Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

Instead, the beam was split into two parts, depending on whether the atomic spin was oriented up or down.

In addition to the Yerevan administrative region, Armenia is split into ten administrative divisions, known as marzer ( singular: marz ); these are Ararat, Aragatsotn, Armavir, Gegharkunik, Kotayk, Lori, Shirak, Syunik, Tavush, and Vayots Dzor.

On the left are the blue and white rhombuses of Bavaria, while the right half is split into two sliver and black triangles.

It is further split into three sub-classes.

* 1793 – The Rhône and Loire ( Lêre ) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.

For Hume, philosophy can be split into two general parts: natural philosophy and the philosophy of human nature ( or, as he calls it, " moral philosophy ").

The symbols used to represent the system have split into various typographical variants since the Middle Ages:

This caused a split within the Danish church, as it possibly forced Eskil into exile around 1161, despite Abaslon's attempts to keep the Danish church united.

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.

William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.

We are given a sequential task which is split into four consecutive parts: P1, P2, P3 and P4 with the percentages of runtime being 11 %, 18 %, 23 % and 48 % respectively.

In the 13th century, the Principality of Anhalt was split off from the Duchy, and later, the remaining state was split into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.

Modern field artillery can also be split into two other categories: towed and self-propelled.

Angus can be split into three geographic areas.

An alternating magnetic field is applied at the atomizer ( graphite furnace ) to split the absorption line into three components, the π component, which remains at the same position as the original absorption line, and two σ components, which are moved to higher and lower wavelengths, respectively ( see Zeeman Effect ).

Athlon was the first x86 processor with a 128 kB split level 1 cache ; a 2-way associative, later 16-way, cache separated into 2 × 64 kB for data and instructions ( Harvard architecture ).

To mitigate the differences between K & R C and the ANSI C standard, the (" standard c ") macro can be used to split code into ANSI and K & R sections.

In 1991 the Communist Party in Moscow collapsed, ending the USSR, which split into fifteen independent states.

Songhai split into several states during the 17th century.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

The church cites the AP Stylebook, which states, " The term Mormon is not properly applied to the other Latter Day Saints churches that resulted from the split after Smith ’ s death.

Finally, in a much larger split, in 1845 at Louisville, the churches of the slaveholding states left the Methodist Episcopal Church and formed The Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

France, some states of the Dutch Republic and various Catholic states in Germany and Switzerland ( both countries were religiously split ) followed suit within a year or two, and Hungary followed in 1587.

That said, they shied away from overt collaboration with communist states, arguing along the lines of the Chinese side in the Sino-Soviet split that the Soviet Union and its European satellite states had become traitors to the communist cause by, in effect if not in rhetoric, giving the United States a free pass in their exploitation of Third World populations and support of " useful " Third World dictators.

Saddam's proposal further split the Arab world, pitting U. S .- and Western-supported Arab states against the Palestinians.

One consequence of the court decision was that tiny Turtle Island just outside of Maumee Bay and originally treated as being wholly in Michigan, was split between the two states.

Van Buren's candidacy split the Democratic vote in New York, throwing that state to the Whigs ; at the same time, however, the Free Soilers probably cost the Whigs several Midwestern states.

The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

Some states split grades 9 – 10 and 11 – 12 into a junior high school and senior high school.

The national Democratic Party of 1948 was split between those who thought the federal government should actively protect civil rights for racial minorities, and those, who believed that states should be able to enforce racial segregation and infringe on the rights of non-white citizens.

It split from the national Democrats over what was perceived as federal intervention in the segregation practices, laws and constitutions of the Southern states, which, among other issues, had largely disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by constitutional amendments and electoral requirements from 1890 to 1910.

By 258 – 260, the Empire split into three competing states: the Gallic Empire, including the Roman provinces of Gaul, Britannia and Hispania ; the Palmyrene Empire, including the eastern provinces of Syria Palaestina and Aegyptus ; and the Italian-centered and independent Roman Empire, proper, between them.

In the 1912 presidential elections, because of the split votes amongst Republicans in most states, Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson was elected as president.

The story is set in a Balkanized world, in which the nations of the North American continent have been split up into a number of smaller states.

An apocalyptic prophecy in the Book of Zechariah states that Yahweh will stand on the Mount of Olives and the mountain will split in two, with one half shifting north and one half shifting south ( Zechariah 14: 4 ).

As a result, Brazil did not split into several states by the time of Independence ( 1822 ), as happened to its Spanish-speaking neighbors.

There was already fracturing of communist states at the time, the most serious of which was the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China, known as the Sino-Soviet split, which began in the 1950s.

Shanxi, the territory of state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 BC-403 BC ), underwent a three-way split into the states of Han, Zhao and Wei in 403 BC, the traditional date taken as the start of the Warring States Period ( 403 BC-221 BC ).

Stretching from Carson Valley and running up into the Sierra Nevada, the county is bordered on the west by California, and contains about 13. 2 % of Lake Tahoe, which is split across the two states.