This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.

One other store opened in Uxbridge but all closed in the mid 1990s.

One important early industry in the mid to late 19th century was the sugar beet industry, and a processing and canning plant was built in the town for this.

One of its effects was to set an example of artist-as-curator — in the mid 1990s artist-run exhibition spaces and galleries became a feature of the London arts scene.

One notable exception was The Georgia Satellites who had some widespread popularity in the mid to late 1980s.

One attempt at creating a truly object-oriented operating system was the BeOS of the mid 1990s, which used objects and the C ++ language for the application programming interface ( API ).

One of the most widely recognized skills performed on the rings is the Iron Cross, which is executed by extending both arms straight out from the sides of the body while suspended mid air for at least two seconds.

The band's mid 1990s lineup will play two shows this summer: One at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival on May 30 and one at Minneapolis's Basilica Block Party on July 10.

Hulme retired from Formula One at the end of the 1974 season and raced only sporadically until the mid 1980s when he began racing Touring Cars seriously.

One of Xiaowen's enduring legacies was the establishment of the equal-field system in China, a system of government-allotted land that would last until the An Shi Rebellion in the mid Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ).

One noteworthy example is the now-classic " I'll Be Around ", the first of the Spinners ' Thom Bell-produced hits for Atlantic Records in the mid 1970s.

One noted historical herd of fallow deer is located in the Ottenby Preserve in Öland, Sweden where Karl X Gustav erected a drystone wall some four kilometres long to enclose a royal fallow deer herd in the mid 17th century ; the herd still exists as of 2006.

In the mid 1980s, Luke played ' The Ancient One ' on the soap opera, General Hospital.

One of the first Zanelle painters was AARON, an artificial intelligence / artist developed by Professor Harold Cohen, UCSD, in the mid 1970's.

One of the first to write formally about Mitla was Friar Toribio de Benavente Motolina in the mid 16th century.

One local association of churches in the ABA maintained the " United Baptist " name into the mid 1990s.

One should also mention here the procurator, a posting originally as a financial manager in a province, a position which held no magisterial power until Claudius gave them his power in the mid 40s AD, enabling them to administer provinces.

One marketing program used by Air California in the early to mid 1970s was to offer school field trips to Sacramento at $ 25 a head, where school children would be taken on a tour of the California State Capitol, Governor's Mansion, and Sutter's Fort.

One explanation, the Higgs mechanism, was forwarded by Peter Higgs and others in the mid 1960s.

Later, the stadium was slowly converted to become all-seater from terracing and the capacity eventually dropped to 18, 300-inadequate for the ambitions of Derby County, who were chasing promotion to the Premier League during the early to mid 1990s, finally achieving it as Division One runners-up in 1996.

* Formula One 05 ( Sony, mid 2004 )

One of Brooklyn's last remaining ( then intact ) old Farms was located on the site of a present day apartment complex at 1279 East 17th St. ( just north of Ave. M ) up until it was torn down in the mid 1960s.

One of the sons, Luke, survived without knowledge of his father's identity and did not learn it until his mid twenties, when they met and crossed swords at Besançon.

The V16s continued to race in minor Formula One races and in British Formula Libre events until the mid fifties, battles with Tony Vandervell's Thin Wall Special Ferrari 375 being a particular highlight of the British scene.

One example of the fruitfulness of questioning assumptions comes from questioning the assumption that " China was weak in the 19th century " and pointing out the fact that at the time in which China was supposedly weak, it managed to considerably extend its borders in Central Asia.

One of the leading German universities for many centuries, it fell upon hard times in the early 19th century, and was forced to close in 1816.

One prominent such effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century of the texts of over three hundred ballads in the English and Scots traditions ( called the Child Ballads ) most of which predated the sixteenth century.

One of these trees ( the " Old Tree ") lived until the 19th century, and may be seen, as a dry stump, near the assembly house.

One criticism leveled at Gone with the Wind is for its portrayal of African Americans in the 19th century South.

One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no.

One of their objectives was to end the slave trade to the Persian Gulf that continued until the end of the 19th century.

One challenge to the traditional concept of matter as tangible " stuff " came with the rise of field physics in the 19th century.

One story traces the Mojito to a similar 19th century drink known as " El Draque ", after Francis Drake.

One of these was Brigadier General Frederick Lance of the 19th Lancers, and his wife, Gladys, returned to Britain with two Salukis from Sarona, where he was stationed during the post-war occupation.

One of the first traverses in the 19th century.

One of the best known is at Haytor, on the eastern part of the moor, whose granite is of unusually fine quality and was quarried from the hillside below the tor during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

One turn of the 19th to 20th century recipe subsequently replaced the lemon juice with lime juice.

One universally reviled trait in medieval Europe was the werewolf's habit of devouring recently buried corpses, a trait that is documented extensively, particularly in the Annales Medico-psychologiques in the 19th century.

One of the reasons is political interference upon the French historical interpretation during the 19th century.

One error and its catastrophic results: Napoleon's invasion of Russia # Retreat | Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, painted by Adolph Northen in the 19th century

One of the forces that drove the spread of the rosary during the 19th century among Roman Catholics was the influence of the Rosary Pope, a title given to Pope Leo XIII ( 1878 – 1903 ) because he issued a record twelve encyclicals and five Apostolic Letters on the rosary, instituted the Catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October and, in 1883, added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

A 20th Century International One Design | IOD sloop and a 19th Century Bermuda | Bermudian working sloop.

Two examples of Bermuda rig, an International One Design | IOD sloop and a 19th Century Bermudian working boat in Bermuda.

One theory of the advent of the unicycle stems from the popularity of the penny-farthing ( or " Ordinary ") during the late 19th century.

One of the first epidemiological investigations was that of Snow in 19th century London, who traced the spread of cholera to contaminated water supplies.

One of the most influential revolutionary groups was the Carbonari ( coalmongers ), a secret organization formed in southern Italy early in the 19th century.

One of the earliest companies in California, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, established a major shipyard in Benicia in the 19th century.