Apollonius of Perga, in On Determinate Section, dealt with problems in a manner that may be called an analytic geometry of one dimension ; with the question of finding points on a line that were in a ratio to the others.

On the evening of 20 January 1950, Potts visited Orwell and slipped away on finding him asleep.

On 2 September 2005, the Coroner's finding was that Holt had drowned in accidental circumstances on 17 December 1967.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system.

On 5 June 1594 Barentsz left the island of Texel aboard the small ship Mercury, as part of a group of three ships sent out in separate directions to try and enter the Kara Sea, with the hopes of finding the Northeast passage above Siberia.

On the other hand, the theologian Benito Arias Montano ( 1571 ) proposed finding Ophir in the name of Peru, reasoning that the native Peruvians were thus descendants of Ophir and Shem.

On a macrocosmic level, taking the experience of love as far as humanly possible, to the boundary of the spiritual, Rank compared the artist's " giving " and the enjoyer's " finding " of art with the dissolution and rediscovery of the self in mutual love.

On the 40th anniversary of its release, the Vatican newspaper, L ' Osservatore Romano, published a lengthy article which declared that " Forty years later, this album remains a type of magical musical anthology: 30 songs you can go through and listen to at will, certain of finding some pearls that even today remain unparalleled.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

On Æthelfrith's death, his sons and their supporters fled Northumbria, finding sanctuary among the Gaels and Picts of northern Britain and Ireland.

On Whit Monday 1916 Bonar Law discussed the succession to the job of Secretary of State for War ( Kitchener had just drowned on a trip to Russia ); he was irritated not only at having to travel to Asquith's home – the Wharf, at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire – but also, he claimed, finding Asquith playing bridge with three ladies.

On finding that its four employees ( two females and two males ) were Catholics, Murphy shot three of them dead and ordered an accomplice to kill the fourth.

On March 3, 2006, a federal jury in Trenton, New Jersey convicted six members of SHAC, including green-anarchist Joshua Harper, for " terrorism and Internet stalking ", according to the New York Times, finding them guilty of using their website to " incite attacks " on those who did business with Huntingdon Life Sciences HLS.

On the following day, finding the battlefields " were piled high with bodies and the Huns did not venture forth ", the Goths and Romans met to decide their next move.

On June 7, 2011 Italian media reported that the Carabinieri's RIS had analyzed a photograph of a man taken in Argentina in 1955, finding ten points of similarity with Majorana's face.

On the heels of this attack, the French infantry now advanced against both flanks of Waldeck ’ s line which, finding itself enveloped by the enemy, finally broke.

On being demobilised on 1 May 1919, Holloway returned to London and resumed his singing and acting career, finding success in two West End musicals at the Winter Garden Theatre.

On his return to Britain, Elgin, finding that he could not get the British Museum to pay what he was asking for the marbles, sued his wife's lover for an appropriately high sum.

On further finding out that they were interested in the same music and that both were attending Philadelphia's Temple University, they started hanging out together on a regular basis and eventually ended up sharing a number of apartments in the city.

" Also according to General Kamanin's diary, a commander of one of the search helicopters reported finding Voskhod 2, " On the forest road between the villages of Sorokovaya and Shchuchino, about 30 kilometers southwest of the town of Berezniki, I see the red parachute and the two cosmonauts.

On March 30, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) requested that Novartis Pharmaceuticals voluntarily discontinue marketing of tegaserod based on the recently identified finding of an increased risk of serious cardiovascular adverse events ( heart problems ) associated with use of the drug.

On May 3, 2003, a detachment of U. S. Army Special Forces led by United States Navy Commander David Beckett and eight nuclear experts from the United States Department of Defense's Direct Support Team conducted a survey of the facility, finding the looting, similar to the situation in the nearby Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center.

On March 30, 2010 the jury returned a verdict in SCO v. Novell, finding that Novell owns the copyrights.

* On her album United States Live, American performance artist Laurie Anderson contemplates extraterrestrials finding the plaque and asks " do you think that they will think his arm is permanently attached in this position?

On Crete, the local population, led by a young politician named Eleftherios Venizelos, declared Enosis, Union with Greece, provoking another crisis.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

On the other hand, Hansen notes that Polybius ' exposition of Crete supplied an extremely detailed account of ancient Crete.

On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.

On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph, known as " Crete " to friends, and a former star Greek pupil of Garfield's.

On Thursday of the Fifth Week, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is chanted.

On the basis of the ceramic evidence and stratigraphy, Evans concluded that there was another civilization on Crete that had existed before those brought to light by the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae and Tiryns.

On the € 1 and € 2 coins, the island is shown to be directly east of mainland Greece ; on the 10 -, 20 -, and 50-cent coins, it appears directly below Crete.

On the other hand, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, many priests, monks and artists took refuge in Crete and reinforced the Byzantine religion and culture on the island.

On the island of Crete, the Jews historically played an important part in the transport trade.

On Minoan Crete, jasper was carved to produce seals circa 1800 BC, as evidenced by archaeological recoveries at the palace of Knossos.

On Crete, she was connected with the mountain where Zeus was said to have been born -- Mount Dikte.

On 30 April 1941, a New Zealand Army officer, Major-General Bernard Freyberg VC was appointed commander of the Allied forces on Crete.

On 25 April, Hitler signed Directive Number 28, ordering the invasion of Crete.

On April 23 the King and the government left the Greek mainland for Crete but after the German airborne attack on the island he was evacuated to Egypt.

On the pretext that Knossos was backing Mithradates, Marcus Antonius Creticus attacked Crete in 71 BC and was repelled.

On Crete they can be found in most mountainous areas, sometimes in groups of up to 20.

On 27 March, Vice-Admiral Pridham-Wippell — with the cruisers Ajax, Gloucester, Orion and Perth and a number of destroyers — sailed from Greek waters for a position south of Crete.

On September 22, 1659 during the war over Crete, the island was conquered by Venice and the castle was destroyed again, but the Ottomans were able to regain it again soon after.

On his way back to Tunis in 1518 he was captured by Spanish corsairs either near the island of Djerba or more probably near Crete.

" On 25 October JCS directed TG 20. 1, and escorts, to chop to ComSixthFleet as TG 60. 3 and proceed to join TG 60 south of Crete.

On 10 March 1905, the rebels gathered in Theriso and declared " the political union of Crete with Greece as a single free constitutional state "; the resolution was given to the Great Powers, where it was argued that the illegitimate provisional arrangement was preventing the island's economic growth and that the only logical solution to the " Cretan Question " was the unification with Greece.

On 1 October, in a regular session of the Parliament Venizelos announced the declaration of war to Turkey and accepting the Cretan deputies, thus closing the Cretan Question, with the declaration of the union of Crete with Greece.