Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

Each fragment of the comet was denoted by a letter of the alphabet, from " fragment A " through to " fragment W ", a practice already established from previously observed broken-up comets.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

This non-canonical gospel fragment was discovered in 1958, by biblical researcher Morton Smith at the Mar Saba monastery.

To the north, Shamshi-Adad I was undertaking expansionistic wars, although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic empire.

The poem according to Coleridge's account, is a fragment of what it should have been, amounting to what he was able to jot down from memory: 54 lines.

" The next review came in the January 1817 Monthly Review, with the anonymous reviewer questioning: " Allowing every possible accuracy to the statement of Mr. Coleridge, we would yet ask him whether this extraordinary fragment was not rather the effect of rapid and instant composition after he was awake, than of memory immediately recording that which he dreamt when asleep?

The imagery of that fragment, certainly, whatever its origins in Coleridge's reading, sank to the depths of Coleridge's feeling, was saturated, transformed there ... and brought up into daylight again.

The Sainte Chapelle, a perfect example of the Rayonnant style of Gothic architecture, was erected as a shrine for the Crown of Thorns and a fragment of the True Cross, precious relics of the Passion of Jesus.

In an example, they cited one case study of a small calf " with a severe dorsal mutilation trailing a decomposing piece of dermis and muscle as it continued to accompany and nurse from its mother ... by age 2 its dorsum was grossly deformed and included a large protruding rib fragment visible.

A 2 cm wide, 1 mm deep fragment was discovered in 1997 and is dated to mid 8th century.

A 9. 1 cm long, 5. 5 cm wide, 6 mm deep fragment was found.

Usually the clausula represented a strophic sequence in Latin which was sung as a discant over a cantus firmus, which typically was a plainchant fragment with different words from the discant.

The New Caledonian archipelago is a microcontinental island chain which originated as a fragment of Zealandia, a nearly submerged continent or microcontinent which was part of the southern supercontinent of Gondwana during the time of the dinosaurs.

While Babylonian number theory — or what survives of Babylonian mathematics that can be called thus — consists of this single, striking fragment, Babylonian algebra ( in the secondary-school sense of " algebra ") was exceptionally well developed.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

The first impact occurred at 20: 13 UTC on July 16, 1994, when fragment A of the nucleus entered Jupiter's southern hemisphere at a speed of about 60 km / s.

The first one holds The Angel's Stone, a fragment of the stone believed to have sealed the tomb after Jesus ' burial.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, which records a fragment of this gospel, is usually dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

Cylinder fragment of Watt's first operational engine at the Carron Works, Falkirk

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

To carry out this activation, T-helpers must first be activated themselves, which is done by binding of the T-cell receptor ( TCR ) to the acetylcholine receptor antigenic peptide fragment ( epitope ) resting within the major histocompatibility complex of antigen presenting cells.

The first historical find of an arithmetical nature is a fragment of a table: the broken clay tablet Plimpton 322 ( Larsa, Mesopotamia, ca.

The first non-Christian reference to Nazareth is an inscription on a marble fragment from a synagogue found in Caesarea Maritima in 1962.

For instance, the first dated instance of the title pharaoh being attached to a ruler's name occurs in Year 17 of Siamun on a fragment from the Karnak Priestly Annals.

Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map | first World Map of Piri Reis ( 1513 )

* in music theory, the first melodic fragment of a fugue

In 2011, researchers at Northwestern University found evidence of a human DNA fragment in a Neisseria gonorrhoeae genome, the first example of horizontal gene transfer from humans to a bacterial pathogen.

* and a fragment of the first book of the Responsa Papiniani.

For example, one of the very first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...( 1 ) adown ; ( 2 ) afoot ; ( 3 ) along ; ( 4 ) arise ; ( 5 ) achieve ; ( 6 ) avert ; ( 7 ) amend ; ( 8 ) alas ; ( 9 ) abyss ..." Further in the entry, Skeat writes: " These prefixes are discussed at greater length under the headings Of, On, Along, Arise ... Alas, Aware, Avast ..." It seems likely that these strings of words prompted Joyce to finish the Wake with a sentence fragment that included the words: "... a way a lone a last a loved a long ..."

As a result, the eight page " Mamalujo " sketch became the first fragment from the book to be published in its own right, in Transatlantic Review 1. 4 in April 1924.

A fragment of Bacchylides suggests that she threw herself off a cliff, in Bibliotheke it is noted " when she found him dead she hanged herself ," and Lycophron imagined her hurtling head first from the towering walls of Troy.

The first history of the region was written in the early fifteenth century and preserved in a fragmentum historicum ex cartulario Alaonis ( historical fragment from a cartulary of Alaon ).

A papyrus fragment covering lines 917 – 33, part of a poem addressed to Democles ( identity unknown ) and considered on textual grounds to be a late addition to the Theognidean corpus, probably fifth centuryCoincidentally, Nietzsche's first published article, On the History of the Collection of the Theognidean Anthology ( 1867 ), concerned the textual transmission of the poems.

As part of this remedial work English Heritage excavated two further small trenches and made the important discovery of an antler fragment, the first from a secure archaeological context at the site.

OASIS was first formed as SGML Open in 1993 as a trade association of SGML tool vendors to cooperatively promote the adoption of SGML through mainly educational activities, though some amount of technical activity was also pursued including an update of the CALS Table Model specification and specifications for fragment interchange and entity management.

One fragment from Manetho also dates the reign of the first Egyptian God ( Ptah ) 36, 525 years before Menes ( FGrH, # 610 F2 ) and so dates the creation to about 39, 575 BC.

Lovecraft's attempts to work this idea into a novel floundered ( a 500-word fragment survives, first published under the title " Azathoth " in the journal Leaves in 1938 ), although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into his Dream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926.

Aside from the title of the novel fragment, " The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath " was the first fiction by Lovecraft to mention Azathoth: