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C. 124 M'Daourouch, Algeria 170? Lucius Apuleius, (born c. 124 ce, Madauros, Numidia [near modern M'Daourouch, Algeria] died probably after 170 ce), Platonic philosopher, rhetorician, and author remembered for The Golden Ass, a prose narrative that proved influential long after his death.

By extending the history another few centuries, we would have seen how the Silk Road led to a fertilization of Western thinking, not just with the discoveries of Islamic scientists but also with a variety of philosophical and religious perspectives that proved influential over the course of centuries.

The art is one aspect of Gears that proved influential – look at how many other shooters, from Bulletstorm to Vanquish to newer entries in the Crysis and Resistance series, bear their similarities.

In a report that proved influential in converting China's leaders to the virtues of pollution control, the World Bank has estimated that in the late 1990s China lost between 3.5% and 7.7% of its potential economic output as a result of the health effects of pollution on the country's workforce.

"The carbon-fibre bristles got a hundred per cent of the dust," a young engineer reported, and showed off some slides that proved this.

It's the pudding that proves last year's progress was meaningful, that you're closer to the ultimate goal than you were before, and that next year might be better than this one.

"I hope that I proved today that maybe she is not any more".

"It is important to remember that we proved last year that defeat doesn't mean it's all lost.

California last week renewed a $10,000 credit that proved popular last year, allocating $200 million for it despite a state budget crisis.

There was, in all of that, one part of one sentence that proved, in 2002, exceptionally hard to check.

That was proved last season, when two teams that limped down the stretch — the Tigers and the St . Louis Cardinals— met in the World Series.