Siege of Constantinople: A horde of Avars about 80,000 men (including large contingents of Slavs, Bulgars, and other "barbarians") attack the walls of Constantinople. A small Persian army arrive on the Bosphorus on the Asiatic side. The Theodosian Walls are stormed with the most up-to-date siege equipment in the form of traction trebuchets. The Avars have also mobile armoured shelters (medieval 'sows') and siege towers, the latter are covered in hides for fire protection.The defense of the capital (12,000 well-trained Byzantine troops) is in the hands of patriarch Sergius I and Bonus (magister militum).
July 31– The Avars and Persian allies under Shahrbaraz launch an attack along the entire length of the Theodosian Walls (about 5.7 kilometre), the main effort is concentrated against the central section, particurarly the low-lying mesoteichion. After a fierce infantry battle on the walls, the Byzantine army hold off many assaults on the city. Emperor Heraclius makes arrangements for a new army under his brother Theodore to operate against the Persians in western Anatolia while he returns to his own army in Pontus.
Article by WN.com correspondent Dallas DarlingSince chaos is a natural ingredient which is needed to make order out of chaos, and to make chaos out of order,1 it only follows Donald Trump and his wild candidacy would be all the rage among many Americans... 11 attacks, followed by a series of messy wars, volatile recessions, rising inequality, economic insecurity and political havoc, Trump’s unruly campaign resonates ... 197. 2 Ibid., p. 198. ....
Dramatic footage has captured an "ISIS child suicide bomber aged 12 or 13" being stripped of his explosive belt moments before it was about to be detonated.The boy, who was wearing a Barcelona football shirt with FIFA World Player... ....
Lawyers for Republican nominee’s wife accuse paper of ‘exceeding all bounds of appropriate human decency’. @Bencjacobs. Lawyers for Melania Trump are pursuing legal action against the Daily Mail for reporting “100% false” rumors that she worked as an escort in the 1990s as well as raising questions about her immigration status at the time ... Melania Trump denies working unlawfully as model in US on improper visa. Read more ... ....
Using photos publicly available from people’s social media accounts, a technique has been developed to bypass facial recognition technology, a threat to security, Newsweek reported Monday.Researchers at the University of North Carolina discovered the flaw to create 3D facial models based on just a handful of photos taken from a person’s Facebook account....
(Source. Topdanmark A/S). August 22, 2016 - 11.16 AM CET. 22August 2016. Announcement No. 46/2016. On 16 August 2016, Topdanmark announced a buy-back programme of up to DKK 401m in its company announcement No. 44/2016. The buy-back programme will be executed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No ...Number. of shares Average purchase. price (DKK) Transaction. value (DKK) ... Total accumulated under the buy-back programme 3,626,900 616,729,639 ... Tel....
(Source. NSF - National Science Foundation). Press Release 16-097. Leidos Holdings, Inc. assumes management after merger. August 22, 2016. Leidos Holdings, Inc. will assume management of the National Science Foundation (NSF) contract for support of the U.S.AntarcticProgram (USAP) ...New Zealand and Chile ... -NSF-. MediaContacts ... NSF also awards about $626 million in professional and service contracts yearly. Get News Updates by Email ... NSF News....
Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc) has announced plans to open 30 Zoom convenience stores a year across the country until it reaches 500 by 2025, the energy company owned by the DubaiGovernment said on Monday ... The property consultancy CBRE reports that Abu Dhabi and Dubai have a combined 626,887 square metres of retail space under construction, up by 11 per cent on a year ago ... lbarnard@thenational.ae....
The hot housing market in New Orleans slowed down in the first half of 2016 with price growth easing compared with historic gains last year, according to a report released Monday (Aug. 22) ... The increase comes on the heels of an unprecedented 14 percent jump in the average price last year ... A slowdown in price appreciation extended into the suburbs ... TammanyParish ... Jefferson 1,945 $203,626 $111 2,081 $201,010 $110 1.3%. St ... St ... St ... St ... 2016 ... St ... ....
(Source. OSFM - Office of the StateFire Marshal) With an increase of 1,382 acres, the Soberanes Fire was most active near and continues to progress slowly toward BuckskinFlat. It crossed the Carmel River about one mile south of Buckskin Flat Campground, 2 miles northeast of Hiding Canyon and 5 miles west of Chews Ridge...Anyone with information is asked to call the CAL FIRE Tip Line at ... SE, Carmel (831) 626-5256 thru Fri., August 19th....
(Source. CALFIRE - California Department of Forestry and FireProtection) With an increase of 1,382 acres, the Soberanes Fire was most active near and continues to progress slowly toward BuckskinFlat. It crossed the Carmel River about one mile south of Buckskin Flat Campground, 2 miles northeast of Hiding Canyon and 5 miles west of Chews Ridge... (800) 468-4408 ... www.fs.usda.gov/lpnf ... SE, Carmel (831) 626-5256 thru Fri., August 19th ... (noodl....
(Source. Spark InfrastructureGroup) ASX RELEASE. Monday, 22 August 2016. DELIVERING RELIABLE GROWTH IN DISTRIBUTIONS. Highlights (6 months ended 30 June 2016). Standalone Operating Cashflow1up 28.6% to $130.0 million ... in savings ... SAPN will recover an additional $626 million of revenue and VPN an additional $180 million of revenue, relative to their Preliminary Determinations, over the remaining years of their current regulatory periods ... 2....
(Source. QinetiQ Group plc). QinetiQ Group plc. 22August 2016. Share Buyback Programme. QinetiQ Group plc (the 'Company') announces that today it has purchased for cancellation from Merrill Lynch International the following number of its ordinary shares of one pence each ('Shares')..Description of Shares.. QinetiQ Group plc ordinary shares of 1 pence each. Number of Shares repurchased.. 27,481. Average price paid per Share (pence). ... 352 ...626....