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 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.

When ancient astronomers viewed the sky, they saw the Sun, Moon, and stars moving overhead in a regular fashion.

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 these two continents joined together, Laurasia was nearly reformed, and by the beginning of the Triassic, the East China craton had rejoined the redeveloping Laurasia as it collided with Gondwana to form Pangaea.

When the last bit of the Mid-Atlantic spreading ridge is subducted beneath the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean is predicted to rapidly close with a new Pangaea forming.

When these continents collided to form the single super-continent of Pangaea, the sediments on the ocean floor were pushed up and over while the molten rock below the surface was forced out.

When a beam of silver atoms was passed through a specially shaped magnetic field, the beam was split based on the direction of an atom's angular momentum, or spin.

When Argo Navis was split, its Bayer designations were also split.

When the PDPA split in 1967, the Parcham-faction established a Parcham PDPA, while their ideological nemesis, the Khalqs, established a Khalqist PDPA.

" When or where Teach collected the ten gun Briganteen is unknown, but by that time he may have been in command of at least 150 men split between three vessels.

When the National League split into two, and then three divisions, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together.

When it was re-staged in 1923 in a more professional production, the play provoked a theatre riot ( initiated by André Breton ) that heralded the split within the movement that was to produce Surrealism.

When a vertex v is added, we split in three the triangle that contains v, then we apply the flip algorithm.

When the Lord Curzon ( Viceroy 1899-1905 ) took control of higher education and then split the large province of Bengal into a largely Hindu western half and " Eastern Bengal and Assam ," a largely Muslim eastern half.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

When Ice split amicably with Sire / Warner Bros. Records after a dispute over the artwork of the album Home Invasion, he reactivated Rhyme Syndicate and formed a deal with Priority Records for distribution.

When the d ' Orsay train station was converted into the Musée d ' Orsay in 1986, the collection was split, and pieces completed after the 1848 Revolution were moved to the new museum.

When Remey died his followers split into rival factions with each believing in a different Guardian.

When he tried to fill it with the Colorado Party, he split the party in two, and neither faction could establish itself in power without help from the military.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When a ribosome finishes reading an mRNA molecule, these two subunits split apart.

When this happens, an exception to the odd chip rules above can be made: if the high hand wins its half of the pot alone, and the low half is going to be quartered, the odd chip ( if any ) from the first split should be placed in the low half, rather than being awarded to the high hand.

When the constitutional amendments were introduced in 1840, it was decided to split Holland once again, this time into two provinces called " South Holland " and " North Holland ".

When Viacom split into two companies at the end of 2005, its over-the-air broadcasting interests, including UPN, became part of CBS Corporation.

When, at the December 1969 IRA convention and the January 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis the delegates voted to participate in the Dublin ( Leinster House ), Belfast ( Stormont ) and London ( Westminster ) parliaments, the organizations split.

When a coven has grown too large to be manageable, it may split, or " hive ".

When special elections were ordered in 1986, victorious Washington-backed candidates gave him a 24 – 26 split council.

When Simon returned to the US with the growing success of " The Sound of Silence " Kathy ( who was quite shy ) wanted no part of the success and fame that awaited Simon and they split up.

Gallagher has said that " When The Jam split, The Smiths started, and I totally went for them.