Nine hundred feet of wall was brought down between the Sacred and Piraeic gates on the southwest side of the city.

This gave rise to the old Beijing saying: " Nine gates, ten temples, one without morality ".

Nine o'clock is the rush hour, when the busses are jammed, and by nine-thirty the restaurants are beginning to fill.

** Nine of his centuries are double centuries ( surpassed only by Donald Bradman )

Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad ' dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid climate and have started to move out of the Sietches and into the villages and cities.

Nine families are currently recognised.

Towards the close of the 5th century a great company of monks known as the Nine Saints are believed to have established themselves in the country.

Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.

Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.

Nine Pascalines have survived, most of which are on display in European museums.

* 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

In a Not the Nine O ' Clock News sketch, a bishop who has made a scandalous film called The Life of Christ is hauled over the coals by a representative of the " Church of Python ", claiming that the film is an attack on " Our Lord, John Cleese " and on the members of Python, who, in the sketch, are the objects of Britain's true religious faith.

The Traditions ( formally called the Nine Mystic Traditions ) are a fictional alliance of secret societies in the Mage: the Ascension role-playing game.

Miles breaks into Ryoval's laboratory, but is caught and imprisoned in a utility sublevel where they are also keeping Canaba's dangerous specimen, " Nine ".

* 1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal.

* 1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.

Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

Traditional games are played in pubs, ranging from the well-known darts, skittles, dominoes, cards and bar billiards, to the more obscure Aunt Sally, Nine Men's Morris and ringing the bull.

* In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; " Little Green Men ", Quark, Rom and Nog are accidentally thrust back in time to Roswell in 1947 while on their way to Starfleet Academy.

Dorn is the only Star Trek actor to have worked concurrently on the Next Generation films and the Deep Space Nine series, both of which are set in the same time period.

In the American Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th Century paramilitary organization or terrorist group first introduced in the 1994 episode " The Maquis " of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who subsequently also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

Star Trek Star Charts place the Romulan Empire into the Beta Quadrant of the galaxy, however, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, they are referred to as an Alpha Quadrant power.

Variations on this are space station series, notably Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, based on an open-port paradigm in which trouble comes in through the airlocks.

On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish high king of the 5th century.

He than solved the high order equation by Southern Song dynasty mathematician Qin Jiushao's " Ling long kai fang " method published in Shùshū Jiǔzhāng (“ Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections ”) in 1247 ( more than 570 years before English mathematician William Horner's method using synthetic division ).

* Nine of the eleven largest high school gyms in the United States are in Indiana.

PPG's Works Nine produced high quality glass for mirrors.

For servers the technical limitations of the old ISA were too great, and in late 1988 the " Gang of Nine ", led by Compaq, announced a rival high performance bus-Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( EISA ).

After Vrenna returned to Nine Inch Nails, the band hired Dave Suycott who was a high school friend of Walters.

* In 1997, neo-soul singer Maxwell performed Kate Bush's " This Woman's Work " and Nine Inch Nails ' " Closer " to high acclaim.

Cynthia Littleton, writing for Variety in 1998, summarized the ratings the series was receiving at the end of its sixth season: " Deep Space Nine may not go out on as high a Nielsen note as Next Generation, which wrapped a hugely successful run in 1994, but DS9 is hardly floundering.

Nine out of ten are high school graduates.

In the 1990s, after voters rejected a $ 390 million bond package, Paige contracted with The Varnett School Nine Houston ISD high schools did not require students to wear uniforms or standardized dress.

Nine of the high school trumpet players, selected by performance on their auditions, and the best snare drummer, are selected as the Herald Trumpets, who march directly before the Rose Queen's float and play fanfares.

Nine identical 108 MW generators were recommended, but as matters stood, they would be able to operate only in periods of high water.

He played in bands called Sudden Impact US, Nine Pound Truck, and the Ivys ( which he has called a " Morrissey rip-off band ") while in high school and college.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine ( 2011-present ), Kennedy first appears in the " Guarded " story arc where it has revealed that since the disbandment of Buffy's Slayer organization, Kennedy has established a private security firm employing Slayers to protect its high profile clients.

Even though Elizabeth Eckford would one day be known as a member of the Little Rock Nine, at this point in the school day, she was all alone, making her the first African-American student to integrate a white southern high school.

The second reunion special once again toped the ratings for that week with an average of 2. 308 million viewers, giving Nine its highest share of Australian viewing for 2009 — 43. 3 % ( uncommon for an Australian TV network to get such a high amount!

Nine people, including the Chief of Defence Jørgen Garde and his wife, perished as the aircraft collided with high terrain surrounding the airport.

Nine said the axing was due to high production and licensing costs.

During these years, Dangers contributed a pair of remixes to high profile Nine Inch Nails releases Closer to God and The Perfect Drug.

This was only revised after Digital Television Uptake was not as high as expected in many areas, and from 1 January 2009, Network Ten, Nine and Seven were allowed to create alternative SD channels.

Leaks to the print media, reportedly from high levels within Nine and described by journalists as " ham-fisted ", revealed that the network wanted to replace Wendt with Ellen Fanning.

In Canada, Grade Nine can be either the first or second year of high school, or the last year or second to last year of middle school ( a grades 6-8 school is called Middle School, a grades 7-9 school is called Jr. High ).

: Nine colleges, six higher secondary schools, one vocational higher secondary school, eight high schools, one training school, five technical institutions plus other educational institutions owned and managed by individuals and by parishes.