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The Sementina dies were kept in seed-time at Rome for the purpose of praying for a good crop ; it lasted only for one day, which was fixed by the pontiffs.
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Sementivae, also known as Feriae Sementivae or Sementina dies ( in the country called Paganalia ), was a Roman festival of sowing.
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This was more common on older coins because the coin dies were hand carved.
* 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
Also, the semiconductor dies were mounted onto metal slugs to allow for heat removal from the LED die.
The design for the coin was meant to be a voyageur theme, similar to the country's previous one dollar / silver dollar coin, but the master dies were lost or stolen while in transit to the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg.
The Becketts are better protected in their cellar, but Ruth's grandmother ( who had been sent to live with them as hospitals were cleared for expected casualties ) dies.
The 1934 Philadelphia strike appears in two versions: one with a light motto " In God We Trust ", which is the same as that used on the 1932 strikings, and the other a heavy motto seen after the dies were reworked.
Elimination of silicon from the heater wire alloy ( and more frequent replacement of the wire drawing dies ) allowed production of tubes that were reliable enough for the Whirlwind project.
The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic outcome in which the main character dies on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.
Coins were originally hand-hammered – an ancient technique in which two dies are struck together with a blank coin between them.
Among Bessemer's numerous other inventions were movable dies for embossed postage stamps, and a screw extruder for more efficiently extracting sugar from sugar cane.
During Edgar's reign, dies for coins were cut only at Winchester and distributed from there to other mints across the kingdom.
When Hector dies, she is the third mourner at his funeral, and she says that, of all the Trojans, Hector and Priam alone were always kind to her:
Also, two small heraldic errors which had persisted on all previous seal dies were fixed: the rays of the glory were drawn with dots to indicate the tincture gold, and the background of the stars was drawn with horizontal lines to indicate azure.
In October and November 2007, two more dies were discovered in Rhode Island with exactly the same design ( though cut in relief ), even down to the same small flaws.
They were all slain at Samsø, by the Swedish champion Hjalmar, and his Norwegian sworn brother Orvar-Odd ; but Hjalmar, being wounded by Tyrfing ( its first evil deed ), has only time to sing his death-song before he dies, and asks Orvar-Odd to bring his body to Ingeborg, daughter of Yngvi at Uppsala.
According to Kovels Komments, " firefighters were able to save many of the dies that made patterns in the metal products, but the plant's machinery and most of its contents were ruined.
New models were created ( sometimes dies were also bought from competing companies ), and the Dinky Collection was born.
No dies were designed by SUTC itself, decal painting, assembling and packing were the most things SUTC did.
Certainly, the major internationally known German brands ( Volkswagen and Mercedes, as well as Magirus-Deutz ) were represented in the range, but in order to cater to that market using the dies at hand, it was decided to develop a model version just for Germany.
" Don't Let's Start "' s lyrics include a number of dark, pointed statements as " everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful ," John Linnell has repeatedly insisted that some of its lyrical twists, though pondered extensively by fans, were constructed to complement the melody and are not always meaningful.
The processor and the cache were on separate dies in the same package and connected closely by a full-speed bus.
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Throop also chose to use five-pointed stars, though kept the six-pointed star arrangement, a change which has continued in all subsequent dies.
Though he initially appears to be dead, it soon is discovered that the man has been kept alive and entirely immobile by the killer for exactly one year to the day ; a drug dealer and child molester before his captivity, this victim represents " Sloth ", and dies soon after from shock.
One New Year's Eve, Jerry is kept waiting in blizzard conditions by inconsiderate young men who stay too long playing cards, contracts bronchitis, and nearly dies.
For example, if John tells his mother to sign a deed giving him her property, Mom refuses at first, then John explains that the deed will be kept in a safe deposit box until she dies.
Zinovy dies, and Sergei buries him deep in the walls of the cellar where he himself had been kept.
Since the virus is very weak and dies within two hours in a dry environment, the incidence of transmission will drop considerably if the litterbox is kept from remaining damp between uses.
Therefore he kept the sword Shurato at the crumble city in order to lure Ashura, for he believed that the city could prosper again if Ashura dies.
In Canada, the official destruction of Edward VIII stamp dies and proofs happened on 25 and 27 January 1937 ; some essays were kept in the archives and the two plaster casts were saved by coin engraver Emmanuel Hahn and a postal officer.
When a Jewish person dies, a watch is kept over the body and Tehillim are recited constantly, until the burial service.
Girls are " married " to the bael fruit and as long as the fruit is kept safe and never cracks the girl can never become widowed, even if her human husband dies.
Much like the Irish hero Oisín, who spent hundreds of years in the faerie world, Spiderwick also dies when he steps on the ground after being kept alive for more years than he was supposed to live.
In the adaptation, Jefferson Cope was one of the orphans severely abused by Lady Boynton in his youth, and he decides to take his revenge by wiping out her financial empire and ensuring that she is kept in the dark, though she dies before she realizes her financial ruin.
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The child dies with his mourning mother at his bedside.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
Max, in a fit of despair, takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ), at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's disease and dies.
Poirot dies from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.
* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* 526 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna ; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
In order to avoid degrading himself, he wrote in the same memo he would retire at age 35 to pursue the practice of philanthropic giving for "... the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
When he finally dies at the end of the novel, the situation report from the frontline states, " All is Quiet on the Western Front ," symbolizing the cheapness of human life in war.
I shall tell you — it will be a tale of truth — he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.
Miriam dies at Kadesh Barnea and the Israelites set out for Moab, on Canaan's western border.
He ends with an illustration about a man who dies and goes to heaven exclaiming “ Home, home at last !” as if he had arrived at the end of his eschatological journey.
If the player dies, they are still put on the list, but are categorized as " Dead ", with their experience point total listed as at the final killing blow.
* Civil Defense Logo dies at 67, and Some Mourn its Passing, The New York Times, 1 December 2006 by David Dunlap.
Baron Harkonnen himself is poisoned with a gom jabbar by Paul's young sister Alia Atreides, his own granddaughter, and dies at the age of 83.
For example, if a person dies at the age of 65 from a disease, and would probably have lived until age 80 without that disease, then that disease has caused a loss of 15 years of potential life.
YPLL measurements do not account for how disabled a person is before dying, so the measurement treats a person who dies suddenly and a person who died at the same age after decades of illness as equivalent.
* CBC. ca News: Fay Wray dies at 96
* 1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum ( modern York, England ) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
Other children are born to Abraham by another wife, Keturah, among whose descendants are the Midianites, and he dies in a prosperous old age and is buried in his tomb at Hebron.
Jacob calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future to them before he dies and is interred in the family tomb at Machpelah.
As the story unfolds, Melanie becomes progressively physically weaker, first by childbirth, then " the hard work she had done at Tara ," and she ultimately dies after a miscarriage.
As Achilles approaches, Hector stands his ground, fights and dies upon looking up at Troy.
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