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.

Late in 1892, Caragiale published two volumes of prose, including his new novellas Păcat, O făclie de Paşte and Om cu noroc.

Late in his life, Caragiale also sparked debates after deriding the emerging Poporanism, a school of thought which took its inspiration from socialism, agrarianism and traditionalism.

Late Bronze Age ships, such as the Uluburun Shipwreck have been discovered in the Mediterranean, constructed of edge joined planks.

Late in manufacturing it was discovered that the respective sections had been made with strands twisted in opposite directions.

Late in 199, Liu Bei started a rebellion and waited for Dong Cheng to act in the capital, but in 200, Dong's conspiracy was discovered, and he, along with Zhong Ji and Wang Fu, were killed.

It was carved approximately 8 metres into the rock face of the temple cliff in an area where several other Third Intermediate Period and Late Period burials have also been discovered.

A Late Minoan tholos tomb has been discovered in the vicinity of Maleme.

In 1992 a cremation grave was discovered that dated from the Late Bronze Age.

On top of the older settlement, a smaller Late Bronze Age settlement, dendrochronologically dated to 1055 BC, has been discovered.

For four months in the spring of 1900, she led an excavation at Kavousi during which she discovered settlements and cemeteries of Late Minoan IIIC, Early Iron Age, and Early Archaic date ( 1200-600 BC ) at the sites of Vronda and Kastro.

The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BCE, discovered close to the east shore of Uluburun ( Grand Cape ), and about 6 miles southeast of Kaş, in south-western Turkey.

Late Victorian historians continued to use the chroniclers as sources, but also deployed documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, alongside newly discovered financial, legal and commercial records.

Both fine ceramics and coarse pottery were discovered, which suggests that this area was settled during the Late Bronze Age, even if there is no evidence to the municipal structures.

Late in 1775, Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza led an overland expedition over the Gila River trail he had discovered in 1774 to bring colonists from Sonora New Spain ( Mexico ) to California to settle two missions, one presidio, and one pueblo ( town ).

Rybczynski discovered that the screwdriver is a relatively new addition to the toolbox, an invention of the Late Middle Ages in Europe and the only major mechanical device not independently invented by the Chinese.

Under this definition, the most basal known ceratopsians are Yinlong, from the Late Jurassic Period, along with Chaoyangsaurus and the family Psittacosauridae, from the Early Cretaceous Period, all of which were discovered in northern China or Mongolia.

There are indications that a land bridge reunited North and South America during the Late Cretaceous because titanosaurs have been discovered as far north as Utah and duck-bills as far south as Patagonia.

The first member of the family Ferugliotheriidae to be discovered, Ferugliotherium windhauseni, was named in 1986 by Argentinean paleontologist José F. Bonaparte on the basis of a tooth from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina.

The six examples of Maya books discovered in excavations date to the Early Classic ( Uaxactún and Altun Ha ), Late Classic ( Nebaj, Copán ), and Early Postclassic ( Guaytán ) periods and, unfortunately, all have been changed by the pressure and humidity during their many years in the ground, eliminating the organic backing and reducing all into unopenable masses or collections of very small flakes and bits of the original lime sizing and multicolor painting.

Brochu ( 1997 ) hypothesized that there could be non-crurotarsan pseudosuchians from the Late Permian, or that a newly discovered bird-line archosaur from the Late Permian could imply a ghost lineage of pseudosuchians into the Permian.

In 1995 at the Bellerive campsite a Late Neolithic settlement dating from 2741-2488 BC was discovered.

Late that evening thirteen-year-old William Littlepage discovered Dahlgren's body and searched its pockets for a pocketwatch.

Late Anglo-Saxon brooch es discovered at Pentney, now on display at the British Museum

As even crude molecular clocks suggest that the ancestors of the Chaetodon and the Chelmops lineage diverged in the Late Eocene already, nothing more can be said without new fossils being discovered.

Late in 1852 gold was discovered at McIvor Creek.