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Three centuries after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Arab Caliphates extended from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Central Asia in the east.
The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".
Three centuries later, Cicero's De natura deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ) argued against the atomist worldview:
The Three Kingdoms refer to Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, although Buyeo and the Gaya confederacy existed into the 5th and 6th centuries respectively.
Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).
Three centuries after the Battle of Barnet, a stone obelisk was raised on the spot where Warwick purportedly died.
Three major droughts in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in well over 100, 000 people starving to death.
Three new centuries of Equites were introduced at Rome, including one named Tatienses, after the Sabine king.
Perry has been common for centuries in Britain, particularly in the Three Counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and in parts of south Wales ; and France, especially Normandy and Anjou.
Three centuries after the " Great War " ended, the Predacon that would become Megatron uncovered this message.
) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp. 124 – 136.
Three centuries later, the Babylonian king Hammurabi enacted the set of laws named after him.
Three early theories of the origin of chansons de geste believe in the continued existence of epic material ( either as lyric poems, epic poems or prose narrations ) in these intervening two or three centuries.
Three generations of the Bartholin family made significant contributions to anatomical science and medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries: Thomas Bartholin's father, Caspar Bartholin the Elder ( 1585-1629 ), his brother Rasmus Bartholin ( 1625-1698 ), and his son Caspar Bartholin the Younger ( 1655 – 1738 ).
* Three giraffes, the first to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, are presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha.
The notion of " Tre Kroner ", Three Crowns, is well known in Denmark since, in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries when naval vessels were often named after heraldic devices, the navy usually had a ship of this name.
Three centuries later, it was awarded to the orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero for his part in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy during his consulate in 63 BC.
He was omitted from team for both the Second and Third Test but then recalled for the Fourth Test at Queen's Park Oval which was drawn ; Trueman again struggled and had a return of 1 – 131 in the first innings as West Indies amassed 681 – 8 declared, all of the famous " Three Ws " scoring centuries: Everton Weekes 206, Frank Worrell 167 and Clyde Walcott 124.
In the list below, the truly historical ones, often set in previous centuries, include the Between Three Plagues tetralogy, set in the 16th century, A Rakvere Novel / Romance set in the 18th ( the title is ambiguous ), The Czar's Madman set in the 19th century, Professor Martens ' Departure set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Elusiveness / Evasion set around 1918.
) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, ISBN 0-394-53438-7
Three centuries later, that independence would fuel the rise of the independent communes.
Three outstanding wooden statues of saints dating from the 15th and 16th centuries can also be found in the church, as can an exquisite Baptismal font cover which was carved in 1682 by Grinling Gibbons for ₤ 12, and which is regarded as one of the finest pieces of carving in London.

Three and ago
Three years ago it became possible to finance a Braille edition for blind readers.
: Three weeks ago, Americas Watch issued a report on human rights abuses in Nicaragua.
Three hundred years ago Addiscombe was a rural area.
Three years ago, in 2010 the Galesburg Railroad Museum started offering a VIP tour of the yards where a select group of riders would be allowed in the Hump Tours and Diesel Shop and see the BNSF at work.
Three Oaks is also home to the Warren Featherbone Factory, which was built over a century ago to strip turkey feathers of their quills to use in women's garments of the era, such as corsets, which used " stiffeners ".
Three former Lutheran churches long ago merged into Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church ( ELCA ).
Three months ago I promised Lord Clarendon, and his government, in this country, that I would provoke him into his courts of justice, as places of this kind are called, and that I would force him publicly and notoriously to pack a Jury against me to convict me, or else that if I would walk out a free man from this dock, to meet him in another field.
He announced it in Company K, a novel published twenty years ago and equaled only by Dos Passos ' Three Soldiers as a sampling of men at war.
* Also see Rose, Gregory F. " The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC ," National Review, March 30, 1979, and Reich, September 21, 1977: " Three and four years ago, the tiny U. S. Labor Party, preaching Marxist revolution, was engaged in a bitter fight with the Communist Party over which was a purer representative of left-wing tradition .< p >" But now the Labor Party, under the same leadership, has moved to the right, has joined with persons in the South who are heirs to George C. Wallace's American Independent Party tradition, is soliciting help from orthodox Republicans and even had an information table at a big GOP fund-raising dinner in the Biltmore here last month.
Three to four thousand years ago, Austronesian people arrived, bringing with them domesticated pigs, chickens, dogs and obsidian tools.
Three years ago, a record 10 million students throughout China took the national college entrance test, competing for 5. 7 million university slots.
Three million years ago the Isthmus of Panama was created.
In addition to the Tibetans and authentic Han people, the " Qiang " comprised a portion of the Miao / Hmong who were relocated to the northwest from central China after their Three Miao Kingdom was destroyed by the legendary Chinese Emperor Yü the Great about four thousand years ago.
A review carried by Variety mentioned, " Three years ago, in Saathiya, helmer Shaad Ali managed to rediscover Mukerji's earlier vivacity, and he's done it again here in a role that the raspy-voiced diva-ette simply eats up " Consequently, Mukerji received another nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her work.
Shennong is considered to have been one of the Three Sovereigns ( also known as " Three Emperors ") who lived some 5, 000 years ago.
Three years before the canal closed, about 50 years ago ( from 1927 ), 120 boats carried coal .”
Three months later, however, he was medically discharged because an old head injury: " Incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of a blow received many years ago.
The two " Emperor trees " by the Hall of Three Sages were planted during the Liao Dynasty about 1, 000 years ago.
The Three Vallees was expanded about ten years ago to incorporate a fourth valley, though the area kept the name 3 Vallees.
Three decades ago it was largely undeveloped, with a few small " mom and pop " style hotels and restaurants ; now major chains have built larger lodging facilities, although not yet comparable to Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge.
At the start of Rogue Agent, a recording by M ( head of MI6 ) reveals that: " Three years ago, while on assignment, the agent was severely wounded in an encounter with Dr. No, and subsequently lost the use of his right eye.
Three hundred years ago, the god of thunder, Taishakuten, rebelled against the Heavenly Emperor, killing both him and the guardian god Ashura-ō.
Three years ago best-selling novelist Keyes announced that shattering depression had left her unable to

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