In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

** Laozi ( 5th – 4th century BC )

* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.

In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments, to measure star positions more accurately than previously, with a precision of 15 – 35 arcsec.

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

Alger of Liège ( 1055 – 1131 ), known also as Alger of Cluny and Algerus Magister, was a learned clergyman from Liège who lived in the first half of the 12th century.

* Borschberg, Peter, " O comércio de âmbar asiático no início da época moderna ( séculos XV-XVIII ) – The Asiatic ambergris trade in the early modern period ( 15 to 18 century )" Oriente, Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, vol.

Thus, the immensely popular goddess Durga was a pre-Vedic goddess who was later fused with Parvati, a process that can be traced through texts such as Kalika Purana ( 10th century ), Durgabhaktitarangini ( Vidyapati 15th century ), Chandimangal ( 16th century ) etc.

The history of Oriya literature begins in the 14th century, with the poet Sarala Dasa's works Chandi Purana and Vilanka Ramayana, in praise of the goddess Durga.

A considerable literature exists around Durga in the Bengali language and its early forms, including avnirnaya ( 11th century ), Durgabhaktitarangini by Vidyapati ( a famous Maithili poet of 14th century ), but the goddess Durga was not fully integrated into the Hindu pantheon, primarily in Bengal, in the 16th century.

It was during the 18th century, however, that the worship of Durga became popular among the landed aristrocacy of Bengal, the Zamindars.

Image of Durga in an early 19th century lithogragh.

Commercialization of Hindu festivals like Durga Puja in the last quarter of 20th century have become a major environmental concern as devout Hindus want bigger and brighter idols.

Inscriptions found near Durga Devi temple in Narendra ( a nearby village ) and RLS High School date back to the 12th century and have references to Dharwad.

A statue of Hindu goddess Durga Mahisasuramardini in Prambanan northern cella, dated from 9th century Medang i Bhumi Mataram kingdom in Central Java.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

According to the fictional universe first established by Slayer, the ' Buffyverse ,' Angel was born in 18th century Ireland ; after being turned into a soulless, immortal vampire, he became legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him by restoring his soul, overwhelming him with guilt.

Demons were banished from the Earth at some point in the 21st century by an unnamed Slayer and her friends, and the Watchers ' Council has decayed into a group of crazed fanatics.

According to the comic Fray, a Slayer in the 21st century banishes all demons and magicks from the world.

At some point in the 21st century, a Slayer faces an army of demons.

Buffalo remained a small town until the mid-19th century when it became a popular resort town for wealthy day-trippers from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.

In the original 1920s and 1930s Buck Rogers stories and newspaper cartoons, Buck Rogers, in his adventures in the 25th century that take place on Earth, helps in the fight for a free Northern America from the liberated zone around Niagara, New York ( which by then has grown to large metropolis -- the capital of the liberated zone -- that includes Niagara Falls, New York, Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York ), against the Red Mongol Empire, a Chinese empire of the future which in the 25th century rules most of North America.

Originally known as Lobelsville, Lobel established a trading post on the Buffalo River in the early 19th century expecting that it would become a trading route.

Larry McMurtry, along with historians such as RL Wilson, asserts that at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, Buffalo Bill Cody was the most recognizable celebrity on earth.

K Troop, 9th Cavalry Regiment ( United States ) | 9th Cavalry Regiment, Buffalo Soldiers of the United States Army, in the late nineteenth century

In the late 19th century, only 300 wood bison remained worldwide, almost exclusively in Wood Buffalo National Park.

Buffalo, New York, the world's largest grain port from the 1850s until the first half of the 20th century, once had the nation's largest capacity for the storage of grain in over thirty concrete grain elevators located along the inner and outer harbors.

The river and its supporting canal, the Erie Canal ( a part of the New York State Canal System, called the New York State Barge Canal for much of the 20th century ), connect the Hudson River and port of New York with the Great Lakes at Buffalo, New York.

African Americans in the United States Army in decades after the war became known as the Buffalo Soldiers ; they fought in the Indian Wars later in the nineteenth century and received their nickname in the American West.

In 1995, an abandoned 19th century historical landmark, the Asbury Delaware United Methodist Church was scheduled to be demolished by the City of Buffalo.

The Fort Erie area became significant as the major terminus in Canada for slaves using the Underground Railroad in the middle of the 19th century, many of whom crossed into Canada from Buffalo, New York.

With the decline of boat service from Buffalo and establishment of through rail service, the line to Slater's Dock was abandoned in the early 20th century and service was cut back to the village of Chippawa.

The Zoo traces its history to the mid-19th century when Jacob E. Bergtold, a Buffalo furrier, presented a pair of deer to the city of Buffalo.

Around the turn of the 20th century the Bighorn Basin was settled by ranchers such as William " Buffalo Bill " Cody who founded the town of Cody and owned a great deal of land surrounding the Shoshone River.

By the end of the 19th century Buffalo Bayou had become a major shipping channel with traffic beginning to rival Galveston.

* Buffalo, New York was called New Amsterdam for a brief period in the early 19th century

* Player Pianos: In stark contrast to almost every other entertainment medium of the 20th century and beyond, a looming format war involving paper roll music for player pianos was averted when industry leaders agreed upon a common format at the Buffalo Convention held in Buffalo, New York in 1908.

The improvement of the road from Buffalo southwest to Pennsylvania in the mid-19th century soon allowed for continuous travel across the entire state of New York.

The Buffalo writer John Northern Hilliard wrote that the levitation was a marvel of the twentieth century and " the crowning achievement of Mr. Kellar's long and brilliant career.

* Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum in Buffalo, NY, housing many examples of early-to-mid-20th century piston, turbo-jet, turbo-shaft, and jet engines, including early Bell helicopters, an example of the World War II Bell P-39 Airacobra, and the Bell X-22 tilt-ducted-fan VSTOL aircraft

During the early twentieth century, Gilbert Livingston Wilson carried out extensive ethnographic work with the elderly Hidatsa woman, Buffalo Bird Woman.