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... introduced by Curetes . Book of Job written about this time . 1506 The flute invented by Hyagnis , a Phrygian . 1497 Amphictyon gives interpretation to dreams and draws prognostics from omens . 1494 Ericthoneus teaches the Athenians ...
... introduced by Curetes . Book of Job written about this time . 1506 The flute invented by Hyagnis , a Phrygian . 1497 Amphictyon gives interpretation to dreams and draws prognostics from omens . 1494 Ericthoneus teaches the Athenians ...
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... introduced by Gautama 712 . into India . 710 Roman Calendar reformed . The year divided , 12 months instead of 10 as before Augurs instituted by Numa . 685 lambic verse introduced by Archilocus , Tyr- taus , and Evander , poets . 680 ...
... introduced by Gautama 712 . into India . 710 Roman Calendar reformed . The year divided , 12 months instead of 10 as before Augurs instituted by Numa . 685 lambic verse introduced by Archilocus , Tyr- taus , and Evander , poets . 680 ...
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... introduced . An eclipse of the moon ob served in Asia Minor . 213. Chi Hong Ti destroys the records of the Chinese em- pire . 211. Antiochus the Great , king of Syria . 184 years . ( Continued . ) B. C. AFRICA 32 THE WORLD'S PROGRESS .
... introduced . An eclipse of the moon ob served in Asia Minor . 213. Chi Hong Ti destroys the records of the Chinese em- pire . 211. Antiochus the Great , king of Syria . 184 years . ( Continued . ) B. C. AFRICA 32 THE WORLD'S PROGRESS .
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... introduced . 529 The schools of Athens suppressed . 530 The fables of Pilpay translated into Persian . 531 Chess introduced into Persia from India . 533 Justinian's pandects and code of laws . 529. The Order of Benedictine monks in ...
... introduced . 529 The schools of Athens suppressed . 530 The fables of Pilpay translated into Persian . 531 Chess introduced into Persia from India . 533 Justinian's pandects and code of laws . 529. The Order of Benedictine monks in ...
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... introduced from China by the monks . 553 Procopius , a Roman historian - the last of the classic writers . 559 The Saxon laws ; the king's authority limit- ] ed by the Wittenagemot . 552. The Fifth general Council at Constanti nople ...
... introduced from China by the monks . 553 Procopius , a Roman historian - the last of the classic writers . 559 The Saxon laws ; the king's authority limit- ] ed by the Wittenagemot . 552. The Fifth general Council at Constanti nople ...
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Page 492 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 477 - Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
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Page 471 - THE poor of England, till the time of Hen. VIII., subsisted entirely upon private benevolence, and the charity of welldisposed Christians. For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so " that none of them die for default of sustenance;" and though by the statutes 12 Ric.II.