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Scott Grimando

Scott Grimando is an artist whose work includes the cover of Hannibal's Children.


183 BC

Hannibal, Carthaginian statesman, military commander and tactician, one of history's great military leaders, who has commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome in the Second Punic War (b. 247 BC)

203 BC

Hasdrubal Gisco persuades the Carthaginians to raise a new army and to send for Hannibal to return home from Italy.

America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus

Filled with a rotating collection of hands-on interactive exhibits, the StoryBus transports children inside the worlds of favorite children's stories, such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Antoni Canals

His best humanist work: Raonament fet entre Scipió e Aníbal (Dialogue that was made between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal), which in fact is a free translation of the seventh book of Petrarch's Africa, with interpolations that are based on other authors.

Any Number Can Die

It starred Nicholas (Chuck), Colette Bablon (Judy), Susan Kaslow (Zenia), Charles Dickens (Roger Masters), Victoria Camargo (Celia Lathrop), M. Emmet Walsh (T.J. Lathrop), Peter von Mayrhauser (Edgars), Elizabeth Franz (Ernestine Wintergreen), Barbara Greacen (Sally VanViller), Anthony Dingman (Carter Forstman), Nick Masi Jr. (Jack Regent), and Fred Carmichael (Hannibal Hix).

Armageddon's Children

A group of children, the Ghosts, hide out in the ruins of downtown Seattle.

He secretly sees Tessa, a girl from the nearby compound at Safeco Field, though they are forbidden to be together by compound law.

Battle of Cissa

If Hanno somehow had won the battle, it might have been possible for Hannibal to get reinforcements from Barcid Iberia as early as 217 BC.

Battle of Mendaza

Zumalacárregui attempted to follow a plan of battle similar to that enacted by Hannibal at Cannae: he would allow enemy forces to drive themselves into a large arc — whereupon the Carlist infantry, positioned on the flanks in the forests of Holm oaks on the mountain of Dos Hermanas, would encircle the main body of Liberal infantry and destroy it.

Britten's Children

Britten's Children is a scholarly 2006 book by John Bridcut that describes the English composer Benjamin Britten's relationship with several adolescent boys.

Carlos Sayadyan

Carlos was only 13 when he was awarded the first prize at an exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Soviet Armenia while still attending H. Kojoyan’s Children’s Fine Arts School.

Conquests of Hannibal

In 210 BC, Hannibal again proved his superiority in tactics by inflicting a severe defeat at Herdoniac (modern Ordona) in Apulia upon a proconsular army, and in 208 BC destroyed a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri Epizephyri.

Danielle de Niese

Ridley Scott's 2001 film Hannibal features a scene from Dante's La Vita Nuova; in it, de Niese sings as the character Beatrice the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.

Francis Charles Massingberd

The previous summer, together with his friend William Ralph Churton, he had accompanied Thomas Arnold in a visit to Italy to determine the line of Hannibal's passage over the Alps, and to explore the battlefields of his campaign, for the purposes of Arnold's Roman History.

Gregg Andrews

A largely immigrant community, Ilasco was a suburb of Hannibal, Missouri, and was also the location of the cave made famous in Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Hannibal Kimball

Kimball was the father of American printer Ingalls Kimball, born April 2, 1874 with the same full name, Hannibal Ingalls Kimball.

Hannibal, Missouri

Larry Thompson, Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George W. Bush

Hanno the Elder

Hanno received the reinforcements landed by Bomilcar, the leading Carthaginian admiral, consisting of 4,000 cavalry and 40 elephants, near Locri and joined Hannibal near Nola later that year.

Heinrich Hannibal

Heinrich Hannibal was born on 19 November 1889 in Söllingen into a farming family.

In Search of the Pope's Children

He then made the claim that 87% of Ireland's exports generated by multinational companies such as Microsoft, Apple Computer, Dell, Intel, and Google, implying that decisions made in New York boardrooms have a far greater effect on the Irish economy than decisions made in the Dáil.

Insubres

During the invasion of Hannibal of 218-217 BC, the Insubres rebelled in support of the Carthaginians.

Ja'net Dubois

Dubois won an CableACE Award for her work on the TV movie Other Women's Children based on the novel by Perri Klass, and she also two Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs.

Lee Feinswog

Feinswog worked as a sportswriter for the Hannibal, Missouri Courier-Post in 1978 and was sports editor for the Raytown, Missouri, weekly group until 1981.

Ludovico Trevisan

An account of his victory is also available in an important contemporary war poem, Trophaeum Anglaricum by Florentine humanist Leonardo Dati, which praises Trevisan's caution as much as his impetuosity, comparing him to captains of antiquity such as Alexander the Great and Hannibal.

On Hannibal's Trail

On Hannibal's Trail is a history and travel BBC television series in which three Australian brothers - Danny, Ben and Sam Wood - set out cycling on the trail of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who marched from Spain to Rome at the head of an invading army accompanied by elephants.

Pappa Ante Portas

The title "Pappa ante portas" alludes to Hannibal ante portas! ("Hannibal before the gates!"), an often-cited Roman call referring to Carthaginian commander Hannibal on its way to Rome to conquer it in 211.

Philinus

Philinus of Agrigentum (3rd century BC), historian who accompanied Hannibal in his campaigns against Rome

Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus

Galba was given the task of holding the comitia elections and to possibly prevent the consul Gnaeus Servilius Caepio from crossing over to Africa to confront Hannibal.

PVR Pictures

In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

Samuel Oschin

He was a noted adventure traveller, retracing Robert Peary's voyage to the North Pole, paddling up the Amazon in a dugout canoe, and crossing the Alps on an elephant following the model of Hannibal.

Saturday's Children

Warners originally cast Priscilla Lane in the lead but Garfield was sure that the Lane Sisters would somehow have to be written in as well.

Second Punic War

After Cannae, several south Italian allies immediately went over to Hannibal: the Apulian towns of Salapia, Arpi and Herdonia and many of the Lucanians.

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus established his headquarters at Cissa, in the midst of Hannibal's latest acquisition, the area between Ebro and Pyrenees.

Serpentor

He was conceived as the perfect warrior, extracted from the unearthed remains of some of the greatest generals of all time--Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo and Egyptian general Xanuth Amon-Toth.

Small Voices: The Stories of Cambodia's Children

After Saigonell, the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and killed 1.7 Million people in a former high school also known as S21 that also included rape, torture and a living hell.

State Express 555

The brand is cited in Salman Rushdie's post-colonial novel Midnight's Children, where it is, however, mis-attributed to the former British importer and manufacturer W.D. & H.O. Wills: Rushdie later explains this as symptomatic of an 'unreliable narrative' device in his essay on the book's 'errata'.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

The Widow’s Children

The Widow’s Children is a novel by American writer Paula Fox, first published in 1976.

Titus Quinctius Flamininus

In 183 BC he was sent to negotiate with Prusias I of Bithynia in an attempt to capture Hannibal, who had been exiled there from Carthage, but Hannibal committed suicide to avoid being taken prisoner.

To Our Children's Children's Children

#"Legend of a Mind" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:37

U.S. Route 36 in Illinois

U.S. 36 parallels the old Wabash Railroad from the Mississippi River at Hannibal, MO east to Decatur, IL.

Uncle Tom's Children

The Harper Perennial edition of Wright's novel Black Boy, under the heading 'Books by Richard Wright', misprints "Uncle Tom's Children" as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

WGEM-DT3

Known on-air as WGEM Fox, the station can also be seen on Mediacom channel 2 in Iowa, US Cable channel 12 in Missouri, and Comcast channel 18 in Illinois.

William Brockedon

In 1824 he made an excursion to the Alps for the purpose of investigating the route of Hannibal, and the idea of publishing Illustrations of the Passes occurred to him.

Wound Man

In the 1980 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, it is mentioned that Will Graham was tipped off to the fact that Hannibal Lecter was a murderer from this diagram, and a further reference to the diagram is made by the character Clarice Starling in the sequel novel Hannibal.

Zakaria Zubeidi

In 2004, Mer-Khamis completed a documentary film about the group, Arna's Children.

Zamora Cathedral

The Cathedral Museum, in the 17th century cloister, is notable particularly for its fine Flemish tapestries of the 15th-17th centuries depicting scenes from the Trojan War, Hannibal's Italian campaign and the life of Tarquin, the Etruscan king of Rome.


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