The Elephant Who Crossed the Alps.The Elephant Who Crossed The Alps (language) ALPS - 1. An early interpreted algebraic language for the Bendix G15 by Richard V. Andree of the University of Oklahoma. ALPS is said to have preceded and influenced development of BASIC. Dale Peters Marv Gold Privately Published 3901 Ashford Street, San Diego, CA 92111 193031308X $TBA mortsy@aol.com The Elephant Who Crossed The Alps by Marv Gold is a chapbook chapbook, one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or "chapmen." Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the broadside, they were usually anonymous and undated. The texts were similar to those of current tabloid newspapers and therefore reveal much about the popular taste of the 16th, 17th, and 18th cent. novelette that tells the story of Hannibal Hannibal, Carthaginian generalHannibal (hăn`əbəl), b. 247 B.C., d. 183 or 182 B.C. Carthaginian general, an implacable and formidable enemy of Rome. Although knowledge of him is based primarily on the reports of his enemies, Hannibal appears to have been both just and merciful. He is renowned for his tactical genius., the greatest and most successful of the Carthaginian generals to oppose the Mediterranean hegemony of Rome in the spring of 1217 B.C. Leading some 90,000 troops and a small band of war elephants, Hannibal successfully invaded Italy by crossing into the Roman empire Roman Empire: see Rome; Byzantine Empire; Holy Roman Empire. by way of the Pyrenees Pyrenees (pĭr`ənēz), Span. Pirineos, Fr. Pyrénées, mountain chain of SW Europe, 21,380 sq mi (55,374 sq km), between France and Spain, a formidable barrier between the Iberian Peninsula and the European mainland. The principality of Andorra is located among the peaks., Alps, and Apennines Apennines (ăp`ənīnz), Ital. Appennino, mountain system, running the entire length of the Italian peninsula. It extends south c.840 mi (1,350 km) from the Cadibona Pass in Liguria, NW Italy, where the Apennines join with the Ligurian Alps, to the Strait of Messina; the mountains of Sicily are a southwest continuation of mountain ranges. Hannibal met and overcame several Roman armies leaving a wide swatch of destruction that included 250,000 dead Roman legionaries, thousands of destroyed horses and pack animals, dozens of razed Roman cities, and brought the Roman Empire to the teetering edge of destruction. Novelist Marv Gold pays close attention to historic details as he tells the story of Hannibal through the eyes of his mistress Pilar pi·la·ry (p  l -r )adj. (a royal camp follower and trained assassin). This 43-page enthusiastically recommended novelette is replete with memorably colorful characters, plot twists, and dramatic battles.
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