When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.

When having legal status recognized, or defined in law, as in ancient China, concubinage was akin, although inferior, to marriage.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

When the gods were believed to be duly propitiated ... Armour, weapons, and other things of the kind were ordered to be in readiness, and the ancient spoils gathered from the enemy were taken down from the temples and colonnades.

When Cleisthenes divided the ancient Athenians into new demes for voting, he consulted the Oracle of Delphi about what heroes he should name each division after.

When discussing ancient history, however, the term Near East is more commonly used.

When the Bible was translated into European languages, the names of food grains common in Europe were used, some of which were not grown in ancient Israel:

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

When, in the 18th century, a library of ancient papyri was found in Herculaneum, ripples of expectation spread among the learned men of the time.

When the attempt of papal forces to take over the ancient independent Republic of San Marino failed, Clement XII disavowed the arbitrary action of his legate, Cardinal Alberoni, in seizing San Marino, and restored its independence.

When combined with honey to create oxymel, it was a common cough medicine in the ancient world.

When the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea split into two about 180 million years ago, North America remained joined to Eurasia as part of the supercontinent of Laurasia, while South America was part of the supercontinent of Gondwana.

When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.

When a man died in ancient Greece, his wife cut off her hair and buried it with him, and in Hindu families, the chief mourner is expected to shave his or her head 10 days after a death.

When humans first land on Darkover, they soon find an ancient world already inhabited by sentient life forms.

When the sections of the chorus have ended their responses, they unite and close in the epode, thus exemplifying the triple m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards.

Walter Burkert points out, " When in the Iliad Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Olympians who come along, but also all the nymphs and all the rivers ; Okeanos alone remains at his station ", Greek hearers recognized this impossibility as the poet's hyperbole, which proclaimed the universal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: " the worship of these deities ," Burkert confirms, " is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality.

When Eurystheus, the agent of ancient Hera who was assigning The Twelve Labors to Heracles, found out that it was Heracles ' nephew Iolaus who had handed him the firebrand, he declared that the labor had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him.

:" When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking ; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood.

When Wākea was on Earth in ancient times, he was a High Chief.

When Oduduwa arrived ancient Ife, he and his group are believed to have conquered the component communities and to have evolved the palace structure with its effective centralized power and dynasty.

When Billy first meets him, Shazam tells Billy that his name is an acronym for six ancient heroes.

When the initial system was designed, the official London boundary was restricted to the square mile of the small, ancient City of London.

The tendency to make vows to God was strong in ancient Israel ; the Torah found it necessary to caution against the promiscuous making of vows: " When you make a vow to the L your God, do not put off fulfilling it, for the L your God will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt ; whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing.

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

When astronomers discovered the third member, they confirmed that the sources were separate and not the result of gravitational lensing.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

When the spot was to be photographed again in November 1994 by the Hubble Space Telescope, it had disappeared completely, leaving astronomers to believe that it had either been covered up or vanished.

When combined with existing HUDF data, astronomers were able to identify a new list of potentially very distant galaxies.

When astronomers developed the spectral classification of the carbon stars, they had considerable difficulty when trying to correlate the spectra to the stars ' effective temperatures.

When distributed as non-scientific JPEG files the PC portion of the image is shown with the same resolution as the WFC portions, but astronomers receive a raw scientific image package which presents the PC image in its native, higher detail.

When a telescope is tracking an object, every minute is difficult ; therefore, reciprocity failure is one of the biggest motivations for astronomers to switch to digital imaging.

When two galaxies collide, the material is pulled out in strands, allowing astronomers to determine which way the galaxies are moving.

When discovered the day of March 26, 1971 by the American astronomers C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels, they named it simply 9495.

When the astronomers ask the cloud how its lifeform originated, it replies that they have always existed.

When astronomers discovered SN 1994I in the Whirlpool Galaxy a few days later, they realized that the observations made with the telescope at Leuschner had captured the earliest images of the supernova.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

When Cyril ’ s bishop Maximus died Cyril was appointed bishop by Acasius of Caesaria, who was himself an Arian and viewed Cyril as a theological ally.

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

When Cesare eventually took power, he was viewed by the citizens as a great improvement.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

When viewed by zoologists and professors of natural history it was concluded that it showed a seal, possibly a grey seal.

When viewed through a telescope or binoculars with no outside reference, it is difficult to judge the size of an object in the water.

When viewed under a microscope using a polarized light source, different liquid crystal phases will appear to have distinct textures.

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

When viewed from " Viewpoint A ", the object appears to be in front of the blue square.

When viewed from directly in front, the speed may show exactly 60 ; but when viewed from the passenger seat the needle may appear to show a slightly different speed, due to the angle of viewing.

When one considers that rhetoric included torture ( it IS persuasive, and was accepted in forensics in the West until very recently ), it is clear that rhetoric cannot be viewed only in academic terms.

When his attempt to secure confirmation of Gaidar as prime minister was rejected, Yeltsin appointed Viktor Chernomyrdin, whom the parliament approved because he was viewed as more economically conservative than Gaidar.

When the cities are viewed as points in the plane, many natural distance functions are metrics, and so many natural instances of TSP satisfy this constraint.

When viewed through this formalism, the measurement of the wave function will randomly " collapse ", or rather " decohere ", to a sharply peaked function at some location.

When viewed from the side, such a layout appears as a " V " lying on its side.

" When rumors circulated that the top job would go to Marshall, many critics viewed the transfer as a demotion for Marshall, since he would leave his position as Chief of Staff of the Army and lose his seat on the Combined Chiefs of Staff.

When viewed in this way the numbers x < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., x < sub > n </ sub >, and y < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., y < sub > n </ sub > are the components of x and y with respect to an orthonormal basis of V.

When Henry died in 1125, Lothair was viewed by the imperial chancellor, the Archbishop of Mainz, as a perfect candidate.

When y is viewed as a function of x, the cycloid is differentiable everywhere except at the cusps where it hits the x-axis, with the derivative tending toward or as one approaches a cusp.

When viewed edge-on, prominent dust-lanes are sometimes visible in absorption against the light of stars in the disk.

When the overhead map is viewed, some parts of certain levels have annotations that describe the name of an area.

When Spielberg and editor Michael Kahn viewed a rough cut of the film in late 1988, they felt it suffered from a lack of action.