The Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) scholar Ouyang Xiu ( 1007 – 1072 ) asserted that playing cards and card games existed at least since the mid-Tang Dynasty and associated their invention with the simultaneous development of using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing medium.

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In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald was formerly based in the World Trade Center and was the company hardest hit by the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed all 658 of its employees who were in the office at the time ( out of 960 who were based there ).

The enormous encyclopedic work in China of the Four Great Books of Song, compiled by the 11th century AD during the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), was a massive literary undertaking for the time.

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

It was approved by a vote of 1, 960 to 164 of the bishops assembled, and promulgated on December 4, 1963 by Pope Paul VI.

The Tang Code was largely retained by later codes such as the early Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) code of 1397, yet there were several revisions in later times, such as improved property rights for women during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

In 960, Basil was associated on the throne by his father, but the latter died in 963, when Basil was only five years old.

Ships in Chinese canals did not have trouble reaching higher elevations after the pound lock was invented in the 10th century, during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), by the government official and engineer Qiao Weiyo.

The Song Dynasty (; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch ' ao ; ) was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279 ; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( AD 907 – 960 ), a book called the Records of the Unworldly and the Strange written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated:

Detail of The Spinning Wheel, by History of Chinese art | Chinese artist Wang Juzheng, Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 )

# The Filled Developmental Prototype ( FDP ) had 48 antenna units arrayed in six columns by eight rows, with 960 kW of transmitter power.

In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent with a fleet of 1, 000 dromons, 2, 000 chelandia, and 308 transports ( entire fleet was manned by 27, 000 oarsmen and marines ) carrying 50, 000 men to recover Crete from the Muslims After a difficult campaign and the 9-month siege of Chandax, Nikephoros successfully re-established Byzantine control over the entire island in 961.

They were cast in Hiduminium aluminium alloy with a length of 47 cm and a weight of 960 g. This classical design of a long handle capped by a cylindrical bowl re-appeared in many later torch designs.

Blenio was added to the Val Bregaglia ( which had been given to the bishop of Coire in 960 by the emperor Otto I ), along with the valleys of Mesocco and of Poschiavo.

Both shorter and smaller in volume than the Chari, it flows northeast for 960 kilometers ; its volume ranges from five to eighty-five cubic meters per second.

Of the roughly 1, 800 rivers and streams in Spain, only the Tagus is more than 960 kilometers long ; all but 90 extend less than 96 kilometers.

Sweyn I Forkbeard ( Old Norse: Sveinn Tjúguskegg ; c. 960 − 3 February 1014 ) was king of Denmark and England, as well as parts of Norway.

During the Song dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), landscapes of more subtle expression appeared ; immeasurable distances were conveyed through the use of blurred outlines, mountain contours disappearing into the mist, and impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena.

; Why 960

Belize's total size is 22, 960 km², of which 22, 800 km² is land and 160 km² is water ; this makes the country ten times larger than the Australian Capital Territory, about half the size of Nova Scotia, slightly larger than Wales, and slightly smaller than the U. S. state of Massachusetts.

; c. 960 BC: Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem completed

Of that total, 2, 360 ( 21. 8 %) were aged 15 or younger ; 1, 618 ( 14. 9 %) between 16 and 29 ; 2, 609 ( 24. 1 %) between 30 and 44 ; 1, 960 ( 18. 1 %) between 45 and 59 ; 1, 438 ( 13. 3 %) between 60 and 74 ; and 842 ( 7. 8 %) aged 75 or over.

Painting during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) reached a new level of sophistication with further development of landscape painting ; immeasurable distances were conveyed through the use of blurred outlines, mountain contours disappearing into the mist, and impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena.

409, pp. 960 – 966 ; Prestwich, Davis, " Last Words on Geoffrey de Mandeville ", EHR, vol.

* NHL Player of the Week for the week ending January 2, 2000 ( 3 – 0 – 0, 1 shutout, 1. 33 goals against average ( GAA ),. 960 save percentage ; he was the first Predator to ever win this award ).

An Anglo-Saxon will made in about 960 is witnessed by Elfsies, priest of Croydon ; and the church is also mentioned in Domesday Book.

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The generic name Paracheirodon derives from the Greek &# 967 ;&# 949 ;&# 943 ;&# 961 ; ( hand ), and &# 959 ;&# 948 ;&# 974 ;&# 957 ; ( teeth ), prefixed with &# 960 ;&# 945 ;&# 961 ;&# 940 ; ( beside ) to distinguish from the similar characin genus Cheirodon.

17 Marcheshvan-( 960 BCE )-First Temple completed

After the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in AD 70, 960 Zealots under the lead of Elazar ben Yair took refuge by capturing the Roman fortress of Masada and taking no prisoners.

22, 960 km ( 1996 est.

It was enacted, on November 5, 1996, by means of the initiative process, and passed with 5, 382, 915 ( 55. 6 %) votes in favor and 4, 301, 960 ( 44. 4 %) against.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

Auschwitz II was an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager, the site of the deaths of at least 960, 000 Jews, 75, 000 Poles, and some 19, 000 Roma.

Blocks (" records " in IBM's terminology ) of 88, 96, 880 and 960 were often used because they related to the fixed block size of punch cards.

With an annual production of approximately 960 million bottles, Bordeaux produces large quantities of everyday wine as well as some of the most expensive wines in the world.

On 19 June 1651, the Polish Army numbered 14, 844 Polish cavalry, 2, 250 German-style cavalry, 11, 900 German-style infantry and dragoons, 2, 950 Hungarian-style infantry ( haiduks ), 1, 550 Lithuanian volunteers, and 960 Lipka Tatars.

There are 2, 598, 960 such combinations, and the chance of drawing any one hand at random is 1 / 2, 598, 960.

The period of political disunity between the Tang and the Song, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, lasted little more than half a century, from 907 to 960.

In 960, the Song Dynasty gained power over most of China and established its capital in Kaifeng ( later known as Bianjing ), starting a period of economic prosperity, while the Khitan Liao Dynasty ruled over Manchuria, present-day Mongolia, and parts of Northern China.

The Cucurbitaceae are an important family consisting of approximately 125 genera and 960 species, mainly in regions tropical and subtropical.

There are about 125 existent genera in Cucurbitaceae, including 960 species.

Around year 960, the Brethren of Purity of Basra were engaged in their Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity.

There are 1, 000, 960 km of roads in France.

* 960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.

In fact the earliest surviving texts that can definitely be called Italian ( or more accurately, vernacular, as distinct from its predecessor Vulgar Latin ) are legal formulae from the Province of Benevento that date from 960 – 963.

A Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) chancellor of China, Wang Dan ( 957 – 1017 ), lost his eldest son to smallpox and sought a means to spare the rest of his family from the disease, so he summoned physicians, wise men, and magicians from all across the empire to convene at the capital in Kaifeng and share ideas on how to cure patients of it.

These culminate in the Battle of Mons Badonicus, or Mount Badon, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men.

Representations of the bodhisattva in China prior to the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) were masculine in appearance.