Biographers have attributed most of his brutish and eccentric nature to the fact that he was abandoned by his father, an Oakland police officer and overly coddled by his mother, Lydia, who was married six times.

Roger Ebert was very negative about the film, giving it one star, saying that it was " poor, nasty, brutish, and short ," and that it has a plot hole " that is not only large enough to drive a truck through, but in fact does have a truck driven right through it.

Some clue to the character of London's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive ''.

Much of the distinct character of France's anthropology today is a result of the fact that most anthropology is carried out in nationally funded research laboratories ( CNRS ) rather than academic departments in universities

This often means that the only individuals who are capable of opposing a character are from his or her family, a fact that leads to much suspicion and intrigue.

That this is due in some degree to accident is clear from the character of the words, and from the fact that several reappear and are common after the Norman Conquest.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

The fact of having been baptized remains a fact and the Catholic Church holds that baptism marks a person with a lasting seal or character that " is an ontological and permanent bond which is not lost by reason of any act or fact of defection.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

In fact, in the first three editions of the game, character rank is primarily a measure of the character's social prestige.

This ability comes from the fact that bond character between carbon atoms is entirely non-polar, in that the distribution of electrons between the two elements is somewhat even due to the same electronegativity values of the elements (~ 0. 30 ), and does not result in the formation of an electrophile.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus portrays the eponymous character as a scholar whose arrogance and pride compel him to sign a deal with the devil, and retain his haughtiness until his death and damnation, despite the fact that he could have easily repented had he chosen to do so.

Often the villain will try to convince the hero either a ) the villain is not in fact evil like the hero thinks he is, b ) the hero is actually the evil / immoral one, c ) the mentor character has been using the hero's special qualities for his own ends and does not really care about him / her.

However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

This fact probably instilled in the younger Pasteur the strong patriotism that later was a defining element of his character.

The difference in character of these two regions arises from the fact that in the northern half the ocean current which flows south between Madagascar and the mainland is close to the coast, and scours out all the softer material, while at the same time the corals are building in deep waters.

Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.

The non-abelian character of the SU ( 3 ) corresponds thereby to the non-trivial " chemical links “, which glue different loop segments together, and " asymptotic freedom " means in the polymer analogy simply the fact that in the short-wave limit, i. e. for ( where R < sub > c </ sub > is a characteristic correlation-length for the glued loops, corresponding to the above-mentioned " bag radius ", while λ < sub > w </ sub > is the wavelength of an excitation ) any non-trivial correlation vanishes totally, as if the system had crystallized.

Heinlein challenges his readers ' possible racial preconceptions by introducing a strong, sympathetic character, only to reveal much later that he or she is of African or other descent ; in several cases, the covers of the books show characters as being light-skinned, when in fact the text states, or at least implies, that they are dark-skinned or of African descent.

In fact, the only character who does not get the better of Hood is the luckless Sheriff.

Another legend has it that the name comes from the fact that six daimyo lived nearby during the Edo period, each with the kanji character for " tree " or a kind of tree in their names.

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

Like farce, screwball comedies often involve mistaken identities or other circumstances in which a character or characters try to keep some important fact a secret.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility ; their characterization as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction — instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.

The variance — which is the second central moment — is likewise non-existent ( despite the fact that the raw second moment exists with the value infinity ).

No special ceremonial was devised to celebrate Christian marriage — despite the fact that the Church had produced liturgies to celebrate the Eucharist, Baptism and Confirmation.

In fact, at separations of 10 nm — about 100 times the typical size of an atom — the Casimir effect produces the equivalent of 1 atmosphere of pressure ( 101. 325 kPa ), the precise value depending on surface geometry and other factors.

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

In fact, does not merely sound wrong, it sounds like a different word — 桃 ( Pinyin táo, ) " peach ", or 套 " cover " ( distinguished by tone ).

Although deriving much of its semantics from Scheme and other Lisps — some implementations were in fact initially built within existing Lisp systems — Dylan has an ALGOL-like syntax rather than a Scheme-like prefix syntax.

" Without these questions there is no clear fulcrum on which to balance law, politics, and the practice of arbitration — in fact, no common assumptions of all participants — so the ability to formulate the questions are prior to rights balancing.

A central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for the individual is the fact that he or she is an individual — an independently acting and responsible conscious being (" existence ")— rather than what labels, roles, stereotypes, definitions, or other preconceived categories the individual fits (" essence ").

Another barrier to reform is assuming that schools are like businesses — when in fact they are very different.

In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.

Apparently, she finds accused men extremely attractive — the fact of their indictment makes them irresistible to her.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

This perception was enhanced by the fact that the originator of the Big Bang theory, Monsignor Georges Lemaître, was a Roman Catholic priest.

The unusual stability of the helium-4 nucleus is also important cosmologically: it explains the fact that in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, as the " soup " of free protons and neutrons which had initially been created in about 6: 1 ratio cooled to the point that nuclear binding was possible, almost all first compound atomic nuclei to form were helium-4 nuclei.

This paradox is explained by the fact that the Big Bang theory also involves the expansion of space which can cause the energy of emitted light to be reduced via redshift.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Media and his relatives claims that Gathmann invented the German 42-cm Big Bertha howitzer, as well as the ordnance the Japanese employed at the Battle of Tsushima have no foundation in fact.

" In the Big Sleep Chandler expands this description of the room and uses this new detail ( e. g., the contrast of white and " bled out ", the coming rain ) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan ( who was Mrs. O ' Mara in the original story ) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: " The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead.

The castle is in fact made by two distinct edifices: the Torrione (" Big Tower "), which was built by the Lombards starting from 871, and the Palazzo dei Governatori, built by the Popes from 1320.

Given the fact that the Lakeport area has an economy that is based somewhat on agricultural activities occurring in the Big Valley and Scotts Valley area which involve the growing and harvesting of food and nut crops as well as the increasing wine industry, there are a significant number of transient and seasonal farm workers.

The Crow Fair is known as " The Teepee Capital of the World ," by the fact that during celebration as many as 1, 500 teepees are seen across the river valley of the Little Big Horn River.

This writing identifies the sink as one of a number of similar subsurface geologic features in the surrounding area, differing from the Big Spring sink only in the fact that the surface topography above the others, while showing some decline, does not dip low enough to intersect the top of the water tables ; hence, no springs could form from the other aquifers.

The fact that sports bettors can use exchanges to lay outcomes has caused tremendous criticism from traditional bookmakers with much of the anger coming from the UK's " Big Three "-Gala Coral Group, Ladbrokes and William Hill.

Stephen Hawking said that the fact that microwave radiation had been found, and that it was thought to be left over from the Big Bang, was " the final nail in the coffin of the steady-state theory.

Give you fact after fact, not in words but in deeds, in bullet speeds and ' Big Bertha ' power.

During an Alternative Press Acoustic Session, members of fellow Boston area ska band Big D and the Kids Table hinted that the Bosstones were in fact reuniting for another Hometown Throwdown.

The writers felt that by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird despite the fact that he was telling the truth, they were scaring children into thinking that their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused and that they would just be better off remaining silent.

The fact that he was shown with his own real place, as well as him sending Big Bird a very real postcard, set up his revelation to the rest of Sesame Street later that year.

In his book, The Big Lie, author Garry Boulard suggests strongly that Boggs was a member of the ASU, but tried to cover up that fact in the different political climate of the early 1950s.

Six most affordable ( 12 January 2012 ) ( not considering the fact that the buyer's equivalent purchasing power is different and not including the Indian Big Mac which contains chicken instead of beef )

In the 2000 eight-hour movie ( broadcast as a mini-series ) The 10th Kingdom, Scott Cohen plays a character called Wolf, which is based on the Big Bad Wolf and there is some speculation to whether he may even be the Big Bad Wolf's descendant ( mainly owed to the fact that most other characters in the mini-series are descendants of many well-known fairy tale characters ).

In the case of Sony BMG, there existed a " Big Five " ( now " Big Four ") of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the " Big Four " of American network ( terrestrial ) television ( this despite the fact that the CW was, in fact, partially owned by one of the Big Four in CBS ).