• Old-Babylonian Period, circa 1750 BCE. (worldhistory.org)
  • Academics have discovered the world's first trading card game , dating from circa 1750 BCE, according to a joint paper from researchers at SOAS University of London, and Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad. (wargamer.com)
  • The tablets I got weren't Zenpads, they were Memopads I think, dirt cheap from Microcenter (by dirt cheap I mean ~$60) which was cheap for "good" Android tablets last year. (liliputing.com)
  • Stick a cheap Android tablet on the front end and link to the Prop via BlueTooth. (parallax.com)
  • The Wi-Fi connection allows the recorder to connect to Android and iOS phones & tablets to provide remote full system control and live monitoring. (radioworld.co.uk)
  • Cuneiform tablet, circa 2000 B.C.E. (torontopubliclibrary.ca)
  • The ongoing war in Syria has caused the destruction and loss of many archaeological artifacts, among them the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Sabi Abyad. (nino-leiden.nl)
  • Back in 2008, I reviewed a MacBook that was taken apart and reassembled into a touchscreen tablet. (cnet.com)
  • The detachable, ogee cornice with male and female masks most likely representing the Cardinal Virtues of Prudence, Justice and Fortitude, either side of inlaid ebony tablets. (bada.org)
  • The texts on the clay tablets, dating from circa 1200 BC, are thus saved for further study. (nino-leiden.nl)
  • 134 clay tablets recovered from ruins of the ancient Sumerian city-state Ur provide researchers a fascinating insight into "The revered game played in the house of the king who lets counsel flourish", which predates Magic the Gathering by thousands of years. (wargamer.com)
  • Cheating was not unheard of, Ahmad says: "To randomise the 'draw' of the inch-thick clay tablets, which would be even more cumbersome to shuffle than an MTG Commander deck, they were placed under a cloth and rearranged by the opponent. (wargamer.com)
  • There really is a lot of text on those clay tablets. (wargamer.com)
  • HONOLULU: Before the Apple iPad (2010), the Asus Transformer (2011) and even Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS (2001), there was my Vadem Clio. (anewdomain.net)
  • According to the data collated, 11% of UK participants used a smartphone and 13% used a tablet (e.g. ipad) in comparison to 77% who shopped using a desktop. (seotrafficlab.com)
  • From the introduction of the Ipad in 2010 the evolution of tablets has become more and more like laptops that I begin to wonder who really needs one. (hubpages.com)
  • Before even Windows Tablet PC-based tablets in 2001, there was the uniquely convertible Vadem Clio. (anewdomain.net)
  • The ancient Sumerians (circa 4000 B.C.) in Mesopotamia revered beer so much that they believed it had medicinal properties. (beerconnoisseur.com)
  • Generally, it involves the use of a second screen (smartphone, laptop or tablet computer) to engage with other TV viewers while a program is happening. (streamingmedia.com)
  • BSKYB, FIOS, Time-Warner, Cablevision) would provide a program guide app that worked on your tablet or smartphone. (streamingmedia.com)
  • The tablets are considered to be the earliest surviving example of Irish writing in the Latin script, and were included as no. 25 in a set of 100 items representing A History of Ireland in 100 Objects compiled by The Irish Times, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Royal Irish Academy. (wikipedia.org)
  • They also claim the tablet holds the earliest known writing of "Yahweh," or the divine name of God. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Galil's research into other curse tablets, including the Jerusalem Stone, a 3,500-year-old inscription which would be one of the earliest inscriptions ever discovered in Jerusalem, has also been questioned. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván): Wilmette Institute faculty notes , by Duane Troxel and Juan Cole (1999). (bahai-library.com)
  • Tablet of Ridván (Lawh-i-Ridván): Tablet study outline , by Jonah Winters (1999). (bahai-library.com)
  • By repute, the chimneypiece was installed at Raheen House by the then owners of the house, the Burke family, circa 1889, when they apparently acquired it in lieu of a part payment for a warehouse. (westlandlondon.com)
  • The strikingly simple elegance of the chimneypiece is a perfect foil for the beautifully carved tablet and spectacular endblocks. (westlandlondon.com)
  • The Lawḥ-i-Aḥmad-i-Arabí (The Tablet of Ahmad, Arabic), revealed in honour of Ahmad of Yazd. (bahai-library.com)
  • The tablets are very delicate and we have all the appropriate preservation technology here", says Ahmad. (wargamer.com)
  • 6.29306 The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were discovered in 1914 in the Springmount bog near Ballyhutherland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. (wikipedia.org)
  • The tablets form a booklet with text from the Book of Psalms inscribed on the wax surface of the wooden pages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both sides of the inner four tablets, and the inner sides of the two outer tablets, have been hollowed out and filled with wax to form the writing surfaces of a wooden book of ten pages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Each wooden tablet is about 7.5 × 21.0 cm in size, and about 0.7 cm thick. (wikipedia.org)
  • Originally, the road had a wooden gate… This view was taken facing west circa the late 1880s and shows the "Entrance to Hancock Avenue from Taneytown Road with wooden gate. (gettysburgdaily.com)
  • The generous moulded shelf rests over a wide panelled frieze which is mounted with a tablet of exceptional quality. (westlandlondon.com)
  • A rare neoclassical chimneypiece of exceptional quality in statuary marble with a lapis lazuli tablet. (westlandlondon.com)
  • The Charlotte Softolio® holds both a Circa Annotation Ruled Notebook and a Freeleaf® Annotation Ruled Pad. (levenger.com)
  • You could make it clamshell notebook with a full QWERTY keyboard, a keyboard-less tablet and a few arrangements in between. (anewdomain.net)
  • The vulnerabilities, aptly named Meltdown and Spectre, affect virtually every modern computer, cloud server, smart phone, tablet and internet of things (IoT) device regardless of operating system. (blackberry.com)
  • Over 300 pencil and pencil and ink drawings, circa 1950s-1960s, mostly contained in sketchbooks and tablets, as well as numerous loose sketches and several mixed-media works on board. (si.edu)
  • The tablets have been dated to the late 7th-century on palaeographic evidence, and in 1963 David H. Wright suggested a date of about 600, which has been generally accepted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Closeup of the outside of the arguably Late Bronze Age lead curse tablet discovered on Mount Ebal in 2019. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Views of the outside of the arguably Late Bronze Age lead curse tablet discovered on Mt. Ebal in 2019. (timesofisrael.com)
  • I do not own a smart phone, I may one day supplement my laptop for a tablet, but when I am writing I like to use a keyboard with real keys. (hubpages.com)
  • I purchased 6 Asus tablets as Christmas presents for family members at the behest of my sister in law last year. (liliputing.com)
  • In March 2022, a team of archaeologists made an astonishing announcement: they had discovered a tiny 3,200-year-old folded-lead tablet inscribed with what could be the oldest known Hebrew writing ever found in the Holy Land, while sifting through decades-old debris from an excavation near Nablus. (timesofisrael.com)
  • More than a year after the finding was first announced through popular media, archaeologists published an academic article about the controversial "curse tablet" in the peer-reviewed journal Heritage Science. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Then, if you make the screens tilt correctly - like some Sony's and Sharp's already do (or even make them detachable) then every laptop could also be a "tablet" when needed. (techdirt.com)
  • At work on a model of Mount Rushmore, circa 1936. (tabletmag.com)
  • Prof. Gershom Galil acknowledged at the time he was likely the intended recipient for his work into curses, including the Mount Ebal tablet, though he chalked it up to "bitter" and "jealous" colleagues. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This clay tablet was a letter from a person named Nanni to another one, Ea-nasir. (worldhistory.org)
  • We have a letter to a court official complaining about the merchant Ea-Nasir, who insisted that his own servant shuffle the tablets on his behalf, producing suspiciously favourable draws. (wargamer.com)
  • Ron Chambers from Higganum, Conn., showed a New York State armchair, circa 1680, with the original splint seat and four splats. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • A log caliper, circa 1885, with the original measuring wheel surface, hung on the back wall in the booth of Field & Stream, Mansfield, Conn., along with a large folio, Currier & Ives, 1864, of an American speckled brook trout by A.F. Tait. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • The original door tablet depicted "Liberty and Justice. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • VanHaag is attempting to organise an exhibition game using the original tablets at the British museum, but for the moment, the tablets will remain in Baghdad. (wargamer.com)
  • The wax had partially melted when found, and some of the wax was damaged when the tablets were opened after discovery, but nevertheless much of the text is still legible. (wikipedia.org)
  • but the axing of Cedar Wood (Tablets 2 to 5 of text) is an episode that seems to have been understood as tragic from the beginning. (sf-encyclopedia.com)
  • So Penguin is talking about how tablets (read "iPads") will lead to new forms of books. (halavais.net)
  • Up to 30% off Circa smartPlanner notebooks and refills for a limited time. (levenger.com)
  • Yet my worst experience of 'suffering for my art' dates back to my time working in club in Bournemouth, UK, circa 1990. (jonathancrossfield.com)
  • Gregg sold the tablets to the National Museum of Ireland in 1914 (acquisition number S.A. 1914.2), and they are currently held at the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology on Kildare Street in Dublin, Ireland. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first known formula for soap written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC. (ancienneambiance.com)
  • The archaeologists, led by Dr. Scott Stripling of the Bible Seminary in Texas, believe the 2 x 2 centimeter (.8 x .8 inch) tablet proves that Israelites were literate when they entered the Holy Land and therefore could have written the Bible as some of the events took place. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The frieze is mounted with an exceptionally fine lapis lazuli tablet with an applied low relief scene in statuary marble depicting a pair of cavorting putti. (westlandlondon.com)
  • Gregg found the tablets about four feet below the surface while cutting peat. (wikipedia.org)
  • A New England flat-top highboy, circa 1740-60, with brush feet and acorn drops, was against the back wall in the booth of William Blakeman of Wilbraham, Mass. "It's married, with both pieces coming from Connecticut," William said. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • Prior to and during the crisis that was to follow, Bahá'u'lláh began revealing Tablets at a prodigious rate. (bahai-library.com)
  • Tablets account for well over 40% of mobile traffic to e-commerce sites with only a 25% penetration rate. (seotrafficlab.com)
  • Beneath these lies a large, zippered tablet pocket. (levenger.com)
  • The architectural tiered front with a central tablet within a pair of columns and carved alabaster arcaded panels either side flanked by a pair of alabaster columns. (bada.org)
  • Suffice it to say, some of my rep died along with those tablets, as my sil had asked me "what's the best of the cheap tablets I can get? (liliputing.com)
  • There are many times I've DJed dosed up on flu tablets or chomping on Immodium with one eye on the CD countdown and the other on the gents room door. (jonathancrossfield.com)
  • Six tablets made of yew wood are bound together along one edge with a leather thong, and tied shut at the top and bottom with two leather straps. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pointing out a circa 1760 two-drawer blanket chest, Ron said, "It came right out of a house in Middletown, Conn., and the scrolled apron dovetailed into the foot is characteristic of this kind of furniture made there. (antiquesandthearts.com)
  • It is thought that the tablets came from a monastery near where they were found, and were probably used for teaching literacy and as an aid for memorizing the Psalms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meltdown appears to originate back to circa 1995, affects a limited set of hardware and allows malicious applications to bypass hardware set barriers between kernel and user process memory. (blackberry.com)
  • Our Circa specialist has created these gift-ready kits complete with discs, refills and a True Writer. (levenger.com)
  • Included is a discussion of the Norse exploration of North America as shown by L' Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland, circa 1000. (warehamforge.ca)