The diminutive monticulus (little mount) was coupled with the name A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Davis, who is called A.D., is definitely not a Simpson supporter. From Wordnik.com. [Three Faces of Evil] Reference
An eclipse occurred on July 19, 418 A.D., which is remarkable for a twofold reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Eclipses] Reference
Masoretes of the 5th cent A.D., that is the people that carried on the earlier tradition of how things were understood. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
Galatians somewhere between the years 55 and 60 A.D., that is to say, roughly, twenty, or five-and-twenty years after the crucifixion. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
This was the decision of the great Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D., which is today upheld by Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants alike. From Wordnik.com. [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference
Bethea: We didn't have refined sugar until about A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle Of Pork Rind Hill] Reference
"" It's set in Rome, we begin at 1 A.D. and end it at 2000. From Wordnik.com. [Close-Up On Will] Reference
One of the first foods to be processed by man was sugar around 600 A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Larrowe Bergersen: What Makes a Food Junk?] Reference
So we are left with Matthew and Luke, Gospels composed between A.D. 60 and 90. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Jesus] Reference
The vast majority of people lived no better in 1300 A.D. than they did in 1300 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Rules of the Cheap Revolution] Reference
WARREN: I believe that history split into A.D. and B.C. because of the Resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [The God Debate] Reference
Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth-century canonist, developed the calendar designations A.D. From Wordnik.com. [ASK TIP SHEET] Reference
A second temple was built by King Herod, only to be destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [A City That Echoes Eternity] Reference
"The Jews see to it that their numbers increase," wrote the historian Tacitus around A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Family Values] Reference
They dominated the island from around 1000 A.D. up until Christopher Columbus arrived in 1493. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.16: Puerto Rican Day Parade] Reference
After the Prophet Muhammad died in 632 A.D., his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, became the first caliph. From Wordnik.com. [Cali who?] Reference
One of them, the Koma clan, arrived in Japan in A.D. 666 led by a royal family member named Jakko. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
Some 10,000 mummies, dating from about 300 B.C. to A.D. 300, may lie within almost four square miles. From Wordnik.com. ['I Sometimes Feel Lost And Lonely'] Reference
The Tang era (A.D. 618 to 907) is described as China's golden age, a heyday of elegance and commerce. From Wordnik.com. [China Learns The Power Play] Reference
As a second wife, Takanono Niigasa struggled to evade palace backstabbing until her husband became emperor in A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
BENIN1300-1800 A.D. A culture of artists, hunters and traders, revealed in bronze plaques commissioned by the king or Oba. From Wordnik.com. [African Dream] Reference
According to the tribe's official web site, the Chitimacha settled the bayous of southern Louisiana as far back as 500 A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Nikolas Kozloff: Oil and Cultural Genocide: From the Amazon to the Gulf] Reference
These men are not "celebrating" — they are mourning, and punishing themselves severely for the death of Imam Hussein in A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Prospects of War] Reference
Built by the Flavian emperor Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian between A.D. 70 and 80, Rome's Colosseum is showing its age. From Wordnik.com. [Colosseum Seeks Sponsor] Reference
They scoff at comparisons to Masada -- the mountaintop fortress where hundreds of Jews killed themselves during a Roman siege in A.D. From Wordnik.com. [LAST STAND IN SAMARIA] Reference
During the fifth century A.D., caravans traveling along the southern Silk Road from China to India transported silk, spices and edibles. From Wordnik.com. [On The Buddhist Road] Reference
Then in the fourth century A.D., they were taken by Constantine the Great to Constantinople to adorn his new capital of the Roman Empire. From Wordnik.com. [They Could Walk Away on Their Own] Reference
In A.D. 67, Roman Emperor Nero paid Olympic judges to let him win a chariot race, even though he fell out of his vehicle and didn't finish. From Wordnik.com. [OLYMPICS:UP FOR ANY PANKRATION?] Reference
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