The coast contains sufficient estuaries, inlets, rivers, islands, swamps and marshes to have been then inaccessible to those not familiar with the terrain, such as the Romans, who considered it unknown, inaccessible, with a small population and of little economic interest.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

Contemporary authors severely criticised this treaty, which was considered shameful to the Romans and left the deaths of Sabinus and Fuscus unavenged.

January and February were the last two months to be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period.

Other verses by inference may be considered to refer to ' speaking in tongues ', such as Isaiah 28: 11, Romans 8: 26 and Jude 20.

Many Romans considered him as their equivalent to King Alexander the Great.

Augustus planned in 6 AD to destroy the mighty kingdom of Maroboduus, which he considered to be too dangerous for the Romans.

The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia ; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires.

The greatest of “ the great men of England ,” the last and noblest of the Romans, was considered the embodiment of virtue, wisdom, patriotism, liberty, and temperance ... Pitt, “ glorious and immortal ,” the “ guardian of America ,” was the idol of the colonies ... A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Massachussetts paid him the ultimate tribute of identification with English liberty: “ Our toast in general is ,— Magna Charta, the British Constitution ,— and Liberty forever !”

The art of augury was considered prestigious by ancient Romans ; by sending his signs, Jupiter ( the sovereign of heaven ) communicates his advice to his terrestrial colleague: the king ( rex ) or his successor magistrates.

The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have considered butter a food fit more for the northern barbarians.

At the Battle of the Caudine Forks they were kept penned in without supplies, especially water, until the Senate bought their release in exchange for a half-year treaty the Romans considered humiliating, by which they provided hostages and gave up the colonies.

Hippolytus ( AD 170 – 236 ), considered to have been one of the most learned Christian historians, puts names to the seventy disciples whom Jesus sent forth in Luke 10, includes Aristobulus of Romans 16: 10 with Joseph, and states that he ended up becoming a pastor in Britain.

Even though Charlemagne was the first to receive papal coronation as Emperor of the Romans, Otto I is considered the first Holy Roman Emperor in historiography.

This became a respected profession because pastries were considered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and celebration.

At that period, the Greek language was considered a lingua franca, i. e. the language spoken in the known world ( for the Greeks and Romans ) of that time and, as a result, modern linguistics struggles to overcome this.

The Romans and the medieval world followed and their laborious work is considered today as a part of our everyday language.

While some cultures considered the knowledge of the dead to be unlimited, ancient Greeks and Romans believed that individual shades knew only certain things.

Pausanias adds that the Romans considered the Mausoleum one of the great wonders of the world and it was for that reason that they called all their magnificent tombs mausolea, after it.

The Romans considered all Mediterranean islands to be small except for Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, and Cyprus.

Since eagles were considered sacred animals of Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans, it was later seen as an omen predicting his election to the consulship seven times.

This first version was censored for being considered " subversive " because it portrayed Sebastian being deposed, its comments in favor of an Anglo-Spanish alliance and possible pro-Catholicism, which led to the final version changing to the story of Antiochus ( which led to historical inaccuracy in exaggerating his defeat at that phase in history to fit the earlier text ), turning Spaniards into Romans and the Catholic eremite into a Stoic philosopher.

When the Romans settled there, they absorbed the cult of Quirinus into their early belief system — previous to direct Greek influence — and by the end of the first century BC Quirinus was considered to be the deified Romulus.

" The term classicus ( masculine plural classici ) was devised by the Romans themselves to translate Greek ἐγκριθέντες ( egkrithentes ), " select ", referring to authors who wrote in Greek that were considered model.

Many amongst the nobility considered him too weak to properly handle the threat posed by the Romans and the possibility of invasion.

Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.

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Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today.

Although they are often considered to be weeds in gardens, this viewpoint is not always necessary, as most of them die when the soil temperature warms up again in early to late spring when other plants are still dormant and have not yet leafed out.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

The choice of The Marriage of Figaro was considered improper for a new bride by many observers, and the couple left the opera theater early without seeing the entire work performed.

The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.

This singularity is sometimes called " the Big Bang ", but the term can also refer to the early hot, dense phase itself, which can be considered the " birth " of our Universe.

This model focuses on the dynamics of the early universe considered as a hot gas of strings.

In the early 2000s, these organocatalysts were considered " new generation " and are competitive to traditional metal (- ion )- containing catalysts.

The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually.

During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside.

In the early 2000s, cheerleading was considered one of the most dangerous school activities.

At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

Cosmic background radiation is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe.

St Catherine's letters are considered one of the great works of early Tuscan literature.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

In the early 1920s, dance studies ( dance practice, critical theory, Musical analysis and history ) began to be considered an academic discipline.

He is generally considered one of the most important figures of early cinema for his command of film techniques and expressive skills.

Whereas in the early days of the practice it was considered wrong to construct words to disguise meaning, this is now an accepted and established practice.

Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, to describe scriptural texts of the Old Testament considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which are not present in the Hebrew Bible, and which had been omitted by some early canon lists, especially in the East.

These compositions were considered to be unplayable by many bassists in the early part of the 20th century, but are now frequently performed.

The harmony does not include Jesus ' encounter with the adulteress ( John 7: 53 – 8: 11 ), a passage that is generally considered to be a spurious late addition to the Gospel of John, with the Diatessaron itself often used as an early textual witness to support this.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.