In the 4th century, it is learnt from the Susunia edicts, in Prakrit and Sanskrit, that Chandravarman, son of Simhavarman, was ruler Pushkarana ( modern Pokhanna in Bankura district ).

Sri Lanka fast bowler, Lasith Malinga, who became the first bowler in World Cup history to take two hat-tricks, has said that he learnt to bowl his deadly yorkers by watching Pakistan's legendary pair of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Sri Venkatanatha proved to be a very brilliant scholar from a very young age who learnt to play the Veena very proficiently thanks to his father and grandfather.

He learnt acting from Sri Harpal Singh, and then moved to Mumbai to work in the entertainment industry.

She and her sister learnt Bharatnatyam at Mumbai's Sri Rajarajeswari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, where Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai, doyen among nattuvanars taught and performed on stage together.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

But Urraca was tenacious of her right as queen regnant and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

It was later learnt Cronje accepted money and a gift from a bookmaker in return for making an early declaration in this Test.

He learnt of the opportunities from the Saharan trade routes that terminated there, and became fascinated with Africa in general ; he was most intrigued by the Christian legend of Prester John and the expansion of Portuguese trade.

Imi quickly found however that although boxing and wrestling were good sports they were not always practical for the aggressive and brutal nature of street fighting and he learnt the hard way that real life fighting was very different to competition fighting.

The final book takes place ( largely ) with a mission to a far off system to discover the Tyrathca ' Sleeping God ' ( which was previously unknown, but learnt of in the first novel ), which was discovered by the Tyrathca when they were travelling the galaxy, looking for new planets to populate.

In 1957, he travelled first to China ( where he was particularly interested in the Chinese desire for harmony ), Japan ( where he learnt much about the interaction between interiors and exteriors ) and India, before arriving in Australia in 1957 where he stayed until 1966.

After a year into his Wing Chun training, most of Yip Man's other students refused to train with Lee after they learnt of his ancestry ( his mother was half Chinese and half Caucasian ) as the Chinese generally were against teaching their martial arts techniques to non-Asians.

Upon his father's death in 1378, young Sigismund became Margrave of Brandenburg and was sent to the Hungarian court, and soon learnt the Hungarian language and Hungarian way of life, and became entirely devoted to his adopted country.

His symphonies deliberately followed a pattern, each one building on the achievements of its predecessors .... His melodic and harmonic style changed little, and it had as much of Schubert in it as of Wagner .... His technique in the development and transformation of themes, learnt from Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner, was unsurpassed, and he was almost the equal of Brahms in the art of melodic variation.

This merchant eventually brought Warbeck to Cork, Ireland in 1491 when he was about seventeen, and it was here that he learnt to speak English.

It is not known whether the Italian inventor was influenced by the earlier design, but he may have learnt about the idea through the intensive oral communication among artist-engineers of the time.

The difference now was that the schiltrons had learnt mobility and how to keep formation at the same time.

De Roquefeuil came up almost as far as The Downs, where he learnt that Sir John Norris was at hand with twenty-five sail of the line, and thereupon precipitately retreated.

In London he also learnt that he knew far more English than he had supposed, although still did not understand half of what was said in conversation.

Early on the 14th, Jervis learnt that the Spanish fleet was 35 miles to windward.

Napoleon learnt the full extent of her affair with Charles while in Egypt, and a letter he wrote to his brother Joseph regarding the subject was intercepted by the British.

Of his time at Oxford, Southey was later to say " All I learnt was a little swimming ... and a little boating.

When he was 13, he learnt the Tour de Force of Iron Wire Fist and sling from Lam Fuk-sing ( 林福成 ), a student of " Iron Bridge Three " Leung Kwan, after meeting Lam in Douzhixiang during a martial arts street performance.

Phillip learnt of this in April when he put in for storm repairs at Rio de Janeiro.

" He had little respect for the professors of his time, telling a friend in 1735, " there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learnt of the death of her uncle Raymond ; this appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they instead sought the Pope in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a Roman revolt.

As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.

Fortunately for Bruce, his friend, and Edward's son-in-law, Ralph de Monthermer learnt of Edward's intention and warned Bruce by sending him twelve pence and a pair of spurs.

In the United States, Asa Gray negotiated with a Boston publisher for publication of an authorised American version, but learnt that two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print Origin.

In keeping with these points, James Hurford argues that the postulate of a language acquisition device ( LAD ) essentially amounts to the trivial claim that languages are learnt by humans, and thus, that the LAD is less a theory than an explanandum looking for theories.

Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.

By the end of the story he seems to have learnt his lesson and feels as guilty as Sheila does for his part in Eva Smith's death.

Unfortunately for them, the successful opening attack of 14 July did not mean they had learnt how to conduct trench battles.

This doomed poet's Les Chants de Maldoror became the seminal work for the Parisian Surrealists of Modigliani's generation, and the book became Modigliani's favourite to the extent that he learnt it by heart.

He developed a keen interest in Haida art while working as a radio announcer in Toronto for CBC Radio, where he also studied jewelry making at the Ryerson Institute of Technology, having first learnt about his heritage from his maternal grandfather, who had himself been trained by Charles Edenshaw, a Haida artist of great renown.

On further questioning, Diomedes and Odysseus learnt that among the various allies, Thracians were the most vulnerable for they had come last and were sleeping apart from the others at the far end of the camp.

Vincentius's object in the Commonitory is to provide himself, as he states, with a general rule whereby to distinguish Catholic truth from heresy ; and he commits what he has learnt, he adds, to writing, that he may have it by him for reference as a Commonitory, or Remembrancer, to refresh his memory.

From her friendship with Samuel Morse, an authority on codes, and encryption for the telegraph, she learnt of Bacon's interest in secret ciphers, and this prompted her own approach to the authorship question.

It was said by one famous attorney in the U. S., William Livingston, in 1745 in a New York newspaper that the clerkship program was severely flawed, and that most mentors " have no manner of concern for their clerk's future welfare ... is a monstrous absurdity to suppose, that the law is to be learnt by a perpetual copying of precedents.

Tovey again uses superlatives: " The thirty-first variation is an extremely rich outpouring of highly ornamented melody, which to Beethoven's contemporaries must have been hardly intelligible, but which we, who have learnt from Bach that a great artist's feeling is often more profound where his expression is most ornate, can recognize for one of the most impassioned utterances in all music.

He later moved to Mathari School ( now Nyeri High School ) between 1944 and 1946 for Standard four to six, where, in addition to his academic studies, he learnt carpentry and masonry as students would repair furniture and provide material for maintaining the school's buildings.

In the San Marino Grand Prix, Montoya was forced to use the team spare car for the qualifying session when it was learnt that his car had a fuel pressure problem.