About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

About the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the popes, then residing at Avignon in France, began to reserve the collation of a great many benefices, so that all the benefices, especially the greater ones, were to be conferred through the Roman Curia ( Lega, Praelectiones Jur.

About 120 – 130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

About 300 readable words in 62 lines, dating to the 5th century BC.

About 8, 600 died in the largest German epidemic of the late 19th century, and the last major cholera epidemic in a major city of the Western world.

About 60 % of the whites speak Afrikaans ( a language derived from the 17th century Dutch ), 32 % speak German, and 7 % speak English.

About half of the currently recognised " traditional " English rhymes were known by the mid-18th century.

About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.

About 7th century BC, a big meteorite hit Saaremaa island and created the Kaali craters.

About 70 different chemicals have been used or stockpiled as chemical warfare agents during the 20th century.

About the 3rd century CE, the city was first mentioned in Talmudic literature, as a Jewish fishing village and the home of Rabbi Avdimi and other Jewish scholars.

About the end of the 9th century, Modena was restored and refortified by its bishop, Ludovicus.

About 325 it is believed that Constantine's mother, St. Helena, built a small church on the Mount in the 4th century, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.

Because the first pure scenery paintings of Europe emerged after the 17th century, Strolling About In Spring may well be the first scenery painting of the world.

About three kilometres distant in the eleventh century the Berber Zirids established the town of Beleb-el-Anab, which the Spaniards occupied for some years in the sixteenth century, as the French did later, in the reign of Louis XIV.

About the end of the tenth century it was rebuilt by one Wulfric.

A leading Russian literary critic of the 20th century Viktor Shklovsky, in his book, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, wrote, " Russian literature has a bad tradition.

About a century after the German and Scottish-Irish settlers, the Township ’ s population was recorded as 3, 000 in 1860.

However, " About, 1, 100 maps of the earth from the eighth through the fifteenth century survive ; they are almost all flat-as are maps in a modern atlas ... The common circular maps called " T in O " ( T-O ) show the T-shaped oikoumene surrounded by the O-shaped sea.

About 45 % of Chinese women had bound feet in the 19th century.

About a century later the title was resurrected by Otto I though the new empire was now centered in Germany rather than France.

About the middle of the 13th century, the large communities ( Zenden or tithings ) began to develop independence and grow in power.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.

About 10 minutes before the end of Lewis Black's special " Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black " on the History Channel, Craig Ferguson described Hogmanay as follows:

About 80 armed Tamil mercenaries belonging to PLOTE landed on Malé before dawn aboard speedboats from a freighter.

About 1 trillion rubles ($ 42. 7 billion ) is to be allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015.

" About six years before this story appeared, two houses on the street had been torn down to allow access to the ruins of the Thermes de Cluny.

Winning the " Oscar " also gave her another unique distinction — since she won two " Razzies " the day before, for her performance in All About Steve, she is the only performer ever to have been named both " Best " and " Worst " for the same year.

However, the slowdown of the Earth's rotation is not occurring fast enough for the rotation to lengthen to a month before other effects make this irrelevant: About 2. 1 billion years from now, the continual increase of the Sun's radiation will cause the Earth's oceans to vaporize, removing the bulk of the tidal friction and acceleration.

About half ( 52 %) reported a fire or explosion before the plane hit the ground.

About 20 percent of those who cohabited before getting engaged had since suggested splitting-compared with only 12 percent of those who only moved in together after getting engaged and 10 percent who did not cohabit prior to marriage.

About 1382 he headed an embassy from his university to Urban VI, before whom he delivered a dissertation in favour of reform.

About half the initial dosage is excreted after 6 hours, but some studies suggest that it is not metabolized at all before excretion.

Versions of Internet Explorer before version 7 stated " Based on NCSA Mosaic " in the About box.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

About 3 % of the alive female infants are expected to decease before they bear children, thus producing 100 women in the next generation.

About 6 % of cases start before the age of 21 years with an akinetic-rigid syndrome ; they progress faster and vary slightly.

About nine months before her death, Lopes appeared on the singers ' edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire along with Joey McIntyre, Tyrese, Nick Lachey, and Lee Ann Womack.

About 20 % of women who are carriers for the fragile X premutation are affected by fragile X-related primary ovarian insufficiency ( FXPOI ), which is defined as menopause before the age of 40.

" About 137 black officeholders had lived outside the South before the Civil War.

Shortly before filming was completed, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve ( 1950 ).

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.