coastguard
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coastguard, a service most maritime nations operate to patrol and guard their coastlines, to prevent
smuggling, and to supervise
traffic separation schemes and coastal shipping. In 1822 a British organization, known as the Coast Guard, was formed to prevent smuggling. After a period under the
Admiralty it became, in 1925, an independent service, as Her Majesty's (HM) Coastguard, and is now part of the
Maritime and Coastguard Agency. HM Coastguard's specific responsibility is coordinating and helping mount SAR (search and rescue) operations, both at sea and on the coastline, with the help of other
lifesaving organizations, Ministry of Defence helicopters, and any other of the emergency services they need to call on. See also
national coastwatch institution;
us coast guard. Webb, W. ,
Coastguard (1975).
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According to the biographers.(Julius Caesar according to Plutarch and Suetonius)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...ancient biographers--Plutarch and Suetonius. One a Greek and the other a Roman, both Plutarch and Suetonius lived and wrote around the time of the...were the questions that Plutarch and Suetonius asked and tried to answer. Plutarch...
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A borrowing from Suetonius's Life of Caligula in Lyly's Midas.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...passage dates back to the Roman Empire: Suetonius's Life of Caligula. He writes of the...those whom he had doomed to death" (Suetonius 491). What the Caligulan echo suggests...Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon, 1902. Suetonius. Trans. J. C. Rolfe. Vol. 2. Cambridge...
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Sex, Power and Betrayal: 'Twelve Caesars' Still Compelling
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...to the original, as written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, chief secretary to the...Fear not. A brilliant translation of Suetonius is easily available, in what Gore Vidal...decades earlier had leaned heavily on Suetonius in writing his immensely successful historical...
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Early questions about Jesus.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...his Life of Claudius, the biographer Suetonius says that the emperor expelled the Jews...in that case, we would have expected Suetonius to say who the fellow was, at the very...relevant Greek vowels. On this reckoning, Suetonius (who elsewhere praises Nero for persecuting...
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For the serious student.(History--Rome)
Magazine article from: The New American; 2/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the first century A.D., Tacitus and Suetonius, both make grim if informative reading...Tacitus' scandalous counterpart, Suetonius, is not for all tastes. Where Tacitus...over the baser acts of his subjects, Suetonius unstintingly describes perversities that...
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/1/2005; ; 617 words
; ...In his Life of Horace, the historian Suetonius records the various attempts that Augustus...eminent emperor.'). Horace declined. Suetonius goes on that Augustus continued to try...reason why Augustus was so keen was, as Suetonius goes on, because 'he rated Horace...
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On Earth as in Heaven: there is plenty of non-Gospel evidence to prove that Jesus did exist.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of Jesus outside the New Testament." Suetonius in his life of the emperor Claudius...case, though, we would have expected Suetonius to say who the fellow was. at the very...e" and "i." On this reckoning, Suetonius both accepted Christ's existence and...
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The real Claudius.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...Roman biographer and antiquarian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (75-160), a former secretary...had access to the imperial archive. Suetonius viewed world history from 49BC to AD96...merely consulted Tacitus's Annals and Suetonius's 12 Caesars, run them together and...
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`Rome' doesn't go by the book.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...name only, at least. The historian Suetonius wrote that Brutus' mother, Servilia...that Caesar accepted as his own - though Suetonius reported rumors that the child was not...the real Atia appears to be slight. Suetonius blames the son-in-law's death on...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Archaeologists unveil ruins of Nero's rotating banquet hall
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 9/30/2009; ; 687 words
; ...said. Latin biographer and historian Suetonius, who chronicled his times and wrote...might have been the one mentioned by Suetonius, who wrote of ivory panels sliding back...Colosseum, Bottini said. Described by Suetonius as one of Rome's most cruel, depraved...
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 70-ca. 135) was a Roman administrator...Born probably at Hippo Regius (Bone) in North Africa, Suetonius belonged to a wealthy family of Italian origin and equestrian...
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Suetonius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Suetonius (Caius Suetonius Tranquillus) , c.AD 69-c.AD 140, Roman biographer. Little...anecdotes, and the resultant biographies are lively and informative. Suetonius was taken as a model by many later biographers.
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Suetonius Paullinus
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Suetonius Paullinus Governor of Britain 58–61. A native of Umbria...campaigning in Wales. When news came of the Boudiccan revolt in East Anglia, Suetonius reached London with his cavalry, but could not save it or Verulamium...
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Suetonius Paulinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Suetonius Paulinus see Paulinus .
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Caligula
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...x2014; hiding what his biographer Suetonius calls Caligula's "natural cruelty...to have seriously affected his mind. Suetonius claims that, after the illness, Caligula...source is the biography of Caligula in Suetonius's The Lives of the Twelve Caesars...
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