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The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.
Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.
The named kings of Uruk may have been contemporaries of the last kings of Akkad, but in any event could not have been very prominent.
Polybius tells that 28 years after the expulsion of the last Persian king Xerxes crossed over to Greece, and that event is fixed to 478 BC by two solar eclipses.
In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.
The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( K-Pg event ) at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs ( as well as other terrestrial and marine flora and fauna ) at the end of the Mesozoic.
Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.
The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.
He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive, a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.
Each successive recall of an event is merely a recall of the last reconstruction.
The Sixth Doctor manages to defeat his plans, and Davros is last heard when his ship explodes, an event obliquely mentioned in Revelation.
On most matters of legislation, the People ’ s Assembly retains the last word in the event of a disagreement between the two houses.
A team nominated by the local event organiser also gets automatic qualification, and then the last two spots are determined by qualification tournaments.
The last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) is King Canute VI of Denmark subduing Pomerania under Duke Bogislaw I, in 1186.
This would also explain the 22 years between the last event described in the last book ( Book 16 ) and the 1208 event described in the preface.
In the hot-hand fallacy, people tend to predict the same outcome of the last event ( positive recency )-that a high scorer will continue to score.
In gambler's fallacy, however, people predict the opposite outcome of the last event ( negative recency )-that, for example, since the roulette wheel has landed on black the last six times, it is due to land on red the next.
The Jewish Agency put together plans for a last stand in the event of Rommel invading Palestine ( the Nazis planned to exterminate Palestine's Jews ).
After four games she had two points, which was a fair result considering she was rated third from last in the very strong event.

last and mentioned
In the last oracle is mentioned that the " water which could speak ", has been lost for ever.
The last titles mentioned were also world wide hits, selling over 2. 4 million copies.
Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.
BCS derived several important theoretical predictions that are independent of the details of the interaction, since the quantitative predictions mentioned below hold for any sufficiently weak attraction between the electrons and this last condition is fulfilled for many low temperature superconductors-the so-called weak-coupling case.
Here, the difference between the two notions of program mentioned in the last paragraph becomes clear ; one is easily recognized by some grammar, while the other requires arbitrary computation to recognize.
* Niemierz ( last mentioned alive in 1386 ).
* Field 4: Personenkennziffer ( service number: birth date in DDMMYY format, dash, capitalized first letter of last name, dash, and five-digit number based on soldier's home military administrative district, number of persons with the mentioned last name and same birthday, and an error-checking number but without dashes ), ex.
In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.
While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
The precise time at which it was written is not mentioned in the epistle, but it was obviously written when the collection for Jerusalem had been assembled and Paul was about to " go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints ", that is, at the close of his second visit to Greece, during the winter preceding his last visit to that city.
But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.
Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.
Of these last mentioned sports only handball attracts a fair amount of attendance.
Although spin and the Pauli principle can only be derived from relativistic generalizations of quantum mechanics the properties mentioned in the last two paragraphs belong to the basic postulates already in the non-relativistic limit.
As mentioned above, because of the Wahhabist hostility to reverence being paid to historic and religious buildings, Mecca has lost most of its heritage in recent years and few buildings from the last 1500 years have survived Saudi rule.
In Smith's 1832 history, he said he was visited by " an angel of the Lord ", who mentioned the Book of Mormon prophet " Moroni " as the last engraver of the golden plates ; however, Smith's account did not say whether or not the angel was referring to himself as Moroni.
* In the book Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky the Noosphere is mentioned as being destroyed during the last war, and with it also destroying paradise and hell.
The last known Indo-Greek ruler was Theodamas, from the Bajaur area of Gandhara, mentioned on a 1st century CE signet ring, bearing the Kharoṣṭhī inscription " Su Theodamasa " (" Su " was the Greek transliteration of the Kushan royal title " Shau " (" Shah " or " King ")).
The last prophets mentioned in the Hebrew Bible are Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, all of whom lived at the end of the 70-year Babylonian exile.
Their mothers are unknown, although there is the slight possibility that a Christian of Carrick, mentioned by Barbour as assisting Bruce's campaign, was the mother of the last two.
* The House by the Churchyard ( 1863 ), the last of Le Fanu's novels to be set in the past and, as mentioned above, the last with an Irish setting.

last and Histories
The overall scope of the historiographical tradition in China is termed the Twenty-Four Histories, created for each successive Chinese dynasty up until the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ); China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), is not included.
* A reworking of the last part of his Histories, On Pyrrhus, treating the life of this king of Epirus until 264 BC ;
The Picture Books ' 120 titles resulted in 260 variants altogether, the last number 116 Paxton Chadwick's Life Histories, was issued hors série in 1996 by the Penguin Collector's Society.
According to Herodotus ' Histories, Harpagus was a member of the Median royal house in service to King Astyages, the last king of Media.
Her last major work, The Power of Love in Seven Novels ( London: J. Barber / J. Morphew, 1720 ) is a revised version of selected novellas first published in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure well furnished with pleasaunt Histories and excellent Novelles ( 1566 ).

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