For Constantine's last years as king there is only the meagre record of the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba.

Selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of Constantine's pontificate was his 710 / 711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council.

Constantine's last slender hope faded when his last troops guarding the Rhine abandoned him to support Jovinus and he was forced to surrender.

Constantine's power reached its peak in 409 when he controlled Gaul and beyond, he was joint consul with Honorius and his magister militum Gerontius defeated the last Roman force to try to hold the borders of Hispania.

The third Test match, after which the tour was abandoned owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War, was Constantine's last.

This last point is important because if high school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational program have obtained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears.

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

While the inning is still being played, this last scenario can cause a temporary situation where a run has already scored, but its earned / unearned status is not yet certain.

Enemies turn " angry " – becoming pink-colored and moving faster – if they are the last enemy remaining, escape from a bubble after being left too long, or a certain amount of time has been spent on the current level.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

However, over the last hundred years or so, authorities have recognized that the dagger, in its contemporary or mature form, has come to incorporate certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply-tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and ( usually ) two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.

However, many last names were altered slightly due to the disparity between English and other languages in the pronunciation of certain letters of the alphabet.

Geocaching software can assign special icons or search ( filter ) for caches based on certain criteria ( e. g. distance from an assigned point, difficulty, date last found ).

Even in the last century certain stones such as aquamarine, peridot and cat's eye have been popular and hence been regarded as precious.

In the last years of the reign of Ferdinand III of Castile, Castilian began to be used for certain types of documents, and it was during the reign of Alfonso X that it became the official language.

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.

The anti-hero is someone's qualities are the last expected from a person in certain situations.

These groups include the ' Brethren ' ( often both ' Open ' and ' Exclusive '), the Churches of Christ, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists, and certain Reformed churches, although during the last century or so, several of these, such as the Free Church of Scotland have abandoned this stance.

At last, in one noisy debate, the individual impulse of a certain Ciancabilla directed him to shoot Malatesta, who was badly wounded but obstinately refused to name his assailant.

According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.

Pursuant to this provision and in the spirit of the moral relationship of the United States to Liberia, that Republic last year asked this Government to lend assistance in the solution of certain of their national problems, and hence the Commission was sent " across the ocean on two cruisers. http :// www. unz. org / Pub / LiteraryDigest-1909dec25-01167

The importance of the Arabs as traders in the Indian Ocean by the 12th century AD may partly explain why the last Buddhist king of Maldives converted to Islam in the year 1153 ( or 1193, for certain copper plate grants give a later date ).

This last step is best explained first in a certain limit.

In the last few years drug tourism and certain strains of cannabis with higher concentrations of THC have challenged the former policy in the Netherlands and led to a more restrictive approach ; for example, a ban on selling cannabis to tourists in coffee shops suggested to start late 2011.

Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.

In playing a particular hand of poker, a freeroll is a situation that arises ( usually when only two players remain ) before the last card has been dealt, in which one player is guaranteed to at least split the pot with his opponent no matter what the final cards are, but where there is some chance he can win the whole pot if certain final cards are dealt.

Although little is known about this period in Rome, there is one thing that is for certain: the fact that Boniface ’ s last reign lasted eleven months without any imperial intervention is evidence of not only the weakness of the government of this time, but also is proof that despite his actions and opposition, he must have had much support.

Algae constitute a paraphyletic and polyphyletic group, as they do not include all the descendants of the last universal ancestor nor do they all descend from a common algal ancestor, although their plastids seem to have a single origin.

The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.

The Carinatae are, in phylogenetic taxonomy, the last common ancestor of the Neornithes ( modern birds ) and Ichthyornis ( an extinct seabird of the Cretaceous ), and all its descendants.

The first covenant is between God and all living creatures, and is marked by the sign of the rainbow ; the second is with the descendants of Abraham ( Ishmaelites and others as well as Israelites ), and its sign is circumcision ; and the last, which doesn't appear until the book of Exodus, is with Israel alone, and its sign is Sabbath.

The remaining hounds in the hands of a few families who were mainly descendants of the old Irish chieftains, were now symbols of status rather than hunters, they were said to be the last of their race.

An additional claimant emerged, William VI, Prince of Orange who now ruled the Netherlands, and whose mother and wife were descendants of the Prussian royal family and thus also descendants of both daughters of the last Luxembourg heiress.

In this clade, Fabales were the first lineage to branch off ; thus, the ability to fix nitrogen may be plesiomorphic and subsequently lost in most descendants of the original nitrogen-fixing plant ; however, it may be that the basic genetic and physiological requirements were present in an incipient state in the last common ancestors of all these plants, but only evolved to full function in some of them:

In that year the Farnese pope, Paul III, detached Parma and Piacenza from the Papal States and gave them as a duchy for his illegitimate son, Pier Luigi Farnese, whose descendants ruled in Parma until 1731, when Antonio Farnese ( 1679 – 1731 ), last male of the Farnese line, died.

In phylogenetics ( a subfield of biology ) and in linguistics, a group is said to be paraphyletic if it consists of all the descendants of the last common ancestor of the group's members minus a small number of monophyletic groups of descendants, typically just one or two such groups.

For example, the group of reptiles, as traditionally defined, is paraphyletic: it contains the last common ancestor of the reptiles — including the extant reptiles as well as the extinct mammal-like reptiles — along with all descendants of that ancestor except for mammals and birds.

150 personae non gratae of Turkey ( descendants of the Ottoman dynasty ) slowly acquired citizenship — the last one was in 1974.

European bison were hunted to extinction in the wild, with the last wild animals being shot in the Białowieża Forest in Eastern Poland in 1919 and in the Western Caucasus in 1927, but have since been reintroduced from captivity into several countries in Europe, all descendants of the Białowieża or lowland European bison.

Together, the velvet worms, arthropods and water bears form a monophyletic taxon, the Panarthropoda, i. e., the three groups collectively cover all descendants of their last common ancestor.

A prince with the rank of fils de France ( Son of France ) are surnamed " de France "; all his descendants, however, had his main title ( whether an appanage or a courtesy title ) as their family or last name.

When the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg found itself without a male heir at the beginning of the 20th century, the morganatic Counts of Merenberg proposed themselves as heirs, being the last legitimate descendants in the male line of the House of Nassau.

The last group to arrive in Namibia before the Europeans were the Basters – descendants of Boer men and African women ( mostly Nama ).

The last 2 descendants of Prune, a brother-sister pair, were sent to Holland in the 1970s, but the male was uninterested in mating and the female conceived only once, but lost the litter.

The descendants of the family live in America with a different last name.

The descendants of Sir Augustus Webster, 7th and last baronet ( died 1923 ), finally sold Battle Abbey to the British Government in 1976 and it is now in the care of English Heritage.

The current holder of the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen is Maximilian, Margrave of Baden ( b. 1933 ), a grandson of the last chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Max von Baden, who seems to have revived the Zähringen title after it apparently had not been in official usage since the death of Berthold V. Another branch were the Dukes of Teck, descendants of Duke Conrad's son Adalbert, whose line became extinct in 1439.