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And most of the great periods are represented, because we will compare Plato and Aristotle from the golden age of Greece ; ;
Mankind, as a result, attains previously undreamed of levels of civilization and culture, a golden age which the Overlords, a very evident symbol of science, have helped produce by introducing reason and the scientific method into human activities.
The 18th and 19th centuries saw an influx of naturalists, writers, and artists, in particular the Romantics, followed by the golden age of alpinism as mountaineers began to ascend the peaks.
In its origins and its first golden age, no art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does.
The young Alcuin came to the cathedral church of York during the golden age of Archbishop Ecgbert and Northumbrian King Eadberht.
The 1950s proved a golden age for Lions rugby, although only in the 1970s did style begin to match the substance of victory in New Zealand and South Africa.
The 18th century was the golden age of Bordeaux.
The Sultanate of Brunei, during its golden age from the 15th century to the 17th century, ruled a large part of northern Borneo.
The 19th century was the golden age of bush ballads.
These results came at the beginning of the golden age of general relativity, which was marked by general relativity and black holes becoming mainstream subjects of research.
The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.
The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.
The reign of Louis the Great ( 1342 – 1382 ) is considered the golden age of Croatian medieval history.
The final ( and most important ) move to Yin in 1350 BC led to the dynasty's golden age.
It was a golden age of Chinese civilization with significant developments in art, literature, particularly poetry, and technology.
This period is considered the golden age of Chinese philosophy.
This tension is best exhibited in the Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta ( Digha Nikaya 26 of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon ), the story of humanity's decline from a golden age in the past.
Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.
It is not entirely cyclical because it claims the golden age has passed and history is gradually descending towards decadence.
Several scholars have explored the so-called " golden age " of the Maritimes in the years just before Confederation.
The era has been called a golden age, but that was a myth created in the 1930s to lure tourists to a romantic era of tall ships and antiques.
Thus the era was indeed a golden age but only for a small but powerful and highly visible elite.
It was still mostly agricultural and sometimes called thegolden age of the peasantry ”.
Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.
According to scholars Carole Kismaric and Marvi Heiferman, " The golden age of detective fiction began with high-class amateur detectives sniffing out murderers lurking in rose gardens, down country lanes, and in picturesque villages.

golden and Seven
Seven months later, in the summer of 1917, as the war situation was getting worse for Romania, another transport was sent to Moscow, containing the most precious objects of the Romanian state, including the archives of the Romanian Academy, many antique valuables, such as 3, 500-year-old golden jewels found in Romania, ancient Dacian jewels, the jewels of the voivodes of Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as the jewels of the Romanian royalty, thousands of paintings, as well as precious cult objects owned by Romanian monasteries, such as 14th century icons and old Romanian manuscripts.
Seven species of hawks, eight species of owls, peregrine falcons, golden eagles, northern harriers, American kestrels, and white-tailed kite share in this bounty of prey.
Seven Stories celebrated their fifth birthday in August 2010 with an exclusive golden ticket event with popular children ’ s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

golden and great
Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".
His home is Glitnir, its name, meaning " shining ," referring to its silver ceiling and golden pillars, which radiated light that could be seen from a great distance.
These afforded great opportunity for virtuosic singing and during the golden age of opera seria the singer really became the star.
Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).
The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died ( Francesco Petrarch Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani ).
The money was spent on church ornaments, including a great golden altar front from Constantinople adorned with gems and enamels and " nearly all the church ornaments of Victor II, which had been pawned here and there throughout the city ".
Not only was Suleiman a distinguished poet and goldsmith in his own right ; he also became a great patron of culture, overseeing the golden age of the Ottoman Empire's artistic, literary and architectural development.
Many great BMX riders go on to other cycling sports like downhill, including Australian Olympian Jared Graves, former " golden child " Eric Carter, and youth BMX racer Aaron Gwin.
The university has bobcats, mountain lions, hawks, golden eagles, great blue herons, squirrels, opossums, peregrine falcons, rabbits, raccoons, owls, skunks, weasels, bats, and coyotes.
Amphion became a great singer and musician after Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre.
On the invitation of Zerubbabel, the governor, who showed them a remarkable example of liberality by contributing personally 1, 000 golden darics, besides other gifts, the people poured their gifts into the sacred treasury with great enthusiasm.
Charles wore an equally splendid crown, accompanied by a golden gown encrusted with diamonds, pearls and great jewels.
Constantine entered Constantinople on a " horse caparisoned with gilded saddle clothes and golden bridles and bearing on its head the kamelaukion, or diadem, which the sovereign alone was authorized to wear and then only on ' a great public festival of the Lord '".
This event is regarded as the beginning of a golden era in Vietnamese history, with great following dynasties.
William Noel, the curator of manuscripts and rare books at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and the director of the Archimedes Palimpsest project, called Hypereides " one of the great foundational figures of Greek democracy and the golden age of Athenian democracy, the foundational democracy of all democracy.
In this sense the sun is once glorified as a great power of the universe under the name of the golden embryo, hiranya-garbha, in Rig Veda.
The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the centre ; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovenian dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
This is our great fortune that today on the eve of golden jubilee of independence, we have been able to fulfil this dream of Gandhiji.
In 1595 he had a great trial of skill with one Daniel Johnson, for a golden pen valued at £ 20, and won it ; and a contemporary author further relates that he had also the arms of calligraphy given him, which are azure, a pen or.
The association of the fish and dove is found at Hierapolis Bambyce ( Mabbog ), the great temple at which, according to one legend, was founded by Semiramis, where her statue was shown with a golden dove on her head.
The " golden " may just have been applied by the Slavic tributaries to express the great wealth of the khanate.
Birds seen at Utah Lake include sandhill crane, double-crested cormorant, great horned owl, turkey vulture, golden eagle, cinnamon teal duck, and mallard duck.
'" Returning toward Antioch, the troops of Antiochus sacked Jerusalem and removed the sacred objects from the Jerusalem Temple, slaughtering an unknown, but large, number of Jews :" And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude, And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof ... And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly. Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were.

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