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When in Nonnus ' fourth-or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in " starry Eridanus ", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
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When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.
When Muhammad died in 632 CE, Ali and Muhammad's closest relatives made the funeral arrangements.
When the Masoretes added vowel pointings ( niqqud ) to the text of the Hebrew Bible around the 8th century CE, they gave the word YHVH vowels very similar to that of Adonai.
When he does manage to reach Greenland, making land at Herjolfsness, site of his father's farm, he remains there for the rest of his father's life and does not return to Norway until about 1000 CE.
When the Northern Zhou Dynasty defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty in 577 CE, this was the culminating moment and ultimate advantage for the northern Chinese to face south.
When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child Liu Ying ( d. 25 CE ).
When Empress Dowager Deng died, Emperor An ( r. 106 – 125 CE ) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run ( 李閏 ) and Jiang Jing ( 江京 ) that Deng and her family had planned to depose him.
When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested Empress Dowager Dou ( d. 172 CE ) and Chen Fan.
When central authority collapsed after 189 CE, wealthy landowners, members of the aristocracy / nobility, and regional military-governors relied upon their retainers to act as their own personal troops ( buqu 部曲 ).
When surgery was performed by the physician Hua Tuo ( d. 208 CE ), he used anesthesia to numb his patients ' pain and prescribed a rubbing ointment that allegedly sped the process of healing surgical wounds.
When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").
When Babur took Kandahar in 1506 CE, from Shah Beg Arghun, he sent Khan Mirza as governor to Badakhshan.
When Pausanias visited Argos in the 2nd century CE, he related the succession of Danaus to the throne, judged by the Argives, who " from the earliest times ... have loved freedom and self-government, and they limited to the utmost the authority of their kings :"
When Jin was overrun by Xiongnu forces in 311 CE, it was forced to move its capital to Jiankang ( modern day Nanjing ), the Xiongnu warriors then sacked and nearly totally destroyed Luoyang.
When Muhammad died in 632 CE, a tumultuous meeting at Saqifah selected Abu Bakr as his successor.
When her statue was removed in 382 CE by Emperor Gratianus there was much anger in Rome.
When the Jin Dynasty emperor Wányán Liàng ( February 24, 1122 – December 15, 1161 CE ) moved his capital to the Beijing area, he had a Gold Mountain Palace built on the site of the hill.
When Buddhism was introduced to Korea in the 4th century CE, the Korean peninsula was politically subdivided into three kingdoms: Goguryeo in the north, Baekje in the southwest, and Silla in the southeast.
When he was young, he travelled from his native Bagevadi to Kalyan in India between 1157 – 1167 CE during the rule of King Bijjala.
When Imam al-Mustansir died in 1094 CE, the Ismaili mission saw its greatest rift and division in its entire history.
When the Islamic Arabs attacked the Sassanid empire in 634 CE, many Kurds resisted their invasion, but were eventually brought under Muslim rule.
When Soleiman Khan Ardalan came to power in 1630 CE, the throne was transferred to Sanandaj ( Sinne ), and, from then on, the rulers contributed to the flourishing and development of the area.
When the zoroastrian Indo-Parthians invaded northern India in the 1st century CE, they adopted a large part of the symbolism of Indo-Greek coinage, but refrained from ever using the elephant, suggesting that its meaning was not merely geographical.
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When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.
" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.
When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.
When war came in 1941, the vast majority of Methodists strongly supported the national war effort, but there were also a few ( 673 ) conscientious objectors.
When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.
When two plates move or collide with each other, vast land areas are uplifted, forming mountains.
When Taira no Masakado was secretly preparing for his famous revolt, there appeared in Kyoto so vast a swarm of butterflies that the people were frightened — thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil.
When Einstein published his seminal 1905 paper on the particle theory of light, Millikan was convinced that it had to be wrong, because of the vast body of evidence that had already shown that light was a wave.
When the vote was completed, the vast majority of the residents of province voted in favour of Pakistan and the region was subsequently incorporated into the new country with full civic amenities and rights.
When it arrives it becomes apparent it has previously converted the rest of its spare mass into a vast fleet of remote-controlled warships numbering in the area of 80, 000 units.
When traveling vast distances over challenging terrain, the people left nothing behind.
When war with Germany broke out, the need to produce Mosin – Nagants in vast quantities led to a falling-off in finish of the rifles.
When Clark County shorthorn cattle were not able to compete with the vast numbers of western cattle being hauled to market by the railroads, several county fortunes were lost and many farmers turned towards burley tobacco as a substitute.
When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.
When Pratt built his tannery, it created a vast number of jobs and the population grew to 1989 by 1850.
When the vast glaciers of the north retreated, the left numerous dry river channels crisscrossing the Llano Estacado.
When questioned on drug legalisation he said: The blunt instrument of criminalisation is not working because of the vast profits it generates for organised crime ... my view is that the welfare of the community, including the victims of drug abuse, may be better served by having access to quality controlled, legally prescribed drugs.
When, as part of this, he experiences sex, God bans Memnoch from heaven ; Memnoch spends the next three months imparting his vast knowledge of science to humanity, thus inadvertently founding civilization, during which time Memnoch realizes that the characteristic that sets humans apart is their ability to love and feel passionate.
When Batu drank a cup of wine before the others at the victory banquet, Buri complained of the unfairness of Batu receiving such a vast and fertile steppe and the Mongol army, and, along with Guyuk and others, ridiculed Batu as an old woman with beard.
When the German Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire were broken up in 1918, Austria was left as a rump state with the adopted name " German-Austria " with the vast majority of the Austrians wanting to join Germany.
When he died his vast wealth and riches passed on to his mother who lived to be ninety.
When he contacts Random, Random reveals that Eric has contacted him and revealed the full extent of his defenses, which are vast and powerful.
When adequately fuelled, the giant circuit was capable of transferring massive amounts of energy over vast distances in order to generate two black holes as gateways to hyperspace and to sustain a tunnel that served as the motive power between them for the transport of an invading force of Nimons from the dying planet Crinoth to Skonnos.
When one of these is brought forth to dispatch a criminal, if his keeper desires that the offender be destroyed speedily, this vast creature will instantly crush him to atoms under his foot ; but if desired to torture him, will break his limbs successively, as men are broken on the wheel.
" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.
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