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1 The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution .
2 The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) .
3 When Surrey tied for the Championship in 1950 the county had the makings of a great side .
4 First Kylie emerged for the rehearsal in the same impeccable outfit she was due to wear in front of Princess Margaret that night , and ran through a flawless performance of her then new single ‘ Hand On Your Heart ’ .
5 Central defender Alan Kernaghan equalised two minutes from time and Middlesbrough survived two late scares as Pompey pressed for the winner in a tense finale .
6 This is reflected in the significant interaction between FSE and SAM found for the change in external locus of control ( χ 2 =8.0 , df=1 ; p=0.005 ) .
7 Mr Louis Blom-Cooper QC appeared for the applicants in that case .
8 In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks .
9 On June 1 Justice Minister Aleksander Bentkowski had announced that further interviews would be held with security agents Adam Pietruszka and Grzegorz Piotrowksi convicted for the murder in 1984 of Father Jerzy Popieluszko [ see pp. 33292-93 ; 33874-75 ; 34688 ] .
10 That meant that Jews , Romans , Egyptians , Phoenicians , Babylonians and even the Indians ( Asoka 's edicts ) entered Greek literature with contributions of their own : what Xanthus did for the Lydians in the fifth century B.C. became a routine performance .
11 Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic .
12 Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts .
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