Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics ; çatal is Turkish for " fork ", höyük for " mound ") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (" mighty gap ") was the vast, primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe.

Although the games existed in pockets in Europe -- it is recorded as being played as early as the 17th century by merchants in England -- it has never gained much popularity in most regions, except in the Baltic area, where once it was a very popular game (" Bohnenspiel ") and Bosnia, where it is called Ban-Ban and still played today.

It existed in some local cults like the cult of the vegetation goddess Helena ( dendron, " tree ") in Rhodes, and a cult of Artemis in Peloponnese.

Several other names for related or similar dishes existed in Europe, such as the 13th century Danish hwit moos (" white mush "), the Anglo-Norman blanc desirree (" white Syrian dish ") and Dutch calijs ( from Latin colare, " to strain ").

A chapel known as Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (" Our Lady of Grace ") existed at the site before the city was established, and the denomination lent its name to the port, to be called Le Hable de Grâce ( already in 1489, " the harbor of Grace ").

The later prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a ' Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold ' ( Commander Tucker's tour, " Cold Front "), and describes the device as being powered by an anti-matter / matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles ( one on each side of the ship ) to create a displacement field ( the aforementioned " bubble ") The episode also firmly establishes that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans ; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Cochrane's drive was in some way superior to forms that existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large.

Some interpret Gen. 14: 7 ( which refers to the " land of the Amalekites ") to mean that the Amalekites existed as early as the time of Abraham, in the region that would later become the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.

The original Parliament of Scotland ( or " Estates of Scotland ") was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland and existed from the early thirteenth century until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

A Wea village called Weautano ( also known as " Rising Sun " and " Old Orchard Town ") already existed near the fort.

Thermopylae (; Ancient and Katharevousa Greek, Demotic Θερμοπύλες: " hot gateways ") is a location in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity.

") This attitude by the Prussian and German officer corps dated back to the time of Federick the Great, and had evolved at a time when the Prussian state largely existed to serve the interests of the Army.

Desmostylia ( Greek for " bonded pillars ") is an extinct order of marine mammals which existed from the Arikareean age of the late Oligocene epoch ( 30. 8 million years ago ) to the Tortonian age of the late Miocene epoch ( 7. 25 million years ago ).

Two-handed jiàn of up to 1. 6 meters ( 65 ") in length, known as shuangshou jian, existed but were not as common as the one-handed version.

La Escuela Moderna ( Spanish for " The Modern School ") was a progressive school that existed briefly at the start of the 20th century in Catalonia ( Spain ).

Until 1793, a rank of brigadier des armées (" brigadier of the armies ") existed in the French Army, which could be described as a senior colonel or junior brigade commander.

Iguanodon ( ; meaning " iguana-tooth ") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the ornithopods ' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.

Before that time, a sideline with only a small amount of space ( typically 6 " to 12 ") existed between the sideline stripe and the barrier which would provide the space for a ball carrier to step out of bounds before hitting the sideline barrier.

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 ).

The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America ( or " Confederacy ") while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War.

The Domesday Book states that the manor of Hallam (" Hallun ") included sixteen hamlets or settlements and had existed before the 1066 Norman conquest of England as part of the lands owned by Waltheof, the Earl of Huntingdon, who had an aula or hall located in this district.

There also existed the " taillon " ( a tax for military expenditures ), a national salt tax ( the gabelle ), national tariffs ( the " aides ") on various products ( including wine ), local tariffs on speciality products ( the " douane ") or levied on products entering the city ( the " octroi ") or sold at fairs, and local taxes.

(" I guess I'm headed that-a-way, Just as long as it's paved, I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma-Shave ") Chuck Suchy's song " Burma Shave Boogie " ( from his 2008 Unraveling Heart album ) incorporates several of the Burma Shave rhymes into its lyrics.

In India, Burma, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia, the leaves are chewed together in a wrapped package along with the areca nut ( which, by association, is often inaccurately called the " betel nut ") and mineral slaked lime ( calcium hydroxide ).

* Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G3M ( Allied reporting name " Nell ") bombers based at Hanoi in French Indochina begin attacks on the Burma Road.

China could be supplied only by flying over the Himalaya mountains (" The Hump ") from India, or capturing territory in Burma and building a new road — the Ledo Road.

In September 1943, 630 merchant seamen from India, China, Burma and Aden were moved out of the Milag into a new camp, Milag ( Inder ) ( known as the Inderlager or " Indian Camp ") west of Westertimke.

In 1938, Baumler rejoined the U. S. Army as a second lieutenant, but in 1941 he resigned his commission again to join the American Volunteer Group (" Flying Tigers ") then training in Burma.

Leese's command covered three separate groups: the Northern Combat Area Command under US Lieutenant General Dan Sultan, Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant-General William (" Bill ") Slim in central Burma and finally, further south in the Arakan, Indian XV Corps under Lieutenant-General Philip Christison.

While he was a student at MIT and a member of the local band The Vacuum Heads he created two famous guitar effect pedals for seminal post-punk act Mission of Burma: the Vacu-Fuzz (" a Big Muff Pi on steroids ") and the Vacu-Trem a souped up Tremolo unit.

The company founded its own R & D center in 1987 ( now " Vipo ") and provided technical assistance for the construction of rubber works in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Burma, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Yugoslavia.

Among these are treatises such as the Shikand-gumanic Vichar by Mardan-Farrux Ohrmazddadan, selections of Denkard, Wizidagīhā-ī Zātspram (" Selections of Zātspram ") as well as older passages of the book Avesta, the Gathas which are attributed to Zarathustra himself and regarded as his " direct teachings ".

The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

") as well as the ability to find a service with a particular name.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

They are prohibited as well from hitting the back, back of the neck or head ( called a " rabbit-punch ") or the kidneys.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

Sodium carbonate (" soda " or " natron ") and potassium carbonate (" potash ") have been used since antiquity for cleaning and preservation, as well as for the manufacture of glass.

On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.

Is (" as well ") and se (" not ... either ") also function as clitics: although written separately, they are pronounced together with the preceding word, without stress: Ő is jön.

dent., which are technically not " doctorate degrees ") as well as to holders of postgraduate research degrees ( Dr.

On 10 October 2006 Sounds of the Season: The Enya Holiday Collection was released containing six songs: the previously released " Oíche Chiúin " ( a. k. a. " Silent Night ") and " Amid the Falling Snow ", new recordings of the standards " Adeste Fideles " ( a. k. a. " Oh Come All Ye Faithful ") and " We Wish You a Merry Christmas " as well as two original songs, " Christmas Secrets " and " The Magic of the Night ".

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

She introduced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of Oleron in 1160 (" Rolls of Oléron ") and later in England as well.

Qui tam is an abbreviated form of the Latin legal phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur (" he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself ") In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a " relator ".

The game session ( or " adventure ") can be metaphorically described as a play, in which the players are the lead actors, and the GM provides the stage, the scenery, the basic plot on which the improvisational script is built, as well as all the bit parts and supporting characters.

Krasomezédhes ( literally " wine-meze ") are mezedes that go well with wine ; ouzomezédhes are mezedes that go with ouzo.

Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called " modules " that gave a person running a D & D game ( the " Dungeon Master ") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario.

Sefer Mitzvot Katan (" SeMaK ") by Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil is an abridgement of the SeMaG, including additional practical Halakhah, as well as agaddic and ethical material.