On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

Absalon died at Sorø Abbey on March 21, 1201, 73 years old, with his last will granting his personal holdings to the Abbey, apart from Fjenneslev which went to Esbern Snarre.

Johan Cruijff played at Ajax between 1959 – 73 and 1981 – 83, winning 3 European Cups ; his # 14 is the only squad number Ajax has ever retired.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

Each of the 1026 full and 107 alternate members represented 9, 470 party members ( 10. 73 million in total ) at the 1956 8th Congress.

The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.

Value of agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 7. 1 % during 1968 – 73, but since 1975 the sector has been hampered by droughts ( 1975, 1977, and 1979 ), hurricanes ( in 1979 and 1980 ), and slumping world prices and quota allocations for sugar ( since 1985 ).

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

According to this account, Emperor Senka died in 539 at the age of 73 ; and succession passed to the third son of Emperor Keitai.

Fellini died in Rome on October 31 at the age of 73, a day after his fiftieth wedding anniversary.

The events were described by the Jewish leader / historian Josephus, including the desperate defence of Jotapata, the siege of Jerusalem ( 69 – 70 CE ) and heroic last stand at Masada under Eleazar ben Yair ( 72 – 73 CE ).

The Astros finished with their best record to that point at 89 – 73 and 1½ games behind the NL winner Reds.

He finished the series with 237 runs at 59. 25 after scoring 73 * in the drawn third Test.

On May 2, 2009, Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, from cancer ; he was 73.

In 1999, after competing at the Goodwood Revival at the age of 73 he commented that driving stopped him getting old.

In 2009, temperatures in the deep tunnels were recorded as reaching as high as 32 ° C, and this is combined with poor air quality, which a 2003 study claimed was 73 times worse than at street level, with twenty minutes on the Northern Line having " the same effect as smoking a cigarette ".

However the Primitive Archer test used a longbow at point blank range, generating 160 joules ( vs. 73 for Bane and 80 for Williams ), so probably not representative of battles of the time.

This change was approved by 73 % at a referendum on Mayotte.

* 2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher " Dudus " Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.

The Twins and Tigers both finished one game back, with 91 – 71 records, while the White Sox finished three games back, at 89 – 73.

He died at the home on 27 March 1972, at age 73.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

In 1223 ( or 1221 ) he became a member of the Dominican Order, against the wishes of his family, and studied theology at Bologna and elsewhere.

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

She had three children, a daughter ( who went to live at the Dominican Abbey in Poissy in 1397 as a companion to the king's daughter, Marie ), a son Jean, and another child who died in childhood.

The use of a foreign company for the extraction of gold at the largest mine in the Western Hemisphere has startled and concerned many Dominican's who believe that this gold is Dominican gold and should be extracted by Dominican companies and not foreign.

Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced the Dominican Republic to take a closer look at relations with its neighbor both country-to-country and in international fora.

In May 1220 at Bologna the Order's first General Chapter mandated that each new priory of the Order maintain its own studium conventuale thus laying the foundation of the Dominican tradition of sponsoring widespread institutions of learning.

The official foundation of the Dominican convent at Santa Sabina with its studium conventuale occurred with the legal transfer of property from Honorius III to the Order of Preachers on June 5, 1222.

In 1905, it established a large house of studies at Washington, D. C., called the Dominican House of Studies.

" Dominican Friars for Life " at the 2009 March for Life ( Washington, D. C .) | March for Life in Washington, DC

Humbert is at the center of ascetic writers in the Dominican Order.

The Dominican Order came into being in the Middle Ages at a time when religion began to be contemplated in a new way.

All of these ideas associated with mysticism were at play in the spirituality of the Dominican community, and not only among the men.

Although Dominic and the early brethren had instituted female Dominican houses at Prouille and other places by 1227, some of the brethren of the Order had misgivings about the necessity of female religious establishments in an Order whose major purpose was preaching, a duty in which women could not traditionally engage.

In England, the Dominican Province began at the second general chapter of the Dominican Order in Bologna during the spring of 1221.

The first Dominican site in England was at Oxford, in the parishes of St. Edward and St. Adelaide.

Third, English Dominican mysticism focused on an embodied spirituality with a structured love of fellow men at its center.

Colombus continued east and founded a new settlement at La Isabela on the territory of the present day Dominican Republic in 1493.

Heading east, it passes through Croix-des-Bouquets, skirts the southern shore of Etang Saumâtre, and terminates at the Malpasse border crossing with the Dominican Republic.

Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory, a school operated by the Dominican Order in Washington County, Kentucky.

In 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a Dominican convent at La Sainte-Baume, the shrine was found intact, with an explanatory inscription stating why the relics had been hidden.

The Dominican monk Jacobus de Voragine in his Golden Legend reported the legend that Mary Magdalene was betrothed to St John the Evangelist, who left his bride at the altar to follow Jesus, dismissing it as a " false and frivolous tale ".