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After this merger failed, they successfully merged KFC ( now " FC Zaanstreek ") with Alkmaar ' 54, though the team would be located in Alkmaar.
After feigning a march further eastward, Julian's army turned south to Circesium at the confluence of the Khabur (" Abora ") and the Euphrates arriving at the beginning of April.
After women were banned from performing, cross-dressed male actors, known as onnagata (" female-role ") or oyama, took over.
After listing off several metaphors for death (" is no more ", " has ceased to be ", " bereft of life, it rests in peace ") he is told to go to the pet shop run by the shopkeeper's brother in Bolton for a refund, but he is told by the proprietor of that store ( who is really the shopkeeper, save for a fake moustache ) that he is in Ipswich.
After passing the Pongo de Huaracayo ( or Guaracayo ), the cerros, or hills, gradually disappear, and for a distance of about the river is full of islands, and there is nothing visible from its low banks but an immense forest-covered plain known as the selva baja (" low jungle ") or Peruvian Amazonia, home to indigenous peoples such as the Urarina of the Chambira Basin, the Candoshi, and the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples.
After the presidencies of Gerald Ford ( who favored the Michigan fight song over " Hail to the Chief ") and Jimmy Carter ( who dramatically reduced the formality of presidential functions ), Nancy brought a Kennedy-esque glamour back into the White House.
After the construction of the AT & T Building ( commonly known to locals as the " Batman Building ") in 1994, the downtown area saw little construction until the mid-2000s.
After liquid paint is applied, there is an interval during which it can be blended with additional painted regions ( at the " wet edge ") called " open time.
After Henry's death in 936, his widow Saint Mathilda founded a religious community for women (" Frauenstift ") on the castle hill, where daughters of the higher nobility were educated.
In the 1941 novel Sixth Column ( also known as The Day After Tomorrow ), a white resistance movement in the United States defends itself against an invasion by an Asian fascist state ( the " Pan-Asians ") using a " super-science " technology that allows ray weapons to be tuned to specific races.
" After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded doctorates giving them the status of faqih ( meaning " master of law "), mufti ( meaning " professor of legal opinions ") and mudarris ( meaning " teacher "), which were later translated into Latin as magister, professor and doctor respectively.
After the Reconquista ( reconquest ) by the Reyes Católicos (" Catholic Monarchs ") in 1492, some portions were used by the Christian rulers.
After the Panic of 1873, Congress debated an inflationary policy to stimulate the economy and passed the Legal Tender Act ( known as the " Inflation Bill ") on April 14, 1874 to increase the nation's tight money supply.
After ten years of civil war in Mexico ( then called the " Viceroyalty of New Spain ") and the death of two of its founders, by early 1820 the Mexican independence movement was stalemated and close to collapse.
After the battle, legend states that John's personal crest ( a pair of black wings ) and motto Ich dien (" I Serve ") were adopted in slightly modified form by Edward, the Black Prince, and since then they have been part of the badge of the Prince of Wales.
After the death of Aegidius, he first assisted Comes (" count ") Paul of Angers, together with a mixed band of Gallo-Romans and Franks, in defeating the Goths and taking booty.
In 1973, having been hospitalized after a car accident during a visit to Bulgaria ( now widely considered an attempt on his life on orders from Moscow: ), Berlinguer wrote three famous articles (" Reflections on Italy ", " After the facts of Chile " and " After the Coup Chile ") for the intellectual weekly magazine of the party, Rinascita.
After a period of split chairmanship in the first series, Humphrey Lyttelton (" Humph ") served in this role from the programme's inception until his death in 2008.
After Pelayo's death in 737, his son Favila ( or " Fafila ") was elected king.
After that, wang ( sometimes translated " prince ") became merely the head of the hierarchy of noble ranks.
After some time, the family was able to arrange the purchase of the minuscule Herrschaft (" Lordship ") of Schellenberg and countship of Vaduz ( in 1699 and 1712 respectively ) from the Hohenems.
") After several failed attempts to rectify this situation, Congress finally passed the Radio Act of 1927, which transferred most of the responsibility for radio to a newly created Federal Radio Commission.
After a series of goodbyes, the Hobbits finally return home, only to find the Shire in ruins, its inhabitants oppressed by Lotho Sackville-Baggins ( usually called " The Chief " or " The Boss ") who is in reality controlled by a shadowy figure called " Sharkey ".
After the battle, all the valkyries fly away but Sigrún, and wolves ( referred to as " the troll-woman's mount ") consume corpses:

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In arguing that sexual orientation and gender identity are innate and cannot be consciously changed, attempts to change gay, lesbian and bisexual people into heterosexuals (" conversion therapy ") are generally opposed by the LGBT community.
" Sowell described the role of uninformed citizens (" useful idiots ") in the rise of Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, arguing that the U. S. was on a " slippery slope to tyranny " because citizens weren't thinking about the issues.
The Watch Tower Society filed an amicus curiae (" friend of the court ") brief arguing that the perceived sale of religious literature should be exempt from taxation.
The Watch Tower Society filed an amicus curiae (" friend of the court ") brief arguing that the perceived sale of religious literature should be exempt from taxation.
Hobbes objected to the attempt to derive rights from " natural law ," arguing that law (" lex ") and right (" jus ") though often confused, signify opposites, with law referring to obligations, while rights refer to the absence of obligations.
Dr. Parnas took a public stand against the US Strategic Defense Initiative ( also known as " Star Wars ") in the mid 1980s, arguing that it would be impossible to write an application of sufficient quality that it could be trusted to prevent a nuclear attack.
* Agostino Scilla publishes La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso: lettera risponsiva c. i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi terrestri (" Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense ") in Naples, arguing for an organic origin for fossils.
Some scholars and judges have questioned the traditional view that Parliament cannot bind itself, arguing that it can impose procedural ( or " manner and form ") restrictions on itself, since the legislature must be constituted and regulated by legal rules.
He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that Islamist insurgency ( and not " terrorism ") is the core of the conflict between the U. S. and Islamist forces, who in places such as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are " struggling not just for independence but against institutionalized barbarism.
Cisalpinism ( derived from " this side of the mountains ") was a movement amongst English Roman Catholics arguing that Catholicism, while not rejecting the supreme teaching authority of the Pope, should not be based on his dominance.
The Nestorian Theodore of Mopsuestia went in the other direction, arguing that in Christ there were two natures ( dyophysite ) ( human and divine ) and two hypostases ( in the sense of " essence " or " person ") that co-existed.
The boys then put on a presentation before the governor, complete with visual aids, in which they detail their opposition to hate crime laws, declaring it a " savage hypocrisy " ( their visual has it as " a savage hypocracy ") and arguing that all forms of crime warrant some sort of hate, and that the laws serve only to encourage discrimination further.
" To bring matters to a head, on 8 January 1878 (" Black Wednesday ") Berry's government began to dismiss public servants, starting with police and judges, arguing that without an Appropriations Bill they could not be paid.
His argument centres around the replacement of the Latin " Pro multis " (" for many ") with the English " for all " in the rite of consecration, arguing that a deviation from the earlier wording resulted in the new Mass not constituting a proper sacrifice.
They believed in a dual existence of Prakriti (" nature ") and Purusha (" spirit ") and had no place for an Ishvara (" God ") in its system, arguing that the existence of Ishvara cannot be proved and hence cannot be admitted to exist.

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The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").
* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
Thus, over time, the expression " a cappella " ( Italian for " in the manner of the chapel ") came to mean exclusively vocal music in contradistinction to the spreading use of the organ in cathedrals.
xiii, " Cum ad Sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ") prescribes their work, determines how much they may charge for their labour, fixes a certain tax for an abstract or abridgment of twenty-five words, or their equivalent, 150 letters, forbids them to charge more, even though the abstract goes over twenty-five words but less than fifty words, enacts that the basis of the tax is the labour employed in writing, expediting, etc., the Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.
Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok ( also spelled amuk, from the Malay meaning " mad with uncontrollable rage ") is a term for a killing spree perpetrated by an individual out of rage or resentment over perceived mistreatment.
Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.
The diverse order Carnivora ( or ; from Latin carō ( stem carn -) " flesh ", + vorāre " to devour ") includes over 280 species of placental mammals.
Hence the expression praeteriti senatores (" senators passed over ") is equivalent to e senatu ejecti ( those removed from the senate ).</ br > In some cases, however, the censors did not acquiesce to this simple mode of proceeding, but addressed the senator whom they had noted, and publicly reprimanded him for his conduct.
In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.
It is accepted, however, that there is an " enormous " range of reliability findings in studies, and that validity is unclear because, given the lack of diagnostic laboratory or neuroimaging tests, standard clinical interviews are " inherently limited " and only a (" flawed ") " best estimate diagnosis " is possible even with full assessment of all data over time.
Beginning with John the Faster, the Bishop of Constantinople ( John IV, 582-595 ) adopted as a formal title for himself the by-then-customary honorific, Ecumenical Patriarch (" pre-eminent father for the civilized world ") over the strong objections of Rome: a title based on the political prestige of Constantinople and its economic and cultural centrality in the Empire.
An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.
Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until the contacts again passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.
Scholars of general semantics emphasize distinctions between different perceptions at different points in space ( called " space-binding ") over any universal God's eye view or assumed-shared or collective identity.
In Argentina, an asado ( Spanish for " grilled ") is prepared on a grill held over an open pit or fire made upon the ground, on which a whole animal or smaller cuts are grilled.
Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.
Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.
On 2 June 1793, Paris sections encouraged by the enragés (" enraged ones ") Jacques Roux and Jacques Hébert – took over the Convention, calling for administrative and political purges, a low fixed price for bread, and a limitation of the electoral franchise to sans-culottes alone.
Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.
The prefix hyper-( comes from the Greek prefix " υπερ -" and means " over " or " beyond ", while having common origins with the English word " super ") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text.
In Norse mythology, Huginn ( from Old Norse " thought ") and Muninn ( Old Norse " memory " or " mind ") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information.
Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

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