). An army general, he participated in the 1964 coup that deposed President João Goulart . He served as war minister (1964-66) under President Humberto Castelo Branco and succeeded him in office. As president, he rejected the ca...
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev
Lev Borisovich Kamenev , 1883-1936, Soviet Communist leader. His original name was Rosenfeld. He joined (1901) the Social Democratic party and sided with the Bolshevik wing when the party split (1903). Banished (1915) to Siberia for his revolutionary activities, he returned after the February Revolu...
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