Throughout the work of the later ninth century a calm, severe serenity displays itself.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

Several of its later bishops are known: Marinus in 325 ; Niconius in 344 ; Sylvanus at the beginning of the 5th century ; Pionius in 451 ; Leo in 787 ; Peter, friend of the Patriarch Ignatius, and adversary to Michael, in the ninth century.

" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.

* He scored the ninth fastest Test century, doing so off 77 balls against Pakistan on 21 November 2006.

In the ninth century Alcuin uses the word to designate an office abridged or simplified for the use of the laity.

Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the language after its divergence from Proto-Mon – Khmer until the ninth century, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

The term was applied in this sense as early as the ninth century to the priests of the tituli ( parishes ) of the diocese of Rome.

Very few records of ninth century events in northern Britain survive.

By the ninth century a sixth language, Old Norse, had arrived with the Vikings.

During the ninth century, Essex was part of a sub-kingdom that included Sussex, Surrey and Kent.

In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Æthelberht is referred to as a bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ".

Overlordship, for either reason, was a central feature of Anglo-Saxon politics ; it is known to have begun before Æthelberht's time, although the details are unknown, and kings were being described as overlords in this sense, as late as the ninth century.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

Although verse 7 does not appear in any version of the Greek text prior to the ninth century, it appears in most of the Latin manscripts, especially in the Vetus Itala ( Old Latin predating Jerome ).

As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.

Toward the end of the ninth century, several emperors tried, but failed, to check the Fujiwara.

The Fujiwara controlled the throne until the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō ( 1068 – 73 ), the first emperor not born of a Fujiwara mother since the ninth century.

In 945, Máel Coluim I annexed Strathclyde as part of a deal with King Edmund of England, where the kings of Alba had probably exercised some authority since the later ninth century, an event offset somewhat by loss of control in Moray.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit ; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.

Rome was founded on the ninth day of the month Pharmuthi, which was 21 April, as universally agreed.

Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he composed his ninth symphony.

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

It was only with the recovery of Phoenician trade in the ninth and tenth centuries BC that saw a return to prosperity, and the appearance of real coinage, possibly first in Anatolia with Croesus of Lydia and subsequently with the Greeks and Persians.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

This was the explanation given in the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, dated 1877.

This ruled out classification as an asteroid, and they decided this was the ninth planet that Lowell had predicted.

Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 was the ninth periodic comet ( a comet whose orbital period is 200 years or less ) discovered by the Shoemakers and Levy, hence its name.

The true motion of the sun was now used to calculate the jiéqì, which caused the intercalary month to often occur after the second through the ninth months, but rarely after the tenth through first months.

There is no mention of him having any offspring, only that his wife died rather young, in the ninth year of exile, when Ezekiel was 34 years of age.

To acquire the belt of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons was Heracles's ninth task.

* Keiō 4: On the eighth day of the ninth month ( October 23, 1868 ), the nengō was formally changed from Keiō to Meiji and a general amnesty was granted.

The first time was the work of the ninth Baron Stanley of Alderley for the Hakluyt Society in 1881.

The theory of the rasas develops significantly with the Kashmiri aesthetician Ãndandavardhana's classic on poetics, the Dhvanyāloka which introduces the ninth rasa, shānta-rasa as a specifically religious feeling of peace ( śānta ) which arises from its bhāva, weariness of the pleasures of the world.

By November 2007 Deicide began work on its ninth studio album at Florida's Morrisound Studios.

* Tanchuma or Yelammedenu ( ninth century ) on the whole Pentateuch ; its homilies often consist of a Halachic introduction, followed by several poems, exposition of the opening verses, and the Messianic conclusion.

The Quran addresses the subject of non-Muslims, and particularly polytheists, in mosques in two verses in its ninth chapter, Sura At-Tawba.

It completed its ninth economic development plan in 2002 ; its currency has been made convertible, and 17 state enterprises have been privatized.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

* A double palimpsest, in which a text of St John Chrysostom, in Syriac, of the ninth or 10th century, covers a Latin grammatical treatise in a cursive hand of the 6th century, which in its turn covers the Latin annals of the historian Granius Licinianus, of the 5th century, British Museum.

According to the reformed Roman Rite Roman Catholic calendar, this Sunday is now known by its number within Ordinary Time — fourth through ninth, depending upon the date of Easter — or the fourth through the ninth Sunday after Epiphany in the contemporary Anglican calendars, and that of various Protestant polities.

The country ended 2008 with its ninth straight year of growth, averaging 7 % annually between 2000 and 2008.

R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a " Arrowhead ", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the ' R ' series of fighter craft ( but it is the first of the series to actually be used in combat ; the previous models were all prototypes ).

Prokofiev had time to write his postwar Sixth Symphony and a ninth piano sonata ( for Sviatoslav Richter ) before the Party, as part of the so-called " Zhdanov Decree ", suddenly changed its opinion about his music.

The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

Additionally, its overall length of makes it the ninth longest river.

Some of the current popular sitcoms in the UK include Outnumbered ; Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which ended its ninth series in 2011 ; and The IT Crowd ( 2006-), the fourth series of which was transmitted in 2010.

By the ninth century printing on paper had taken off, and the first extant complete printed book containing its date is the Diamond Sutra ( British Library ) of 868.

Also belonging to the more archaic stratum of motets is Libera me Domine ( a5 ), a cantus firmus setting of the ninth responsory at Matins for the Office for the Dead, which takes its point of departure from the setting by Robert Parsons, while Miserere mihi ( a6 ), a setting of a Compline antiphon often used by Tudor composers for didactic cantus firmus exercises, incorporates a four-in-two canon.

Most recently, the two books were rebound for its ninth centenary in 1986, when Great Domesday was divided into two volumes and Little Domesday was divided into three volumes.

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.