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Mallya touch: Deccan to fly red & white all the way.
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Byline: Cuckoo Paul
Sep. 4--MUMBAI, India -- Air Deccan, the country's first and the largest low-cost carrier, will soon lose its tag as a common man's airline. Next month, UB Group, which acquired a 26 percent stake in the Bangalore-based airline in June, will push through a new identity and improved service standards.
The plan is to improve the flying experience and in turn command a higher price, thereby pulling the airline out of the red. UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya told ET, "Air Deccan will have a 'premium' look and feel, so that it changes into the ...
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Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality.(Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; Barnes, Timothy D. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of...a very thorough study of Ammianus Marcellinus, one of Rome's greatest...about him have evolved. In Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of...
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Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...14214-2 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Den Boeft, J. et al. Brill Academic Publishers...00 Book 25 of the Res Gestae is the final part of Ammianus' trilogy on the Persian expedition under Roman emperor...
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Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...9789004163461 Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI. Ed. by J. den Boeft et al. BRILL 2008 356...Hardcover PA6205 Having commented on earlier sections of Ammianus' history of Rome, Den Boft and colleagues here consider...
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Obituary: Professor Edward Thompson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...passage of the late fourth- century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, on whom he was to write his first book, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (1947). In 1945 Thompson moved to King's College...
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Trajan's Forum. (Book Reviews).(The Forum of Trajan in Rome -- A Study of the Monuments in Brief)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review
; ...forgotten. In the 4th century AD the historian Ammianus Marcellinus had called it 'a construction unique under the...illustrations, drawn by a variety of people, fully justify Marcellinus' judgement. This complex seems indeed the highpoint...
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ANTIQUITY PAUL CARTLEDGE CONSIDERS THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN ROME'S DECLINE AND FALL
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...and indeed almost only source is a contemporary, Ammianus Marcellinus, actually a Greek from Antioch who chose nevertheless...Atlantic fog'. And it is odd not once to be told that Ammianus was himself a pagan, who memorably regarded the behaviour...
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The BARBARIAN Threat.(ancient Roman empire)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...out of the east. The contemporary Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described them as a "prodigiously ugly" people who...charges with swords and javelins (short lances). Ammianus reported, "The barbarians poured on in huge columns...
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Rome's dark night of tyranny: when the republic fell, Rome entered the dark decline of empire. Only after centuries of misery under predominantly tyrannical emperors did Rome finally meet its end.(History--Rome)
Magazine article from: The New American
; ...lava from Etna," in the words of Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus--and set up encampments in Thrace. The occupying...decision of a weak and foolish emperor, and what Ammianus mournfully called the "tumultuous eagerness of those...
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Will the Sphinx at last reveal its deep secrets; DAY TWO OF A REMARKABLE SERIES WHICH REVEALS THAT THE GREAT PYRAMIDS COULD HOLD THE KEY TO A LOST CIVILISATION.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...lost civilisation. In the fourth century AD, no doubt picking up on such ancient beliefs, the Roman general Ammianus Marcellinus directed treasure-hunters to search for `certain underground galleries in the Pyramids', constructed as repositories...
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Lessons from the history boys
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...over to Antiquity, from Thucydides's immediate successors and Polybius down to "the last pagan historian", Ammianus Marcellinus - are of the highest quality. They are extraordinarily good for a non- specialist, even one who remembers his...
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