The earliest references to Chinese martial arts are found in the Spring and Autumn Annals ( 5th century BCE ), where a hand to hand combat theory, including the integration of notions of " hard " and " soft " techniques, is mentioned.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in the Autumn of 1962, in which the United States blockaded a Soviet attempt to put nuclear missiles on Cuba, created some anxiety about the possibility of imminent nuclear war and CND organised demonstrations on the issue.

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

She went on to act to significant acclaim in 10 of his most admired films, including Persona in 1966, The Passion of Anna in 1969, Cries and Whispers in 1972 and Autumn Sonata, in which her co-star, Ingrid Bergman, made her return to Swedish cinema.

Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, written in fourteen line terza rima stanzas, is a major poem in the form, but perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of 1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and To Autumn.

Ancient China was home to several competing schools of political thought, most of which arose in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Red Army Faction existed from 1970 to 1998, committing numerous operations, especially in late 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as " German Autumn ".

The most pleasant seasons are Spring, although changeable and often rainy, and Autumn, which is generally sunny and dry.

In the 1970s, former CIA man Charles McCarry began the Paul Christopher series with The Tears of Autumn ( 1978 ), which was well-written, with believable tradecraft.

* The Spring and Autumn Period, which has begun in 722 BC, ends, while the Warring States Period officially begins in 403 BC.

Evidence suggests that blast furnaces, that convert raw iron ore into pig iron, which can be remelted in a cupola furnace to produce cast iron by means of a cold blast and hot blast, were operational in China by the late Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 – 481 BCE ).

After her role in RKO's Sudden Fear, Crawford appeared in films ranging from the camp western film Johnny Guitar ( 1954 ) to the drama Autumn Leaves ( 1956 ), opposite a young Cliff Robertson, a movie which showed Crawford in a great many kissing scenes which shocked some audiences.

In Autumn of 1102 Bolesław organized a war party into Pomerania during which his forces sacked Białogard.

From 1993, the Budget was preceded by an annual ' Autumn Statement ', now called the Pre-Budget Report, which forecasts government spending in the next year and usually takes place in November or December.

The stereo version of The Kinks ' 1967 song " Autumn Almanac " ( which appears on the 1972 compilation The Kink Kronikles ) also features a psychedelic tape loop during the fadeout.

The players began to adjust to the changes as the season progressed, however, and following an away victory at local rivals Real Sociedad, Athletic produced a strong run of Autumn form which included wins over Paris Saint-Germain, CA Osasuna, and Sevilla FC, as well as credible draws with Valencia CF and FC Barcelona, only to drop points at home to newly-promoted Granada CF.

Chris Carolan's article " Autumn Panics and Calendar Phenomenon ", which won the Market Technicians Association Dow Award for best technical analysis paper in 1998, demonstrates how technical analysis and lunar cycles can be combined.

FT Knowledge has offered the " Introducing the City " course ( which is a series of Wednesday night lectures / seminars, as well as weekend events ) during the Autumn and Spring since 2000.

Another work of his is The Autumn Garden, which was published in 1908 by the London publisher William Heinemann.

In the 2011 Autumn Statement on 29 November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the Government had agreed to reduce the debt on the bridge by £ 150 million, which would allow the toll for cars to be halved to £ 1. 50.

* The film also included " Since I've Been Loving You ", the introduction to " Heartbreaker ", the instrumental " Bron-Yr-Aur " ( which appeared on Physical Graffiti ) and a hurdy gurdy piece called " Autumn Lake ", none of which were featured on the album.

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

Keats ' To Autumn, written in September 1819, echoes this sense of melancholic reflection, but also emphasises the lush abundance of the season.

It was in Winchester that Keats wrote " Isabella ", " St. Agnes ' Eve ", " To Autumn " and " Lamia ".

" To Autumn " is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats ( 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 ).

A little over a year following the publication of " To Autumn ", Keats died in Rome.

In a letter to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds written on 21 September, Keats described the impression the scene had made upon him and its influence on the composition of " To Autumn ": " How beautiful the season is now – How fine the air.

Keats did not send " To Autumn " to Reynolds, but did include the poem within a letter to Richard Woodhouse, Keats's publisher and friend, and dated it on the same day.

Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.

" To Autumn " is thematically connected to other odes that Keats wrote in 1819.

In " To Autumn ", Bewell argues, Keats was at once voicing " a very personal expression of desire for health " and constructing a " myth of a national environment ".

Between the manuscript version and the published version of " To Autumn " Keats tightened the language of the poem.

A. C. Swinburne placed it with " Ode on a Grecian Urn " as " the nearest to absolute perfection " of Keats's odes ; Aileen Ward declared it " Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem "; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is " flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm "; Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that " To Autumn " is " the only perfect poem that Keats ever wrote – and if this should seem to take from him some measure of credit for his extraordinary enrichment of the English poetic tradition, I would quickly add that I am thinking of absolute perfection in whole poems, in which every part is wholly relevant to and consistent in effect with every other part.

In an 1844 essay on Keats's poetry in the Dumfries Herald, George Gilfillian placed " To Autumn " among " the finest of Keats ' smaller pieces ".

" Literary critic and academic Helen Vendler, in 1988, declared that " in the ode ' To Autumn ,' Keats finds his most comprehensive and adequate symbol for the social value of art.

" Following in 1998, M. H. Abrams explained, To Autumn ' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live ".

" In the same year, Thomas McFarland placed " To Autumn " with " Ode to a Nightingale ", " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " The Eve of St. Agnes " and Hyperion as Keats's greatest achievement, together elevating Keats " high in the ranks of the supreme makers of world literature ".

The poem was written in 1819, and comes within Keats ' most brilliant period-it was written soon after ' La belle dame sans merci ' and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, to a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before arguably his most famous poem, ' Ode to Autumn '.

The following line from John Keats ' To Autumn is a straightforward example:

In the Autumn of that year, Keats wrote " To Autumn ", which completed his Great Odes of 1819.

In English, the choriamb is often found in the first four syllables of iambic pentameter verses, as here in Keats ' To Autumn: