In particular spelling in English only slowly became fixed.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

The distance eventually became fixed at 26 miles 385 yards, or 42. 195 km, though for the first years it was variable, being around — the approximate distance from Marathon to Athens.

Once it became accepted that light is an electromagnetic wave, it was clear that the frequency of light should not change from place to place, since waves from a source with a fixed frequency keep the same frequency everywhere.

These descriptors often developed into fixed clan identifications which in turn became family names as we know them today.

His figure was pleasing and majestic, but when angry, his eyes became so terrible that “ the wretch on whom it was fixed instantly fell backwards and sometimes expired ”.

Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.

The whole system of inflexion — and, I suspect, of syntax also and of versification — was less fixed and stable in Plautus ’ time than it became later.

This is also the era in which the character of Robin became fixed as stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or

The legal regulation for liberalisation of the Slovak fixed line market was passed in 2002 and became valid by 1 January 2003, finally allowing competition in the sector of fixed lines.

Its form, topped by a likeness of the Doge's hat, became gradually standardized, and was then fixed by local law.

John's gospel is thus the primary source of the image of " the Jews " acting collectively as the enemy of Jesus, which later became fixed in the Christian mind.

Later, when Macs using external displays became available, the resolution was fixed to the size of the screen to achieve 72dpi.

Any price above $ 300 became a contribution to the fixed costs of the company.

On January 1, 1999, the euro was introduced and the Belgian franc ceased to exist independently, when it became fixed at one EUR = 40. 3399 BEF.

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

When contamination became too serious to be fixed by memory erasures, Captain Picard decided to make direct contact with a civilization's leaders in " Who Watches the Watchers " and " First Contact ," although the latter episode involved a planet on the verge of achieving warp flight, and therefore eligible for First Contact.

Henry designated Westminster, where St Edward had founded the abbey, as the fixed seat of power in England and Westminster Hall duly became the greatest ceremonial space of the kingdom, where the council of nobles also met.

The construction of the fixed link across the Great Belt became the biggest building project ever in the history of Denmark.

By the earliest days of the Republic, every member of a household had at least two names — praenomen, and the genitive form of the pater familias ( head of the family ) name, which became a fixed and inherited nomen ( name ).

The original location of stress was often retained in Greek and early Sanskrit, though in Germanic stress eventually became fixed on the initial ( root ) syllable of all words.

Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

However, after the 11th century, Scotia, when Scotland was already stabilised as a nation-kingdom, was used mostly for northern Great Britain, and in this way became the fixed designation.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

The phrase became a fundamental element of Western philosophy, as it was perceived to form a foundation for all knowledge.

However, this sort of story became much more popular after the coining of the phrase " serial killer " in the 1970s and the publication of The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

The warning printed on most cards intended for circulation as documents ( checks, for example ), " Do not fold, spindle or mutilate ," became a catch phrase for the post-World War II era.

The phrase " Dear Boy " had became a catchphrase of Moon's when he started affecting a pompous English accent around 1969, particularly when ordering drinks.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

In 1989, the seal became gold and white, as it currently appears, with a shortened phrase, " Official Nintendo Seal of Quality ".

Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but still intermittently – in the 1940s, on recordings and in reviews of what became known as " rhythm and blues " music aimed at a black audience.

Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer with a signature simplicity of style, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.

The phrase " secular humanism " became prominent after it was used in the United States Supreme Court case Torcaso v. Watkins.

* From the 17th century onwards, it also became possible to use the term ' theology ' to refer to study of religious ideas and teachings that are not specifically Christian ( e. g., in the phrase ' Natural Theology ' which denoted theology based on reasoning from natural facts independent of specifically Christian revelation ), or that are specific to another religion ( see below ).

In Ireland before the phrase " trick or treat " became common, children would say " Help the Halloween Party ".

That phrase became the slogan of both the ICC and IBM.

" The offending Clanger-talk remained in the episode, and after the series became a commercial success, and the Golden Bear Company became responsible for merchandising, the Clanger-talk used for the talking-squeezable model was the very same phrase.

In the nineteenth century the phrase became commonplace, in common use at church bazaars called “ white elephant sales ” where donors could unload unwanted bric-a-brac, generating profit from the phenomenon that one man ’ s trash is another man ’ s treasure.

This phrase became the motto of the University, later expanded to " Princeton in the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations ".

Gutierrez also popularized the phrase " preferential option for the poor ", which became a slogan of liberation theology and later appeared in addresses of the Pope.

A phrase that became popular after the publication in 1831 of a paper by Mantell entitled " The Age of Reptiles " that summarised the evidence that there had been an extended geological era when giant reptiles has swarmed the land, air, and sea.

It became a catch phrase, often used humorously for Yankees visiting the South, as in the mystery novel, Death of a Damn Yankee: A Laura Fleming Mystery ( 2001 ) by Toni Kelner.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.

" All your base are belong to us " ( often shortened to " All Your Base ", " AYBABTU ", or simply " AYB ") is a broken English phrase that became an Internet phenomenon or meme.

Many people mostly people between 11-18 have been using the phrase " Come at me bro " and " Cool story " which became famous as a Meme many years ago however now it seems it is the answer to every insult and a reply to every story.