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The " sp " in the name suggests that it was mediated through Iranian sources to Greek, indeed in Early Iranian Arimaspi combines Ariama ( love ) and Aspa ( horses )— a designation that fits very well any steppe people of riders.
Early and beginnings
* The beginnings of Christian Anti-Semitism Judeophobia ( Jew Hate ) in Early Christian thought.
By the end of the Early Modern period however, and the beginnings of the Enlightenment, many European governments brought in laws prohibiting many superstitious beliefs in an attempt to bring an end to the Witch Hunt ; this would invariably affect the release of grimoires.
The Middle Ages lasted until the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states, the division of Western Christianity in the Reformation, the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of European overseas expansion which allowed for the Columbian Exchange.
Early beginnings of Hindu temple architecture have been traced to the remains at Aihole and Pattadakal in present day Karnataka, and have Vedic altars and late Vedic temples as described by Pāṇini as models.
Dicynodontia is a taxon of anomodont therapsids or mammal-like reptiles with beginnings in the mid-Permian, which were dominant from Late Permian through the Triassic, with a few surviving into the Early Cretaceous.
** Early Jurassic paleoglobe showing the a narrow seaway of Paleo-Tethys Ocean, and beginnings of the Cimmerian Orogeny
" Early in the show's run, listeners began to use the variations on the expression " ditto " to speed up the beginnings of calls, which typically ( as on most popular call-in shows ) tend to open with the listener excitedly expressing his or her gratitude to the host and his or her appreciation of the show.
Early beginnings
Early and mounted
Early on, the Soviets built the KV-2, a variant of the KV-1 heavy tank with a short-barreled 152 mm howitzer mounted in an oversized turret.
Early organized Arab mounted forces under the Rashidun caliphate comprised a light cavalry armed with lance and sword.
Early operations by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam using the vehicle showed that troops were far more effective while mounted in the vehicles than when they dismounted.
Early switchboards in large cities usually were mounted floor to ceiling in order to allow the operators to reach all the lines in the exchange.
Early in 2001, supporters of President Chiluba mounted a campaign to amend the constitution to enable Chiluba to seek a third term of office.
Early PT boats ( Elco PT20 through PT44 ) mounted Dewandre plexiglas enclosed hydraulically operated rotating turrets.
Early machines used a xenon flash lamp, and projected an image mounted in a rotating aperture wheel onto the photosensitive surface of the film or glass plate.
; Acoustic tablets: Early models were described as spark tablets — a small sound generator was mounted in the stylus, and the acoustic signal picked up by two microphones placed near the writing surface.
Early RDF systems normally used a loop antenna, a small loop of metal wire that is mounted so it can be rotated around a vertical axis.
Early on the morning of 21 November, the IRA teams mounted the operation.
Early after the US occupation they mounted a number of attacks but caused no damage to the Seabees working on the islands.
Early versions, in 1968 and 1969, were mounted or so above the car, in order to operate in ' clean air ' ( air that would not otherwise be disturbed by the passage of the car ).
Early on in its history, the legion was called X Equestris ( mounted ), because Caesar once used the legionaries as cavalry.
Early break vans were heavily weighted, adapted open freight wagons, equipped with an externally mounted hand-operated brake acting on all four wheels.
Early Miuras, known as P400s ( for Posteriore 4 litri ), were powered by a version of the 3. 9 L Lamborghini V12 engine used in the 400GT at the time, only mounted transversely and producing.
Early warships that mounted guns, such as the ship of the line, mounted dozens of cannons, carronades, and other guns in broadsides, sometimes on several decks.
Early on, pilots were normally fabricated of bars mounted on a frame ; later on, sheet metal pilots were often used for their additional smoothness, and some cast steel pilots were employed for their mass and smooth shape.
Early in 2001, supporters of President Chiluba mounted a campaign to amend the constitution to enable Chiluba to seek a third term of office.
Early K8 engines used a single SU KIF carburetter with a manual choke and a breaker-less distributor mounted on the end of the camshaft.
Early in the battle, Ross and his men successfully stampeded the Comanche horses, leaving the Comanche warriors at a disadvantage when facing the mounted troops.
Early adopters of headset mounted microphones technology included country singer Garth Brooks, Kate Bush, and Madonna.
Early Stanley cars had light wooden bodies mounted on tubular steel frames by means of full-elliptic springs.
Early pre-Marian Roman military had units consisting of mounted infantry with units clinging to the saddles of the cavalry to take them to battle and then dismounting to fight.
Early Marders up to and including version 1A1 had a second MG3 mounted on the rear deck in a remote controlled pod.
Early and warfare
Early in the medieval period, ships in the context of warfare were used primarily for transporting troops.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare continued to dominate the conduct of the European wars.
Early versions ejected heavy darts or spherical stone projectiles of various sizes for siege warfare.
Early tanks were not weapons of mobile warfare — with a top speed of, they were easily outpaced by the infantry — but were designed for trench warfare.
Early in the war, fighting descended into stagnant trench warfare.
Early strategies included the strategy of annihilation, exhaustion, attrition warfare, scorched earth action, blockade, guerrilla campaign, deception and feint.
* Early Modern warfare
Early during the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864, but had been sent back to their native North Carolina mountains to engage in guerrilla warfare against the remaining Union forces.
In the later transformation of its meaning during the European period of Early Modern warfare the order of battle came to mean the order in which the units manoeuvered or deployed onto the battlefield to form battle-lines, with the positioning on the right considered the place of greatest honour.
Early in the 11th century the unity of the Karakhanid dynasty was fractured by frequent internal warfare that eventually resulted in the formation of two independent Karakhanid states.
Urban conflicts in Free Imperial Cities, which sometimes amounted to class warfare, were not uncommon in the Early Modern Age, particularly in the 17th century ( Lübeck, 1598 – 1669 ; Schwäbisch Hall, 1601 – 1604 ; Frankfurt, 1612 – 1614 ; Wezlar, 1612 – 1615 ; Erfurt, 1648 – 1664 ; Cologne, 1680 – 1685 ; Hamburg 1678-1693, 1702 – 1708 ).
With the end of the Middle Ages and the professional standing armies of Early Modern warfare, the concept of a " warrior class " or " military caste " became an anachronism.
* Early 1940s: US Navy rebreathers were developed by Dr. Christian J. Lambertsen for underwater warfare and he is considered by the US Navy as " the father of the frogmen ".
Early Chinese dynastic histories chronicle tributary relations between Queen Himiko and the Cao Wei Kingdom ( 220-265 ), and record that the Yayoi period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kings of Wa.
Early editions of the Harpoon naval warfare simulation were based around defending the GIUK Gap.
Early Vedic astrologers also used a sophisticated form of electional astrology known as Muhurta ( Muhurat ) that was used for choosing the start of yajnas, travel, warfare, marriage and even filmmaking ( muhurat shot ) etc.
Early Irish annals also show regular warfare between the Uí Néill and the Laigin in the midlands, with the Uí Néill conquering as far south as the Kildare / Offaly border, and claiming the kingship of Tara, beginning to be conceptualised as the High Kingship of Ireland.
There is archaeological evidence of violence and warfare in Early Neolithic Britain from such sites as West Kennet Long Barrow and Hambledon Hill, with some groups constructing fortifications to defend themselves from attackers.
Early instances of this type of warfare were by the British and Dutch against the Spanish treasure fleets of the 16th century, which resulted in financial gain for both captain and crew upon capture of enemy vessels (" prizes ").
There is archaeological evidence of violence and warfare in Early Neolithic Britain from such sites as West Kennet Long Barrow and Hambledon Hill, with some groups constructing fortifications to defend themselves from attackers.
Early efforts to conduct space warfare were directed at space-to-space warfare, as ground-to-space systems were considered to be too slow and too isolated by Earth's atmosphere and gravity to be effective.
Though historians often challenge Roberts ' findings, they usually agree with his basic proposal that European methods of warfare changed profoundly somewhere around or during the Early Modern Period.
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