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We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion ''.
About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.
of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan, in Yokuts, in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them.
Beer was brewed by the Babylonians and Egyptians more than 6 thousand years ago.
While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.
And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.
Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.
Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.
Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.
One camp, often called the " Altaicists ", views these similarities as arising from common descent from a proto-Altaic language spoken several thousand years ago.
For example, the monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe were built by hunters and gatherers a thousand years before the development of agriculture.
" The Zohar, written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai close to two thousand years ago, makes frequent and lengthy references to reincarnation.
The righteous will live in heaven for a thousand years ( the millennium ) where they will sit with God in judgment over the unredeemed and the fallen angels.
The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.
Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.
One of their Yukar Upopo, or legends, tells that " They lived in this place a hundred thousand years before the Children of the Sun came.
The administration was in the hands of officeholders, for over a thousand years.
Charpak and Broch noted that " there is a difference of about twenty-two thousand miles between Earth's location on any specific date in two successive years " and that thus they should not be under the same influence according to astrology.
Then subsequently the city was, for more than a thousand years, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Caesar settled the remnants of that group in Gorgobina, from where they sent two thousand to Vercingetorix's aid at the battle of Alesia six years later.
The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.
* MacKie, E W 1998 Continuity over three thousand years of northern prehistory: the ‘ tel ’ at Howe, Orkney.
In Canto XI of the same book a hermit named Māṇḍakarṇi is mentioned: " For he, great votarist, intent -- On strictest rule his stern life spent -- ... -- Ten thousand years on air he fed ..." ( English quotations are from Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation ).

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Grass increased over the next several centuries ; sclerophyll vegetation increased following a lag of another century, and a sclerophyll forest developed about a thousand years later.
The following day a pro-Syrian demonstration set a new record when Hezbollah amassed 400 – 500 thousand protestors at Riad Solh square in Beirut, most of them bussed in from the heavily Shi ' ite south Lebanon and eastern Beka ' a valley.
Over the following three thousand years, inhabitants switched from nomadic lifestyles to cultivating land, as evidence from sites such as Jiskairumoko, Kotosh and Huaca Prieta demonstrates.
On April 14, one of the approximately two thousand men who were accompanying General Braddock through wrote the following: " we marched to larance Owings or Owings Oardianary, a Single House, it being 18 miles and very dirty.
Austronesian peoples are believed to have settled in the Fijian islands some 3, 500 years ago, with Melanesians following around a thousand years later.
Some sources further this argument by asserting that The Stars, Like Dust takes place about one thousand years following the events of Robots and Empire.
He wrote to Dr. Southwood Smith, one of eighty-four commissioners responsible for the Second Report, about his change in plans: " ou will certainly feel that a Sledge hammer has come down with twenty times the force – twenty thousand times the force – I could exert by following out my first idea.
During the Civil War following Alabama's secession from the Union, several thousand men from Tuscaloosa fought in the Confederate armies.
Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations.
The amount of material used is estimated at 23 million m³ of sand and 13. 5 million m³ of till and over the years an average of around four to five thousand workers were involved with the construction every day, relieving some of the unemployment following the Great Depression.
Oil was discovered nearby during the following decade, attracting a peak population of nearly five thousand, but the number dropped sharply to 507.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland that if any bank has established or shall, without authority from the State first had and obtained establish any branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt in any part of this State, it shall not be lawful for the said branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt to issue notes, in any manner, of any other denomination than five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollars, and no note shall be issued except upon stamped paper of the following denominations ; that is to say, every five dollar note shall be upon a stamp of ten cents ; every ten dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty cents ; every twenty dollar note, upon a stamp of thirty cents ; every fifty dollar note, upon a stamp of fifty cents ; every one hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of one dollar ; every five hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of ten dollars ; and every thousand dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty dollars ; which paper shall be furnished by the Treasurer of the Western Shore, under the direction of the Governor and Council, to be paid for upon delivery ; provided always that any institution of the above description may relieve itself from the operation of the provisions aforesaid by paying annually, in advance, to the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the use of State, the sum of $ 15, 000.
Shortly after his arrival in England he caused consternation by following similar practices ; one of his early acts was to demand two thousand pounds from the people of Leicester for the King as the price of not sacking Leicester.
Once occupied by Australian Aborigines, the native population disappeared after the land became an island following rising sea levels several thousand years ago.
In the course of one year more than 500 individuals were converted to Christianity at Lwów, and nearly a thousand in the following year.
After 12 years, he returned to his home with twelve thousand disciples following him.
For the Warring States Period the following figures are reported: Qin: 1, 000, 000 infantry, 1, 000 chariots, 10, 000 horses ; Chu: same numbers ; Wei: 200-360, 000 infantry, 200, 000 spearmen, 100, 000 servants, 600 chariots, 5, 000 cavalry ; Han: 300, 000 total ; Qi: several hundred thousand ; Battle of Maling: 100, 000 killed ; Battle of Yique: 240, 000 killed ; General Bai Qi was responsible for 890, 000 enemy deaths.
* In the video game series " Mass Effect ", following an uprising by the warlike krogan species, the salarians develop a bioweapon called the " genophage ", which curtails their explosive breeding by causing only one in a thousand births to be viable, the rest being stillborn.
The Lagoon was formed about six to seven thousand years ago, when the marine transgression following the Ice Age flooded the upper Adriatic coastal plain.
IDBF's membership application had been previously blocked by the GAISF member representing canoe and kayak racing, an international sporting association that originated early in the 20th century following the development of canoe sport in the late 19th century and which claimed to automatically control the boat races which have existed for over two thousand years prior, despite not having organised any competitions or promoted the activity until only very recently and some 30 years after the international modern sport was already being organised and promoted by dragon boat specialists with the assistance of the rowing fraternity.
The following day, he led a march of several hundred thousand demonstrators on Trafalgar Square, where a huge rally was held protesting the visit of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.
* E. M. Cioran on Samuel Beckett The website states that: " Scattered throughout the one thousand pages of Cioran's Cahiers 1957-1972 are many intriguing remarks about Beckett and his work, of which the following are among the more memorable.
The following year the two thousand member UBRE joined the organizing convention of the IWW.

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