In prison, according to some reports, Adair sold drugs such as cannabis, ecstasy tablets and amphetamines to other loyalist prisoners, earning him an income of £ 5, 000 a week.

The tablets symbolize the fact that the Archimandrite will guide the brethren according to the commandments of God.

The location where tablets were discovered where they had fallen allowed the excavators to reconstruct their original position on the shelves: it soon appeared that they were originally shelved according to subject.

An elaborate frame story presented in the prologue to the Latin text details how the manuscript of this work, written in Phoenician characters on tablets of limewood or tree bark, survived: it was said to have been enclosed in a leaden box and buried with its author, according to his wishes.

He claimed that according to the creation myth he read in the Indian tablets, Mu had been lifted above sea level by the expansion of underground volcanic gases.

Finally, five tablets were randomly selected, and only according to that was proclaimed the winner.

British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the Second World War and the RAF got through so many that " Methedrine won the Battle of Britain " according to one report.

In the program, while talking about the very low level of public mood ( according to Kuncze, completely unjustified ), recommended handing out cyanide tablets to the people who are feeling misareble.

Usually these tablets were used for everyday purposes ( accounting, notes ) and for teaching writing to children, according to the methods discussed by Quintilian in his Institutio Oratoria X Chapter 3.

The episode is based on the Eighth Commandment (" thou shall not steal "), which is one of the Ten Commandments, a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to Judaism and Christianity tradition, were authored by God and given to Moses in the form of two stone tablets.

In January 2010, the British Museum announced that two cuneiform tablets in its collection had been found to be inscribed with the same text as that on the Cyrus Cylinder, which, according to the Museum, " show that the text of the Cylinder was probably a proclamation that was widely distributed across the Persian Empire.

Shortly before the Báb's execution, a follower of the Báb, Abd al-Karim, brought to the Báb's attention the necessity to appoint a successor ; thus the Báb wrote a certain number of tablets which he gave to Abd al-Karim to deliver to Subh-i-Azal and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

This area housed the Ark of the Covenant ( aron habrit ), inside which were the two stone tablets brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses on which were written the Ten Commandments, a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded and bore ripe almonds.

Of his rustic apartment in an aboriginal village, Mackay wrote: " To that place the cast-off machinery of idolatry was brought, and more than once I dried my clothes before fires made of idolatrous paper, idols, and ancestral tablets.

Let's Go has also brought its content to tablets and smartphones as well: its 2011 guidebooks are also available for download as e-books, and the company has released dozens of free, destination-specific mobile apps, with more in the works.

Shortly before the Báb's execution, a follower of the Báb, Abd al-Karim, brought to the Báb's attention the necessity to appoint a successor ; thus the Báb wrote a certain number of tablets which he gave to Abd al-Karim to deliver to Subh-i-Azal and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

She came to the United States with Contergan tablets she brought from Germany, and a prescription from her physician.

Shortly before the Báb's execution, a follower of the Báb, Abd al-Karim, brought to the Báb's attention the necessity to appoint a leader ; thus the Báb wrote a certain number of tablets which he gave to Abd al-Karim to deliver to Subh-i-Azal and Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Enlil ( nlin ), ( EN = Lord + LÍL = Storm, " Lord ( of the ) Storm ") was the name of a chief deity listed and written about in Sumerian religion, and later in Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets.

Landis's courtroom, room 627 in the Chicago Federal Building, was ornate and featured two murals ; one of King John conceding Magna Carta, the other of Moses about to smash the tablets of the Ten Commandments.

In terrible anger, Moses broke the commandment tablets and ordered his own tribe ( the Levites ) to go through the camp and kill everyone, including family and friends, upon which the Levites killed about 3, 000 people, some of whom were children.

These arguments were recorded in tablets several hundreds of years before any major war — the first recording of a war occurred around 3200 BC but was not common until about 2500 BC.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

Concerned about her husband's dependence on the drug, Partridge's wife threw his tablets away — without seeking medical advice — just before the Paris concert.

* Sumerian writing, done on clay tablets, shows about 2, 000 pictographic signs

With the exception of Babylonian dated tablets and some Egyptian inscriptions, we possess no contemporary evidence about the reign of Cambyses but the short account of Darius I in the Behistun Inscription.

) Linear B tablets have been found in abundance at Thebes, which might lead one to speculate that the legend of Cadmus as bringer of the alphabet could reflect earlier traditions about the origins of Linear B writing in Greece ( as Frederick Ahl speculated in 1967 ).

Sizes of tablets to be swallowed range from a few millimeters to about a centimeter.

What we know about Mesopotamian religion comes from archaeological evidence uncovered in the region, particularly literary sources, which are usually written in cuneiform on clay tablets and which describe both mythology and cultic practices.

Given that thousands of cuneiform tablets have been recovered at the site, relatively little is known about the history of Sippar.

In his many poems about the Saturnalia, Martial names both expensive and quite cheap gifts, including writing tablets, dice, knucklebones, moneyboxes, combs, toothpicks, a hat, a hunting knife, an axe, various lamps, balls, perfumes, pipes, a pig, a sausage, a parrot, tables, cups, spoons, items of clothing, statues, masks, books, and pets.

Plans were drawn up to install busts of the commanders and politicians involved in the Polish campaign with tablets inscribed with the Führer's speeches and a full-length statue of Adolf Hitler, but these never came about.

" Jim Calvin shared a marijuana joint with him, and he was also given about four Tylenol PM tablets.

The site is most famous for the Ebla tablets, an archive of about 20, 000 cuneiform tablets found there, dated from around 2250 BC, written in Sumerian script to record the Eblaite language — a previously unknown language that is now the earliest attested Semitic language after the closely related Akkadian.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

The tablets reveal that the city's inhabitants owned about 200, 000 head of mixed cattle ( sheep, goats, and cows ).

The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, discovered in 1961 by archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa at a Neolithic site in the village of Tărtăria ( about from Alba Iulia ), in Romania.

The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of text.

The tablets, from Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Empire, date to about 500 B. C.

When sold as " Ecstasy ", tablets containing 2C-B often contain about 5mg of the drug, an amount which produces stimulatory effects that mimick the effects of MDMA ; in contast, tablets marketed as 2C-B have larger quantities of the drug ( 10-20mg ) which cause hallucinogenic effects.

In its most complete surviving version, the Atrahasis epic is written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon.