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The sambuca (Ancient Greek: σαμβύκη) [1] was a ship-borne siege engine which was invented by Heracleides of Tarentum [2] and was first used unsuccessfully by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 BC. [3] Polybius describes usage of the machine: As well as these vessels he had eight quinqueremes in pairs ...
Meadow Well, also known as Meadowell or the Ridges, is a district of North Shields, North East England. Historically in Northumberland, it is now part of the Tyne and Wear Metropolitan county. The population in 2016 was approximately 11,000. [1]
Sambuca; Irish cream; Served: Neat: undiluted and without ice: Standard garnish: Cherry (optional) Standard drinkware: Shot glass: Commonly used ingredients (1 part) Sambuca (1 part) Baileys Irish Cream; Preparation: Pour the sambuca into a shot glass, then pour the Irish Cream on top so that the two liquids do not mix.
Colonial House, North Shields was a seamen's hostel catering for non-white seamen from the colonies of the British Empire, located at 3 Northumberland Place, North Shields. [1]
North Shields is a town on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula, overlooking Boston Bay in Spencer Gulf in South Australia. [3] It is 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Port Lincoln. [2] The Lincoln Highway runs north-south through the town. Port Lincoln Airport is located at North Shields, close to its boundary with Point Boston. [4]
Dr. Leila Myrick had only read about measles in medical school before a girl with the telltale rash turned up in her West Texas emergency room in late January. Myrick, a 38-year-old family ...
Many ships have been blown on to the Black Middens and wrecked – five ships during three days of storms in 1864, whose wrecks resulted in 34 deaths within close sight of the shore. [1] In order to mitigate such disasters, the Lights of North Shields were constructed in 1536 on the orders of Henry VIII , to guide mariners into the river.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate running for New York City mayor, is emerging as a serious contender, a new poll claims. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post