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The Second Punic War (218–201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy. After immense materiel and human losses on both sides the Carthaginians were defeated. Macedonia, Syracuse and several Numidian kingdoms were drawn into the fighting, and Iberian and Gallic forces fought on both sides. There were three main military theatres during the war: Italy, where Hannibal defeated the Roman legions repeatedly, with occasional subsidiary campaigns on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and in Greece; Iberia, where Hasdrubal, a younger brother of Hannibal, defended the Carthaginian colonial cities with mixed success before moving into Italy; and North Africa, where Rome finally won the war. A peace treaty stripped the Carthaginians of all overseas territories, and prohibited them from waging war outside Africa. (This article is part of a featured topic: Punic Wars.)
Did you know ...
- ... that two days after it had ignited, the Tiger Fire (pictured) had already burned 5,567 acres (2,253 ha) of land near Black Canyon City, Arizona?
- ... that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
- ... that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace?
- ... that Rockstar Vienna was the largest video game developer in Austria when it closed in 2006?
- ... that Harry Langford still turned up for football practice the day after he received a concussion, passed out, and was hospitalized?
- ... that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members of Action Deaf Youth headed to Stormont to demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
- ... that Darrell Mudra was known as "Dr. Victory"?
- ... that people queued in a queue to queue in The Queue?
In the news
- Hurricane Julia (satellite image shown) leaves more than 80 people dead across South and Central America.
- After an explosion damages the Crimean Bridge, Russia attacks many Ukrainian cities with missiles.
- In motor racing, Max Verstappen wins the Formula One World Championship.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Karl Barry Sharpless, and Morten P. Meldal for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
On this day
- 1529 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1932 – Air India, the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
- 1954 – Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.
- 2007 – New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.
- 2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
- Tadeusz Kościuszko (d. 1817)
- Elizabeth Alexander (d. 1958)
- Sartono (d. 1968)
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The eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) is a species of bird in the bristlebird family, Dasyornithidae. Endemic to Australia, its natural habitats are temperate forests, shrublands and grasslands. It is considered to be a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and listed as endangered in Australian legislation, being threatened by habitat loss and a lack of genetic diversity. This eastern bristlebird was photographed near Currarong, on the coast of New South Wales. Photograph credit: John Harrison
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