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(" high ") in the term for the standard language refers to " high " in a cultural or educational sense, while in the linguistic term it simply refers to the geography of the German speaking regions in Central Europe ; High German of the southern uplands and the Alps ( including Austria, Switzerland and parts of northern Italy as well as southern Germany ) contrasting with Low German spoken in the lowlands stretching towards the North Sea.
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Armfeldt's country estate is bathed in the golden glow of perpetual summer sunset at this high latitude (" Night Waltz One and Two ").
Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.
During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.
She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").
Claudius's high status is reinforced by using the royal first person plural (" we " or " us "), and anaphora mixed with metaphor to resonate with Greek political speeches.
The biblical historian, A. Jopsen, believes in the connection between the Isaac traditions and the north, and in support of this theory adduces Amos 7: 9 (" the high places of Isaac ").
Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother, Tyro (" high born Tyro ") the daughter of Salmoneus, and allegedly the sea god Poseidon.
In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called " hautbois " ( French compound word made of haut (" high, loud ") and bois (" wood, woodwind "), " hoboy ", or " French hoboy ".
A year later in October, the miners celebrate the high times in Rumson now that the Fandango girls are around (" Hand Me Down That Can o ' Beans ").
The Romulans, now evenly matched, decided that the price of the Enterprise's destruction was too high and retreated (" The Defector ").
# chassé ( side (" chassé lateral ") or front (" chassé frontal ") piston-action kick ), high ( figure ), medium ( median ) or low ( bas )
Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.
" Twin sets " with two back-mounted cylinders connected by a high pressure manifold were much more common in the 1960s than now ; although twin cylinders (" doubles ") are commonly used by technical divers for increased dive duration and redundancy.
# Identification by UC as being ranked in the top 4 percent of the student's high school class at the end of his or her junior year (" eligible in the local context " or ELC ).
As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.
The Queen of the Night's " Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen " (" The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart ") reaches a high F6, rare in opera.
One of the season's high points is Tsiknopémptẽ (" Smoke Thursday "), when celebrants enjoy roast beef dinners at taverns or friends ' homes ; the ritual is repeated the following Sunday.
Although in ancient times Petra might have been approached from the south on a track leading across the plain of Petra, around Jabal Haroun (" Aaron's Mountain "), where the Tomb of Aaron, said to be the burial-place of Aaron brother of Moses is located, or possibly from the high plateau to the north, most modern visitors approach the site from the east.
The album charted as high as No. 3 on the UK charts, with an eight week chart run and produced one hit single (" She's Got Claws ") reaching No. 6.
The turnip's root is high only in vitamin C. The green leaves of the turnip top (" turnip greens ") are a good source of vitamin A, folate, vitamin C, vitamin K and calcium.
To solve the problem with the high output resistance of the simple output stage the second schematic adds to this a " totem-pole " (" push – pull ") output.
" (" Darkstar " is also a call sign of AWACS aircraft from a different squadron at Tinker AFB ) A month later, radio enthusiasts in California monitoring Edwards AFB Radar ( callsign " Joshua Control ") heard early morning radio transmissions between Joshua and a high flying aircraft using the callsign " Gaspipe ".
Stevenson is also referenced in Wayne's World 2 (" Waynestock " is held in an Aurora, Illinois park named for Stevenson ), Plain Clothes ( the high school is named for Stevenson ), Annie Hall ( Woody Allen's character tells a standup joke about the Stevenson-Eisenhower campaign ) and Breakfast at Tiffany's .< ref >
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The leader is only a spokesperson for the group when it has to deal with other groups (" international relations ") but has no inside authority, and may be violently removed if he attempts to abuse this position.
From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").
During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.
If the appellate court does find a legal defect in the decision " below " ( i. e., in the lower court ), it may " modify " the ruling to correct the defect, or it may nullify (" reverse " or " vacate ") the whole decision or any part of it.
It may, in addition, send the case back (" remand " or " remit ") to the lower court for further proceedings to remedy the defect.
The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.
Dmitri Mendeleev claimed he arranged his tables in order of atomic weight (" Atomgewicht ") However, in deference to the observed chemical properties, he violated his own rule and placed tellurium ( atomic weight 127. 6 ) ahead of iodine ( atomic weight 126. 9 ).
B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.
In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.
The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.
Euclid ’ s algorithm appears as Proposition II in Book VII (" Elementary Number Theory ") of his Elements.
The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.
One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.
The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation angered both Peace Democrats (" Copperheads ") and War Democrats, but energized most Republicans.
This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
The theme of angst is portrayed in Mahler's Symphony No. 6 (" The Tragic ") and in Alban Berg's poignant Violin Concerto dedicated, " To the memory of an angel ".
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
If one also removes the second postulate (" a line can be extended indefinitely ") then elliptic geometry arises, where there is no parallel through a point outside a line, and in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees.
Some synaptic junctions appear partway along an axon as it extends — these are called en passant (" in passing ") synapses.
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