A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Aeronautics also finds mention in ancient China where people were flying kites thousands of years ago.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

Other early finds of crossbows were discovered in Tomb 138 at Saobatang, Hunan dated to mid 4th century BC.

The majority of crannog excavations were poorly conducted ( by modern standards ) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by early antiquarians, or were indeed purely accidental finds as lochs were drained during the improvements to increase usable farmland or pasture.

Preservation and conservation techniques for waterlogged materials such as logboats or structural material were all but non-existent and a number of extremely important finds perished as a result, in some instances dried out for firewood.

The three finds push back the date of the invention of the crank and connecting rod back by a full millennium ; for the first time, all essential components of the much later steam engine were assembled by one technological culture:

Despite a large number of Homo fossils finds, chimpanzee fossils ( genus Pan ) were not described until 2005.

To Medieval thinking, all things were connected with each other — a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the occult sciences or esoteric thought — ranging from astrology to believing certain minerals have certain beneficiary effects.

While Doreen Valiente writes that in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, she later finds it necessary to specify " full moon Esbat ," to distinguish it from other esbat occasions.

Friedman finds that while Capra's ideas were popular to depression-era and pre-war audiences, they became less relevant to attitudes of a prospering post-war America.

Other archeological finds have unearthed triple-barrel and double-barrel swivel-guns, though they were not widely duplicated.

Often, one finds statements that Soviet POWs on their return to the Soviet Union were often treated as traitors ( see Order No. 270 ).

Moreover, the finds were unique.

The finds were attributed to Goths or Gepids.

Archaeological finds show that the Lombards were an agricultural people.

In 1980, before the finds from the Mary Rose, Robert E. Kaiser published a paper stating that there were five known surviving longbows:

Although meteorites had been sold commercially and collected by hobbyists for many decades, up to the time of the Saharan finds of the late 1980s and early 1990s, most meteorites were deposited in or purchased by museums and similar institutions where they were exhibited and made available for scientific research.

Other venues for advertising were local tourist bureaux and the picture postcards provided for free use by clients .< ref > finds 22 entries for " motels " on US 40, mostly archived picture postcards bearing advertisements like " 40 Winks Motel -- within city limits of Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological finds, such as cave paintings, prove that humans were present in the region in prehistoric times.

Large-seeded legumes were part of the human diet long before the Neolithic agricultural revolution, as evident from archaeobotanical finds from the Mousterian layers of Kebara Cave, in Israel.

At present () the museum is closed for refurbishment but there is a temporary museum, on the site, where all their ' star finds ' are displayed.

The finds from this tomb were later included in the travelling exhibit The Search for Alexander displayed at four cities in the United States from 1980 to 1982.

Scientists and collectors displayed their finds in private cabinets of curiosities.

Many of the finds are displayed in the exhibition at the Danish Castle Centre ( Danmarks Borgcenter ).

The finds were displayed in a museum on the site.

The historic and archaeological finds from Eretria and Lefkandi are displayed in the Eretria Museum, established by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece.

Many of the more important finds from the excavation are displayed on site in the modern visitor centre attached to the Abbey ruins.

The finds from the site are displayed at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.

The finds from this tomb were later included in the travelling exhibit " The Search for Alexander " displayed at four cities in the United States from 1980 to 1982.

When his brother does not come back, Ali Baba goes to the cave to look for him, and finds the body, quartered and with each piece displayed just inside the entrance of the cave as a warning to anyone else who might try to enter.

Some archaeological finds from the Abbey's site are displayed in Plumstead Museum at 232 Plumstead High Street, others are further east in the museum above Erith Library in Walnut Tree Road.

Excavated finds and architectural features, particularly relating to the warming house and late twelfth-century chapter house, are displayed in the Yorkshire Museum, housed on the grounds.

She is a tough talking, no-nonsense woman ( as displayed by her reactions to being called the term " doll ," which she finds to be derogatory and highly offensive ) who is extremely independent and self reliant.

Excavation of core materials for the dams resulted in many paleontological finds, all of which are displayed at the Western Science Center at the lake's East end.

Archaeological finds from Malinithan site in West Siang are on displayed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.

Chance finds, primarily marble funerary sculpture, are displayed in the Archaeological Collection in Chora ( open Tues .- Sun.

Here are displayed the first finds associated with the temple, from the first tentative finds in the 19th century to the discovery of the huge stone disk of Coyolxauhqui, which initiated the Templo Mayor Project.

Matos Moctezuma oversaw the creation of the Templo Mayor Museum in which these spectacular finds are displayed in lavish exhibits, and he directed the Museum for many years.

If a player finds it hard to match the objects with the rhymes, he or she can approach the characters who are in need of a specific part of their story and this item will be displayed above them in the form of a " thought bubble ".

He finds that some countries such as Germany and Japan exhibit the informatization of manufacturing processes.

The two strike a deal ; Zero agrees to help Burton with his Patient Zero exhibit if Burton finds a way to make Zero appear.

Charness ( 1996 ), quoted in Fehr et al., finds that when signalling is removed ( wages are set randomly or by the experimenter ), workers exhibit a lower, but still positive, wage-effort relation, suggesting some gain-sharing motive and some reciprocity ( where intentions can be signalled ).

After a class troublemaker is reported missing after the museum trip, the Scooby Gang investigates and finds the Incan mummy from the exhibit gone and the missing student mummified in her place.

* In His Image: A woman finds her missing brother's head as an exhibit in a wax museum.

A permanent exhibit of fugitive slave life will be established in the Fall of 2011 documenting recent archeological finds.

The Carbonear Heritage Society is developing an interpretive museum exhibit for these and future finds.

Bart runs away with Stampy to save his pet, but the family finds the two at a museum exhibit, where Homer falls into a tar pit.

His books include technical archaeological reports, interpretive works on archaeological finds, scholarly studies in the history of archaeology, exhibit catalogs, and collections of chapters.