Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees (the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, ca. 218 BC).
I always thought, perhaps incorrectly, that the practice had been decreed after it was discovered that a young woman disguised herself as a man to compete in the games.
Upon learning of the filing, ET producers discovered the original divorce decree.
Judge Bruce discovered that two couples whose divorce decrees he had granted and remarried--each man to the other's former wife.
In exposing Monsanto's illicit activities in Indonesia, U.S. investigators also discovered that, despite the bribe payment, the unfavorable decree was never revoked.
The associate professor in the Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences department at the University of Mississippi did a little research and discovered his home state never officially ratified the 13th Amendment, the Constitutional decree that made slavery illegal in the U.S.
The stone, discovered in the Nile Delta during the Napoleonic wars, carries versions of a decree in both Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Greek.
I discovered today, researching Roquefort, that the cheese was the first product to be protected, way back in the 17th century, by a parliamentary decree much like an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée.
It may come as something of a blow to discover that the shorts currently decreed the most fashionable to be seen in are so tiny they might not unreasonably be described as knickers – big knickers, but still.
After discovering the benefits of snacking, he is said to have decreed it law that all bars begin to serve food with alcohol.
