| But when John II was born, in a.d. 470, his parents named his Mercurius. |
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| Abul Wafa determined accurately the obliquity of the ecliptic in 995 A.D. and calculated the variation in the moon's motion. |
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| In A.D. 71, the Romans erected a camp at the site of modern day York, where the Foss flows into the Ouse. |
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| If we make a standard horoscope chart for December 21st, 2012 A.D., nothing very unusual appears. |
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| By the 4th century A.D., nearly 177 days per year were devoted to the Games, held at the circus. |
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| Beginning in the third century A.D., tribes of Goths, Huns, and Avars invaded the region. |
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| In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. |
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| Constructed in A.D. 161, this once-massive theater today holds only 5,000 spectators in the lower tier of seats. |
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| After being destroyed by fire, it was reconstructed in A.D. 200 and had a capacity for 250,000 spectators. |
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| The introduction and organization of zakat in 624 A.D. encouraged accounting for the purpose of zakat calculation and payment. |
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| The wonderful second part of the book opens in the Tarim Basin circa 750 A.D. in a settlement of Tocharians. |
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| Throughout the first few centuries A.D., Kenya was the destination of numerous migrating tribes, such as the Luo and the Bantu peoples. |
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| Between the fourth and eighth centuries A.D., most of both portions were conquered by the Franks. |
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| From the 70s and 80s A.D., we have some poems and epigrams by Martial. |
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| Starting around the middle of the 3rd century A.D., Roman mints began incorporating mint marks as a form of control over the actions of mint officials. |
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| As the Romans made their way north, grape growing spread across Europe, and by 300 A.D., the use of fermented and unfermented juice in recipes was a common practice. |
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| In 726 A.D., Emperor Seibu hosted a sumo tournament in July, which then became an important annual palace ritual along with archery contests in January and May. |
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| The extensive sets of ridges were clearly constructed and used by Oneota cultivators during the first half of the fifteenth century A.D., during the Pammel Creek phase. |
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| Arab traders began traveling to the Kenya coast beginning the first century A.D. and settling on the coast in the 17th century. |
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| The Chinese discovered it before 1000 A.D. during the Sung Dynasty, using a compound of charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur to produce powerful rockets and fireworks. |
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| Then he assembled a meeting between himself, Norman, Savannah, the first A.D., the cinematographer and the head gaffer and let them know what was going on. |
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| Heron of Alexandria described the screw in Mechanica in the first century A.D., and archeologists have unearthed threaded bolts at early Roman sites. |
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| Bulgarian uses the 29-character Cyrillic alphabet, which was adapted from the Greek alphabet in the ninth century A.D. to accommodate the sounds of the Old Slavonic tongue. |
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| I went to an Earth Day event in San Francisco and there was this huge Earthican flag, circa 3000 A.D., with the red and white stripes and an image of Earth up in the corner. |
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