It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

The first book sketches briefly the history of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian ( 305 ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to the death of Theodosius I ; the fifth and sixth, the most useful for historians, cover the period between 395 and 410, when Priscus Attalus was deposed ; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source.

The fourth surviving Godwin brother, Leofwine, was given an earldom in the south-east carved out of Harold's territory, and Harold received Ralph's territory in compensation.

Carl Jung was born Karl Gustav II Jung in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, on 26 July 1875, as the fourth but only surviving child of Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk.

As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 A. D. and examples from Roman Egypt date to the fourth century.

Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince Français, Comte de Saint-Leu ( 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846 ), King of Holland ( 1806 – 10 ), was the fifth surviving child and the fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

Turgon had no sons, so Gil-galad, last surviving male descendant of Fingolfin, became the fourth and last High King of the Noldor in Middle-earth.

The first surviving historical mention of the Pharisees is from the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus ( 37 – 100 CE ), in a description of the " four schools of thought ," or " four sects ," into which the Jews were divided in the 1st century CE ; the other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical and who may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests who rejected either the Seleucid-appointed or the Hasmonean high priests as illegitimate ; the Sadducees, who were the main antagonists of the Pharisees ; and the " fourth philosophy " possibly associated with the anti-Roman revolutionary groups such as the Sicarii and the Zealots.

The young Louis XV of France would marry the three-year old Infanta Mariana Victoria who would thus become Queen of France ; the Infante Luis would marry the fourth surviving daughter of the Philippe, Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans ; and the Infante Charles would be engaged to the pretty Philippine Élisabeth d ' Orléans who was the fifth surviving daughter of Philippe.

The House of York was descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, but also represented Edward's senior line, being cognatic descendants of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Edward III's second surviving son.

This administrative structure continued until 2002, surviving Imperial's mergers with a number of medical schools, which were formed into a fourth constituent college ; and Imperial's merger in 2000 with Wye College, of which roughly one-fifth became designated as part of the Royal College of Science.

The King's Opera House ( now rebuilt as Her Majesty's Theatre ) ( 1816 – 1818 ) where he and George Repton remodelled the theatre, with arcades and shops around three sides of the building, the fourth being the still surviving Royal Opera Arcade.

It was the fourth mill to be built in Gaston County and is the oldest surviving mill today.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

The Stewarts greatly increased their holdings in the west, in Atholl and in the far north: the earldoms of Fife and Menteith went to Robert II's second surviving son Robert, the earldoms of Buchan and Ross ( along with the lordship of Badenoch ) to his fourth son Alexander and the earldoms of Strathearn and Caithness to the eldest son of his second marriage, David.

The young Louis XV of France would marry the three year old Infanta Mariana Victoria and thus she would become Queen of France ; Charles ' half brother Louis would marry the fourth surviving daughter of the regent, Louise Elisabeth.

Some modern scholars believe that Tyrtaeus helped to precipitate and formulate this transition but others see no real evidence for this and some even question the authenticity of his few surviving verses — an origin in fifth or fourth century Athens has sometimes been suggested.

The title Duke of York was first created in the Peerage of England in 1385 for Edmund of Langley, the fourth surviving son of Edward III, and an important character in Shakespeare's Richard II.

He was the fourth surviving and final child of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent.

The couple's fourth surviving child, Austin Osman Spare was born shortly after four o ' clock on the morning of 30 December 1886.

Of the 17 RBMKs built ( one was still under construction at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant ), all three surviving reactors at the Chernobyl plant have now been closed ( the fourth having been destroyed in the accident ).

Xenophanes ' surviving writings display a skepticism that became more commonly expressed during the fourth century.

Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

*** The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass ( 1997 ), the fourth novel in the series

*** The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer, a one-issue prelude to the fourth series

*** The Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead, the fourth series

A fourth tower, Murney Tower, is located southwest of this location

The old burial ground was situated about a fourth mile south of Tower Hill and almost a hundred yards east of South Market Street in Schaefferstown.

Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster ( opposite the future site of the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster ), he was the fourth son of Walter Edward Barry ( died 1805 ) a stationer, and Frances Barry née Maybank ( died 1798 ).

Second on the 2008 list was the Almas Tower in Dubai, third was the Minsheng Bank Building in Wuhan which stands at, whilst fourth was The Address Downtown Burj Dubai ().

At it is currently the fourth tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi River, the second tallest building on the West Coast ( after Los Angeles ' U. S. Bank Tower ), and the twentieth tallest building in the United States.

* The character of The Wizard of Oz was shown in The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, the fourth book of Stephen King's The Dark Tower book series.

Cathcart Tower, the fourth tower, stands unused on Cedar Island near Point Henry.

His eldest son, the fourth Earl, also served as Constable of the Tower of London and as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire.

Its head office is located on the fourth floor of the South Tower of Cathay Pacific City.

U. S. Steel Tower, also known as the Steel Building ( formerly USX Tower ), is the tallest skyscraper in Pittsburgh, the fourth tallest building in Pennsylvania, and the 37th tallest in the United States.

The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower, the Kiev TV Tower and the Riga Radio and TV Tower.

He did not run for a fourth term in 1984, opting instead to seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring John Tower.

In 1901 building of the fourth lighthouse, the High Light Tower, started.

* Tower of Terror II, the world's fourth fastest roller coaster, located at Dreamworld

The fourth arc in the Dark Tower comic series was released by Marvel Comics, and it is called The Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead.