Most paleontologists regard birds as the only surviving dinosaurs ( see Origin of birds ).

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

Most surviving PDP-8s are from this era.

Most of the surviving crew of 1, 150 were interned in Uruguay and Argentina and many remained after the war.

Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.

Most inferences about him are extracted from his only surviving work De Architectura.

Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.

Most of the Thracians were eventually Hellenized or Romanized, with the last remnants surviving in remote areas until the 5th century.

Most surviving CCP members were relocated to the Communist base in Jiangxi.

Most surviving BP stations are kept so BP can continue holding the trademarks for Amoco and Standard.

Most fish that have evolved in this harsh environment are not capable of surviving in laboratory conditions, and attempts to keep them in captivity have led to their deaths.

Most surviving Archean rocks are metamorphic or igneous.

Most trading wherries were clinker-built, but Albion, surviving today, was the sole example to be carvel-built.

Most of the surviving houses are 18th-century or earlier in construction.

Most functional and sought-after of these machines are cast-iron, pedal-operated devices manufactured beginning in the 1880s by bindery equipment makers like F. P Rosback Co. and Latham Machinery Co. Rosback also produced table-top perforators, but surviving models are exceedingly rare.

Most of the surviving Beaubear's Island refugees soon left the Miramichi, seeking refuge in Quebec.

Most surviving tiaras are on display in the Vatican, though some were sold off or donated to Catholic bodies.

Most of the surviving triple tiaras have the shape of a circular beehive, with its central core made of silver.

Most of the ostracoderms, such as thelodonts, osteostracans, and galeaspids, were more closely related to the gnathostomes than to the surviving agnathans, known as cyclostomes.

Most surviving armored cruisers from this conflict were scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which imposed limits on warships and defined a cruiser as a ship of 10, 000 tons or less carrying guns of 8-inch caliber or less — rather smaller than many of the large armored cruisers.

Most notably, the relationship of the picine genera has been largely clarified, and it was determined that the Antillean Piculet is a surviving offshoot of proto-woodpeckers.

Most of the surviving Athenian soldiers were sent to work as slave laborers in the Sicilian quarries, which were death traps.

Most of the surviving specimens from this period are made entirely of iron, inlaid with designs of silver or other materials, and covered with lacquer.

Most species hibernate for at least half the year, surviving on fat that they build up in the weeks prior to going to sleep.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

They were refugees from former Byzantine or Venetian territories that were occupied by the Ottomans in the late 15th and 16th c. The first Greek community was established in Ancona early in the 16th c. Natalucci, the 17th c. historian of the city, notes the existence of 200 Greek families in Ancona at the opening of the 16th c. Most of them came from northwestern Greece, i. e. the Ionian islands and Epirus.

Most of the historical evidence for Totila consists of chronicles by the Byzantine historian Procopius, who accompanied the Byzantine General Belisarius during the Gothic War.

Most of the cities continued into the late Roman and Byzantine periods.

Most probably, as Samuil revolted against the Byzantine Empire, he relied on the popular support of the movement.

Most prominent among the early Byzantine flags was the labarum.

Most importantly, from a historical perspective, they finally did away with much of the remaining legal and constitutional architecture that the Byzantine Empire had inherited from the Roman Empire, and even from the days of the Roman Republic.

Most early Muslim accounts place the size of the Muslim forces between 24, 000 and 40, 000 and the number of Byzantine forces between 100, 000 and 400, 000.

Most scholars, however, agree that the Byzantine army and their allies outnumbered the Muslim Arabs by a sizeable margin.

Most of the masterpieces of Insular illumination are Gospel Books, and very many Byzantine and Carolingian examples.

Most are written in Greek, two are written in Latin and translated into Greek during Byzantine times.

Most classical period designs used the Byzantine architecture of the neighboring Balkans as its base, and from there, ethnic elements were added, creating a different architectural style.

Most seriously, after the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and its eventual recovery by Michael VIII Palaeologus, there came to be three Byzantine successor states, each of which claimed to be the Roman Empire, and several Latin claimants ( including the Republic of Venice and the houses of Montferrat and Courtenay ) to the Latin Empire the Crusaders had set up in its place.

Most existing Byzantine enamels have soldered cloisons, however the use of solder to adhere the cloison wires has fallen out of favor due to its difficulty, with the exception of some " purist contemporary enamellists " who create fine watch faces and high quality very expensive jewelry.

Most academics trace the origins of Byzantine acritic romance to the oral epic poetry of the 9th and 10th centuries.

Most of Gaul, Britain and Germania are in " barbarian " hands, and have broken away from Byzantine orthodoxy, following the doctrine of filioque and a separate line of Popes.

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Most scholars view uncial text as the most accurate ; however, a few authors ( such as New Testament scholar Maurice A. Robinson and linguist Wilbur Pickering ), Arthur Farstad and Zane C. Hodges claim that the minuscule texts ( the Byzantine text-type ) more accurately reflect the " autographs " or original texts than an eclectic text like NA27 that relies heavily on manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type.

The Intercession of the Theotokos or the Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, known in Church Slavonic as Pokrova ( Покровъ, " protection "), and in Greek as Sképē ( Σκέπη ), is a feast of the Mother of God celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.