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 its commencement, the sponsorship by Foster's was the most lucrative sponsorship ever given to an English football club.

At the 1982 Barnard College commencement ceremonies, Tharp's alma mater awarded her its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon ( then ruled by Perdiccas II ) with a vast army that included 150, 000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes.

At the school's tenth commencement in June 1917, Zhou was one of five graduating students honored at the ceremony, and one of the two valedictorians.

At its 1978 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Rodgers its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

At the Howard University commencement address on June 4, 1965, he said that both the government and the nation needed to help achieve goals:

At the commencement of the novel, Karl Riemeck – his last and best double agent, a high-ranking East German political officer – is shot dead at the last moment whilst defecting to West Berlin.

At the time of the commencement of the lawsuit, Bob Mosley had been homeless in San Diego since the early 1990s, while Skip Spence was living in a residential care facility in northern California.

At commencement in 1871, The Lion of Lucerne, a sculpture by Martin Milmore, was added as the centerpiece of the building.

At the commencement of World War I, Sudermann was enthusiastic, publishing a Kaiserlied (" Song of the Kaiser ").

At the commencement of a Session, the Serjeant-at-Arms bearing the Mace accompanies the Speaker when entering and leaving the Chamber.

At commencement in 2006, the holders of the bust arranged for Schiller to " graduate.

At the time of the badge's adoption, the colonial Governor, Frederick Weld, wrote that " This Colony at its commencement was usually known as the Swan River Settlement, and the Black Swan is represented upon its seal, and has always been considered as its special badge, or cognizance.

At the commencement, Bob Jones, Jr., read the following citation as a tribute to Wallace:

At its 1983 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Cuomo its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

At the most recent commencement ceremony held at the Prudential Center in Newark in late May 2012, Dr. Farahi was met with a chorus of boos from the crowd, including from a large section of the graduating students.

At the time of commencement, the constitution had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules. It consist of almost 80, 000 words.

At its 1979 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Gahagan Douglas its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

At the time of its commencement in 1863, Hedrick's retained the name of " The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints " for his organization, reflecting his insistence that it was a continuation of Joseph Smith's church.

At the commencement of the reign of Caesar Augustus, there were over 7, 000 Jews in Rome ( this is the number that escorted the envoys who came to demand the deposition of Archelaus ).

At the commencement of the first session after each General Election to Lok Sabha and at the commencement of the first session of each year, the President addresses both the Houses of Parliament assembled together in the Central Hall.

At its commencement, the University had only one faculty-that of philosophy.

* 1947: At the Partition of India and the commencement of Pakistani independence, PNB lost its premises in Lahore, but continued to operate in Pakistan.

At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge many senior staff are granted the degree of Master of Arts after three years of service, and at Amherst College all tenured professors are awarded a Master of Arts degree at academic convocation in the autumn even though the school only offers an earned Bachelor of Arts degree ( Amherst awards honorary doctorates at commencement in the spring to notable scholars and other special invitees ).