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.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

In its earliest form, the brain appears as three swellings at the front end of the neural tube ; these swellings eventually become the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain ( the prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon, respectively ).

At the earliest stages of brain development, the three areas are roughly equal in size.

In these three earliest illustrations of the pastime it is worth noting that each player has one bowl only, and that the attitude in delivering it was as various five or six hundred years ago as it is to-day.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

The earliest doctoral degrees ( theology, law, and medicine ) reflected the historical separation of all university study into these three fields.

According to Jordanes ’ Getica, written in the mid-6th century, the earliest migrating Goths sailed from Scandza ( Scandinavia ) under King Berig in three ships and named the place at which they landed after themselves.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

This discovery also suggest that earliest writings by mankind developed independently in three places, viz.

Two of the three sampled species within Cricetulus represent the earliest split.

One recent academic survey that does attempt this, by Thomas Green, identifies three key strands to the portrayal of Arthur in this earliest material.

Cryptography historian David Kahn titles him the " Father of Western Cryptography ", pointing to three significant advances in the field which can be attributed to Alberti: " the earliest Western exposition of cryptanalysis, the invention of polyalphabetic substitution, and the invention of enciphered code " ().

The Paleozoic Era ( from the Greek palaios ( παλαιός ), " old " and zoe ( ζωή ), " life ", meaning " ancient life ") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, spanning from roughly ( ICS, 2004 ).

** The microcode can employ both pipelines to enable auto-repeating instructions such as rep movsw perform one iteration every clock cycle, while the 80486 needed three clocks per iteration ( and the earliest x86-chips significantly more than the 486 ).

The earliest way of writing qi consisted of three wavy lines, used to represent one's breath seen on a cold day.

" They attempted to destroy these books, the earliest vita already says, and this account underlies the status of the Ragyndrudis Codex, now held as a Bonifacian relic in Fulda, and supposedly one of three books found on the field by the Christians who inspected it afterward.

In this way he discovered that stone tools did not co-occur with bronze or iron in the earliest deposits while subsequently bronze did not co-occur with iron-so that three periods could be defined by their available materials, stone, bronze and iron.

Woodrow Wilson's earliest memory, from the age of three, was of hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.

The earliest surviving recipes for gunpowder can be found in the Chinese military treatise Wujing zongyao of 1044 AD, which contains three: two for use in incendiary bombs to be thrown by siege engines and one intended as fuel for poison smoke bombs.

Tangerine Dream's earliest concerts were visually simple by modern standards, with three men sitting motionless for hours alongside massive electronic boxes festooned with patch cords and a few flashing lights.

After the death of Timur Shah, three of his sons, the governors of Kandahar, Herat and Kabul, contended for the succession.

The three Muslim governors, known as Xibei San Ma ( lit.

It was here that he befriended many prominent colonial citizens, including three governors.

The constitution of 1950 distinguished between three main types of states: Part A states, which were the former governors ' provinces of British India, were ruled by an elected governor and state legislature.

State governors are also elected every six years, whereas the legislatures are renewed every three years.

" He served three terms on the board of governors of the Chicago chapter of NARAS ( the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ).

An enigmatic person who has been hailed as a liberator against the Danes and denounced as a tyrannical ruler, brutally suppressing three uprisings in Dalarna-which had once been the first region to support his claim to the throne-one in Västra Götaland, and one in Småland, Gustav worked to raise taxes, end Feudalism and bring about a Swedish Reformation, replacing the pregoratives of local landowners, noblemen and clergy with centrally appointed governors and bishops.

He had quarrelled with Bligh's predecessor governors and had fought three duels.

The regions have their own elected governors and regional councils, however there seven decentralized administrations, which group from one to three regions under a government-appointed general secretary.

( The new state limited governors to three terms in succession, and then required a 4-year break.

It is the birthplace of three governors of Louisiana.

The governors of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, the three largest states of the Union, actively pursued him to command their states ' militia.

It has long been associated with the Long faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party and was home to three governors of Louisiana.

Winnfield was the home of three Louisiana governors: Huey " Kingfish " Long, Oscar K. Allen and Earl K. Long.

Missouri would have three governors during the course of the Civil War, one elected by the people ( Jackson ).

Both men had Haw River addresses so that the only three governors from Alamance County are claimed by Haw River.

Rusk has been home to three former governors, James Stephen Hogg, Thomas M. Campbell, and John B. Kendrick ( Governor of Wyoming ).

Disagreement between legislators and governors resulted in three appropriation vetoes for the normal school in the next 25 years, but in each case, the citizens of Cheney somehow raised the funds to keep the college going until the next legislative session.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

Initially, King Manuel I of Portugal tried a power distribution with three governors in different areas of jurisdiction: a government covering the area and possessions in East Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, overseeing up Cambay ( Gujarat ); a second one ruling the possessions in India ( Hindustan ) and Ceylon, and a third one from Malacca to the Far East .< ref > O Secretário dos despachos e coisas da Índia pero d ´ Alcáçova Carneiro, p. 65, Maria Cecília Costa Veiga de Albuquerque Ramos, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009 ( In Portuguese ) < http :// repositorio. ul. pt / bitstream / 10451 / 3387 / 1 / ulfl080844_tm. pdf ></ ref > However the post was centered by governor Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1509 – 1515 ), who became plenipotentiary, and remained so.

The duration in office was usually three years, possibly given the power represented: of the thirty-four governors of India in the 16th century, only six had longer mandates.

* in present Uzbekistan, the main khanate, named after its capital Buchara, was founded in 1500 and restyled emirate in 1753 ( after three Persian governors since 1747 ); the Ferghana ( valley's ) khanate broke way from it by 1694 and became known as the Khanate of Kokand after its capital Kokand from its establishment in 1732 ; the khanate of Khwarezm, dating from c. 1500, became the Khanate of Khiva in 1804 but fell soon under Russian protectorate ; Karakalpakstan had its own rulers ( khans?

** António Elísio Capelo Pires Veloso – 18 December 1974 ( three days before the formal granting of autonomy ), actually the last of many governors ( since 1753, before both islands were separate ), staying on until it became an independent republic on 12 July 1975

* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963