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Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.
According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.
Finds of wooden tablets show that at least some were literate.
The oldest known dictionaries were Akkadian Empire cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian – Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla ( modern Syria ) and dated roughly 2300 BCE .< ref name = " imlqdg ">
So that no one would be unaware of them, they were posted on wooden tablets (-axones ), where they were preserved for almost two centuries, on steles of the shape of three-sided pyramids (-kyrbeis ).
The tablets were called axones, perhaps because they could be pivoted along the pyramid's axis, to read any side.
The tablets were found in 1964 by Massimo Pallottino during an excavation at the ancient Etruscan port of Pyrgi, now Santa Severa.
God commands Moses to make two new tablets on which He will personally write the words that were on the first tablets.
Some names in the tablets were neither Hattic nor Assyrian, but clearly Indo-European.
Clay tablets unearthed at Harappa, which were carbon dated 3300-3200 BCE., contain trident shaped and plant like markings, and they are suggested as a possible earliest writings any where in the world, as opined by Dr. Richard Meadow of Harvard University and Director, Harappa Archeological Research Project.
These laws were inscribed on stone tablets ( stelae ) standing over eight feet tall ( 2. 4 meters ), of unknown provenance, found in Persia in 1901.
Around the same time, an extended-release hydrocodone-only product was apparently close to final approval for marketing in the United States, and single-ingredient tablets of oxycodone and codeine were being marketed.
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.
God later commanded Moses to inscribe two other tablets, to replace the ones Moses smashed, so Moses went to the mountain again, for another period of 40 days and nights, and when he returned, the commandments were finally given.
Some Linear B tablets had been discovered on the Greek mainland, and there was reason to believe that some of the chains of symbols he had encountered on the Cretan tablets were names.
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.
A large number of cuneiform tablets were found in the palace.
In 450 BC, the decemviri produced the laws on ten tablets ( tabulae ), but these laws were regarded as unsatisfactory by the plebeians.
The tablets were probably destroyed when Rome was conquered and burned by the Gauls in 387 BC.
Although the ancient Sumerians were the first to record the names of constellations on clay tablets, the earliest known star catalogues were compiled by the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia in the late 2nd millennium BC, during the Kassite Period ( ca.
Wax tablets were in common use then as reusable writing surfaces, sometimes used for shorthand.

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They were created in wood, engraved bone, and cloth and depicted puma and jaguar effigies, incense burners, carved wooden hallucinogenic snuff tablets, and human portrait vessels.
In the myth recorded on cuneiform tablets, the deity Enki ( later Ea ) believed correctly that Apsu, upset with the chaos they created, was planning to murder the younger deities ; and so captured him, holding him prisoner beneath is temple the E-Abzu.
The importance of these findings lies in the fact that the bulk of the Vinča symbols was created in the period between 4500 and 4000 BC, with the ones on the Tărtăria clay tablets even dating back to around 5300 BC.
In the written record, the study of herbs dates back over 5, 000 years to the Sumerians, who created clay tablets with lists of hundreds of medicinal plants ( such as myrrh and opium ).
Tablet weaving is especially freeing, because any pattern can be created by turning individual tablets.
During this period Japan applied strict regulations to commerce and foreign relations for western countries so the tablets were created using Japanese mathematics, ( wasan ), developed in parallel to western mathematics.
Sophilos also painted one of the rare chalices ( a variety of goblet ) and created the first surviving series of votive tablets.
Paint has now been superseded by digital images created using photo references, 3-D models, and drawing tablets.
The tablets were created using the same basic recipe as the already popular Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid products, in response to parents ' requests for a less-messy candy.
The site has created a mobile application for download on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad through the iTunes app store, and another application for Android mobile phones and tablets on the Android Market.
These excavations, which created some controversy ( due to techniques used to examine the structure ), unearthed slate tablets, necklaces, crosiers, copper objects, ceramics and carinated bowls.

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The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.
Withdrawal is best managed by transferring the physically dependent patient to an equivalent dose of diazepam because it has the longest half-life of all of the benzodiazepines, is metabolised into long-acting active metabolites and is available in low-potency tablets, which can be quartered for smaller doses.
Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement of the scroll, the dominant form of book in the ancient world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the book prior to the invention of printing.
In the Golden Dawn, they are represented by the Enochian elemental tablets.
Similar applications have not been successfully proven in other clinical trials of consuming cranberry juice or tablets by people with spinal cord injury associated with bladder catheterization, neurogenic bladder or infrequent urination, any of which may be associated with increased susceptibility to bacterial infections.
" Since these tablets predate the Sulbasutras period by several centuries, taking into account the contextual appearance of some of the triples, it is reasonable to expect that similar understanding would have been there in India.
The Garden of Eden humorously depicts Adam and Eve awoken by a Flintstones-like coconut alarm clock and Adam reading the morning paper off of giant stone tablets.
The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.
Since acarbose and other alpha-glucosidase inhibitors prevents starch and other sugars from being broken down into monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the body, patients taking these medications should consume monosaccharide-containing foods such as glucose tablets, honey, or juice to reverse hypoglycemia.
The code of Hammurabi contained 282 laws, written by scribes on 12 tablets.
In Germany and elsewhere, hydrocodone is available as single-active-ingredient tablets as Dicodid ( by analogy to the original manufacturer's other products Dilaudid and Dinarkon and others ) available in 5-and 10-mg strengths.
This restriction is only limited by the fact that twelve tablets, each containing 325 mg of paracetamol, puts the patient right below the 24-hour FDA maximum of 4, 000 mg of paracetamol.
Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt ( 1659 )
This overturned Evans ' theories of Minoan history by establishing that Cretan civilization, at least in the later periods associated with the Linear B tablets, had been part of Mycenean Greece.
The earliest texts ( 7 archaic tablets ) come from the E Temple dedicated to the goddess Inanna at Uruk, from a building labeled as Temple C by its excavators.
Assyrian tablets from the reign of Sargon II record attacks by a " Mita ", king of the Mushki, against Assyria's eastern Anatolian provinces.
Patient information leaflets included in packs of UK methadone tablets state that the tablets are for oral use only and that use by any other route can cause serious harm.
In addition to this warning, additives have now been included into the tablets formulation to make the use of them by the IV route more difficult.
Romans wrote on wax-coated tablets that could be smoothed and reused, and a passing use of the term " palimpsest " by Cicero seems to refer to this practice.
Though 16: 9 ( and occasionally 16: 10, mostly for computers and tablets ) remain standard as of 2012, wider-screen consumer TVs in 21: 9 have been released to the market by multiple brands.
Though the archetypal pencil was an artist's brush, the stylus, a thin metal stick used for scratching in papyrus or wax tablets, was used extensively by the Romans, and for palm-leaf manuscripts.
Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt ( 1659 )

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