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In the ninth century, the Saxon nobility became vigorous supporters of monasticism and formed a bulwark of Christianity against the existing Slavic paganism to the east and the Nordic paganism of the Vikings to the north.
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Throughout the work of the later ninth century a calm, severe serenity displays itself.
The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.
While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.
The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;
But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.
Several of its later bishops are known: Marinus in 325 ; Niconius in 344 ; Sylvanus at the beginning of the 5th century ; Pionius in 451 ; Leo in 787 ; Peter, friend of the Patriarch Ignatius, and adversary to Michael, in the ninth century.
" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.
* He scored the ninth fastest Test century, doing so off 77 balls against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.
In the ninth century Alcuin uses the word to designate an office abridged or simplified for the use of the laity.
Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the language after its divergence from Proto-Mon – Khmer until the ninth century, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era.
However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.
The term was applied in this sense as early as the ninth century to the priests of the tituli ( parishes ) of the diocese of Rome.
Very few records of ninth century events in northern Britain survive.
By the ninth century a sixth language, Old Norse, had arrived with the Vikings.
During the ninth century, Essex was part of a sub-kingdom that included Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Æthelberht is referred to as a bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ".
Overlordship, for either reason, was a central feature of Anglo-Saxon politics ; it is known to have begun before Æthelberht's time, although the details are unknown, and kings were being described as overlords in this sense, as late as the ninth century.
This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.
Although verse 7 does not appear in any version of the Greek text prior to the ninth century, it appears in most of the Latin manscripts, especially in the Vetus Itala ( Old Latin predating Jerome ).
As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.
Toward the end of the ninth century, several emperors tried, but failed, to check the Fujiwara.
The Fujiwara controlled the throne until the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō ( 1068 – 73 ), the first emperor not born of a Fujiwara mother since the ninth century.
In 945, Máel Coluim I annexed Strathclyde as part of a deal with King Edmund of England, where the kings of Alba had probably exercised some authority since the later ninth century, an event offset somewhat by loss of control in Moray.
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The earliest preserved text in the Saxon language is a baptismal vow from the late eighth or early ninth century ; the vernacular was used extensively in an effort to Christianise the lowest castes of Saxon society.
Saxon colonization into the region from the fifth to the eighth centuries likely extended the linguistic border somewhat south and west so that by the ninth century most inhabitants north of the line between Béthune and Berck spoke a dialect of Middle Dutch, while the inhabitants to the south spoke Picard, a variety of Romance dialects.
According to the ninth century Anglo Saxon Chronicle, the Weald measured or longer by in the Saxon era, stretching from Lympne, near Romney Marsh in Kent, to the Forest of Bere or even the New Forest in Hampshire.
The town returned to West Saxon royal control in the ninth century, and it was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as " Sumertone ".
In accordance with ninth century West Saxon custom, she was not given the title of queen.
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One hypothesis is that Khazar nobility converted to Karaite Judaism in the late eighth or early ninth century and were followed by a portion of the general population.
The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in classic military fashion, occupying land as warriors on horseback.
The House of Segur is an ancient family of the French nobility founded in the ninth century.
The seventh Statute, on September 21, created a new nobility of dukes, counts and barons ; the eighth and the ninth, on March 15, 1810, established the annuity for the members of the royal family.
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( 2 ) Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants borrowed a teammate's bat and became the ninth big leaguer to stroke four home runs in a game ; ;
Young descended the ladder and, upon setting foot on the lunar surface, became the ninth human to walk on the Moon.
Cleveland became the first team to lose the World Series after carrying the lead into the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game.
Gerry later became the ninth Governor of Massachusetts.
In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important center of Hinduism and later of Buddhism ; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose.
In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect.
The Chicago Packers ( now Washington Wizards ) became the ninth NBA team in 1961.
In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the Kokinshū, the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word became the standard name for this form.
Between 1993 and 2004, Deportivo La Coruña finished in the top three on ten occasions, a better record than either Real Madrid or Barcelona, and in 2000, under Javier Irureta, they became the ninth team to be crowned champions.
* July 2: New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the US Constitution, thereby allowing for the creation of the new government.
Instead of a group of eight companions based in the Obsidian Citadel who left periodically to fight evil, the Circle became eight wizards led by a ninth wizard, Gygax's former character Mordenkainen.
The festival that became the modern Day of the Dead fell in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, about the beginning of August, and was celebrated for an entire month.
Secretariat became the ninth Triple Crown winner in history, and the first in 25 years.
On 2 July 2004, the Very Reverend Canon Dr Jeffrey John became the ninth Dean of the Cathedral.
When the empire became Christian under Constantine I, they were given permission to enter the city once a year, on the ninth day of the month of Av, to lament the loss of the Temple at the wall.
Pontiac also became the ninth North American automobile brand since 1987 to be phased out, after Merkur, Passport, Asüna, Geo, Plymouth, American Motors ( AMC ) ( renamed Eagle in 1988, only to be phased out a decade later ), and Oldsmobile.
It became Georgia's ninth county, incorporating on February 25, 1784, and was named in honor of patriot Benjamin Franklin.
On April 30, 2007, Lawrence L. Rinehart became the ninth Chief of the Bexley Police Department.
On his death in 1883 this line of the family also failed and he was succeeded by his fourth cousin Sir Henry Edwyn Chandos Scudamore-Stanhope, 3rd Baronet, of Stanwell, who became the ninth Earl ( for earlier history of the baronetcy, see below ).
Shōen holders had access to manpower and, as they obtained improved military technology ( such as new training methods, more powerful bows, armor, horses, and superior swords ) and faced worsening local conditions in the ninth century, military service became part of shōen life.
After the sudden death of President Turgut Özal, he became the ninth President on May 16, 1993, elected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records ( 2005 ), Kudrow and co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox became the highest paid TV actresses of all time, earning $ 1 million per episode for the ninth and tenth season of Friends.
After the cessation of official relations with the Tang Dynasty in the ninth century, Japanese art and architecture gradually became less influenced by China.
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