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The six examples of Maya books discovered in excavations date to the Early Classic ( Uaxactún and Altun Ha ), Late Classic ( Nebaj, Copán ), and Early Postclassic ( Guaytán ) periods and, unfortunately, all have been changed by the pressure and humidity during their many years in the ground, eliminating the organic backing and reducing all into unopenable masses or collections of very small flakes and bits of the original lime sizing and multicolor painting.
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Doors using four wings are most common, but there are also examples with two, three, or six wings.
There are also numerous standing stones dating from prehistoric times, including six stone circles on Machrie Moor, Arran and other examples on Great Cumbrae and Bute.
Contemporary examples of libertarian socialist organizational and decision-making models in practice include a number of anti-capitalist and global justice movements including Zapatista Councils of Good Government and the Global Indymedia network ( which covers 45 countries on six continents ).
Whereas a detailed list of such significant contributions would certainly be desirable, below just a few innovations are listed as examples of breakthroughs that have played a critical role in the advancement of integrated circuit technology by more than six orders of magnitude in less than five decades:
Prime examples include Ol ' Dirty Bastard ( who was known under at least six aliases ), Diddy ( formerly known as P. Diddy and Puff Daddy ), Ludacris, Flo Rida ( his name is a tribute to his home state, Florida ), LL Cool J, and Chingy.
One of the most extreme examples of this is Hokusai, who in the period 1798 to 1806 alone used no fewer than six.
In one of the more flagrant examples of violence, the White League in August 1874 forced six Republicans from office in Coushatta, then assassinated them before they could leave the state.
The district also includes six homes, built during the 1840s to 1860s period, that provide outstanding examples of architecture, particularly Gothic Revival and Jacobethan Revival, from this era.
Company-sized units usually consist of four to six platoons ( each led by a lieutenant ), although there are examples of combat service and combat service support companies that have seven or more platoons.
It gives some mythical examples like that of Nestor who lived three generations or Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes, who lived six generations.
A May 2006 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited 14 examples of Friedman's declaring the next " few months " or " six months " as a decisive or critical period, dating from in November 2003, describing it as " a long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer ".
While firm orders for this yet-to-be-produced hauler do not exist, Argentina has asked for six examples and several South American nations have also expressed interest.
" Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated it, Reich was sentenced to two years in prison, and in August that year six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court, one of the most notable examples of censorship in the history of the United States.
However, he concluded that the progressive decline of the English language is reversible and offered six rules to help avoid most of the errors in his previous examples of poor writing:
Although the last Cortina rolled off the production line in 1982, thousands of them remained in stock ( with more than 11, 000 being sold in 1983-something that badly compromised early Sierra sales ), and the final six examples didn't find homes until 1987.
This algorithm was used to calculate the five fives and six sixes examples shown below.
These include the examples in Addison Hibbard's Aesop in Negro Dialect ( USA, 1926 ) and the twenty six in Robert Stephen's Fables of Aesop in Scots Verse ( Peterhead, Scotland, 1987 ).
It was also widely used by the US Army in 1917-1918 and by six other nations: Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Germany ( who used captured examples ) during and after World War I.
Many surviving morning stars are of a longer two-handed form typically six feet in length, with some longer examples.
The majority of SPGs have a solution from about six to about thirty moves, although examples with unique solutions more than fifty moves long have been devised.
Michigan State University, Ohio University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Copenhagen, and London are six diverse and relevant examples of notable residential campuses that each display different relevances to contemporary dormitories in higher education.
Large numbers of Mallet designs for narrow gauge railways were built, but in 1889 the first six standard gauge examples were built by J A Maffei for the Swiss Central railways, and an 87 tonne 0-6-6-0T banker ( US: pusher ) for the Gotthard Bahn, the last being the most powerful and heaviest locomotive in the world at the time.
* Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary follows each brief entry with a footnote ( often five or six times the length of the main text ) in which saints, historical figures, and other topics are used as examples for philosophical digression.
The six examples built by Constantine outside the walls of Rome are: Old Saint Peter's Basilica, the older basilica dedicated to Saint Agnes of which Santa Costanza is now the only remaining element, San Sebastiano fuori le mura, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano, and one in the modern park of Villa Gordiani.
The two scenes represent examples of similar styles to the first six scenes, especially the face of Christ.
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Many Maya Long Count inscriptions contain a supplementary series, which provides information on the lunar phase, number of the current lunation in a series of six and which of the nine Lords of the Night rules.
Dexter Gordon had a total of six children, from the oldest to the youngest: Robin Gordon ( Los Angeles, CA ), James Canales Gordon ( Oakland, CA ), Deidre ( Dee Dee ) Gordon ( Los Angeles, CA ), Mikael Gordon-Solfors ( Stockholm, Sweden ), Morten Gordon ( Copenhagen, Denmark ) and Benjamin Dexter Gordon ( Copenhagen, Denmark ), and five grandchildren, Raina Moore ( Brooklyn, NY ), Jared Johnson ( Los Angeles, CA ), and Matthew Johnson ( Los Angeles, CA ) Maya Canales ( Oakland, CA ), Jared Canales ( Oakland, CA )
In 2008, it was widely reported Abrams purchased the rights to the Times article for six figures, and enlisted comedy writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky to write the adaptation.
It sits atop an escarpment in the Laguna del Tigre National Park ( part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve ), six kilometers north of the San Pedro River.
Auriemma is also known for cultivating individual players, and the Ten multiple-All-America players — Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Rizzotti, Kara Wolters, Nykesha Sales, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles and Maya Moore — whom Auriemma has coached have combined to win six Naismith College Player of the Year awards, six Wade Trophies, and seven NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards.
The Maya population is today estimated at six million, which is about the same as at the end of the 15th century, according to some estimates.
* Dan Donegan Signature Model / Maya Series ( 2003 ): A six string electric guitar series for Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan and named after his daughter Maya.
He was confronted by six warriors ( Mike, Leo, Maya, Kendrix, Damon and Kai ) who battled his army of Stingwingers to protect the people.
At leat six independent Native American groups used microblade technology, including the Poverty Point / Jaketown, Hopewell culture, Tikal Maya, and Northwest Coast peoples.
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The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in about the early 1st century AD:
Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.
Among the sixty-nine items in these three books, twenty-four deal with physics, seventeen with psychology, eleven with logic and metaphysics, and six with questions of fate and providence.
Of the original thirteen books of which Arithmetica consisted only six have survived, though there are some who believe that four Arab books discovered in 1968 are also by Diophantus.
The remains of six books of Saturae show a considerable variety of metres.
Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " ( 1946 ) Orwell wrote: " If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.
He has published more than 250 articles and six books, including two on altruism, and one on scientific excellence, and co-authored an introductory psychology textbook.
The books and tracts of Wycliffe's last six years include continual attacks upon the papacy and the entire hierarchy of his times.
They were charged with five counts of theft and malicious damage, admitted damaging more than 70 books, and were jailed for six months ( released September 1962 ) and fined £ 262.
His work, in six books, makes use of earlier writings that are now lost.
He went on to write six books and has continued to write poetry all his life.
Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s and has written six books on the topic of software development ( see Publications ).
Rumi completed six books of mystical poetry and tales called Masnavi before he died on December 17, 1273.
* In March 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced that it would sue six major publishers for price fixing in the sale of electronic books.
The six stanza version quoted is the original, as written by Newton, but it has also appeared in longer forms where others have added verses or where verses from other hymns from the Olney books have been moved across.
This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate no later than 795 / 96, maybe at Montecassino.
She did so, but complained that this Pagan writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364 ; consequently Paul interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six books, thus bringing the history down to 553.
However Peuerbach fell ill in 1461 and died only having completed the first six books of his abridgement of the Almagest.
Clark indicated that the books will cover events in the six years between " Terra Prime " and " These Are the Voyages ...".
After finishing school he was sent to stay for six months with his aunt Jenny in Kelso, attending the local grammar school where he met James and John Ballantyne who later became his business partners and printed his books.
The primary hadiths Al-Kutub Al-Sittah ( the six books ), in conjunction with the Quran, form the basis of all jurisprudence methodologies within Sunni Islam.
After the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814 Jefferson offered to sell his collection of more than six thousand books to Congress for about four dollars a book.
Tolkien regarded it as a single work and divided it into a prologue, six books, and five appendices.
It is still most commonly sold as three volumes, but has also been published in one-volume and seven-volume editions ( six books and the appendices ).
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