The first recorded use of the Greek word translated trapezoid ( τραπέζοειδη, trapézoeide, " table-like ") was by Marinus Proclus ( 412 to 485 AD ) in his Commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements.

During this period, the professors of the old Greek religion suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Christians and Marinus was compelled to seek refuge at Epidaurus.

Diels was best known as the primary interrogator of Marinus van der Lubbe after the Reichstag fire.

Pope Marinus I ( or Martin II ), was Pope between 16 December 882 and 15 May 884.

Pope Marinus II ( or Martin III ), was Pope from 30 October 942 to May 946.

Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian.

Marinus was elevated to the papacy on 30 October 942 through intervention of Alberic II of Spoleto, Prince of the Romans, and concentrated on administrative aspects of the papacy, and sought to reform both the secular and regular clergy.

Stephen was created cardinal-priest of Santi Quattro Coronati by Marinus I, and his obvious holiness was the cause of his being chosen pope.

Stephen died during October 942, and was succeeded by Marinus II.

He was ordained as a subdeacon by Pope Marinus I, followed by his being raised to the deaconate by Pope Stephen V. During the pontificate of Pope Formosus ( 891 – 896 ), he was a member of the party of nobles who supported the Emperor Lambert, who was the opponent of Formosus and the pope ’ s preferred imperial candidate, Arnulf of Carinthia.

Following the reigns of Marinus, Pope Hadrian III ( 884 – 885 ) and Pope Stephen V ( 885 – 891 ), Formosus was elected Pope on 6 October 891.

Proclus was born February 8, 412 AD ( his birth date is deduced from a horoscope cast by a disciple, Marinus ) in Constantinople to a family of high social status in Lycia ( his father Patricius was a high legal official, very important in the Byzantine Empire's court system ) and raised in Xanthus.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

His consequent unpopularity in the European provinces was utilized by an ambitious man, named Vitalian, to organize a dangerous rebellion, in which he was assisted by a horde of " Huns " ( 514 – 515 ); it was finally suppressed by a naval victory won by the general Marinus.

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

The first, not yet practical, form of gyrocompass was patented in 1885 by Marinus Gerardus van den Bos.

The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.

* Marinus van der Lubbe by guillotine in 1934 after a show trial in which he was found guilty of starting the Reichstag fire.

Philip, who received the nickname " the Arab " because his family hailed from the Roman province of Arabia, was the son of a Julius Marinus, a local Roman citizen, possibly of some importance.

He was in Athens when Proclus died ( in 485 ), and later when Marinus took over as head ( scholarch ) of the Neoplatonist school.

430 AD ) was an Athenian philosopher and mystic whose life is known from an account in Marinus ' Life of Proclus.

Priscus was born in the Roman province of Syria, possibly in Damascus, son of a Julius Marinus a local Roman citizen, possibly of some importance.

* April 6-Willem Marinus Dudok ( born 1884 )

Jan Marinus Wiersma ( born 26 August 1951 in Groningen ) is a Dutch politician and from 1994-2009 Member of the European Parliament.

Wilhelmus Marinus Anthonius Jansen ( born 28 October 1946 in Rotterdam, Netherlands ) is a Dutch former association football player and manager.

Known resistance heroes Marinus and Johannes Post were born in Hollandscheveld.

Marinus Theodoor " Rene " Hidding ( born 5 February 1953 ) is an Australian politician.

* Marinus of Neapolis

The city takes its name from the ancient Republic of San Marino, founded by Saint Marinus who fled his home in Dalmatia ( modern Croatia ) at the time of the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians.

597 ), who married Marinus ( c. 555 – aft.

The new Pope Adrian II refused Boris ' request for a similar nomination of either Formosus or Deacon Marinus ( later Pope Marinus I ), after which Bulgaria began to shift towards Constantinople once again.

the names Lucinus, Marinus, Martinus ), evidently the name of the estate's owner, according to a well-known pattern of late imperial and medieval place name formation.

* Ruppert Building ( formerly known as Trans-1 ), named after Marinus Ruppert, who started the development of buildings on De Uithof.

Other notable people from these areas in this period included the Christian Jerome, Saint Marinus ( builder of San Marino ), emperors Valentinian I and Valens, and Pope John IV.

It has a square tower merloned wall, attributed to Duke Docibilis I of Gaeta ( 882 ), to which his grandson Marinus II added a polygonal tower.

* Martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and those with them in Persia: Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas ( Marocas ), Narses, Elias, Marinus ( Mares ), Abibus, Sembeech ( Sivsithina ), and Sabbas

Willem Marinus Dudok ( 6 July 1884, in Amsterdam – 6 April 1974, in Hilversum ), was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall.

" Taken us back to prehistoric times ( 100, 000 BC ), The Daleks, Marco Polo, Marinus ( The Keys of Marinus ), and The Aztecs ".

The equirectangular projection ( also called the equidistant cylindrical projection, geographic projection, or la carte parallélogrammatique projection, and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection or geographic projection ), is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus of Tyre, who Ptolemy claims invented the projection about AD 100.

In the Grant Morrison scripted Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The World Shapers ( DWM # 127 -# 129 ), it was revealed that the Doctor who met the Cybermen on Planet 14 was the Sixth Doctor, and that Planet 14 was Marinus.

* Martyrs Marinus, Martha, Audifax, Abbacum ( Habakkuk ), Cyrinus, Valentine, and Asterius the Presbyter in Macedonia ( 269 )