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 Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

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" To appease her, he tells her to wait (" that's what virgins do best, isn't it?

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

The place had been transformed on a voluntary basis by the population of Paris itself, in what was recalled as the Journée des brouettes (" Wheelbarrow Day ").

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

The next year, Carmen Gloria Quintana was burnt alive in what became known as the Caso Quemado (" Burnt Alive case ").

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

They are often set in a dim and nonspecific past, what historian of religion Mircea Eliade termed in illo tempore (" at that time ").

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 ").

" Orthodox ", from Greek orthos (" right ", " true ", " straight ") + doxa (" opinion " or " belief ", related to dokein, " to think ") was adopted by the Church in order to distinguish itself from what was becoming a larger and larger body of non-orthodox Christian denominations.

During what is often referred to as the Islamic Golden Age, in order for a scholar to be qualified to issue a fatwā, it was required that he obtained an ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifta (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") from a Madrassah in the medieval Islamic legal education system, which was developed by the 9th century during the formation of the Madh ' hab legal schools.

Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their " Verwandtschaftseinheiten " (" affinity units ", now called " valences " or " bonds "), was based largely on evidence from chemical reactions, rather than on instrumental methods that could peer directly into the molecule, such as X-ray crystallography.

Solange proves she is still fashionable at what she claims is 66 (" Ah, Paris!

Most of what is known about Pre-Contact (" Ancient ") Chamorros comes from legends and myths, archaeological evidence, Jesuit missionary accounts, and observations from visiting scientists like Otto von Kotzebue and Louis de Freycinet.

Constantine was now ruling only in what was Greece before the Balkan Wars (" Old Greece "), and his government was subject to repeated humiliations from the Allies.

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

It was called puzzi la née (" head of yellow ") or pot pot chee by the Seminole and kelinky in Chickasaw.

For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

The 14th Dalai Lama remained the head of state for the Central Tibetan Administration (" Tibetan government in exile ") until his retirement on March 14, 2011.

He writes that the " Danish head banner " (" Danmarckis Hoffuitbanner ") was nearly captured by the Swedes.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

In some countries however the office of the head of state is held by a body of persons (" collective head of state ").

This is a relatively recent phenomenon ; until the last few decades a sovereign was seen as the personal embodiment of the state (" L ' etat c ' est moi ", so to speak ), and therefore could not be head of himself or herself ( hence many constitutions from the 19th century and earlier make no mention of a " head of state ").

Throwing the ball against the head of the goalkeeper when he is not moving is to be punished by disqualification (" red card ").

On that day the formal New Year for the counting of years ( such as Shmita and Yovel ), Rosh Hashanah (" head of the year ") is observed.

This statue, nicknamed Il Zuccone (" pumpkin ") because of the shape of the head, now resides in the Museo dell ' Opera del Duomo.

His concept of velayat-e-faqih (" guardianship of the jurist "), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society – which Khomeini and his followers believed to be himself – should serve as head of state in order to protect or " guard " Islam and Sharia law from " innovation " and " anti-Islamic laws " passed " by sham parliaments.

The Latin leaders accompanied Tarquin to Turnus ' lodging and, the swords then being discovered, Turnus ' guilt was then speedily inferred, and he was condemned and was thrown into a pool of water in the grove, and a wooden frame (" cratis ") placed over his head, into which stones were thrown, thereby drowning him.

The royal edict, registered by the Parlement of Paris on March 15, 1667 created the office of lieutenant général de police (" lieutenant general of police "), who was to be the head of the new Paris police force, and defined the task of the police as " ensuring the peace and quiet of the public and of private individuals, purging the city of what may cause disturbances, procuring abundance, and having each and everyone live according to their station and their duties ".

Before 1929, the SS wore the same brown uniform as the SA, with the exception of a black tie and a black cap with a Totenkopf (" death's head ") skull and bones symbol on it.

* The caixa de guerra (" war box ") and tarol are latin american snare drums with a single set of snares on the top of the top head.

In India, it is common to see the greeting (" Namaste " or " Sat Sri Akal " for Sikhs ) where the two hands ( palms ) are pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed.

These include: Cabeza, a serving of the muscles of the head ; Sesos (" brains "); Lengua (" tongue "); Cachete (" cheeks "); Trompa (" lips "); and, Ojo (" eye ").

Painting of St. Ambrose with whip and book in the church of San Giuseppe alla Lungara, RomeAn address by Ambrose to Christian young people warns them against intermarriage with Jews (" De Abrahamo ," ix.

Years later, in 1847, the Chilean government entrusted the young poet Eusebio Lillo with a new text that would replace the anti-Spain poem of Vera y Pintado, and after being analyzed by Andrés Bello, retained the original chorus (" Dulce patria, recibe los votos ...").

His name is used several times during certain episodes of The Simpsons by industrialist Mr. Burns as an expletive (" Come on, Steinmetz, while we're still young!

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

Meanwhile, Buddy and Phyllis join their spouses and the foursome reminisces about the old days of their courtship and the theatre, their memories vividly coming to life in the apparitions of their young counterparts (" Waiting For The Girls Upstairs ").

She yearns for him to hold her, but young Sally slips between them and the three move together (" Too Many Mornings ").

Phyllis reflects on the two sides of her personality, " juicy " Lucy — the young Phyllis, naive but passionate, and " dressy " Jessie — Phyllis's jaded, well-groomed present self (" The Story of Lucy and Jessie ").

Hadrian was schooled in various subjects particular to young aristocrats of the day, and was so fond of learning Greek literature that he was nicknamed Graeculus (" Greekling ").

The girls and young unmarried women of the household or village make a corn dolly to represent Brighid, called the Brideog (" little Brigid " or " young Brigid "), adorning it with ribbons and baubles like shells or stones.

In his family, young Kurt was known as Herr Warum (" Mr. Why ") because of his insatiable curiosity.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

The name comes from the Occitan word " merlot ", which means " young blackbird " (" merle " is the French word for several kinds of thrushes, including blackbirds ); the name was thought to have been given either because of the grape's beautiful dark-blue color, or the blackbirds ' fondness for grapes.

The singer Renaud repopularized the term amongst the young generation with his 1976 album Amoureux de Paname (" In love with Paname ").

The Academy has its origins in the Accademia dei Lincei (" Academy of Lynxes ") established in Rome in 1603, under Pope Clement VIII by the learned Roman prince, Federico Cesi ( 1585 – 1630 ), who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed Galileo Galilei as its president.

* 29 April: " KoninginneNach " (" Queen's Night ", pronounced with a " plat Haags " accent ) is held the night before " Koninginnedag "; there are several open air concerts in the city and young people flock from all over the country to drink and party.

Litters of typically two or three young (" kits ") are born in the spring.

* Yuan Zhao (" the young lord "), emperor of Northern Wei ( d. 528 )

Girls as well as boys exercised, possibly in the nude, and young women as well as young men may have participated in the Gymnopaedia (" Festival of Nude Youths ").

He continued to do so in a series of other films: I vinti (" The Vanquished ", 1952 ), a trio of stories, each set in a different country ( France, Italy and England ), about juvenile delinquency ; La signora senza camelie ( The Lady Without Camellias, 1953 ) about a young film star and her fall from grace ; and Le amiche ( The Girlfriends, 1955 ) about middle class women in Turin.

Anne made a good impression in the Netherlands with her manners and studiousness, Margaret reported that she was well spoken and pleasant for her young age (" son josne eaige ").

* Joven (" young ") or oro (" gold "): a mixture of blanco tequila and reposado tequila ;