The later Theophany, extant in Syriac translation, and his last works repeat many of the same apologetic themes. |
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For that matter, extant birds are quite different from Jurassic and Cretaceous birds. |
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That answer focused on the personalities of the two extant sexual partners as being merely unstable, unsuitable for sexual dalliance. |
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The congenial figurines combine favored features of extant ceramics with postures and expressions of enhanced fluidity and liveliness. |
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All these taxa are relevant to the history of the conquest of land by vertebrates because they are outside the large clades of extant tetrapods. |
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This group is represented by a single extant species which is thought to be the sister taxon to all other frogs. |
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A copy in the original Sanskrit is extant as well as a translation in Tibetan. |
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In this paper, we reviewed the extant literature that appears to bear on this point. |
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Mammals are unique among extant vertebrates in possessing a lower jaw formed by a single bony element, the dentary. |
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Many extant tetrapods communicate intraspecifically via a mixture of pheromonal and non-pheromonal cues. |
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In Bogdanowicz and Owen's analysis, 45 metrical and 30 discrete-state characters in 57 extant hipposiderid species were examined. |
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Among extant plant protists, this type of siphonous or coenocytic architecture appears to be limited to the chlorophyte and chrysophyte algae. |
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Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives. |
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Straps and rings for bobstay plates are extant in the lower stempost, with mortises into the wood to admit the bobstay chains. |
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The mineral cabinet in the Stroganoff palace, still extant but unrestored, is generally credited to Voronikhin. |
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All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate. |
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The measure has been adopted and duly published by the EC Commission and at this time is legally extant and valid. |
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Although this effect is very robust, nearly all of the extant research has used verbal or readily verbalisable stimuli. |
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No planning permission granted has ever been implemented and none remains extant. |
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Three large mill buildings stand in a U shape around a courtyard which contains the earliest extant gasworks chimney in Scotland. |
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A slightly smaller version, built without a pent roof, is also common among extant structures. |
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These yearly handlists will include letters written by Lawrence and letters received by him for which texts are known to be extant. |
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Lewy demonstrated the similarity in breeding strategies between ammonoids and extant octopods. |
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My quick survey of the antennal structure of extant odonates and mayflies indicates that the flagellum is structurally different. |
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There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders. |
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All of the known Mesozoic centipedes, including C. oberlii, are morphologically indistinguishable from extant centipedes. |
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The order Cetacea comprises two extant sub-orders and one extinct sub-order. |
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There are more than 700 extant species of cephalopods, divided into 2 subclasses, 5 orders, 47 families, and 139 genera. |
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This distinction was introduced to accommodate fossil taxa within extant taxa without inflating, unnecessarily, the taxonomic hierarchy. |
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All extant hominoids with the exception of highland gorillas are strongly frugivorous. |
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Five important extant classes of Arthropods are arachnids, chilopods, diplopods, crustaceans and insects. |
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Insect palaeontology depends on assigning fossils to extant taxa usually on the basis of wing characters. |
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Van Eyck's extant single-panel portraits are all decorated on the reverse, whereas the central panels of his surviving triptychs are not. |
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Today there is a variety of extant species that parasitize birds, reptiles, and rodents, as well as human and nonhuman primates. |
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Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades. |
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Of the syntypes on which he based the species, only two are currently known to be extant. |
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Paintings of Maitreya are virtually nonexistent, but statues of him are still extant. |
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We propose that the ancestors of the four extant river dolphin taxa were inhabitants of Miocene epicontinental seas. |
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With an abundance of remains there are ample extant buildings and artefacts in situ. |
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Byronia is most similar to thecae of polypoid coronalids, an extant group of scyphozoans that have been allied with conulariids. |
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This extant species has erect jointed colonies, an articulated growth-form which seemingly evolved convergently with that of crisiid cyclostomes. |
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In comparative studies using model organisms, extant taxa are often referred to as basal. |
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Manuscripts in Greek and manuscripts of translations from the Greek into Latin, Syriac, and Coptic are extant. |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder is known far and wide for his thirty-five or so extant paintings. |
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The tales were known long before the extant ballad versions began to be copied or printed in the mid-fifteenth century. |
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It is likely that the bone-modifying behaviors of dire wolves were intermediate between those of extant wolves and spotted hyenas. |
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Collecting activities were seriously curtailed in the 1930s when two flashboards, or risers, were added to the top of the extant concrete dam. |
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It is unclear which or how many wild species or cultigens were the progenitors of the extant avocado races. |
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Fossil salamanders are known from most extant families, as well as four extinct families. |
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True, it's not as if there isn't already a massive body of work extant on the subject. |
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The document is an extant work of that most postmodernist of enterprises, the law. |
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However, comparison of these extant hemichordates with the erect, fenestrate colonies of Dictyonema is problematical. |
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Given that I have no extant close family, I get off relatively lightly I know. |
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As the world's only extant empire of law and justice, we also have the right and responsibility to do it. |
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His definition refers to extant companies, implying the book is mainly about modern indies. |
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It contains some 60 percent of Hyde's extant poems, dozens of which have not been seen before. |
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First, Wood reviews the extant literature in order to present a short biography. |
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High Street and Old Market Street are among the oldest streets extant in the town. |
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In Treatise on the quadrilateral al-Tusi gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry. |
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Among the 11 extant orders of arachnids, Araneae and Acari are by far the most species rich. |
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The authors have divided the woods into five groups according to their relationship to extant plants. |
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Additionally, a number of other fully-feathered extant birds can readily absorb and use incident radiant solar energy. |
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Their descendants include extant species such as birds, crocodiles and alligators. |
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The impala and rhebok were also not included in tribe-level analyses because each is the sole extant member of its tribe. |
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As often bedevils the translator's task there appears to be at least one lacuna in the extant text, but it was relatively painless to decipher. |
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Their adaptive radiation occurred in the Eocene when palms, figs, lipid-rich laurels, and other extant families were prominent. |
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His responsiveness to nature recalls one of Atwood's beliefs about qualities extant in much Canadian literature. |
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Most of the silicified microbes, however, lack the key features that would allow accurate comparisons with extant taxa. |
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And finally, in the last extant part of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary, Mary is defended by the disciple Levi, presumably the son of Alphaeus. |
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Johnson notes that this addition contains an anagram, extant in the Russian text, which would be missing in a literal translation. |
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The oldest extant writing surfaces include Babylonian clay tablets and Indian palm leaves. |
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Smith's imagination was not limited to studying the extant taxonomy of market institutions. |
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In most extant crinoids, primarily the shallow-water ones, there are two body regions, the calyx and the rays. |
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At the same time, there are less than a dozen extant early medieval Welsh manuscripts, and only three are illuminated. |
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After a day spent walking in the silence of the dunescape I found myself alone within the Ngarrindjeri's shelter, in the presence of an extant Dreaming. |
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In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares. |
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It is interesting to note, however, that one extant water lily, Barclaya rotundifolia, may have reinvaded wet, shady, disturbed forest understory habitats. |
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The family appears to be a member of the extant group Sciaroidea, which includes fungus gnats and gall midges, though precise relationships remain unclear. |
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More importantly, when extrapolating to ancient floras, you cannot guarantee that the autecological preferences of ancestral plants resemble those of their extant descendants. |
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The sole extant example of the castrato voice dates from the dawn of recorded sound, and the singer in question was advanced in years at the time. |
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This extant gastropod, like its Pennsylvanian relative, is dominantly a deposit feeder, grazing on vegetable detritus and algae within seasonal alluvial channels. |
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Consequently, the extant data imply that the small size of these fossils does not rule out a woody habit or low-light, closed forest habitats, as some have argued. |
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The presence of extremely large upper canines in an herbivorous kangaroo is a unexpected example of evolutionary convergence with Tertiary and even extant ungulates. |
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Our few preserved large bronze statues make a striking contrast to the many extant statuettes, whose complex movements and marked torsion make them strongly three-dimensional. |
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There are a number of extant monumental variants, and renditions proliferated in copies and in versions on coins and vases and in relief sculpture. |
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Introductions to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form. |
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The Life of St Osith, extant in four Latin vitaeand one Anglo-Norman version, is one of the most fascinating of such post-Conquest re-inventions of Anglo-Saxon sanctity. |
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Similar attempts had been underway in the dermal skeleton, stemming from Williamson's use of placoid scales from extant sharks as conceptual units in comparative analysis. |
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Grieg was a pianist rather than violinist and his only extant string quartet came at a time of a rumoured affair between his wife and older brother. |
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The observed segmental structure of the Brassica genome strongly suggests that the extant Brassica diploid species evolved from a hexaploid ancestor. |
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Jellyfish belong to one of the oldest extant animal phyla, the Cnidaria. |
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Three decapod species are congeneric with extant species known from outer shelf and slope habitats documenting an onshore-offshore pattern of ecological preference. |
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This thallus structure with dimerous organization allows Arenigiphyllum to be compared with extant members of Corallinales, both Corallinaceae and Sporolithaceae. |
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In extant amniotes, however, the VN organ is situated too close to the midline to leave a mark on the maxilla, as is the anlagen of the organ in crocodilian and avian embryos. |
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Most biologists are familiar with only a few of the approximately 40 extant animal phyla such as annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and chordates. |
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Indeed, bacteria in the guts of extant termites are known to be able to convert the nitrogenous end product uric acid into metabolites usable by the host. |
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But this loss is made good to some extent not only by quotations from lost works recorded by later writers, but also by the varieties of ancient reportage that are extant. |
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In fact, Himmler's appointments book and diaries, where extant, come as close as most people would require to demonstrating what the Final Solution was all about. |
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In London it is located in the Duveen Gallery where half the extant marbles sit under white light as if in a morgue. |
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In fact, Lau believes that cases of sexual assault do not belong in a university, but in the extant legal and judicial systems. |
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Lightly feathered dromaeosaurs might have relied on wings for help in climbing steep slopes and even entering trees, just as extant galliform birds do. |
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The subsequent extinction of the family may be a pseudoextinction, because the Palaeoxanthopsidae may have given rise to many of the extant lineages comprising the Xanthoidea. |
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One might generously say that Simpson and Bowles are just bowing to the extant political reality. |
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The larva probably possessed the scraping mouth parts and the branchial filter seen in most extant anuran larvae, and likewise probably also pumped water rhythmically. |
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The four extant hyena species are the remnants of a large radiation. |
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This secularizing process is a complex one, for many Igbo masquerades partake, in some degree, of the extant energies of the ancestors or spirits that inhabit the world. |
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Boxes represent extant groups and their ancestral progenitors. |
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The extant issues are numerous but at least we know what they are. |
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In spite of the fluid phylogeny of extant spermatophytes, it is clear that the pollination mechanism of Ephedra is of ancient origin. |
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A neotype was chosen for Cheilanthes incisa by previous workers because there were apparently no extant syntypes. |
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The only extant English translation of Pollux's Onomasticon appears in the appendix of a 1775 edition of Aristotle's Poetics. |
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According to the extant documents, the date of this mosque goes back to 1240 Hejira computed according to lunar calendar. |
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The most significant modification in humans compared to other extant primates is altricial birth, which is the birth of helpless newborns. |
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Multilocus resolution of phylogeny and timescale in the extant adaptive radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers. |
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Some of these have disappeared, others are still partially extant, and others form the basis for the modern canal. |
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One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children. |
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To a large degree, many of the extant legal records from the Germanic tribes seem to revolve around property transactions. |
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Religious architecture includes extant cathedrals as well as the ruins of monasteries and abbeys. |
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Moorman, claimed the first extant work of English literature, Beowulf, was written in Yorkshire, this view does not have common acceptance today. |
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It is attested both in inscriptions and in some of the earliest extant Latin literary works, such as the comedies of Plautus and Terence. |
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From the hoplological perspective, Japan's koryu bujutsu are among the last extant hand-to-hand battlefield martial fighting arts in the world. |
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The extant works of Aristotle are broken down according to the five categories in the Corpus Aristotelicum. |
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This church levy, called Peter's Pence, is extant in Ireland as a voluntary donation. |
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The speech is meticulous in details, a common mark of all his extant works, and he goes into long digressions on related matters. |
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Its main body was the senate, which met in a building still extant in the forum of Rome. |
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The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, believed to be the earliest extant New Testament text, is on permanent display in the library. |
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Some of the earliest extant works are of historical epics telling the early military history of Rome. |
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An anonymous life of Cuthbert written at Lindisfarne is the oldest extant piece of English historical writing. |
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Many are still extant, and provide valuable information about the Cornish language. |
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The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. |
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They are still extant, although the fabric of Wilfrid's churches above ground has been replaced by later structures. |
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Robin Hood is known to have appeared in a number of other lost and extant Elizabethan plays. |
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This is the oldest extant translation of the Gospels into the English language. |
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But only his writings on agriculture and the Latin language are extant in their complete form. |
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Few of Keats's letters are extant from the period before he joined his literary circle. |
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It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. |
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From an extant letter written by Thomas Purcell we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev. |
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There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays from the late medieval period. |
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The extant Laws date back to 1863 where a ruleset was formally adopted by the newly formed Football Association. |
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The earliest extant French literary texts date from the ninth century, but very few texts before the 11th century have survived. |
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The extant Danish monarchy traces its roots back to Gorm the Old, who established his reign in the early 10th century. |
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Matius's mimiambs have not survived complete, but the extant remains may not be unrepresentative of his general style of writing. |
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In 1771, an incident on the field of play led to the creation of a new Law which remains extant. |
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The Codex Gigas from the 12th century is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. |
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Illustrated books, including erotica, were popular, but are poorly represented by extant fragments. |
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There are six extant subspecies of golden eagle that differ slightly in size and plumage. |
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Molecular phylogenetic studies conclude that bryophytes are the earliest diverging lineages of the extant land plants. |
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In the earliest extant Scottish legal manuscript, there is a document called Leges inter Brettos et Scottos. |
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The quality of extant work generally, both minor and major, demonstrates a thriving poetic tradition in Scotland throughout the period. |
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Wales has had a long tradition of poets and bards under royal patronage, with extant writing from medieval royal poets and earlier. |
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The first still extant Burns Club was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants who were born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns. |
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The only extant ice sheets are the two that cover most of Antarctica and Greenland. |
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None of the titles are contemporary with the earliest extant versions of the stories, but are on the whole modern ascriptions. |
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The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. |
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There are eight marginal inscriptions written in Latin and Old Welsh, which are some of the earliest extant written Welsh. |
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With the approval of the BBC, efforts are now under way to restore as many of the episodes as possible from the extant material. |
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Also extant are two pageants from a New Testament cycle acted at Coventry and one pageant each from Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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Pectinidae is one of the largest marine bivalve families, and containing over 300 extant species in 60 genera. |
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It is now the only extant species in the genus Nephrops, after several other species were moved to the closely related genus Metanephrops. |
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More than 200 genera of living diatoms are known, with an estimated 100,000 extant species. |
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The genus, in turn, contains the only extant member of the family Dermochelyidae. |
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The dermochelyids are relatives of the family Cheloniidae, which contains the other six extant sea turtle species. |
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The leatherback's flippers are the largest in proportion to its body among extant sea turtles. |
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It is the sole extant species of its genus, Physeter, in the family Physeteridae. |
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There are 33 extant species of pinnipeds, and more than 50 extinct species have been described from fossils. |
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Most extant marine reptiles, except for some sea snakes, are oviparous and need to return to land to lay their eggs. |
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However, the bone microstructure indicates rapid growth, as in sauropods and extant mammals, which suggests endothermy. |
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Then Corelio with De Gentenaar, the oldest extant Flemish newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard. |
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The extant lists of his authorities cover more than 400, including 146 Roman and 327 Greek and other sources of information. |
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However, recent DNA analysis has identified as few as five main clades which contain all extant brown bears. |
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As of 2005, 16 extant or recently extinct subspecies are recognized by the general scientific community. |
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Since the rate of extinction has increased, many extant species may become extinct before they are described. |
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It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew. |
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The gray wolf is the largest extant member of the Canidae, excepting certain large breeds of domestic dog. |
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Swans are the largest extant members of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and are among the largest flying birds. |
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Herons are members of the family Ardeidae, and the majority of extant species are in the subfamily Ardeinae and known as true or typical herons. |
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Fossil remains of true finches are rare, and those that are known can mostly be assigned to extant genera at least. |
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For fossil species and paleosubspecies of extant taxa, see the genus and species articles. |
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Fungal fossils are difficult to distinguish from those of other microbes, and are most easily identified when they resemble extant fungi. |
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The Aeneid and Livy's early history are the best extant sources for Rome's founding myths. |
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Secondly, visual sources sometimes represent myths or mythical scenes that are not attested in any extant literary source. |
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Venetus A, copied in the 10th century AD, is the oldest fully extant manuscript of the Iliad. |
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Cyclops by Euripides, the only fully extant satyr play, retells the episode involving Polyphemus with a humorous twist. |
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There are only a few extant inscriptions, making study of this writing system difficult. |
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However, all extant procyonid genera appear to have originated in North America. |
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Such vocalizations evolved independently in extant archosaurs numerous times, following increases in body size. |
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As of 2013 six of the original eight Shires of Virginia are considered to be still extant whilst two have consolidated with a neighbouring city. |
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Thousands of garage bands were extant in the US and Canada during the era and hundreds produced regional hits. |
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The Gliridae are one of the oldest extant rodent families, with a fossil record dating back to the early Eocene. |
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Many extinct hominids have been studied to help understand the relationship between modern humans and the other extant hominids. |
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An abridged, free translation, often wrongly attributed to King Alfred is still extant. |
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The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and fifteenth, are extant only in epitome, but otherwise the work seems to be entire. |
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As far as ancient literary sources are concerned, an extant continuous account of Trajan's reign does not exist. |
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It is proportionally smaller than in any other pleurodeline, extant or extinct. |
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This MRCA may well have contemporaries who are also ancestral to some but not all of the extant population. |
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Although the original manuscript and map has not survived, copies of the map survive in several of the extant manuscripts. |
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It is classified under the family Giraffidae, along with its closest extant relative, the okapi. |
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The oldest extant Chinese maps come from the State of Qin, dated back to the 4th century BCE, during the Warring States period. |
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In 1492, Martin Behaim, a German cartographer, made the oldest extant globe of the Earth. |
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This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. |
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The earliest tenets of Zoroastrian schools are part of the extant scriptures of the Zoroastrian religion in Avestan. |
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Due to the absence of human development in its remote habitat, it retains more of its original range than any other extant carnivore. |
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Two of the largest extant mammals, the elephant and the rhinoceros, are largely hairless. |
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Both are extremely old, going back at least to the third century, and are the oldest extant liturgies continually in use. |
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Royal supremacy was exercised through the extant legal structures of the church, whose leaders were bishops. |
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The Calcutta Polo Club is considered the oldest extant polo club in the world. |
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The constitution was a federal one, and was influenced by the study of other federations, both ancient and extant. |
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The role of then extant Manusmriti as a historic foundation of law texts for the people of Southeast Asia has been very important, states Hooker. |
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Furthermore, there is only one extant barony by writ in the Peerage of Ireland, that of La Poer, now held by the Marquess of Waterford. |
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Confucius's family, the Kongs, have the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world today. |
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Until recently, the Mawangdui manuscripts have held the pride of place as the oldest extant manuscripts of the Laozi. |
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The earliest extant records date from 1728 and since then huge caverns have been carved out on either side of the pass. |
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Stonehenge is not a true henge as its ditch runs outside its bank, although there is a small extant external bank as well. |
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The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. |
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While texts in Sirayan and other aboriginal languages are lost, there is still a substantial extant corpus of texts in Sinckan and Favorlang. |
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Only four xenarthran families are extant today, providing little indication of the past richness of the order. |
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The European bison is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison. |
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The dorsal processes of the premaxillae are apomorphic, being longer and more vertical than those of any extant or fossil salmonine. |
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There are supports for both theories, but since no autographical manuscript is extant we will never know. |
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In extant primate brains, this is manifest by the position of the lunate sulcus, the anterior boundary of the primary visual striate cortex. |
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The pollen nearest that of Itea in morphology might be produced by the extant gentianaceous saprophyte genera Leiphaimos Schltdl. |
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There are three extant groups of mammals, namely, monotremes, marsupials and placentals. |
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Other extant relatives of horseshoe crabs, such as pycnogonids, exhibit multiple mechanisms for sexual size dimorphism. |
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While the notion of coopetition has been around for many years, unfortunately extant research has conceptualized it only through logical and exploratory methods. |
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The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the oldest extant Buddhist sanctuary. |
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Not a single extant Virgilian manuscript survives from the ninth century, despite the number of ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil's works and commentaries on his works. |
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A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist. |
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One method to obtain information on the oldest core of Buddhism is to compare the oldest extant versions of the Theravadin Pali Canon and other texts. |
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The Alicorn. He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden. For that steed I would give anything. |
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In July 1634, officials acting on order of the King had seized Coke's papers, but a 1641 motion in the House of Commons restored the extant papers to Coke's eldest son. |
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The earliest extant liturgical books do not contain them, but from references in texts of the first millennium it appears that written versions existed. |
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The extant manuscript shows multiple revisions, demonstrating Luther's concern to clarify and strengthen the text and to provide an appropriately prayerful tune. |
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However the extant words in Lombardic show clear relations to Bavarian. |
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Exactly why this happened is not clear from the extant sources. |
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One of the oldest extant incense burners originates from the 5th dynasty. |
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Finally, de Bourgogne wrote under his own name a treatise on the plague, extant in Latin, French and English texts, and in Latin and English abridgments. |
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Winnipeg contains North America's largest extant mature urban elm forest. |
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The teeth are heavy and large, being better suited to crushing bone than those of other extant canids, though not as specialised as those found in hyenas. |
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They are the most regular predator of ungulates among extant bear species. |
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Brown bears have the broadest skull of any extant ursine bear, only the afforementioned most herbivorous living bears exceed them in relative breadth of the skull. |
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The most famous of these are the largely extant Aurelian Walls of Rome and the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, together with partial remains elsewhere. |
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There are almost 28,000 known extant species, of which almost 27,000 are bony fish, with 970 sharks, rays, and chimeras and about 108 hagfish and lampreys. |
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Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys. |
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Of the three extant families, the Otariidae and Odobenidae are grouped in the superfamily Otarioidea, while the Phocidae belong to the superfamily Phocoidea. |
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Killer whales are the largest extant members of the dolphin family. |
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Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, one of many animal species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae. |
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Leatherbacks have been viewed as unique among extant reptiles for their ability to maintain high body temperatures using metabolically generated heat, or endothermy. |
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Dermochelys is the only extant genus of the family Dermochelyidae. |
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The remains of the Birkenhead Dock Branch are still extant in a cutting through the centre of the town, which was used primarily for freight services. |
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Economic stimulus was attempted through a new alphabet soup of agencies set up in 1933 and 1934 and previously extant agencies such as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
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There is very little extant written material available from this period, though there is a considerable amount from later periods that may be relevant. |
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All extant conifers are perennial woody plants with secondary growth. |
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This species' wingspan is the fifth largest amongst extant eagle species. |
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Although Han fortifications such as Yumen Pass and the Yang Pass exist further west, the extant walls leading to those passes are difficult to trace. |
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Eventually, they began to set up small petty kingdoms in the south, as well as usurping the thrones of extant city states such as Isin, Larsa and Eshnunna. |
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The earliest extant literature written in what is now Scotland, was composed in Brythonic speech in the sixth century and has survived as part of Welsh literature. |
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It has the oldest extant literature among other Dravidian languages. |
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These words were probably frequently used in the language at the time but Chaucer, with his ear for common speech, is the earliest extant manuscript source. |
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It is not known which, if any, of Chaucer's extant works prompted the reward, but the suggestion of him as poet to a king places him as a precursor to later poets laureate. |
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Its first organised group was the Ancient Order of Druids, founded in London in 1781 along Masonic lines as a mutual benefit society and still extant today. |
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One of the roles of the Warden was Master of Staghounds and this role continued to be exercised by the Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, a position extant today. |
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Stairs from the riverside to higher parts of the city centre and the extant Castle Keep, originally recorded in the 14th century, remain intact in places. |
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In the West, most kingdoms incorporated the few extant Roman institutions. |
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His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. |
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All Celtic languages extant today belong to the Insular Celtic languages, derived from the Celtic languages spoken in Iron Age Britain and Ireland. |
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Vulgar Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear. |
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He does mention a battle fought by Cenwealh at Wirtgernesburg, which is not in any of the extant manuscripts, so it is possible he had a copy now lost. |
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The earliest extant literature composed in what is now Scotland was in Brythonic speech in the 6th century, but is preserved as part of Welsh literature. |
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All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well. |
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George Mason University Libraries has acquired and digitized the only extant holograph score by Dutch-born cellist, gambist, and composer Johan Arnold Dahmen. |
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These Miocene apes all lacked the suite of enhanced specialisations for suspensory locomotion exhibited by the more specialised extant great apes. |
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