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Sabine and did
" He did find, however, a vocabulary identified as Sabine of about 36 words in glosses by Roman authors ( such as Varro ) on other Greek and Latin authors and inscriptions.
Interviewed by " Common Ground ", Vancouver ( July 1999 Issue ), Wilson talked about how he'd been tinkering with Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words, which he considered his best book — worst, that is, after the editors at Playboy did to the book " what the Roman Army did to the Sabine women ".

Sabine and make
Louisiana Director of Public Works Claude Kirkpatrick, who was also president of the Sabine River Authority of Louisiana at the time, pushed for the joint agreement with Texas, in the absence of federal funds, to make the project a reality.

Sabine and one
The area's geography remained one of the least understood in the region, with various Spanish maps containing errors in the naming of the Sabine and Neches, and sometimes showed them flowing independently into the Gulf of Mexico.
* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.
The location has been identified variously as the river Trebbia, Trevi nel Lazio, or one of the places called Trebula in antiquity, two of which — Trebula Mutusca and Trebula Suffenas — are in Sabine territory.
According to Roman tradition, the cult of Opis was instituted by Titus Tatius, one of the Sabine kings of Rome.
The border with Sabine Parish, Louisiana is rather unusual since the county and the parish both share the same name, one of only five such instances in the United States.
In recent times one or possibly two Sabine inscriptions have been tentatively identified.
Three new centuries of Equites were introduced at Rome, including one named Tatienses, after the Sabine king.
Some specifically Sabine deities and cults were known at Rome: Semo Sancus and Quirinus, and at least one area of the town, the Quirinale, where the temples to those latter deities were located, had once been a Sabine centre.
Sabine was one of five parishes created in as many weeks by the Louisiana State Legislature March 7, 1843.
Sabine Parish was one of the five parishes created in as many weeks by the state legislature in 1843 during the administration of Gov.
The Confederate victory prevented a planned Union invasion thereafter of Texas. Mansfield, also known as the Battle of Sabine Crossroads, a Confederate victory, occurred with one year and one day left in the duration of the war.
Shelby County eventually became one of the most populous and prosperous counties in the state because of its proximity to Louisiana and location along the Sabine River.
Sabine was also drawn into the famous " longitude problem ," which was one of the great controversies of the age.
Sabine was one of the instigators of this " Magnetic Crusade ," urging the government to establish magnetic observatories throughout the empire.
Most of these observatories were of limited size and were dismantled as soon as the initial survey was complete, but the one founded by Sabine at Toronto in 1840 is still in existence.
It was located one mile ( 1. 6 km ) outside town in the Sabine River bottom.
The film Copyright by Inge Morath was made by German filmmaker Sabine Eckhard in 1992, and was one of several films selected for a presentation of Magnum Films at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007.
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Niebuhr, who mentions these distinctions, conjectures that among the gradual changes of the constitution from a monarchy to an aristocracy, the Valeria gens for a time possessed the right that one of its members should exercise the kingly power for the Tities, to which tribe the Valerii must have belonged, as their Sabine origin indicates ; but on this point, as on many others in early Roman history, it is impossible to come to any certainty.
Although it is widely believed that the Latin praenomen Mamercus was of Oscan origin, since Mamers was a Sabine form of Mars, it is not clear to what extent the two cultures ( which sprang from the same origin ) borrowed praenomina from one another, and to what extent they shared names based on roots common to each language.
Architects McKim, Mead and White engaged Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant professor of physics at Harvard University, as their acoustical consultant, and Symphony Hall became one of the first auditoria designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustical principles.
She needed one more win to qualify for the tournament, but lost in three sets against Sabine Lisicki.

Sabine and notable
At Chatsworth, during 1707-8 Thornhill painted a number of walls and ceilings, the most notable being the continuous wall and ceiling painting of the Sabine room, then a lobby, but since used as a bedroom.
Among the notable Renaissance works on display are an outstanding collection of 15th and 16th century Florentine paintings by Paolo Uccello, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli and Andrea del Sarto and, from the High Renaissance, Giambologna's original plaster for the Rape of the Sabine Women.
In the quarterfinals, she lost 4 – 6, 7 – 6, 1 – 6 to Sabine Lisicki in a match notable for taking place under the centre-court roof in the middle of a ferocious thunderstorm.

Sabine and problem
By the time Sabine became interested in the problem, it had already been solved, and in 1828 the British government abolished the Board of Longitude.

Sabine and .
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
`` Sabine called a few minutes ago '', Eugene said.
The first such application was Sabine ’ s groundbreaking work in architectural acoustics, and many others followed.
Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.
Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin.
The alternation of o and au is characteristic of the Sabine dialect.
Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.
On 13 September 81 after barely two years in office, he unexpectedly died of fever during a trip to the Sabine territories.
After David's wife visited him in jail, he conceived the idea of telling the story of the Sabine Women.
The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.
The other Sabine Women join in her exhortations.
Later, while explaining his developing " Grecian style " for paintings such as The Intervention of the Sabine Women, David further commented on a shift in attitude: " In all human activity the violent and transitory develops first ; repose and profundity appear last.
* Griffin and Sabine by artist Nick Bantock is a love story written as a series of hand painted postcards and letters.
* Nick Bantock's series of Griffin and Sabine works consist of a series of letters and postcards between the two main characters.
The symbol Au is from the, according to some sources meaning " shining dawn ", from Sabine ausum " glowing dawn " although according to definitions within Latin dictionaries the meaning of the word aurum extends only to the same as today's reference to the metal.
The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.
This involved the leveling of the top of the Tarpeian Rock that overlooked the Forum and the removal of a number of its ancient Sabine shrines.
Besides the navigable waterways already named, there are the Sabine ( Sah-BEAN ), forming the western boundary ; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary ; the Calcasieu ( KAL-cah-shew ), the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya ( a-CHAF-a-LI-a ), the Boeuf ( bEHf ), Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau, Bayou D ' Arbonne, the Macon, the Tensas ( TEN-saw ), Amite River, the Tchefuncte ( CHA-Funk-ta ), the Tickfaw, the Natalbany, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over long.
* 752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
* 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer ( b. 1788 )
Maecenas gave him full financial support as well as an estate in the Sabine mountains.
File: Giambologna raptodasabina. jpg | Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women, 1583, Florence, Italy, 13 ' 6 " high, marble
By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's A Book of Nursery Songs ( 1895 ), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and foot-notes.
After the ensuing war with the Sabines, Romulus shared the kingship with the Sabine king Titus Tatius.

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