* Clay tablets

Clay tablets were used as the first known writing medium, inscribed with cuneiform script through the use of a blunt reed called a stylus.

Clay tablets written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the Levantine and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets.

Clay tablets written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the West and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders of Arabic ( in earlier order of its abjad ), the reduced Hebrew, and more distantly Greek, and Latin alphabets on the one hand, and of the Ge ' ez alphabet on the other.

Clay amulet, one of the Tărtăria tablets unearthed near Săliştea, Alba | Tărtăria, Romania, and dated to ca.

Category: Clay tablets

Category: Clay tablets

Category: Clay tablets

Clay tablets document many species of now locally extinct wildlife including Rhinoceros and Elephant.

Clay tablets were found with medical texts recording symptoms, the prescriptions, and the directions for compounding it.

Clay tablets were used in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC.

Category: Clay tablets

Category: Clay tablets

Category: Clay tablets

Clay tablets with pictographic characters appeared in this period to record commercial transactions performed by the temples.

Category: Clay tablets

In announcing Jorda's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.

Clay pigeons are fired off two at a time from a first person perspective and are aimed into the distance.

Clay Shooting releases two clay pigeons at once.

Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.

Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee ( at $ 8 a week ), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.

When war finally did break out, the war effort was led by the War Hawks in Congress under Clay at least as much as it was by Madison ; this accorded with the president's preference for checks and balances.

* Charlotte Dupuy, slave who worked for Van Buren at Decatur House, while her suit for freedom against Henry Clay proceeded

It was a close fight for Fittipaldi who secured the title with a fourth at the season-ending United States Grand Prix, putting him three points ahead of Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni.

* 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali ( then Cassius Clay ) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

Clay was the unquestioned leader of the Whig party nationwide and in Washington, but he was vulnerable to Jacksonian allegations that he associated with the upper class at a time when white males without property had the right to vote and wanted someone more like themselves.

But, Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky were nominated as candidates for the presidency at the 1920 Democratic National Convention and received " the first vote cast for a woman in the convention of either of the two great parties.

* c. 8000 BC — Middle East — Clay vessels and modeled human and animal terracotta figurines are produced at Ganj Dareh in western Iran.

* Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and Ain Ghazal Mediterranean

A few days after the election, Adams named Clay his Secretary of State, a position which at that time often led to the presidency.

Clay made numerous attempts at becoming president, making five serious runs.

Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia in a story-and-a-half frame house.

Clay received no formal legal education but, as was customary at the time, " read the law " by working and studying with Wythe, Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Virginia ( also a mentor to Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, among others ) and Brooke.

After beginning his law career, on April 11, 1799, Clay married Lucretia Hart at the Hart home in Lexington, Kentucky.

Henry Clay, Jr. was killed at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War.

Lucretia Hart Clay died in 1864 at the age of 83.

" Clay presided at the founding meeting of the ACS on December 21, 1816, at the Davis Hotel in Washington, D. C. Attendees included Robert Finley, James Monroe, Bushrod Washington, Andrew Jackson, Francis Scott Key, and Daniel Webster.

and occupies a small triangular-shaped section of which Randolph and Clay counties, together with the northern part of Tallapoosa and Chambers, form the principal portion.

Most parts of the territory are on the Opalinuston-Formation ( Opalinum Clay Formation ) of the Aalenian subdivision, which is named after Aalen.

" The directive comported with the view of General Lucius D. Clay and the Joint Chief of Staff over growing communist influence in Germany, as well as of the failure of the rest of the European economy to recover without the German industrial base on which it previously had been dependent.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

Other cable cars to use grips were those of the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system.

Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan

The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county, forming the Chiltern Hills and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part.

One of the issues which divided the administration was protective tariffs, of which Henry Clay was a leading advocate.

Monroe was part of the American Colonization Society formed in 1816, which members included Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.

It is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill within the Blackmore Vale, overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour.

His father bought him a cheap printing press ; which, with the help of his younger brother Henry ( Harry ) Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close, he used to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, for which the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

Clay however moved to pass the Compromise of 1833, which met Southern complaints by a gradual reduction of the rates on imports to a maximum of twenty percent.

Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.

* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”

Other famous problems on his list include the Poincaré conjecture, the P = NP problem, and the Navier-Stokes equations, all of which have been designated Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Henry Clay, unsuccessful candidate and Speaker of the House, despised Jackson, in part due to their fight for Western votes during the election, and he chose to support Adams, which led to him being elected President.

Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.

On January 29, 1850, Whig Senator Henry Clay gave a speech which called for compromise on the issues dividing the Union.

Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the " Manifest Destiny " policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.