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It was first recorded in an inscription of Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I, from 1303 BCE as Rph, and as the first stop on Pharaoh Shoshenq I's campaign to the Levant in 925 BC.
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But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
It was her first smile.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
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.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
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Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.
Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.
They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.
Ninety per cent of the 153 recorded impacts occurred between midnight and noon, and from day to day the variation of the rate was as much as an order of magnitude.
Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.
The sewage flow into the treatment plant was metered and continuously recorded on 24-hr. charts.
At 17:07 that afternoon ( Greenwich time ) the shock was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu.
To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.
It was pleasant last night, therefore, to hear him do something else: a concerto he has recently recorded, `` The Emperor ''.
The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.
Another advantage of Phoenician was that it could be used to write down many different languages, since it recorded words phonemically.
The Butler Lordship of Burrishoole continued into the late 14th century when Thomas le Botiller was recorded as being in possession of Akkyll & Owyll.
The momentous defeat was widely recorded in the British press, which praised the Australians for their plentiful " pluck " and berated the Englishmen for their lack thereof.
Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.
Only one year of deficit was recorded, but the price paid was retrenchments and lean public spending.
However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.
The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.
The highest temperature ever recorded was 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Talladega county in 1902.
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Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.
On the clock given him was the inscription, `` For Outstanding Contribution to Billiken Basketball, 1960-61 ''.
Apollo was the immortal god of ideal balance and order ; his shrine in Delphi has the inscription: " Nothing in excess ".
A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).
The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.
Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and placed infront of the gates of Pergamon, Istanbul Archaeology Museums | Istanbul Museums.
A recently published inscription from Aphrodisias confirms that he was head of one of the Schools at Athens and gives his full name as Titus Aurelius Alexander.
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 .).
The neck was designed to be inserted in a torso, but no statue, base or inscription was found.
A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.
Such a treaty was seemingly remarkably effective, as the Bastarnae disappear, save for a single passing mention in Tacitus, from the Roman chronicles until c. AD 175, some 160 years after Augustus ' inscription was carved.
Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.
There is some speculation that the inscription was added by Claudius himself decades later, and that he originally did not appear at all.
This encouraged Crossing to arrange to lift the clapper bridge, but no inscription was found.
Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.
Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.
The inscription on the stylobate indicates that it was built by the Athenians after their naval victory over the Persians in 478 BC, to house their war trophies.
The presence of a Hellenised Diana at Nemi should be related to the presence of the cult in Campania, as Diana Tifatina was appelled Trivia in an imperial age inscription which mentions a flamen Virbialis dedicated by eques C. Octavius Verus.
In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.
An inscription recorded that it was the body of Eadgyth, reburied in 1510.
Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.
The inscription tells that it was constructed under Bishop Vologeses in 359.
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