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The New York City Municipal Archives preserves and makes available more than 10 million historical vital records (birth, marriage and death certificates) for all five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island). Researchers have open access to the indexes, and both microfilmed and digital copies of vital records on-site ...
Caesar updated the calendar so as to minimize the number of lost days due to the prior calendar's imprecision regarding the exact amount of time in a solar year. Caesar also renamed the fifth month (also the month of his birth) in the Roman calendar July, in his honor (Roman years started in March, not January as they do under the current ...
Caesarean section — Though popularly believed to be named after Julius Caesar, the term derives from Latin caedere, meaning "to cut". The procedure has no historical link to Caesar's birth. [63] [64] Caesaropapism — The term is composed of two parts: Caesar, derived from the cognomen of Caesar, and Papism. [65]
Jasper W. Gilbert (1812–1899), justice of the New York Supreme Court; Alex Haley (1921–1992), author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, 1963–1968 [1] Mark Hapka, actor, Days Of Our Lives; John B. Jervis, leading U.S. civil engineer of early 19th century, designer of Croton Aqueduct, High Bridge of New York City, and 4-2-0 railroad ...
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
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His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome , politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.