Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

Surprisingly, given the work of scholars over the decades such as W. E. B Dubois (

Surprisingly, given the emphasis put on technology, the car's In-Car Entertainment, while well integrated into the car's information system via CAN Bus, is not DAB ready.

Surprisingly, 50 % of fussy babies improved on medicine, but so did 50 % of fussy babies given the placebo.

Surprisingly, a group of victims ' families called Mothers of Beslan led by Susanna Dudiyeva, has shown sympathy for Kulayev, promising to seek an appeal on his behalf given his honesty and cooperation during the trial ; one went so far as to pledge to send any compensation money she received to Kulayev's children, though there is otherwise no mention of his having children.

Surprisingly the first use of a radio interferometer for an astronomical observation was carried out by Payne-Scott, Pawsey and Lindsay McCready on 26 January 1946 using a SINGLE converted radar antenna ( broadside array ) at 200 MHz near Sydney, Australia.

Surprisingly, the more massive of the two also turned out to be the less luminous.

Surprisingly, this amazing piece of engineering was subcontracted out to two illiterate brothers, the Medhailes, and was built by a workforce composed mainly of women.

Surprisingly, soon afterwards Vincent loses his virginity with Maureen, his sister-in-law, while his brother Matthew has gone out and the children are asleep.

Surprisingly, the officer did not kill Szpilman, but instead after finding out that he was a pianist, asked Szpilman to play for him on a piano they had found.

When the master tape is played, it turns out that Ryder, despite being hailed by Wilson as " the greatest poet since Yeats ", was unable to write any lyrics ( or, as implied in a cutaway segment called " The Life and Surprisingly Strange Adventures of Ryderson Crusoe, refused to write them ; " Why the fuck should I?!

Surprisingly, he held only 13 catches though he was still one of the best leg slip fielders in the game, but he continued to provide the occasional good innings and made his highest score to date of 80 not out among 4 half-centuries and a season's total of 809 runs.

Surprisingly, a 43 year old Witherspoon resurfaced in 2001, knocking out the usually durable prospect David Bostice in one round, outpointing Cuban southpaw contender Eliecer Castillo and huge Syrian Ahmed Abdin, before his revival was ended by hard hitting heavyweight Lou Savarese who stopped him in five rounds.

Surprisingly, the same two men came back the next evening, the son claiming that he had seen his father walk out into the waiting room and assumed the consultation was over.

Surprisingly, Paul forgave Al and talked the other group members out of firing him as he was determined to give Bryant another chance.

Surprisingly, it turns out that the " ordinary " estimator proposed above is suboptimal in terms of mean squared error.

Surprisingly, the club was relegated to the Liga II at the end of the 2006-07 season, finishing 16th out of 18 teams.

Surprisingly, the Kings finished second, just one point out of first.

Surprisingly, samples of the supposed chemical agent supplied to independent scientists turned out to be honeybee feces, suggesting that the " yellow rain " was due to mass defecation of digested pollen grains from large swarms of bees.

Surprisingly, in a spring 2005 poll, 28 percent of all respondents named Wulff as their preferred candidate for the Christian Democrat nomination for Chancellor in the 2006 election.

Surprisingly, although Sale's training and life's work focused on English literature, he is today perhaps best known as the author of a book of history -- specifically Seattle: Past and Present.

" Surprisingly, Herger did not immediately distance himself from the remark then and there, but, instead, after the constituent's lengthy comment, responded by saying, " Amen.

Surprisingly, this information was never published by Hitachi.

Surprisingly enough, they can learn to do this well before the age of two by listening only to the voices of adults around them who have voices much different from their own, and even though the laryngeal movements causing these phonetic differentiations are deep in the throat and not visible to them.

Surprisingly, the Village of Los Osos has a bigger population by roughly 4 thousand residents.

Surprisingly since 1950, Weld County has been hit by the most tornadoes of any county in the United States.

Surprisingly, instead of being shocked at being sucked up by the ship, Gloria is merely annoyed by the encounter, commenting " who is going to pay for my dry cleaning?

Surprisingly, neither the band, nor their guitarist and chief songwriter Ron Elliott, were overtly influenced by folk music.

" Surprisingly, it is largely neglected by marketing textbooks, although not by the popular exponents of corporate strategy — indeed, it was perhaps the main theme of the book by Peters and Waterman, in the form of their " Superordinate Goals.

Surprisingly for a pro-conqueror text, William's Gesta Guillelmi was an apparent failure in Norman England with no known copied manuscripts produced, this has led to some scholars theorizing that William ended his days in political disgrace Compelling links can be made between William of Poitiers and Duke William's rebellious son Robert, this could explain why Orderic stated that William was unable to finish his history as he was ' prevented by unfavourable circumstances ', however this remains speculation.

Surprisingly, Eärnil did not share the views of most of his subjects and he attempted to renew contact between the estranged kingdoms, even sending a great force led by his son Eärnur to try to defend Arthedain when the Witch-king was preparing a final assault against it.

Surprisingly, the first solution to this flaw was published by software utility company Connectix, whose 1991 product MODE32 reinitialized the Memory Manager and repeated early parts of the Mac boot process, allowing the system to boot into 32-bit mode and enabling the use of all the RAM in the machine.

Surprisingly, just before impact, several of the deployed rockets are destroyed by the missiles of the Quintans, undermining the symmetry of the implosion which causes fragments of the moon to be thrown clear, some impacting the planet's surface.

Surprisingly, any computation that can be performed by this sort of machine can also be performed by an ordinary Turing machine, although the latter may be slower or require a larger total region of its tape.

Surprisingly, the authorities ignore repeated calls by experts to construct such roads around, instead of through, the forests, which in this way would no longer threaten the animal and plant life.

Surprisingly, Walter ( who is being chased by Gnasher ) wins.

Surprisingly, in 2006, the bodies of fourteen Germans killed during the fighting were discovered in a mass grave near the town by a local medical student, and exhumed.

Surprisingly, Dorothy " destroys " the Witch by throwing a pail of water on her, causing her to melt.

The Twins players embraced the label, and in response, the Twins Front office started a " Piranha Night ", with piranha finger puppets given out to the first 10, 000 fans.

He would have given anything to be going up north to play the Minnesota Twins in the 1987 World Series.

However he was given a chance to attend Bradley University and was a star on the baseball team, despite his under-sized 5 ' 8 " frame, before the Minnesota Twins selected him in the 1st round ( 3rd pick ) of the 1982 MLB Draft.

For Twins baseball, the address of the Metrodome became 34 Kirby Puckett Place, an honor given to one of the most famous Minnesota Twins players.

In December 1974, he was given the option of staying with the Twins as a coach and batting instructor, managing the AAA Tacoma Twins, or being released.

The Twins are portrayed as being obsessed with " The Blur " ( the name given to Clark Kent before he officially adopts the Superman identity ), and attempt to impersonate him in order to build up his positive reputation.

Starting with the Miami season, episodes were given themes such as Best Friends, Twins, Beauty and the Freaks, Double Trouble, Hidden Beauty, Boy Toy, Opposites Attract, Threes a Kind and celebrity guests.

The Twins kept Santana on their roster for the 2000 season, despite the pitcher's subpar performance that season ( 6. 49 earned run average ) which was unsurprising given his youth and inexperience.

He ended the season with eighteen home runs and 75 RBIs and a stellar. 985 fielding percentage to receive the Calvin R. Griffith Award given each season to the Twins ' Most Valuable Player.