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The Parian's main rival in antiquity was Pentelic marble, which is also flawless white, albeit with a uniform, faint yellow tint that makes it shine with a golden hue under sunlight.
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The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.
There are two main rival parties and a number of smaller parties.
A key claim made by Lord Lambert in his report had been that the channel was slower to react to breaking news compared with its main rival Sky News.
The School of Mind was developed by Lu Jiuyuan, Zhu Xi's main rival, but was soon forgotten.
Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage over its chief American rival, the Library of Congress Classification system developed shortly afterward, is its simplicity.
DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.
* Although the Government of Ethiopia has allied with local clans in opposition to the Transitional National Government in the past, it currently is supporting the Transitional Government against its main rival, the Islamic Courts Union.
Portugal's main rival was the French, their colonial neighbours along the coast on both sides-in Senegal and in the region which became French Guinea.
On his deathbed, Conrad yielded the crown to his main rival, Henry of Saxony ( r. 919 – 36 ), who was elected king at the Diet of Fritzlar in 919.
After the Dessalines coup d ' état, the two main conspirators divided the country in two rival regimes.
After 404 the Persians lost control of Egypt, which became Persia's main rival outside Europe, causing the Persian authorities to tighten their administrative control over Yehud and the rest of the Levant.
The historical competition continues to this day, as Hawick's main rival is the similarly-sized town of Galashiels.
Its main rival, the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) was established five years later.
It was widespread among the legions of the Roman Empire, who considered it a soldier's religion, and it was briefly the main rival to Christianity in the competition to replace classical paganism.
The earliest example of this is Internet Explorer's use of a user agent string beginning "< tt > Mozilla /< version > ( compatible ; MSIE < version >...</ tt >", in order to receive content intended for Netscape, its main rival at the time of its development.
His two main rivals, Lissouba and Bernard Kolelas, were prevented from competing and the only remaining credible rival, André Milongo, boycotted the elections and withdrew from the race due to, among other reasons, perceived voter fraud on the part of Sassou.
A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.
Ali's main rival Muawiyah then claimed the caliphate.
During the 1960s Coronation Street ’ s main rival was Crossroads, a daily serial that began in 1964 and was broadcast by ITV in the early evening.
His main rival in the race had been Emmanuel Bob-Akitani from the Union des Forces du Changement ( UFC ) Union of Forces for Change.
Fleischer, considered Disney's main rival in the 1930s, was also the father of Richard Fleischer, whom Disney would later hire to direct his 1954 film 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The mission, headed by Simeon Aké, also declared that the Polisario Front seemed the main Sahrawi organization of the territory-the only rival arrangements to what the mission described as Polisario's " mass demonstrations " came from the PUNS, which by this time also advocated independence.
The Reform Party and the United Party merged to become the National Party, and would be Labour's main rival in future years.
In August, 2011 Corbis announced a deal with AP to distribute each other's photos to their clients, effectively combining the pre-1983 UPI library with that of its former main rival for some marketing purposes.
* Abu Zakariya is successful in setting a principality centered on Béjaïa, which becomes a rival of the main Hafsid entity based in Tunis.
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Diamond thereby opened access to the main portion of the tunnel, and began to popularize the tunnel as an antiquity.
The main theory of mechanics in antiquity was Aristotelian mechanics.
The exact date was probably already a result of Christian influence and identification of Māra with Mary, whose main festival ( Assumption ) falls on the same date since antiquity.
The main concept of the universal joint is based on the design of gimbals, which have been in use since antiquity.
Nonnus ' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.
Lachmann was the first major editor to break from the Textus Receptus, seeking to restore the most ancient reading current in manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type, using the agreement of the Western authorities ( Old Latin and Greek Western Uncials ) as the main proof of antiquity of a reading where the oldest Alexandrian authorities differ.
The main exhibits are the Pergamon Altar from the 2nd century BC, with a 113 meters ( 371 ft ) long sculptural frieze depicting the struggle of the gods and the giants, and the Gate of Miletus from Roman antiquity.
In antiquity, the main metal used was copper, then bronze, and later iron and steel.
The conical thatched roof that covers the main building is a reproduction of the kind of roof it probably had in antiquity, but the shed-like porch is less faithful to the original.
Again, his theories attributing great antiquity to the finds were spurned by his colleagues, until one of de Perthe's main opponents, Dr Marcel Jérôme Rigollot, began finding more tools near Saint Acheul.
It is an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.
As a result of this cleaning, spectacular ceiling painting has been exposed in the main hall, and some of the most vibrant and colourful paintings dating from antiquity are now visible.
His main interests were in prehistoric archaeology and classical antiquity.
Until the 19th century, the main sources of information about ancient Egyptian medicine were writings from later in antiquity.
The site is located between the island's two main cities in antiquity, Chalkis and Eretria.
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The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.
Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.
He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.
And it was his main present!!
The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.
The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.
The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.
But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.
The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.
Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.
Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.
Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.
Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.
At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.
He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.
The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.
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