Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

In a weak NL West division, the Diamondbacks failed to improve on their 2005 performance, finishing fourth with a slightly worse record than the year before.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

After finishing fourth in 1978, the Orioles finally won the division in 1979 thanks to strong play from Ken Singleton and Cy Young Winner Mike Flanagan.

The Indians finished the season tied for fourth in their division,

However, he finished just fifth in MVP voting, perhaps because the team finished fourth in the division and also possibly due to bias by voters because he played half of his games in hitter-friendly Coors Field.

However, the team faded in the second half and wound up at 76 – 86, tied for fourth place in the division.

A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

Xenophon, writing in the fourth century BC, makes a passing reference to division of labour in his ' Cyropaedia ' ( aka Education of Cyrus ).

The Marlins finished last ( 51 – 64 ) in their division in the strike shortened season of and fourth ( 67-76 ) in.

Another Ghent football club is KRC Gent-Zeehaven, playing in the Belgian fourth division.

In the fourth division, the first coconut tree and other significant plants are born.

However, the team faded as the season progressed and finished the year with a final record of 65 – 97, in a fourth place tie in its division.

In, the Chargers finished 8 – 8 ( fourth in their division ).

The number of SCA kingdoms has continued to grow by the expansion and division of existing kingdoms ; for example, the Outlands, Artemisia, Ansteorra, Gleann Abhann, Meridies, and Trimaris all originally belonged to the fourth kingdom, Atenveldt, which began as a branch of the West.

The three division winners from each conference would be ranked first through third and be given a week off, and two wild card teams from each conference, seeded fourth and fifth, would play a playoff game with the winner going on to play the first seeded team ( or, if they were in the same division, the second seed ).

The fourth division occurs mainly in blastomeres in the animal pole, which divide transversally as well as equally to make eight blastomeres.

Once this fourth division has occurred the embryo has reached a 16 cell stage.

In Argyll it consisted initially of three kindreds: Cenél Loairn ( kindred of Loarn ) in north and mid-Argyll, Cenél nÓengusa ( kindred of Óengus ) based on Islay and Cenél nGabráin ( kindred of Gabrán ) based in Kintyre ; a fourth kindred, Cenél Chonchride in Islay, was apparently considered too small to be considered a major division.

The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, dealt primarily with Christology, and elucidated the orthodox definition of Christ's being as the hypostatic union of two natures — divine and human — united in one person, " with neither confusion nor division ".

During this period Feijenoord won three consecutive division titles from 1936 to 1938, with their third and fourth national championships coming in 1936 and 1938.

In their first season in the nationwide first division, the club reached a remarkable fourth place and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first and only time in its history.

Ten months after he had joined, Ardiles led Swindon to their highest ever league position, finishing fourth in the second division.

The first contact occurs when the Moon's disc first starts to impinge on the Sun's ; second contact is when the Moon's disc moves completely within the Sun's ; third contact when it starts to move out of the Sun's ; and fourth or last contact when it finally leaves the Sun's disc entirely.

The new year occurs in the fourth day of Diwali.

Tuber bulking occurs during the fourth phase, when the plant begins investing the majority of its resources in its newly formed tubers.

Sometimes a combination of the two styles occurs, wherein the middle, ring and fourth fingers are straight, but still stacked, or where all fingers may be touching the back of the racket, but are also in contact with one another.

* The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England.

Another example of breaking the fourth wall occurs in an episode when Comic Book Guy's chair collapses, and he sarcastically says " Ooh, a fat man falls.

The first military experience for new cadets ( called " basic cadets ") occurs during the six weeks of Basic Cadet Training ( BCT ), in the summer before their fourth class ( freshman ) year.

SpringFest occurs on the fourth Saturday of March and involves a day devoted to local artists, crafters, live music and more.

Typically, the first fall freeze occurs by the fourth week of October, and the last spring freeze occurs by the second week of April.

Typically, the first fall freeze occurs between mid-September and the second week of October, and the last spring freeze occurs between the fourth week of April and the third week of May.

The Wendish heritage in Giddings is celebrated annually in nearby Serbin Texas, put on by the Texas Wendish Heritage Society it occurs on the fourth Sunday every September.

For example, the musicologist Rudolf Steglich has suggested that Handel used the device of the " ascending fourth " as a unifying motif ; this device most noticeably occurs in the first two notes of " I know that my Redeemer liveth " and on numerous other occasions.

His role as the antihero occurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer.

Nearly fifty percent of GH secretion occurs during the third and fourth NREM sleep stages.

With the introduction of Jack Wilson's Ghost Dance, the fourth period of revitalization is ushered, which characteristically occurs after sufficient changes accrue to significantly warp the society's cultural pattern.

The new year occurs in the fourth day of Diwali.

When this ratio is less than about one-tenth, Rayleigh scattering occurs in which the scattering coefficient varies inversely as the fourth power of the wavelength.

* The Iron Hand of Mars ( 1994 ) by Lindsey Davis ; fourth book of the mystery series set during the reign of Vespasian, a portion of the novel occurs in the Teutoburger Wald.

This difference occurs because having a marker on 4 catches the cases where three of four dice are 1's or 2's and the fourth die is a 3 ( 32 rolls out of 1296 ).

Syndactyly, as it occurs in birds, is like anisodactyly, except that the third and fourth toes ( the outer and middle forward-pointing toes ), or three toes, are fused together, as in the Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon.

This occurs in the fourth chapter of the novel, " In which Esther gets a nose job ".