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The anti-slavery movement and other contemporary reforms and philanthropies were given leadership and financial undergirding by Arthur Tappan ( 1786-1865 ) and his younger brother, Lewis Tappan ( 1788-1873 ).
He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.
However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).
However, a younger contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, brought his genius to Haydn's ideas and applied them to two of the major genres of the day: opera, and the virtuoso concerto.
This often leads to some conflict between older and younger congregants ( see contemporary worship ).
The whole was revised by Wycliffe's younger contemporary John Purvey in 1388.
Strabo, younger contemporary of Pytheas, denies that any knowledge of the shores of the eastern Baltic existed.
His younger contemporary Pythagoras ( c. 570-c. 495 BCE ), its first famous exponent, instituted societies for its diffusion.
Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".
It is possible that Tamar had a younger sister, Rusudan ; but she is only mentioned once in all contemporary accounts of Tamar's reign.
" During an interview with James Ferman ( former director of the British Board of Film Classification ), Ali G asks whether his made-up vulgarities would restrict a film to an over-18 audience, and suggests that film censorship be performed by younger persons who understand contemporary slang.
In 853 his younger brother Alfred went to Rome, and according to contemporary references in the Liber Vitae of San Salvatore, Brescia, Æthelred accompanied him.
Though never a paid critic as Debussy had been, Ravel had strong opinions on historical and contemporary music and musicians, which influenced his younger contemporaries.
He is explicitly critical of the plenist views of Aristotle and of their adoption by his younger contemporary Descartes.
Specter, who was six years younger than Dole and graduated Russell High School in 1947, was not a Dole contemporary although Specter's brother Morton Specter and Dole's brother Kenny Dole were friends.
Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained contemporary approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast ( Bat Chain Puller ) ( 1978 ), Doc at the Radar Station ( 1980 ) and Ice Cream for Crow ( 1982 ).
Their younger contemporary Heraclides Ponticus proposed that the Earth rotates around its axis.
Hippias was born at Elis in the mid 5th-century BCE ( c. 460 BCE ) and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates.
However, three younger contemporary conductors who had worked with him, Thomas Jensen, Launy Grøndahl, and Erik Tuxen, did record his symphonies and other orchestral works, and their recordings are therefore considered to be the most " authentic " Nielsen available.
Cassiodorus, a younger contemporary of the above, used the names tensibilia, percussionalia, and inflatilia ;
Marcello was a younger contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice and his instrumental music enjoys a Vivaldian flavor.
Almost uniquely in superhero comics at the time, the JSA members during this period were portrayed as middle-aged — and often wiser — versions of their younger, contemporary counterparts.
Though he quotes Saadia Gaon's works frequently, he belongs not to the rationalistic school of the Mu ' tazili that Saadia followed but, like his somewhat younger contemporary Solomon ibn Gabirol ( 1021 – 1070 ), is an adherent of Neoplatonic mysticism.
Ine abdicated in 726 to go to Rome, leaving the kingdom to " younger men ", in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bede.

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This doctrine was defended by his younger countryman Zeno of Elea ( 490-430 BCE ) in a polemic against the common opinion which sees in things multitude, becoming, and change.
Bardiya (, Bardiya ;,, Greek: Smerdis ) ( possibly died 522 BCE ) was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings.
On his death in battle in 160 BCE, Judah was succeeded as army commander by his younger brother, Jonathan, who was already High Priest.
In 66 BCE, Pompey advanced into Armenia with the younger Tigranes, and Tigranes the Great, now almost 75 years old, surrendered.
The Greco-Bactrian kings issued the first cupronickel coins, with Euthydemus II, dating from 180 to 170 BCE, and his younger brothers Pantaleon and Agathocles around 170 BCE.
There are two excerpts from a letter said to have been composed in the late 2nd century BCE to Gaius Gracchus, Cornelia's younger son.
Finally, on 7 < sup > th </ sup > January 49 BCE, the senate under Lentulus and Marcellus passed the “ final decree ” ( senatus consultum ultimum )< ref > Caesar, < i > B. C .</ i > i. 5 ; the tribunes Antonius and Cassius fled with Caesar's envoy, the younger Curio, from Rome to meet Caesar at Ravenna.
Satyrus defeated his younger brother Eumelus at the Battle of the River Thatis in 310 BCE but then was killed in battle, giving Eumelus the throne.
The rise of the Bruttian people from this fortuitous aggregation of rebels and fugitives is assigned by Diodorus to the year 356 BCE ; and this accords with the statement of Strabo that they arose at the period of the expedition of Dion against the younger Dionysius.
In Indian literary tradition, he is variously identified either as the younger brother of Pāṇini ( 4th century BCE ), or as Patañjali, the author of the Mahabhashya ( 2nd century BCE ).
" Since then, other scholars have attempted to redact these scripts, including Dai De ( 戴德, also called Senior Dai ) who reworked the text in the 1st Century BCE, reducing the original 214 books to 85, which was further reduced by his younger brother Dai Sheng ( 戴圣, Junior Dai ) to 46 books, to which three were added towards the end of the Han Dynasty, bringing the total to 49.
He was forty-five years younger than Confucius and lived to a great age, for in 406 BCE records show him at the court of Prince Wan of Wei (), to whom he gave copies of some of the classical Books.
The Zoroastrian cult of fire is much younger than Zoroastrianism itself and appears at approximately the same time as the shrine cult, first evident in the 4th century BCE ( roughly contemporaneous with the introduction of Atar as a divinity ).
509 BCE ) was the younger son of Lucius Junius Brutus, who was one of Rome's first two consuls in 509 BC.
In 299 BCE Zhao Wuling, perhaps tired out from all he had done and wishing to become more involved with military instead of political affairs, abdicated and gave the throne of Zhao to his younger son, Zhao He ( Simplified Chinese: 赵何 ) who was to become King Huiwen of the Zhao ( Simplified Chinese: 赵惠文王 ).
The period from 200 to 0 BCE is also considered to be the younger pre-Roman period.

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Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.
Agesilaus was the son of Archidamus II and his second wife, Eupoleia, brother to Cynisca ( the first woman in ancient history to achieve an Olympic victory ), and younger half-brother of Agis II.
Installed at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques ( IHÉS ), Grothendieck attracted attention by an intense and highly productive activity of seminars ( de facto working groups drafting into foundational work some of the ablest French and other mathematicians of the younger generation ).
Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.
Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.
The WCC has multiple divisions, including a singles finger-shooting category for competitive players ( Adult Singles ), novices ( Recreational ), and younger players ( Intermediate, 11-14 yrs ; Junior, 6-10 yrs ).
The younger Luthor slightly envies Clark's ' clean-cut ' and wholesome parents ( who disapprove of Clark's friendship with Luthor ), while Clark is impressed with Luthor's wealth while failing to understand some of the manipulations he carries out in his interactions with others.
research fellowships ( which range from two to five years, and are aimed at younger mathematicians ), as well as shorter-term
He was the middle of three children, with a sister Dorianne ( 3 years older ), and a brother David ( 14 months younger ).
* Her fourth and last marriage was to Barry Comden ( born 1935 – died 2009 ), who was roughly a decade younger, from April 14, 1976 until 1981.
In the spring of 1882, Hermann Minkowski ( two years younger than Hilbert and also a native of Königsberg but so talented he had graduated early from his gymnasium and gone to Berlin for three semesters ), returned to Königsberg and entered the university.
A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.
Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie ( born 1862 ), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas ( born 1865 ), Laura Catherine ( born 1867 ), and Inger Marie ( born 1868 ).
To his concerns regarding his new heir, Louis, who had been destined for the monastic life of a younger son ( the former heir, Philip, having died from a riding accident ), was added joy over the death of one of his most powerful vassals – and the availability of the best duchy in France.
In 1863, the invading French, under Napoleon III ( see above ), in alliance with Mexican conservatives and nobility, helped create the Second Mexican Empire, and invited Archduke Maximilian, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, younger brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I, to become emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
* 724 ( Yōrō 8, 1st month ): In the 9th year of Genshō-tennō's reign ( 元正天皇9年 ), the empress abdicated ; and her younger brother received the succession (‘‘ senso ’’).
After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.
Alexander Gordon ( 1786 – 1815 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
John Gordon ( 1792 – 1869 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
There were two younger brothers, Hanly ( 1899 – 1983 ) and Carey ( 1902 – 1976 ), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby suburb of Beckenham — in Oakwood Avenue.
* 586: In the 14th year of Bidatsu-tennō's reign ( 敏達天皇14年 ), he died ; and the succession ( senso ) was received by his younger brother.
* 587: In the 2nd year of Yōmei-tennō's reign ( 用明天皇2年 ), the emperor died, and despite a dispute over who should follow him as sovereign, the succession (‘‘ senso ’’) was received by another son of Emperor Kimmei, one of Yōmei's younger brothers.

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