With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

Brygos ( potter signed ), Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

Symbols on Gerzean pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

" As Middle Egyptian evolved into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and finally Coptic ( c. 600 BC ), dj-b-t became tobe " brick.

Amyntas I ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Aʹ, c. 540 – 498 BC ) was a king of Macedon.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

Columba is the patron saint of the city of Derry, Ireland where he founded a monastic settlement in c. AD 540.

Gregory the Great ( c 540 – 604 ) who established medieval themes in the Church, in a painting by Carlo Saraceni, c. 1610, Rome.

Gregory the Great ( c 540 – 604 ) administered the church with strict reform.

* Pherecydes of Syros ( c. 540 BCE )

Sub-Roman Britain | Britain in the time of Gildas ( c. 540 )

* c. 540 BC — Exekias makes The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure decoration on a amphora.

In the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae written c. 540, Gildas says that Maximus left Britain not only with all of its Roman troops, but also with all of its armed bands, governors, and the flower of its youth, never to return.

* Amyntas I, king of Macedonia ( b. c. 540 BC )

His sister Theoctista ( c. 540 – aft.

* Justin ( consul 540 ) ( c. 525 – 566 ), Byzantine general, consul in 540

In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon, with the dragon supreme among them .< ref >* — " And the beast which I saw was like unto a < u > leopard </ u >, and his feet were as the feet of a < u > bear </ u >, and his mouth as the mouth of a < u > lion </ u >: and the < u > dragon </ u > gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

The word is first found in Samuel II, 5: 7 dating to c. 630 – 540 BCE according to modern scholarship.

* Vishnu Gupta ( c. 540 – 550 )

* Llaennog ap Masgwid ( c. 495 – c. 540 )

* Arthuis ap Masgwid ( c. 540 – c. 560 )

Creoda ( or Crida ) ( c. 540 – 593 ) was the first monarch of Mercia, reigning from 584 to 593.

Myrddin Wyllt (), Merlinus Caledonensis or Merlin Sylvestris ( c. 540 – c. 584 ), is a figure in medieval Welsh legend, known as a prophet and a madman.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.

The Dying Gaul c. 230 BC, a Roman copy of a Greek statue commemorating the victory over the Celtic Galatia ns in Anatolia.

Map of ancient Egypt, showing major cities and sites of the Dynastic period ( c. 3150 BC to 30 BC )

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Sunzi ( c. 500 BC )

: Anaximenes of Miletus ( c. 585-c. 525 BC )

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

An early work, She ' iltot (" Questions ") by Achai of Shabcha ( c. 752 ), discusses over 190 Mitzvot — exploring and addressing various questions on these.

* The Shulchan Aruch HaRav of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( c. 1800 ) was an attempt to recodify the law as it stood at that time — incorporating commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch, and subsequent responsa — and thus stating the decided halakha, as well as the underlying reasoning.

The military exploits of the first three rulers — Chandragupta I ( c. 319 – 335 ), Samudragupta ( c. 335 – 376 ), and Chandragupta II ( c. 376 – 415 ) — brought much of India under their leadership.

So the parameters are: a — distance from center C to either vertex b — length of a perpendicular segment from each vertex to the asymptotes c — distance from center C to either Focus point, F < sub > 1 </ sub > and F < sub > 2 </ sub >, and θ — angle formed by each asymptote with the transverse axis.

Lucius Apuleius ( c. 123 — c.

1138 — 1193 ) holding Guy of Lusignan ( c. 1150 – 1194 ) captive in golden chains.

Moses also appears in other religious texts such as the Mishnah ( c. 200 AD ), Midrash ( AD 200 – 1200 ), and the Qur ' an ( c. 610 — 653 ).

* Yale University — D. Sc ( h. c .), 1959