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When and Herodotus
When the Persian fleet finally arrived at Artemisium after a significant delay, Eurybiades, who both Herodotus and Plutarch suggest was not the most inspiring commander, wished to sail away without fighting.
* When The Histories of Herodotus were divided by later editors into nine books, each book was named after a Muse.
When Kleomenis of Sparta defeated the Argives, their slaves occupied Tiryns for many years, according to Herodotus.
Herodotus writes that: When people travel to Bubastis for the festival, this is what they do.
When Greek historian Herodotus visited Giza in 450 BC, he was told by Egyptian priests that " the Great Pyramid had taken 400, 000 men 20 years to build, working in three-month shifts 100, 000 men at a time.
* In an account from Herodotus, " When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they had audience of the magistrates, before whom they made a long speech, as was natural with persons greatly in want of aid.

When and wrote
When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.
When she was nine years old, she wrote a description of a store she had visited.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.
Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).
" When he sits down to write ," Emerson wrote, " all his genius leaves him ; he gives you the shells and throws away the kernel of his thought.
When the press expanded to current titles, they wrote some books themselves and employed other writers, including Erasmus.
When Thomas Hobbes wrote that " the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof ", he was promulgating an enormously important truth.
Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959.
When Galileo later complained of rumors to the effect that he had been forced to abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumors, stating that Galileo had merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine could not be " defended or held ".
Freda Kirchwey, then editor of The Nation, wrote at the time of her death: " When she spoke to people — whether it was to a small committee or a swarming crowd — hearts beat faster.
When his colleague Richard Courant wrote the now classic Methods of Mathematical Physics including some of Hilbert's ideas, he added Hilbert's name as author even though Hilbert had not directly contributed to the writing.
While he was imprisoned at the El Modelo jail, just outside of Managua, he wrote poems, one of which he titled " I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion ".
When Henry Treece wrote to Thomas comparing his style to that of Hopkins, Thomas wrote back denying any such influence.
When he wrote to Stephen Spender in 1952, thanking him for a review of his Collected Poems, he added " Oh, & I forgot.
When expressing the abstract nature of computer science, he wrote
When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.
When Election Day arrived, over 3, 500 of Kelly ’ s supporters wrote LaGuardia's name on the ballot.
When Hayek left Salzburg in 1977, he wrote, " I made a mistake in moving to Salzburg ".
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.
Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.
When Ignatius wrote the Letter to the Smyrnaeans in about the year 107 and used the word catholic, he used it as if it were a word already in use to describe the Church.
" Beware, you dogs ," he wrote to his former " friends of the left ": " When the Devil is loose in me you will not curb him again.
When Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto wrote a letter to the city council inviting Geneva to return to the Catholic faith, the council searched for an ecclesiastical authority to respond to him.

When and Histories
When the Complete Works wrapped in March 2007, the history plays remained on stage, under the shorter title The Histories, as part of a two-year thirty-four actor ensemble production.
When the Complete Works wrapped in March 2007, the history plays remained on stage, under the shorter title The Histories, as part of a two-year thirty-four actor ensemble production.
When the Complete Works wrapped in March 2007, the history plays remained on stage, under the shorter title The Histories, as part of a two-year thirty-four actor ensemble production.
When his father died in 1469, he completed the frescos with Storie della Vergine ( Histories of the Virgin ) in the cathedral.
* Simon Schaffer's 2010 Tarner Lectures ” When the stars threw down their spears ”: Histories of Astronomy and Empire
When these were attacked at the Oxybian coastal city of Aegitna ( Polybius, Histories, 33. 10 ), the Romans dispatched an army under the consul Quintus Opimius, who defeated the Oxybii and the Deciates at the battle of Aegitna, three kilometres north of Antipolis ( Cosson, p. 21 ; Polybius, Histories, 33. 11 ).

When and 5th
When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.
When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.
When the Franks invaded the Roman territories ( from the end of the 4th century and well into the 5th century ) they brought their language with them and Celtic and Latin were replaced by Old Dutch.
When Larissa ceased minting the federal coins it shared with other Thessalian towns and adopted its own coinage in the late 5th century BC, it chose local types for its coins.
When Richard II was forced to abdicate the throne in 1399, Henry was not next in line to the throne ; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, who descended from Edward III's second son, Lionel of Antwerp.
When this EP was eventually released on CD several years later, a 5th track, titled " Prophecy ", was added to the tracklist ; this was a song performed live by the band circa 1983 ( and was included on the 1984 " Live in Tokyo " home video ), and in 2003 was included on the remastered edition of The Warning as a bonus track.
When the Romans left in the 5th century, the area was settled by Saxons.
When Ponsonby's command, the 5th Dragoon Guards, arrived in the Peninsula in October 1811, it became part of John Le Marchant's heavy cavalry brigade.
When video game consoles entered the 4th and 5th generation, Sony and later Microsoft adopted a strategy of embracing cutting edge technology and selling their console at a loss, which was compensated by the licensing fee from sales of games.
When the local Filipino soldiers and officers of the 5th, 52nd, 53rd, 55th, 56th and 57th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was landing the beaches and captured the liberated from the island province of Catanduanes and helping the local guerrilla fighters and American liberating troops and defeated and fought against the Japanese Imperial armed forces during the Battle of Catanduanes and ending World War II.
When Tung Chee Hwa assumed duty on 1 July 1997, the office of the Chief Executive was located at the 5th floor of the Central Government Offices ( Main Wing ).
When his father succeeded as 5th Earl Fife in 1857, he acquired the courtesy title Viscount Macduff.
When Patrick, Lord Lindsay took up the challenge, Morton gave Lindsay the sword of his ancestor, Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus.
When the 5th Army breakout offensive began on 25 May 1944, the 1st SSF was sent against Monte Arrestino, and attacked Rocca Massima on 27 May.
Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with " Blowing Away ", " Wedding Bell Blues ", " Stoned Soul Picnic ", " Sweet Blindness ", " Save The Country " and " Black Patch "; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul & Mary with " And When I Die "; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with " Eli's Coming "; and Streisand with " Stoney End ", " Time and Love ", and " Hands off the Man ( Flim Flam Man )".
When Richard resigned his crown without issue on 29 September 1399, the rightful heir was Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, whose father Roger had died the previous year.
When it departed for the Western Front in August 1915, he was transferred to the 5th ( Reserve ) Battalion.
When Bishop Lord Bristol died in 1803, his son Frederick succeeded as 5th Earl of Bristol and owner of the estates including Ickworth House.
When darkness put an end to the fighting, the 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades established an outpost line and spent the night on the battlefield, while the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and 5th Mounted Brigades withdrew for water and rations at Pelusium Station, where the newly arrived infantry brigades of the 42nd Division were assembling.
When Buyer first ran for Congress, in 1992, he faced three-term Democratic incumbent Jim Jontz in what was then the 5th District, comprising twenty mostly rural counties in north central Indiana.
When Schneider was asked his unit by Cota, someone yelled out " 5th Rangers!
When Hodgson discovered that he had lost touch with the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade since the move of his divisional headquarters, he asked Chauvel for the 10th Light Horse Regiment to fill the gap between the left of the 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and the Imperial Camel Brigade at Kh er Reseim.
When one judge ruled that obscene material could not receive copyright protection, the brothers eventually prevailed in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, leading to the FBI copyright warnings now found at the start of videotapes.
When the newly installed radar at Iba Airfield which first picked up the tracks of unidentified planes off the Zambales coast on 3 December and Clark Field reported its lone plane overflight for the second successive night Colonel George, now Chief of Staff of the 5th Interceptor Command, had gone to Far East Air Force headquarters at Nielson Field immediately to report not only the presence of the planes but his belief that the two flights were co-operating with each other and were the immediate preliminary to Japanese attack.

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