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Overall, the playwright cross-references eighteen of the twenty surviving plays of Plautus and five of the six extant plays by Terence.
He was the youngest of two surviving sons in a family of eighteen children.
Bernart is unique among secular composers of the twelfth century in the amount of music which has survived: of his forty-five poems, eighteen have music intact, an unusual circumstance for a troubador composer ( music of the trouvères has a higher survival rate, usually attributed to them surviving the Albigensian Crusade, which scattered the troubadours and destroyed many sources ).
Lady Blanche's eldest surviving grandson David John Seyfried-Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert eventually had the barony of Herbert called out in his favour in 2002 after eighteen years.

surviving and books
The surviving books of his history, the Res Gestae, cover the years 353 to 378.
Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.
Gu Kaizhi has left three surviving books on the theory of painting.
He spent a year in concentration camps, surviving the experience and writing several books.
Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.
The work is merely the surviving portion ( books 6 – 9 ) of the General elementary introduction to the Christian faith, now lost.
His principal book, the Kitab al-Muwatta, is one of the earliest surviving books on hadith and fiqh.
* The Red Book of Westmarch and a surviving copy of it called The Thain's Book, portions of which were " translated " by J. R. R. Tolkien into his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The gospel is closely related in style and content to the three surviving Epistles of John such that commentators treat the four books together, yet, according to most modern scholars, John was not the author of any of these books.
The apocryphal books present in the surviving part of the Septuagint are 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach.
The surviving " freebooters " found that the company's luggage did not contain the riches they had hoped for: " they broke open the chests containing the books and found, to their dismay, that they held manuscripts instead of gold vessels, pages of sacred texts instead of silver plates.
When asked what their plans for surviving nuclear war were, a FEMA official replied that they were experimenting with putting evacuation instructions in telephone books in New England.
In translating the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.
The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and ( later ) Hinduism dated around 1700 – 1100 BC.
The three surviving Mayan books are mainly of a ritual and also ( in the case of the Paris codex ) historical nature, and contain but few mythical scenes.
It is evident from this summary, preserved in Photius's Bibliotheca ( 9th century ), that the work was originally divided into four books and two volumes, and that surviving manuscripts of the third book consist of two books which have been merged.
The Commonitorium and the Histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that Saint Augustine exercised over Orosius. Although Paulus Orosius ’ s most important book was the Historiae Adversus Paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: Commonitorium and Liber Apologeticus.
The Patriarch Photius had the full work before him, as he mentions in his " account of books read " that it contained stories of the heroes of the Trojan War and the nostoi, missing in surviving manuscripts.
His Aetia (" Causes "), another rare longer work surviving only in tattered papyrus fragments and quotations in later authors, was a collection of elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of cities, obscure religious ceremonies, unique local traditions apparently chosen for their oddity, and other customs, throughout the Hellenic world In the first three books at least, the formula appears to ask a question of the Muse, of the form, " Why, on Paros, do worshippers of the Charites use neither flutes nor crowns?
Examples of classic Japanese armour from the mid-19th century, steel sword blades ( Katana ), Inrō, lacquerware including the Mazarin Chest dated c1640 is one of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Ando Hiroshige, graphic works include printed books, as well as a few paintings, scrolls and screens, textiles and dress including kimonos are some of the objects on display.
The Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord ( his word for " sayings " is logia ) in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus, some of which are recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, however the book has not survived and is known only through fragments quoted in later writers, with approval in Irenaeus's Against Heresies and later by Eusebius in Ecclesiastical History, the earliest surviving history of the early Church.

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The first book sketches briefly the history of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian ( 305 ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to the death of Theodosius I ; the fifth and sixth, the most useful for historians, cover the period between 395 and 410, when Priscus Attalus was deposed ; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source.
The surviving crew and quick-reaction force took cover in a hillock and a fierce firefight began.
Meant to cover the history of the known world from the conquest of Greece by the Romans, Strabo quotes it himself and other classical authors mention that it existed, although the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan ( renumbered 46 ).
A planet surrounded by cloud cover would become an arctic wasteland while a planet without cloud cover would become a waterless desert where even reptiles are incapable of surviving and thriving ( due to an excessive amount of greenhouse gasses and solar radiation that would develop ).
The decoration of the front cover includes colour, and the main motif is raised, which is unique among the few surviving Early Medieval bindings.
The front cover ; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding
Coptic sewing is also found in the earliest surviving leather bookbindings, which are from Coptic libraries in Egypt from the 7th and 8th centuries ; in particular the design of the cover of one in the Morgan Library ( MS M. 569 ) has been compared to the St Cuthbert Gospel.
The cover of the codex is decorated with gems and relief figures in gold, and can be precisely dated to 870, and is an important example of Carolingian art, as well of one of very few surviving treasure bindings of this date.
Shuster took this to heart and burned all pages of the story, the cover surviving only because Siegel rescued it from the fire.
The earliest surviving cover was sent in 1391 from La Tana ( now Azov ) to Venice.
The cover of the third edition of Dumpling and Pudding, which contains Henry Carey ( writer ) | Henry Carey's satire " Namby Pamby " ( 1725 ), one of the earliest surviving works to refer to the rhyme
As the film ends, Tumak, Nupondi, and the surviving members of both tribes emerge from cover to find themselves in a ruined, near-lunar landscape.
At the same time, there would be several minor but important operations carried out under the cover of Pedestal: Operation Berserk would be an aircraft carrier exercise to improve coordination between the various carriers in the convoy, Operation Bellows would be a reinforcement of Malta's air defences by Spitfires flown from an aircraft carrier, and Operation Ascendant would be an effort to return the two surviving merchantmen from the Harpoon convoy from Malta to Gibraltar.
Conversely, if the book itself is unimportant, or at least has little demand, the jacket is usually of little value either, but nearly all surviving pre-1920 jackets add some additional value to the book they cover.
They attacked without fighter cover, and five of the Avengers were shot down, with only Ensign Albert K. Earnest and CDR ( then Radioman 2 / c ) Harry Ferrier surviving.
It was also reported in 1997 that Mumy, Harris and the rest of the surviving cast appeared on the inside cover of TV Guide to promote the new movie, while the Sci-Fi Channel would feature a Lost in Space marathon.
When he discovers the U-Boat is hiding further up river, under the cover of the jungle, he sets about obsessively plotting his revenge to sink it by any means, including using a surviving Grumman J2F Duck ( a floatplane ) from the Mount Kyle.
The Book of Union is Babai's most systematic surviving christological treatise, divided into seven memre that cover more than 200 folios.
The name reflects the original use of the building as a place where citrus trees were often wintered in tubs under cover, surviving through harsh frosts though not expected to flower and fruit.
Conversely, surviving examples of valid postally used postage due stamps tied together by a dated cancellation or other postal markings with a postage stamp on cover are less common and are sought after by a philatelists.
The surviving fragments cover parts of the Books of Kings and Books of Samuel.
However the designs may well have been very similar ; the best surviving Insular example, the lower cover of the Lindau Gospels in the Morgan Library in New York, is also centred on a large cross, surrounded by interlace panels.

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