At Sparta women competed in public exercise — so in Aristophanes ' Lysistrata the Athenian women admire the tanned, muscular bodies of their Spartan counterparts — and women could own property in their own right, as they could not at Athens.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

At the end of the 1990s, Hasbro, the owners of the Atari properties at the time, released the rights to develop for the system to the public domain.

" At the mercy of Congress, cabinets came and went frequently, although there was more stability and continuity in public administration than some historians have suggested.

At the contrary, Zagreb-Split trait construction enjoyed a constant support from Croatian public and its on-schedule completion was marked with enormous joy and pride all through the country.

At 11 he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina ; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova where he remained for several years.

At Chiang's request Yan visited Li in order to convince Li not to withdraw from public life.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

At a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects of choice were viewed as minor categories.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

At the first public meeting on August 15, 1636, eighteen men signed the town covenant.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.

At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little ; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.

At the public shoe-eating, Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

At first, many members of the Dublin public were simply bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.

At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.

At Wigan, he visited many homes to see how people lived, took detailed notes of housing conditions and wages earned, went down a coal mine, and used the local public library to consult public health records and reports on working conditions in mines.

At the same time he found the church to be a " selfish ... church of the landed gentry " with its establishment " out of touch " with the majority of its communicants and altogether a pernicious influence on public life.

At the event a full-size working replica of the Rocket was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfield Market Festival.

At the same time, the audience for theatre was growing because of the rapidly expanding British population ; improvement in education and the standard of living, especially of the middle class ; improving public transportation ; and installation of street lighting, which made travel home from the theatre safer.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

At the conclusion of the Oz obscenity trials in the UK, the defendants had their heads shaved by the police, causing public outcry.

At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt — his argument from the existence of a deceiving god — Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any have survived the doubt.

At this time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and meditation.

At the age of 16 he entered the monastery at Từ Hiếu Temple near Huế, Vietnam, where his primary teacher was Dhyana ( meditation Zen ) Master Thanh Quý Chân Thật.

" At the time of the film's release, Fisher told the Los Angeles Times that, to get in the proper mood for the role, " he lived the life of a recluse, spending his time in study and meditation.

At the end of the war, when Saigo's severed head was brought to Yamagata, he ordered it washed, and held the head in his arms as he pronounced a meditation on the fallen hero.

At this time, the Maharishi began to recommend the daily practice of yoga exercises or asanas to accelerate growth through meditation.

At this monastery in Scotland, future actor and musician David Bowie was one of Chogyam Trungpa's meditation pupils.

At ordination, each dharmachari ( ni ) is given an advanced visualisation meditation on a particular figure.

At this time and for the next eight years, he continued as an academic teacher also teaching courses on meditation to Trungpa ’ s sangha.

At this stage, they were initiated to the central component of Seon practice, the gong ' an, or gwanhwa meditation.

At 23, he received his most important influences from his first teacher, Nanyue Huisi ( 慧思 ) ( 515 – 577 CE ), a meditation master who would later be listed as Zhiyi's predecessor in the Tiantai lineage.

At the age of three or four, he was often seen sitting in meditation, with his body buried in the sand up to his neck.

At this stage the yogi realises that all true knowledge comes from within oneself, and the mind becomes satisfied that meditation will lead to all truth.

At this time, Geshe Kelsang left the monastery at Buxar for Mussoorie ( a hill station in the Indian state of Uttaranchal ) where he taught and engaged in intensive meditation retreat for 18 years.

At the stage of pratyahara, the consciousness of the individual is internalized in order that the sensations from the senses of taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell don't reach their respective centers in the brain and takes the sadhaka ( practitioner ) to next stages of Yoga, namely Dharana ( concentration ) and Dhyana ( meditation ), and Samadhi ( mystical absorption ), being the aim of all Yogic practices.

Asked by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 why he finds his practise of transcendental meditation useful, Burgess replied: “ At the minimum it de-stresses you.

At times there may be no clear-cut boundary between Christian meditation and Christian contemplation, and they overlap.

The afterword, " At The Edge Of History ", includes a meditation on Emptiness as the ground of Being in which all entities are ontologically healed.

At the order of Situ Rinpoche, he was appointed Vajra Master of the great meditation hall of Palpung Monastery, where for many years he gave empowerments and teachings.

At the end of the 17th century, he built a Bathhouse here, which became the beginning of the Palace on the Water of Stanisław August Poniatowski and Ermitage – planned as a place of meditation and relaxation.

At this meeting Eckenstein ordered Crowley to put aside magick for the moment, and to practice meditation or concentration.

Elsewhere Hirsch described Simpson ’ s Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, At the End of the Open Road, as " a sustained meditation on the American character ," noting, " The moral genius of this book is that it traverses the open road of American mythology and brings us back to ourselves ; it sees us not as we wish to be but as we are.

At the invitation of the then Burmese Government ( 1960 ), he spent a year in a monastery practicing vipassana meditation, for some three months, reducing his sleep to two hours in 24.

At this time Saotome began to give great thought and meditation as to his future purpose.