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  2. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    Some publications have transitioned to using it exclusively. For example, the 2007 World Almanac was the first edition to switch to BCE/CE, ending a period of 138 years in which the traditional BC/AD dating notation was used. BCE/CE is used by the College Board in its history tests, [59] and by the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Others ...

  3. BCE (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    BCE is an abbreviation meaning Before Common Era, an alternative to the use of BC. BCE, B.C.E. or bce may also refer to: Bachelor of Civil Engineering; Banco Central del Ecuador; Basic Chess Endings, a book by Reuben Fine; BCE Inc., formerly Bell Canada Enterprises; BCE Place, Toronto, Canada, later Brookfield Place

  4. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 13

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    Another issue is that authorities differ on use of BCE. Some people use it interchangeably with BC. Some academics, however, (notably a certain prehistorian in my department), insist there is a year 0 CE (but not AD 0, 0 BC, or 0 BCE), meaning that if someone writes 404 BCE, it is ambiguous as to whether they meant 404 BC or 405 BC.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, articles (including biographical articles) on the modern US military should use DMY dates, in accordance with US military usage. In articles without strong ties to a particular English-speaking country, the choice of date format ... is controlled by WP:DATERET; is unrelated to the topic's ties to particular countries; and

  6. 1st century BC - Wikipedia

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    The 1st century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "2 BC" is equal to "year –1". 1st century AD (Anno Domini) follows.

  7. 4th century BC - Wikipedia

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    A Han dynasty Chinese crossbow from the 2nd century BCE. Oldest Brahmi script dates from this period. Brāhmī is the ancestor of Brahmic scripts, used in much of India and Southeast Asia. Romans build their first aqueduct. Chinese use the handheld trigger crossbow for the first time. The first crossbow, the gastraphetes, is invented at ...

  8. List of English translations of De rerum natura - Wikipedia

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    Its earliest published translation into any language (French) did not occur until 1650; in English — although earlier partial or unpublished translations exist — the first complete translation to be published was that of Thomas Creech, in heroic couplets, in 1682. Only a few more English translations appeared over the next two centuries ...

  9. Concrete poetry - Wikipedia

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    Such shaped poetry was popular in Greek Alexandria during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, although only the handful which were collected together in the Greek Anthology now survive. Examples include poems by Simmias of Rhodes in the shape of an egg, [2] wings [3] and a hatchet, [4] as well as Theocritus' pan-pipes. [5]