Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

" (" Antes da Era Comum ", Before Common Era ) is generally used.

After 350, 000 BP ( Before Present ) the more refined so-called Levallois technique was developed, a series of consecutive strikes, by which scrapers, slicers (" racloirs "), needles, and flattened needles were made.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

Before their nature was understood, galaxies (" spiral nebulae ") and globular clusters were also classified as nebulae, but no longer are.

Before that, the German question ruptured this " German unity " after the ' 48 Revolution before it was achieved, however ; Austria-Hungary as a multinational state could not become part of the new " German empire ", and nationality conflicts in Prussia with the Prussian Poles arose (" We can never be Germans-Prussians, every time!

Before 1929, the SS wore the same brown uniform as the SA, with the exception of a black tie and a black cap with a Totenkopf (" death's head ") skull and bones symbol on it.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel " The Island of the Day Before " (" L ' isola del giorno prima ", 1994 ), a story about a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped at an island at the International Date Line.

: Vormittagsspuk (" Ghosts Before Breakfast ", with music by Hindemith ) ( 1928 )

Before taking the auspicia impetrativa (" requested " or " sought " auspices ; see below ) the templum, or sacred space within which the operation would take place had to be established and delimited ( it should be square and have only one entrance ) and purified ( effari, liberare ).

Before or during this civil war, Fritigern converted to (" Arian ") Christianity.

Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul, Reims, founded circa 80 BC as * Durocorteron (" round fortress "; in Latin: Durocortōrum ), served as the capital of the tribe of the Remi — whose name the town would subsequently echo.

Before mystai could enter the Telesterion, they would recite, " I have fasted, I have drunk the kykeon, I have taken from the kiste (" box ") and after working it have put it back in the kalathos (" open basket ").

Before the Pacific War began, the Imperial Japanese Army formed Teishin Dan (" Raiding Brigades ") and Imperial Japanese Navy trained marine ( Rikusentai ) paratroopers.

Before the term " Art Nouveau " became common in France, le style moderne (" the modern style ") was the more frequent designation.

Before reaching Eastford, however, it takes a right onto Route 244 (" Brayman Hollow Road ") which headed directly to Pomfret.

Klein, " Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation ", which had originally appeared in Nyctalops magazine ; two stories by Campbell (" Before the Storm " and The Gap "), " As Far as I Can Recall " by Campbell ( autobiographical essay ); and Mike Ashley's bibliography on Campbell which was not superseded until The Core of Ramsey Campbell ( 1995 ).

The word for Tabernacle, mishkan, is a derivative of the same root and is used in the sense of dwelling-place in the Bible, e. g. Psalm 132: 5 (" Before I find a place for God, mishkanot ( dwelling-places ) for the Strong One of Israel.

Before this date soviet aircraft were named according to their function: TB-1 for " Tyazholy Bombardirovschik " (" тяжелый бомбардировщик ", " heavy bomber "), the first.

Furthermore, the conflict between Niobe and Leto is mentioned in one of Sappho's poetic fragments (" Before they were mothers, Leto and Niobe had been the most devoted of friends.

Before leaving Prague he had begun a cycle of six symphonic poems, called Má vlast (" My Fatherland "), and had completed the first two, Vyšehrad and Vltava, which had both been performed in Prague during 1875.

Dartmouth is governed by a Board of Trustees comprising the College president ( ex officio ), the state governor ( ex officio ), 13 trustees nominated and elected by the board ( called " charter trustees "), and eight trustees nominated by alumni and elected by the board (" alumni trustees ").

Cooper cracked open his briefcase long enough for her to glimpse eight red cylinders (" four on top of four ") attached to wires coated with red insulation, and a large cylindrical battery.

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

In Rap School, rapper / actor Ice-T teaches eight teens from York Preparatory School in New York called the " York Prep Crew " (" Y. P.

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

As a result, 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the plurality (" first past the post ") system, with a further 56 returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs.

For eight years Nuevo León was abandoned and uninhabited, until a third expedition of thirteen families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey (" Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey ") on September 20, 1596, next to a water spring called Ojos de Agua de Santa Lucia, where the Museum of Mexican History and Santa Lucía Riverwalk are now located.

* John Chrysostom becomes a presbyter ; he also writes eight Homilies entitled " Adversus Iudaeos " (" Against the Jews ").

The album charted as high as No. 3 on the UK charts, with an eight week chart run and produced one hit single (" She's Got Claws ") reaching No. 6.

A Corinthian capital may be seen as an enriched development of the Ionic capital, though one may have to look closely at a Corinthian capital ( illustration, right ) to see the Ionic volutes (" helices "), at the corners, perhaps reduced in size and importance, scrolling out above the two ranks of stylized acanthus leaves and stalks (" cauliculi " or caulicoles ), eight in all, and to notice that smaller volutes scroll inwards to meet each other on each side.

* Argentinean folk singer Leon Gieco released a novelty song in 1997 called " Ojo con los Orozco " (" Be Aware of the Orozco Brothers ") where he described the personalities and proclivities of eight fictional corrupt politicians, all brothers within the same family.

Berthold was tried in the Volksgerichtshof (" People's Court ") by Roland Freisler on 10 August and was one of eight conspirators executed by strangulation, hanged in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, later that day.

As a result, 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the plurality voting system (" first past the post "), with a further 56 returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs.

She served eight months in jail in Calw and Stuttgart for violating Nazi Rassenschande (" racial shame ") laws before being deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

As king, Christophe created an elaborate Haïtian peerage ( nobility ) of his own design, originally consisting of four Princes, eight Dukes, 22 Counts, 40 Barons, and 14 Knights (" chevaliers ").

They had eight children: Pedro, José (" Pepe "), Eduardo, Fortino, Esperanza, Catalina, Enrique and Roberto.

A naval flotilla sent to Sicilian waters shelled the city of Messina with " savage barbarity " for eight hours after its defenders had already surrendered, killing many civilians and earning the King the nickname " Re ` Bomba " (" King Bomb ").

" = eight months ), but also the duration of his ensuing imprisonment by Antipope Boniface VII, " per IV menses " (" for four months ").

: Iohannes m. VIII (" John, eight months ")

These " Little World " (" Mondo Piccolo ") stories amounted to 347 in total and were put together and published in eight books, only the first three of which were published when Guareschi was still alive.

This is in keeping with the Welsh term for a week, which is wythnos (" eight nights ").

Their composition, " When the Kissing Stops " made it to the final eight, but although initially tempted, the group decided not to perform the number themselves (" We all agreed it would be better to be remembered as winners, and we couldn't bear to lose!

The U. S. Air Force's Basic Military Training ( BMT ) is eight and a half weeks long, as they do not count your first week (" Week 0 ").

Swinburne also wrote several poems in more or less straight anapaests, with line-lengths varying from three feet (" Dolores ") to eight feet (" March: An Ode ").