Late in his life, Babbage sought ways to build a simplified version of the machine, and assembled a small part of it before his death in 1871.

* c. 4 Ga: End of Late Heavy Bombardment, first life

The economic might and relatively advanced development of Tuscany at the time ( Late Middle Ages ) gave its dialect weight, though the Venetian language remained widespread in medieval Italian commercial life, and Ligurian ( or Genoese ) remained in use in maritime trade alongside the Mediterranean.

Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Israel, and spent the remainder of his life in a hermit's cell near Bethlehem, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher.

Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known.

Late in life Ayn Rand renewed her childhood interest in stamps and became an enthusiastic collector.

Late in his life Fyodor Dostoyevski wrote " The Meek One " ( 1876 ) and " The Dream of a Ridiculous Man " ( 1877 ), two stories with great psychological and philosophical depth.

Late that day, Police Commissioner J. M. Adkison said he had received an anonymous telephone call threatening Rowland's life.

Late in life he wrote two greatly admired sonatas for clarinet and piano, his Op. 120 ( 1894 ): he later transcribed these works for the viola ( the solo part in his horn trio is also available in a transcription for viola ).

Late in life Turnbull took up the political cause of death row inmates.

Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-tenth century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, " the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life ", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.

Late in life, regarding his time in real-estate-speculation-mad San Francisco, Sherman recalled: " I can handle a hundred thousand men in battle, and take the City of the Sun, but am afraid to manage a lot in the swamp of San Francisco.

Late in his life, he lived in Eilat, Israel.

* Late in his life, the widowed ex-king Fernando II of Portugal married the opera singer Elise Hensler, who was created countess of Edla.

Late in the 19th century, Richards convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for many individuals and families.

Late in his life, Derrida participated in two biographical documentaries, D ' ailleurs, Derrida Elsewhere by Saafa Fathy ( 1999 ), and Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman ( 2002 ).

Late in life she moved to Barbados, where she died at the age of 92, following a series of strokes.

Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.

Late in life, he served as narrator for a British television series on the films of Charlie Chaplin, Unknown Chaplin, which was aired in the U. S. on PBS and later issued on home video.

Late in his life, Melampus was kidnapped.

By 1851 the " Chaumont suite " of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of courntry life emblemmatic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the " Chambre de Catherine de Médicis "; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.

Late in life he came to regret his role in helping U. S. slavery to expand, and became a leading opponent of the annexation of Texas.

Late in life Eakins did experience some recognition.

Actress Ellen Burstyn recalled that evening: Late in the evening, I wandered into the greenroom and saw Lee sitting next to Anna, watching the taping on the monitor.

Late in 2006, Zaheer was recalled to the Test and ODI team for the tour of South Africa, following Irfan Pathan's slump in form and an injury to Munaf Patel.

** Secretariat ( Craig Ferguson ), a pantomime horse, based on the famous racehorse, that appears on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Late that afternoon, it seemed, he had fallen off the roof while on some obscure errand or inspection.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

From Late Antiquity, and from the beginnings of Christian theology, knowledge of the sphericity of the Earth had become widespread.

Canaan in the Late Bronze Age was a shadow of what it had been centuries earlier: many cities were abandoned, others shrank in size, and the total settled population was probably not much more than a hundred thousand.

In it, as Isidore entered his own terse digest of Roman handbooks, miscellanies and compendia, he continued the trend towards abridgements and summaries that had characterised Roman learning in Late Antiquity.

Late that summer, having subdued two other tribes, he crossed into Britain, claiming that the Britons had aided one of his enemies the previous year possibly the Veneti of Brittany.

By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior.

Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.

Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format ( as in a modern book ), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Kevin Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.

Smaller pyramids were also built by the Nubians who ruled Egypt in the Late Period, though their pyramids had steeper sides.

Late in the third quarter, the Redskins had an opportunity to score after defensive back Anthony Washington forced and recovered a fumble from Branch at the Raiders 35-yard line.

In a 9 December 2005 interview on Houston's Late Nite Snax radio show, Kool Keith confirmed rumours that the Ultramagnetic MC's had reformed and recorded a new album.

Late in the campaign the Republicans obtained letters written by Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, to controversial Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, who had invented an eclectic religion based on Tibetan Buddhism.

Late 1977 the Zork authors had decided to rename Zork to Dungeon, and Supnik subsequently released his port as Dungeon in January 1978.

Late Roman owners of villas had luxuries like hypocaust-heated rooms with mosaics

Late Roman owners of villae had luxuries like hypocaust-heated rooms with mosaic floors.

Late 20th century ones had a single, thicker coating of polyethylene cross-linked to provide the correct degree of brittleness.

Late in 269 he had travelled to Sirmium and was preparing to go to war against the Vandals, who were raiding in Pannonia.

Late in the 3rd century, after the Parthians had been supplanted by the Sassanids, the city again became a source of conflict with Rome.