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His current two major projects are a live-action feature—a dark twist on the Peter Pan story—and an animated zombie movie called "A.D."
Life After Harry Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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These later dates may show that the complex remained vibrant longer than scholars once thought, even after the advent of Islam in Afghanistan starting in the 7th century A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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Armenia claims to be the first nation to declare Christianity as its state religion in 301 A.D.
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Drawing on organic material in the clay layers in the rubble of the destroyed Buddhas, Emmerling's team used mass spectrometry analysis to date the smaller Buddha to between A.D. 544 and A.D. 595 and the larger Buddha to between A.D. 591 and A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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Several months earlier, in June 1817, the bulk of the sculpture had been unearthed just north of the Forum—the first big bronze to come out of the city devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.
Apollo Deconstructed Arnie Cooper 2011
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Drawing on organic material in the clay layers in the rubble of the destroyed Buddhas, Emmerling's team used mass spectrometry analysis to date the smaller Buddha to between A.D. 544 and A.D. 595 and the larger Buddha to between A.D. 591 and A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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Based on the style of the robes, art historians have long thought the monuments were made as early as the 3rd century A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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These later dates may show that the complex remained vibrant longer than scholars once thought, even after the advent of Islam in Afghanistan starting in the 7th century A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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Based on the style of the robes, art historians have long thought the monuments were made as early as the 3rd century A.D.
Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas yield additional details about statues' origins 2011
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One of the earliest books ever written in the British Isles was called the Domesday Book; it was compiled in A.D.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY Arthur B. Laffer 2010
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