A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in about the early 1st century AD:

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

* c. 600 The earliest references to chaturanga written in Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha early Indian books.

There for 10 years Ochino continued to write books which, repeating the history of his early works, gave increasing evidence of his alienation from the strict orthodoxy around him.

They were first divided into separate books by the early Christian scholar Origen, in the 3rd century AD, and the separation became entrenched in the 5th century AD when it was followed by Jerome in his Latin translation of the Bible.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

In the early days of Christian worship the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

And though his mother was against war, it was her collection of history books that first sparked Eisenhower's early and lasting interest in military history.

Details from various of Morris's paintings can be seen on the cover art of early editions of Richard Dawkins's books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.

Their acceptance among early Christians was widespread, though not universal, and the Bible of the early Church always included, with varying degrees of recognition, books now called deuterocanonical.

Regional councils in the West published official canons that included these books as early as the fourth and fifth centuries.

" The early lectionaries of the Anglican Church ( as included in the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 ) included the deuterocanonical books amongst the cycle of readings, and passages from them were used in the services ( such as the Benedicite )

The term deuterocanonical is sometimes used to describe the canonical antilegomena, those books of the New Testament which, like the deuterocanonicals of the Old Testament, were not universally accepted by the early Church, but which are now included in the 27 books of the New Testament recognized by almost all Christians.

The first verifiable references to the dachshund, originally named the " Dachs Kriecher " (" badger crawler ") or " Dachs Krieger " (" badger warrior "), came from books written in the early 18th century.

In 1973, archeologists discovered copies of early Chinese books, known as the Mawangdui Silk Texts, in a tomb dating from 168 BC.

As an introduction, elementary algebra can be found in books from the early 19th century.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

In the early books, Dr. Petrie, believed that Fu Manchu was around 70 years old in 1911 at the time of their first encounter.

This is despite the original character's age ranging from a young man in the early books in the 1910s to an old man in the books from the late 1950s:

The medieval European Knights Templar ran an early prototype of a central banking system, as their promises to pay were widely respected, and many regard their activities as having laid the basis for the modern banking system.

This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques ; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.

Many of the Templar legends are connected with the Order's early occupation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and speculation about what relics the Templars may have found there, such as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.

His true name is unknown, and the name " Templar " was adopted at an early age from reading about the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar.

Templar also on occasion would break the fourth wall in an almost metafictional sense, making references to being part of a story and mentioning in one early story how he cannot be killed so early on ; the 1960s television series would also have Templar address viewers.

* Jack Whyte: Camulod Chronicles, A Dream of Eagles, set in early fifth century Britain ; also Templar Trilogy.

British historian Ian Mortimer has drawn attention to the use of ' anti-sodomite ' smear campaigns in the late 13th and early 14th centuries against Pope Boniface VIII and the Knights Templar.

Despite the fact that the Assassins probably only existed up until the late 14th century or early 15th century at most ( under Taqq ' iya ), content within Assassin's Creed, such as assassination targets, methods of assassination, symbolism, and Templar enemies, does not coincide with the factual history of the Assassins.

Although it has been proposed that the witch-hunt developed in Europe from the early 14th century, after the Cathars and the Templar Knights were suppressed, this hypothesis has been rejected independently by two historians ( Cohn 1975 ; Kieckhefer 1976 ).

Other early references belonged to the Knights Templar by 1185.

These rumors are likely related to the fact that the medieval historian the Templar of Tyre wrote about a Mongol general named " Mulay " who occupied Syria and Palestine for a few months in early 1300.

One early chronicler, Simon de St. Bertin, implies that the Knights Templar originated earlier, before the death of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1100: " While he was reigning magnificently, some had decided not to return to the shadows of the world after suffering such dangers for God's sake.

The history of the Inner Temple begins in the early years of the reign of Henry II ( 1154 – 1189 ), when the contingent of Knights Templar in London moved from the Old Temple in Holborn to a new location on the banks of the River Thames, stretching from Fleet Street to what is now Essex House.

He also notes that heads from Lebanon and Iraq can be dated to the 2nd century and that there are early Romanesque foliate heads in 11th century Templar churches in Jerusalem.

Germans, at this early stage ( before 1240 ), were often settled in frontier regions, such as the mainland part of the Principality of Rugia ( after prince Jaromar I granted Eldena Abbey the right to call in settlers in 1209 ), Circipania, the lands of Loitz ( administered semi-independently by Detlev of Gadebush ), the Uckermark, the lands of Kolbatz Abbey and Bahn ( which later was granted to the Knights Templar ), and the area north of the Warthe and along the lower Oder river.

In the early 12th century, Fulk the Younger went on crusade, forging valuable links with the Knights Templar and eventually inheriting the Kingdom of Jerusalem through marriage to Baldwin II's daughter Melisende in 1131.

The New Avengers featured Mike Gambit ( Gareth Hunt ) who drove an XJ-S. Return of the Saint saw Simon Templar ( played by Ian Ogilvy ) driving an early XJ-S with the number plate " ST 1 ".

Five major orders were formed in the Holy Land between the late 11th century and the early 12th century: the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre ( circa 1099 ), Knights Templar ( circa 1118 ), Knights Hospitaller ( circa 1099 ) ( St John ), Knights of the Hospital of St Mary of Jerusalem ( Teutonic Knights ) and Knights of St Lazarus.

The order, as a monastic military order, was founded in emulation of such military orders as the Knights Templar, which existed in Portugal as early as 1128, and received a grant from Teresa of León in the year of the Council of Troyes, which confirmed their early statutes.