The Chinese characters in the original versions were probably written in zhuànshū ( seal script ), while later versions were written in lìshū ( clerical script ) and kǎishū ( regular script ) styles.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

But it was later revealed that Flamingo Park's education officer John Shields had shaved the whiskers and otherwise disfigured a bull elephant seal which had died the week before, and dumped it in Loch Ness to dupe his colleagues.

The gold starburst seal was first used by Nintendo of America, and later Nintendo of Europe.

" This seal was later altered in 1988: " approved and guaranteed " was changed to " evaluated and approved ".

Since the bottle was sealed with Solomon's seal, the genie was helpless to free himself, until freed many centuries later by a fisherman who discovered the bottle.

* 1265 – Correspondence from Pope Clement IV contains the first known mention of the ring of the Fisherman, an item of papal regalia then used to seal personal correspondence from the pope and later for papal bulls.

* Correspondence from Pope Clement IV contains the first known mention of the ring of the Fisherman, an item of papal regalia then used to seal personal correspondence from the pope and later for papal bulls.

Relying on his general warrant to return to England, given under the great seal, Essex sailed from Ireland on 24 September 1599, and reached London four days later.

Usually skippets were made out of sterling silver, though for the Japanese treaty following Commodore Perry's mission a golden box was used ( the ratification of that treaty, made later in 1854, had an even more elaborate and expensive seal and heavy gold skippet ).

These characters were later embellished and stylized to yield the seal script, which represents the oldest form of Chinese characters still in modern use.

Once slid into grooves so that the fit was light tight, the slide could be drawn out with a plush ( coarse velvet ) seal on the lip of the slide to prevent light leakage, and this design of wooden camera and plate holder ( on the continent called a " casette ") survived so that it was used for most if not all of the later processes in large format cameras until the present day.

By 1196 de Gray was in the service of Prince John ( later King John ), and was keeper of John's seal by 1198.

Although the earliest use as a national symbol can be traced to the seal of the Guardians of Scotland in 1286, material evidence for the Saltire being used as a flag, as opposed to appearing on another object such as a seal, brooch or surcoat, dates from somewhat later.

The force of this caused the internal mechanism of the pressure equalization valve to loosen a seal that was usually discarded later and normally allowed automatic adjustment of the cabin pressure.

In Merovingian France, ecclesiastical notaries, continuing Late Imperial practice, were attached to county courts as clerks of court who recorded proceedings and prepared and engrossed instruments and process which were later sealed before the count with the court's official seal to render them public and authentic.

A Golden Bull or chrysobull was a golden ornament representing a seal ( a bulla aurea or " golden seal " in Latin ), attached to a decree issued by Byzantine Emperors and later by monarchs in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

The seal was later adopted by the Spanish colonial government.

Though he later recovered it and handed it over to Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury., his mishandling of the seal – indicative of questionale loyalty, led to his dismissal as Lord Chancellor.

Marina becomes a regular member of Stingray's crew, and later acquires a seal pup called Oink, who features in a number of episodes.

The carcass was dragged ashore by Simon Peter and later thought to be an elephant seal.

The seal was first designed in 1940, later a garuda as the symbol of Thailand and the name of the province were added.

This family includes extant manuscripts dating from the 5th century or later ; however, papyrus fragments may be used to show that this text-type dates as early as the Alexandrian or Western text-types.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

They later became reacquainted through Jennifer Finch, one of Love's longtime friends and former bandmates, who was dating Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl at the time.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

The historical accuracy and dating of many of the events in the later Anglo-Saxon Chronicle have been called into question, and his reign is variously listed as lasting seven, seventeen, or thirty-two years.

The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle ; the geared hand-mill, operated either with one or two cranks, appeared later in the 15th century ;

Among the arguments scholars give for a later dating of the book are language and style ( i. e. the vocabulary and syntax as compared to the late Hebrew and Aramaic, which suggest that the book should be dated later ).

On the one hand, some modern scholars are convinced that the language, dating, literary style, and structure of this text makes it implausible to conclude that 1 Peter was written by Peter ; according these scholars, it is more likely that 1 Peter is a pseudonymous letter, written later by one of the disciples of Peter in his honor.

In favor of the later dating of the synoptics, Geza Vermes says that this event provides a clear context and pretext for Jesus ' arrest, trial and execution.

" He mentions Joseph Schacht as one scholar who argues this, claiming that Schacht " found no evidence of legal traditions before 722 ," from which Schacht concluded that " the Sunna of the Prophet is not the words and deeds of the Prophet, but apocryphal material " dating from later.

Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an internal inconsistency that later scholars corrected by dating these kings one year earlier, so that Jehoshaphat's dates are taken as one year earlier in the present article: coregency beginning in 873 / 871, sole reign commencing in 871 / 870, and death in 849 / 848 BC.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

However in later variants dating from around 75-80 A. D. the fastenings of the armor were simplified.

A later work by Peri, Euridice, dating from 1600, is the first opera score to have survived to the present day.

Anglo-Saxon literature has gone through different periods of research — in the 19th and early 20th centuries the focus was on the Germanic roots of English, later the literary merits were emphasised, and today the focus is upon paleography and the physical manuscripts themselves more generally: scholars debate such issues as dating, place of origin, authorship, and the connections between Anglo-Saxon culture and the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages.

The new object was later precovered on photographs dating back to 19 March 1915.

Sometimes passage tombs are covered with a cairn, especially those dating to later times.

Science fiction studies has a long history dating back to the turn of the 20th century, but it was not until later that science fiction studies solidified as a discipline with the publication of the academic journals Extrapolation ( 1959 ), Foundation-The International Review of Science Fiction ( 1972 ), and Science Fiction Studies ( 1973 ), and the establishment of the oldest organizations devoted to the study of science fiction, the Science Fiction Research Association and the Science Fiction Foundation, in 1970.

At least twenty-five of the Aubrey Holes are known to have contained later, intrusive, cremation burials dating to the two centuries after the monument's inception.

No clear etymology can be found for the name of the chamber ; the most common explanation, dating to the later 16th century, is ' because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted '.

It has been suggested that two styles of combat are being described ; an early style, with thrusting spears, dating to the Mycenaean period in which the Iliad is set, and, anachronistically, a later style, with throwing spears, from Homer's own Archaic period.

The first reference to the disapparance of the lower course of the Sarasvati is from the Brahmanas, texts that are composed in Vedic Sanskrit, but dating to a later date than the Veda Samhitas.