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In the year 278 B. C., upon learning of the upcoming devastation of his state from invasion by a neighbouring Warring State ( Qin in particular ), Qu is said to have waded into the Miluo river which drains into Dongting Hu ( lake ) in today's Hunan Province — near the provincial capital city of Changsha and south of the city of Yueyang on Donting Hu, site of the first IDBF World Dragon Boat Championship in 1996 — holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era.
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Year 278 ( CCLXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.
The denomination 278 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
There are an average of 278 days annually with freezing temperatures, which can occur in any month of the year.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Structus ( or, less frequently, year 278 Ab urbe condita ).
The denomination 278 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Between January and November 2010 the airport handled 9, 361, 846 passengers and by the end of 2010 the airport reached 10, 278, 493 passengers .. During the year 2011 the airport served 11, 904, 553 passengers, growing over 16 % when compared to the previous year.
El Hierro is a 278. 5 km < sup > 2 </ sup > island, formed approx 1. 2 million year ago after three successive eruptions, the island emerged from the ocean as a triangle of basaltic dykes topped with a volcanic cone more than 2, 000 metres high.
He finished the year with a. 278 batting average with his time on the Yankees being his worst part of the season.
This level of pollution is accelerating: with bunker fuel consumption at 278 million tonnes per year in 2001, it is projected to be at 500 million tonnes per year in 2020. International standards to dramatically reduce sulphur content in marine fuels and nitrogen oxide emissions have been put in place.
95 of Balbin, Czech Historian, that in Bohemia around the year 278 A. D. there was a house which used a seal with three horsehoes, and as he says, came with Czech to that country.
He died in 278 / 7 BC, in the 53rd year of his age, seven years before Epicurus, who would have appointed him his successor had he survived him.
In her Division I NCAA career, Price was Stephen F. Austin State University's all-time leading scorer with 2, 278 career points and two-time Southland Conference player of the year.
At the end of 1956 TC operated 286 miles of road and 377 miles of track ; that year it reported 278 million net revenue ton-miles of freight and 1 million passenger-miles.
Seattle School District architect, James Stephens, designed the two-story, wooden building, which housed 278 students at the end of its first year.
At that gathering it was announced that as of January 1 of that year, MOPR had established 67 national sections outside of the USSR, with 1, 278, 274 members.
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For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.
Thus, during any given year ( A ) if the revenues from the residential service are $7,000,000, ( B ) if the operating expenses imputed to this class of service come to $5,000,000, and ( C ) if the net investment in ( or value of ) the plant and equipment deemed devoted to this service amounts to $30,000,000, the cost analyst will report that residential service, in the aggregate, has yielded a return of $2,000,000 or 6-2/3 per cent.
An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis ( c. 567 B. C. E .).
As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B. C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 BC as the date of the dedication of the precinct and the outbreak of hostilities.
( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.
In Canada and Australia, accredited graduate programs in Biomedical Engineering are common, for example in Universities such as McMaster University, and the first Canadian undergraduate BME program at Ryerson University offering a four year B. Eng program.
Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.
At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.
Many courses start their caddies off at the B level, and after a year move them to A, and on their fourth year ( if they have earned it ), they will receive the title of Honor caddy.
* Service number ( E. g., 11111 / 00 / 00B, where the first five digits are the ID, the second two are the year the soldier turned 18 years old, the last two digits are the year the soldier enlisted, and the letter is the enlistment group, either A or B )
Their official status in Israel was an ongoing issue for many years, but in May 1990, the issue was resolved with the issuing of first B / 1 visas, and a year later, issuing of temporary residency.
In 1825 he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse .< ref > In the following year he took his B. A.
His # 1 R & B hit that year, " Cold Sweat ", sometimes cited as the first true funk song, was the first of his recordings to contain a drum break and the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.
As a result Brown's record sales and concerts in the United States reached a lull in 1973 as he failed to land a number-one R & B single that year.
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He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
`` In a year she'll like living in Clayton's house too much to come back to me '', Brannon said flatly.
They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.
At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.
In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.
`` And next year we will do -- also a Ford commission -- a piano concerto by Elliott Carter, with Jacob Lateiner as soloist.
He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.
Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.
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