Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.

Writing in the 4th century, the Pilgrim of Bordeaux reported that the sepulchers of David, Ezekiel, Asaph, Job, Jesse, and Solomon were located near Bethlehem.

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century painting.

Writing a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century.

Artist depiction of " Saint Paul Writing His Epistles ", 16th century ( Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, Texas ).

A 17th century depiction of Paul Writing His Epistles.

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.

Writing in the 1920s, Kondratiev proposed to apply the theory to the 19th century:

Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

Writing in the 2nd century Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavoured with spices and deep-fried in oil.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

Writing down the targum was prohibited, nevertheless some targumatic writings appeared as early as the middle of the first century AD.

* Late 1st century – Young Woman Writing, detail of a wall painting, from Pompeii, is made.

Writing in the fourth century B. C., Aristotle also mentioned this principle.

Writing nearly a century later both the chroniclers John Mair and Hector Boece relied extensively on Bower for their own narratives.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

The dominant copybooks in North America at the start of the 20th century included those produced by A. N. Palmer, a student of Gaskell, who developed the Palmer Method, as reflected in his Palmer's Guide to Business Writing, published in 1894.

Writing in the 1960s, the historian Gene Weltfish drew from earlier work of Wissler and Spinden to suggest that the sacrificial practice might have been transferred in the early 16th century from the Aztec of present-day Mexico.

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

Writing in the 12th century, Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act.

Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the " character and atmosphere ", and rather stand-offishly suggesting that " to know Staffa one must go alone ".

" Writing in the second half of the same century, Michael Doukas regarded the story as worthy of inclusion in his Historia Byzantina.

Writing in Chinese characters was at the time a masculine pursuit ; women were generally discreet when using Chinese symbols, confining themselves mostly to native Japanese words ( yamato kotoba ).

Writing all his own songs, and continuing to perform mostly outside traditional country music channels, Yoakam did many shows in rock and punk rock clubs around Los Angeles, playing with roots rock or punk rock acts like The Blasters ( Yoakam scored a small video hit with his version of their song " Long White Cadillac "), Los Lobos, and X.

He witnessed the 1965 Watts Riots from an apartment within the curfew zone, feeling more endangered, he indicates in ' Writing a Life ' ( 99-100 ) and When TISH Happens ( 224 ), by the US National Guard than by the mostly black protesters.

These are found mostly in the " Mathematics " and " Language Arts: Writing: Part I " tests.

Writing mostly historical fiction, his attention to detail and historical accuracy won him great praise by his contemporaries.

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "... this album is mostly recommended to her greatest fans.

During the late 1970s he acquired a large public audience as a critic of the then Labour government's disregard of civil liberties ; his writings from this time are collected in Writing By Candlelight ( 1980 ).

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

John Cage's Roaratorio: an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake combines a collage of sounds mentioned in Finnegans Wake, with Irish jigs and Cage reading his Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake, one of a series of five writings based on the Wake.

Marlatt ’ s, What Matters: Writing 1968-1970, includes some of her early writings, including " Rings " and " Vancouver Poems " and was published in 1980.

In 1926, Scholastic published its first book, Saplings, which was a collection of selected student writings by the winners of the Scholastic Writing Awards.

New writings have arisen from the involvement of cris cheek, Bridgid Mcleer, and Alaric Sumner, under the direction of Caroline Bergvall and John Hall through the Performance Writing programme at Dartington College of Arts including Kirsten Lavers, Andy Smith, and Chris Paul ; from the involvement of Redell Olson in the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, including Becky Cremin, Frances Kruk, Ryan Ormond, Sophie Robinson, John Sparrow and Stephen Willey ; and Keith Jebb at University of Bedfordshire's Creative Writing programme, including Alyson Torns and Allison Boast.

Writing then became his outlet, though most of his early writings were of a personal nature, and not intended for publication.

The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair, in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored " diminishment and incoherence " in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was " ponderous and obscure.

: Writing Einstein's constant depends on how the stress-energy tensor is defined, so the Einstein field equations are always invariant ( see details in the section " About the two possible writings " further ).

Among the works published were Richard Wright's groundbreaking essay " Blueprint for Negro Writing ," together with writings by Margaret Walker and Ralph Ellison.

He also left a number of works that have not been edited: " Historia de la Escritura " ( History of Writing ); " Paleografía universal " ( Universal Paleography ); " Moral de Confucio " ( the Moral of Confucius ); " Historia de las primeras colonias de América " ( History of the first American colonies ); " El hombre vuelto á la religión " ( The man turned to religion ), as well as tracts of a controversial or theological nature.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* De Casparis, J. G., Indonesian Palaeography: A History of Writing in Indonesia from the beginnings to c. AD 1500, Leiden / Koln, 1975

* Kevin De Ornellas, Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color ( Greenwood Press, 2006 ), edited by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu.

She taught English at Indiana University, De Paul University, and in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.