The system weighed more than seven hundred pounds ( 320 kg ).

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

On seven key lines in and out of the city, service is provided by camellos (" camels " or " dromedaries ", after their " humps "), trailer buses that haul as many as two hundred passengers in a passenger carrying trailer.

* Eridanos ( geology ), a large river that flowed between forty million and seven hundred thousand years ago from Lapland to the North Sea through where the Baltic Sea is now

It is probable that the structures of many of the tales date from earlier in his career, but the choice of a hundred tales and the frame-story lieta brigata of three men and seven women dates from this time.

The most complete edition, which contains seven hundred and fifty proverbs, is that published at Wittenberg in 1592.

Jonah is mentioned twice in Chapter 14 of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, the conclusion of which finds Tobit's son, Tobias, at the extreme age of one hundred and twenty seven years, rejoicing at the news of Nineveh's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus in apparent fulfillment of Jonah's prophecy against the Assyrian capital.

The islands which now form the Republic of Kiribati have been inhabited for at least seven hundred years, and possibly much longer.

The Babylonian Talmud ( Hagiga 14a ) states that there were either six hundred or seven hundred orders of the Mishnah.

The T. Eaton Company's catalogue warehouse moved to the city in the early 1920s, employing over seven hundred people.

When I speak that Word, I shall lay the foundation for that which is to take place during the next seven hundred years.

That is, 140 is ' one hundred two score ', not * seven score, and there is no numeral for 400.

Using two hundred riot vans, three Leopard MBTs, three armoured personnel carriers, a helicopter, twelve hundred policemen, and seven hundred fifty members of the armed forces, they evicted the squatters and demolished the block, while clouding the entire area in teargas and CS gas.

There is a space of approximately seven hundred years between these two renaissances.

The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university.

It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization.

This treaty held for some seven hundred years.

Some read the book as contrasting the nobility of monogamous love with the debased nature of promiscuous love, and suggest that the book is actually a veiled criticism of Solomon, who, according to, had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE.

The " Quakers " again fared poorly in 1994 – 95 under Alan Murray, though Slaven managed to hit seven league goals in 37 league games.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

A study of major denominational membership statistics over a twenty-year period revealed the appalling fact that nearly 40 per cent of those who joined the Church were lost to the Church within seven years.

In 357, there appear to have been two paramount kings ( Chnodomar and Westralp ) who probably acted as presidents of the confederation and seven other kings ( reges ).

He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad.

4: 3-11 ) who subsequently sent it back after retaining it for seven months ( 1 Sam.

He was one of the seven cardinals who, in May 1408, deserted Pope Gregory XII, and, with those following Antipope Benedict XIII from Avignon, convened the Council of Pisa, of which Cossa became the leader.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

Callimachus then tells how Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven bitches and six dogs.

On May 19, 1993, Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office, causing a controversy even though the Travel Office staff served at the pleasure of the President, who could dismiss them without cause.

The Thracians and the other auxiliaries who were left in the camp, in total seven cohorts, defended bravely, but they were not able to fend off the enemy assault.

The tree is Nebuchadnezzar himself, who for seven years will lose his mind and live like a wild beast.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.

The genus Bacillus was coined in 1835 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ( who coined the genus Bacterium seven years prior ) to contain rod-shaped bacteria, later amended by Ferdinand Cohn to spore-forming, Gram-positive / variable, rod-shaped bacteria.

Cardinal deacons derive originally from the seven deacons in the Papal Household and the seven deacons who supervised the Church's works in the districts of Rome during the early Middle Ages, when church administration was effectively the government of Rome and provided all social services.

Often he would withdraw to a cave seven miles distant, with a single companion who acted as messenger between himself and his brethren.

His parents Nicolae and Maria Brâncuși were poor peasants who earned a meager living through back-breaking labor ; from the age of seven, Constantin herded the family's flock of sheep.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto VI, the " great worm " Cerberus is found in the Third Circle of Hell, where he oversees and rends to pieces those who have succumbed to gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.

Rhalina's descendants, the Tuha-na-Cremm Croich ( who call Corum " Corum Llew Ereint ") face extinction from the Fhoi Myore: seven giants who with their allies conquered the land and plunged it into eternal winter.