This is supported by numerous Hadiths which have been narrated by both Sunnis and Shias, including Hadith of the pond of Khumm, Hadith of the two weighty things, Hadith of the pen and paper, Hadith of the Cloak, Hadith of position, Hadith of the invitation of the close families, and Hadith of the Twelve Successors.

Several Dharma Successors of his — including Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Dennis Merzel, John Daido Loori, Jan Chozen Bays, Gerry Shishin Wick, Charlotte Joko Beck, and William Nyogen Yeo — have gone on to found Zen communities of their own.

Successors at the Institute of General Semantics continued for many years along the founders ' path.

Successors Unisys and Loral Corporation and Lockheed Martin continued manufacturing in the aerospace and marine industries at a facility until Lockheed closed the plant in 1998.

While the transition from city-state to empire affected philosophy a great deal, shifting the emphasis from political theory to personal ethics, Greek letters continued to flourish both under the Successors ( especially the Ptolemies ) and under Roman rule.

* Arndt, Karl J. R. George Rapp's Successors and Material Heirs, 1847 – 1916.

It is only a saying of Ibrahim Ibn Abi ` Abalah, one of the Successors, and it contradicts textual evidence and reality.

* Pascal and its Successors paper by Niklaus Wirth – also includes short biography.

Successors to the original bipolar TTL logic often are interchangeable in function with the original circuits, but with improved speed or lower power dissipation.

Later games included 1914, Anzio, 1776, Jutland, Third Reich, Panzer Blitz, Kingmaker, Napoleon, Victory in the Pacific, The Russian Front, Republic of Rome, Age of Renaissance, Storm Over Arnhem, Turning Point Stalingrad, Up-Front ( a card driven game ), Raid on St. Nazaire, Successors of Alexander the Great, London is Burning and Atlantic Storm.

* Morris, Richard K. ( 1998 ) " The Architecture of Arthurian Enthusiasm: Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and his Successors ," in Strickland ( ed ) ( 1998 ).

Successors include Higher Order Logic ( HOL ) and Isabelle.

he King's most Excellent Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall and may from Time to Time, as Occasion shall require, issue forth several Commissions of Lieutenancy to such Persons as his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall think fit to be his Majesty's Lieutenants for the several and respective Counties, Cities and Places of England and Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed.

Demetrius I of Macedon, one of the Diadochi ( Successors ) of Alexander the Great, built a fort here and named it after his father Antigonus I Monophthalmus.

Ruri is instrumental in the final defeat of the Martian Successors, using her meld with Omoikane to seize control of all enemy computer systems.

* The Meaning of Forms in the Tatler and its Many Successors.

Successors to this model include the Pioneer DVL-909, Pioneer DVL-919, and the Pioneer Elite DVL-91.

* CHESNUT, Glenn F. " Sozomen, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Evagrius Scholasticus: Other Successors and Continuators ," The First Christian Histories.

He is not to be confused with the son of his older brother Harry Brodribb Irving, the set-designer Laurence Irving, who wrote the highly-regarded and definitive biographies Henry Irving, the Actor and his World and The Successors.

In his 1894 Royal Institution lectures (" The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors "), Lodge coined the term " coherer " for the device developed by French physicist Édouard Branly based on the work of Italian physicist Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti.

In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Successor States ( named such due to their being the " Successors " of the Star League ) are the major military powers of the Inner Sphere, each governed by one of the Great Houses.

In 1867 the yacht Mignonette was built by Aldhous Successors in Brightlingsea.

* On National Property, and on the Prospects of the Present Administration and of their Successors ( anon.

The Sumerian civilization spanned over 3000 years and began with the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period ( mid-6th millennium BC ) through the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ) and the Early Dynastic periods ( 3rd millennium BC ) until the rise of Assyria and Babylonia in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC respectively.

* c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.

Sumerian civilization took form in the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ), continuing into the Jemdat Nasr and Early Dynastic periods.

" In Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, Sumerian civilization seems to have reached its creative peak.

Various representations of wrestlers has been found on stone slabs recovered from the Sumerian civilization.

Speculations regarding the original homeland have centered on the Indus Valley Civilization or on Elam ( whose Elamite language was spoken in the hills to the east of the ancient Sumerian civilization with whom the Indus Valley Civilization traded and shared domesticated species ) in an Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis, but results have not been convincing.

Frequently, efforts to look for deeper linguistic origins of these languages will also attempt to integrate them into attested extinct languages of Europe, such as the Etruscan language of Northern Italy, the Ligurian language of Italy, the Lemnian language of the Aegean Island of Lemnos, the Minoan language aka Linear A of ancient Crete, the Sumerian language once spoken in Mesopotamia ( which is the oldest attested written language ), the language of the Indus River Valley civilization, the Elamite language of Iran, and the Hurrian language and Hattic language of Anatolia.

Soon after the Sumerian civilization began, the Nile River valley of ancient Egypt was unified under the Pharaohs in the 4th millennium BC, and civilization quickly spread through the Fertile Crescent to the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea and throughout the Levant.

In Sumerian mythology, a me ( Sumerian, conventionally pronounced ) or ñe or parşu ( Akkadian, ) is one of the decrees of the gods foundational to those social institutions, religious practices, technologies, behaviors, mores, and human conditions that make civilization, as the Sumerians understood it, possible.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, who was an ancient Sumerian king ( ca. 3000 BC ), is our first detailed written evidence of human civilization.

Some art assets also existed in the game files for a Sumerian civilization led by Gilgamesh and they were used by the modding community to introduce the Sumerians into the game.

Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea ( Enki in Sumerian ), the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who brought the arts of civilization to that city ( from Dilmun, according to some versions ).

It was followed by the Sumerian civilization.

The two-headed eagle can be found in the archaeological remains of the Sumerian civilization and through the Hittite civilization, dating from a period that ranges from the 20th century BC to the 7th century BC.

This civilization is recognized as the oldest in Iran and was largely contemporary with its neighbour, Sumerian civilization, the oldest in the world, which began around 3400 BC.

Sargon has often been cited as the first ruler of a combined empire of Akkad and Sumer, although more recently discovered data suggests there had been Sumerian expansions under previous kings, including Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab, Eannatum of Lagash, and Lugal-Zage-Si.

From Tell al-Ubaid in 1919 and 1923 – 1924, directed by H. R. Hall came the bronze furnishings of a Sumerian temple, including life-sized lions and a panel featuring the lion-headed eagle Indugud.

The mythological sources of the various pagan traditions are similarly varied, including Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman, Sumerian, Egyptian and others.

After the collapse of the Akkadian empire, the south Mesopotamian region was ruled by Gutians for a few decades before the rise of the Sumerian third dynasty of Ur which encompassed the whole of Mesopotamia, including Babylon.

* Mesopotamia: Three or more linguistic groups, including Sumerian and Semitic peoples share a common political and cultural way of life.

However, the discovery of a corresponding myth about Inanna, the Sumerian counterpart of Ishtar, has thrown some light on the myth of Ishtar's descent, including its somewhat enigmatic ending lines.

Hegemony, which came to be conferred by the Nippur priesthood, alternated among a number of competing dynasties, hailing from Sumerian city-states traditionally including Kish, Uruk, Ur, Adab and Akshak, as well as some from outside of southern Mesopotamia, such as Awan, Hamazi, and Mari, until the Akkadians, under Sargon of Akkad, overtook the area.

This is pointed out repeatedly in the references to this city in religious and, especially, in literary texts, including those of mythological content ; the historical tradition as preserved in the Sumerian king-list confirms it.

Historical examples include the oldest known Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia and Ur, the Phoenician cities of Canaan ( such as Tyre and Sidon ), the Berber city-states of the Garamantes, the city-states of ancient Greece ( the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth ), the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a great power, the Maya of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ( including sites such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and El Mirador ), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road, Venice, Croatian city-state of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) and many others.

Giles is proficient in several languages, including Latin, ancient Greek, Sumerian (" Primeval "), Japanese (" Checkpoint "), and possibly Gaelic (" Fear, Itself "), but weak in German (" Gingerbread "), Mandarin and Cantonese (" First Date ").

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

In the book Simon Necronomicon which contains a blend of myths including Sumerian, Rabisu are described as ancient demons.

We know of at least one " keeper of the books " who was employed to oversee the thousands of tablets on Sumerian and Babylonian materials, including literary texts, history, omens, astronomical calculations, mathematical tables, grammatical and linguistic tables, and dictionaries, and commercial records and laws.

The lyrics contain references to Sumerian deities and mythology, including the Utukku.

In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 BC, the land of the Amorites (" the Mar. tu land ") is associated not with Mesopotamia but with lands immediately to the West, including what is now modern Syria and Canaan.

They were one of the instruments of the downfall of the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, and acquiring a series of powerful kingdoms, including the founding of Babylon as a state, culminating in the triumph under Hammurabi of one of them, that of Babylon.

In the earliest Sumerian texts, all western lands beyond the Euphrates, including Syria and Canaan, were known as " the land of the MAR. TU ( Amorites )".

the 21st century BC, the local Akkadian kings, including those in Assur, had shaken off the Sumerian yoke.

At the time Buffy received it, it was in a brown leather bag, and contained several objects, including a boomerang, a vase, a locked box containing shadow casters, and a mystical book written in Sumerian.

He began his career as énsi of Umma, from where he conquered several of the Sumerian city-states — including Kish, where he overthrew Ur-Zababa ; Lagash, where he overthrew Urukagina ; Ur, Nippur, and Larsa ; as well as Uruk, where he established his new capital.

Jukka Ammondt is a Finnish literature professor who has recorded popular music, including songs of Elvis Presley, in Latin and Sumerian.

Their lyrical themes are esoteric, including themes of Celtic myths and legends, Sumerian myths and legends, alchemy, numerology, magick, weaponry, and sorcery.

Detail of the Sumerian statue of Lugaldalu, King of Adab-as being stated in the inscription of circa mid-3rd millenium BC, inscription including the sumerian cuneiform sign of lugal

The Canaanite scribes that produced the Baal texts were also trained to write in Babylonian cuniform, including Sumerian and Akkadian texts of every genre.