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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Time | Hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | 000 B.C. Korg: 70 (1974) One Million Years B.C. (1966) 000 B.C. (Before Clothing) 50 (1963) One Million B.C. (1940) 2000 B.C. (1931) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Grenville Channel, B.C. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | [Bandaging scene from a 4th c. B.C. vase]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | 2. Pharmacy In Babylonia (About 2600 B.C.) / Robert A. Thom. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Alexander the Great at the altar-fire on the eve of the Battle of Gaugamela, Iraq, 331 B.C.] / A. Castaigne. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Packing silver ore across a glacier, Marinot(?) River, B.C. / Halves. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Greek mirror. IV century B.C. / F. Eudell. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Looking up Illecillewaet Valley, Selkirk Mountains, B.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Marion Lake on Mt. Abbott, Selkirk Mtns., B.C., Canada. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Athens, Greece, 400 B.C. Copy of a book illustration of Athens I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
B.c. Forbes | The most profitless thing to manufacture is excuses. |
| A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | By 6000 B.C., organized agriculture had appeared. (references) |
Vanuatu | Pottery fragments have been found dating back to 1300-1100 B.C. (references) | |
India | This civilization declined around 1500 B.C., probably due to ecological changes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vancouver b.c | 231 | hotel victoria b.c | 35 |
victoria b.c | 209 | golden b.c | 34 |
b.c | 179 | b.c ferry schedule | 33 |
ferry of b.c | 169 | b.c lion | 32 |
b.c map | 153 | hotel in vancouver b.c | 32 |
whistler b.c | 134 | b.c transit | 31 |
b.c government | 87 | cranbrook b.c | 27 |
b.c rich | 69 | b.c bb | 26 |
b.c exam provincial | 62 | penticton b.c | 24 |
kelowna b.c | 62 | creston b.c | 24 |
nelson b.c | 57 | campground of b.c | 24 |
b.c lottery | 55 | parksville b.c | 23 |
tourism b.c | 53 | b.c map road | 22 |
hotel vancouver b.c | 51 | travel b.c | 21 |
b.c rich guitar | 48 | fishing b.c | 21 |
b.c weather | 48 | prince george b.c | 21 |
vernon b.c | 44 | b.c vancouver weather | 21 |
b.c education ministry | 37 | b.c rosarito | 21 |
tofino b.c | 36 | b.c map victoria | 20 |
camping of b.c | 35 | kamloops b.c | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "B.C"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Indonesian | sebelum masehi. (various references) | |
Manx | roish Creest (before Christ, pre-Christian). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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