It was rich in treasures, but was destroyed by the Persians in the invasion of Xerxes in 480 BCE, and a second time by the Boeotians and remained in a ruined state. It was rebuilt by Hadrian.

This is due to the rich historical record of astronomical phenomena which, in China, stretches back into the Han dynasty, in the second century BC.

These African importees have had the most dominant racial influence, and their rich and ancient culture has had an influence second only to that of Europe on the political and cultural character of the modern Dominican Republic.

Once the observations were completed, Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis.

When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almost immediately, choosing as his second wife a rich widow named Alice Middleton.

Artois experienced rapid industrial development during the second half of the 19th century, fueled by its rich coal resources.

His promise of modest reform was held to, and the second most famous bill of this ministry, while " reforming " in 21st century eyes, was in fact aimed at the reformers themselves, with their constituency among the new industrial rich.

Archaeological finds on the island are not very rich but they dot an area of 20 hectares, making it the second largest Baltic marketplace of the Viking Age after Hedeby.

In a 2007 interview, Simpsons executive producer Al Jean listed Grammer as one of his favorite guest stars ( second only to Phil Hartman ), saying " his voice is so rich.

The beginning of the commercial activity which raised Newport to its fame as a rich port was begun by a second wave of Portuguese Jews who settled there about the middle of the 18th century.

Prior to the Civil War, the county was the second wealthiest in the state ; its resources of timber and rich soil ( farmed for a diversity of crops including rye, corn, oats, tobacco, potatoes, wheat, peas, barley, and hay ) provided a stable economy, as opposed to reliance on one cash crop.

He believed that second wave of building around Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Roads threatened to create a metropolis " from which the rich would soon be going ".

* Giethoorn and Dwarsgracht are picturesque due to their local structure ( see above ); many of the old farmhouses have been transformed into " second homes " where rich Dutchmen live during their holidays.

During the second half of the 19th century, it was a main vacation spot for the rich families until the 1890s.

According to some old timers in Northport the rich chimney is still at the quarry buried under tons of limestone located on the second level.

The second period, from then until the late 1950s, includes the opera The Midsummer Marriage, the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, the Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony ; this period features rich textures and effervescent melody.

As second son, he had fewer opportunities than his older brother and seemed destined to become just one more minor knight in service to a rich landed nobleman.

" In Against Oblivion, an examination of forty-five twentieth century poets, the critic Ian Hamilton also praised this book, writing, " In Roethke's second book, The Lost Son, there are several of these greenhouse poems and they are among the best things he wrote ; convincing and exact, and rich in loamy detail.

Besides, she was a granddaughter of the fabulously rich Grand Duke of Baden and related by blood to the French Imperial family through her maternal grandmother Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Emperor Napoléon I's adopted daughter and second cousin of Napoléon III's mother .< ref >

Louise Labé, ( c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – April 25, 1566, Parcieux ), also identified as La Belle Cordière, ( The Beautiful Ropemaker ), was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.

Her artistic growth, and the strengthening of its public image follows of equal footstep, also in her solo career: if the first album " Simply Deep " made to shine through a sensuality countersigned by delicate sonority and tapes rich in winking looks, beginning from the second album " Ms. Kelly " ( and more with " Here I Am "), her artist identity consolidates her, and sex appeal becomes explicit and sometimes exhibited ( as for instance in the music videos of Ghetto, Comeback, Motivation and Lay It On Me ).

He lived much of his life overseas, in exotic places such as Tangier – a lifestyle made possible by his second marriage, to a rich Australian ( Joan Chirnside ).

This zone is also very important for the maintenance of rich and stable soil, of which the Lacandón take advantage in their milpa systems, the second zone.

Macready remembered him as justly famous for " studious correctness ", but described him as second to William Dowton and Joseph Munden in " the rich quality of humor.

* Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon ( 1983 ), the second novel in the series, is a direct sequel to Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu concerned with The Oseon, a solar system of luxury hotels catering to the underemployed filthy rich — every gambler's dream come true.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

In his youth Diderot was originally a follower of Voltaire and his deist Anglomanie, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards materialism and atheism, a move which was finally realised 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his La Promenade du sceptique ( 1747 ).

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

* 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

For a second time in his youth, Richard was forced to seek refuge in the Low Countries, which were then part of the realm of the Duchy of Burgundy.

In her youth, she was also a promising handball player in her country, playing for a club in the second league of the Norwegian league system.

In 1958, Lindgren became the second recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, an international award for youth literature.

The second possible factor is that vulnerable youth may feel like, " If they couldn't cut it, neither can I ".

Anne Boleyn, the second queen consort of King Henry VIII of England, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn had inherited it in 1505.

During Æthelbald's youth, Penda's dynasty ruled Mercia ; Ceolred, a grandson of Penda and therefore a second cousin of Æthelbald, was king of Mercia from 709 to 716.

Overall, these programmes serve as second homes with care, support, and encouragement for youth.

Seeing that it had merit, they decided to revamp and recreate the series ( their second live-action youth series in a five-year period ).

After a Preliminary Final appearance in Frawley's second season, Richmond overestimated the strength of the list and settled for trading for established players rather than drafting youth.

; Ralph Moore: A timid, sensitive and discerning youth, the second son of Mrs. Moore.

Held the second Sunday each June, the day kicks off at 9 am with the Strawberry Stampede – youth fun / competitive fitness footraces followed by a parade at 11: 15 am.

Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the troublesome love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisi's youth, as well as featuring Lello Arena.

Other causes of the strong emigration have been the abandonment of traditional agricultural practices, like sheep and goat rearing, by the local youth, the closure of mines, like the large Sierra Menera mine near Ojos Negros, as well as the lifestyle changes that swept over rural Spain during the second half of the 20th century.

The town is also home to the Mid Sussex Brass Band which has a second section contesting main band and a thriving youth band.

:" In a special compartment of the shrine now there showed-along with remains of ancient old rotten or moulded bandages, most likely byssus, besides pieces of aromatic resins and similar substances-numerous bones of three persons, which under the guidance of several present experts could be assembled into nearly complete bodies: the one in his early youth, the second in his early manhood, the third was rather aged.

There is a second football club, Farnham United FC which has several youth teams as well one adult team, Farnham United.

In his youth, Chaitanya Mahäprabhu was primarily known as an erudite scholar, whose learning and skills in argumentation in his locality were second to none.

Although in his youth, Shimaki published a short-lived literary magazine called Kunugi no Mi (" Acorn ", 1918 ), containing tanka poems and essays which he wrote under the pen-name of Asakura Tengai, his literary career did not begin in earnest until after he was released from prison the second time.

The second part of this definition is that youth culture is specific to adolescents, and differs at least partially from the culture of older generations.

b Władysław had no children with his second wife, and his first wife bore him only two children ( Maria Anna Izabela and Zygmunt Kazimierz ), both of them died in their youth.