* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.

The city and its fortified sourroundings were encircled 13 September – 16 October 1944 by the US 1st Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in conjunction with the US 2nd Armored Division and 30th Infantry Division during the prolonged Battle of Aachen, later reinforced by US 28th Infantry Division elements.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ).

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.

The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

* 2nd and 3rd missions ( 16 – 20 )

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

For example, the parent function y = 1 / x has a horizontal and a vertical asymptote, and occupies the first and third quadrant, and all of its transformed forms have one horizontal and vertical asymptote, and occupies either the 1st and 3rd or 2nd and 4th quadrant.

Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.

The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.

* Epigenes of Byzantium, astrologer, lived in the 3rd – 2nd century BC

* Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria, 3rd – 2nd century BC

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

Fist depicted in Sumerian relief ( in Iraq ) carvings from the 3rd millennium BC, while an ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millennium BC depicts both fist-fighters and spectators.

Numerous altars and tombstones of the cohorts of Batavi, dating to the 2nd century and 3rd century, have been found along Hadrian's Wall, notably at Castlecary and Carrawburgh, Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and Austria.

His partners were Roger Twose ( 115 partnership – 2nd wicket ), Trevor Penney ( 314 – 3rd ), Paul Smith ( 51 – 4th ) and Keith Piper ( 322 unbroken – 5th ).

Greek historian Plutarch discusses an argument between Chrysippus ( 3rd century BCE ) and Hipparchus ( 2nd century BCE ) of a rather delicate enumerative problem, which was later shown to be related to Schröder numbers.

Keith Hopkins estimates that ancient Rome had a population of about a million people by the end of the 1st century BC, after growing continually during the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st centuries BC, making it the largest city in the world at the time.

Contacts with the distant Roman Empire are evidenced by the fact that Roman coins have been found at archeological sites dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

The 2nd century started at year 101, the 3rd at 201, etc.

Others keep playing to establish 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and last place finishers.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

* Metrodorus of Stratonicea ( late 2nd century BC )

* Alcinous ( philosopher ) ( 2nd century AD )

* Take two: Aspirin, New uses and new dangers are still being discovered as aspirin enters its 2nd century.

A 2nd century AD papyrus of Alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of Alcaeus ' poetry during the 20th century ( P. Berol.

Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.

Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.

The document is dated to the 2nd century BC and, in the form of a vision, briefly discusses dualism and the Watchers:

* Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC

The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE.

* Kundakunda ( 2nd Century CE ), exponent of Jain mysticism and Jain nayas dealing with the nature of the soul and its contamination by matter, author of Pañcāstikāyasāra ( Essence of the Five Existents ), the Pravacanasāra ( Essence of the Scripture ) and the Samayasāra ( Essence of the Doctrine )

* Umāsvāti or Umasvami ( 2nd Century CE ), author of first Jain work in Sanskrit, Tattvārthasūtra, expounding the Jain philosophy in a most systematized form acceptable to all sects of Jainism.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

The Ajanta Caves ( Ajiṇṭhā leni ; Marathi: अज िं ठ ा ल े ण ी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE.

There are three main versions of the Book of Daniel: the twelve-chapter version preserved in the Masoretic text and two longer Greek versions ( the original Septuagint version, c. 100 BCE, and the later Theodotion version, c. 2nd century CE ).

* Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

These scholars date the epistle from the 80s CE up to the end of the 2nd century.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Part of the Zliten mosaic from Libya ( Leptis Magna ), about 2nd century CE.

Mosaics dating from the 2nd through 4th centuries CE have been invaluable in the reconstruction of combat and its rules, gladiator types and the development of the munus.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

Pattinapalai, a Tamil poem of the 2nd century CE, describes goods from Kedaram heaped in the broad streets of the Chola capital.

Heracles as a boy strangling a snake ( marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

His 11th feat was to capture the apple of Hesperides ( Gilded bronze, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

( Marble, Roman copy of the 1st – 2nd century CE )

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BCE ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century CE.

Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE.

The Mishnah reflects debates between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE by the group of rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσηνοι, Εσσαιοι, or Οσσαιοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a Jewish sect that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.