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 ".

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

") and it includes a proverbial expression (" Only an inch of daylight left ") though it is possible that he coined it himself.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

August Heinrich Hoffmann ( who called himself Hoffmann von Fallersleben after his home town to distinguish himself from others with the same common name of " Hoffmann ") wrote the text in 1841 on vacation on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

Later, he also referred to himself as a " phonometrician " ( meaning " someone who measures sounds ") preferring this designation to that of a " musician ", after having been called " a clumsy but subtle technician " in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.

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.

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.

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 historic practice of a bishop tutoring a candidate himself (" Reading for Orders ") is still to be found.

If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is that " Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament " and that, since " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ," " Baptism of blood " ( as in the case of the martyrs, who are understood to include the Holy Innocents ) and, for catechumens at least, the explicit desire for Baptism, " together with repentance for their sins, and charity ," (" Baptism of Desire ") ensure salvation for those unable to receive Baptism by water.

Loki says that Skaði was once gentler in speech to him ( referring to himself as the " son of Laufey ") when Skaði once invited him to her bed ( an event that is unattested elsewhere ), and that such events must be mentioned if they are to recall " shameful deeds.

The first stanza notes that Loki produced " the wolf " with the jötunn Angrboða, that Loki himself gave birth to the horse Sleipnir by the stallion Svaðilfari, and that Loki ( referred to as the " brother of Býleistr ") thirdly gave birth to " the worst of all marvels ".

However, this practice is not extensively used in regular Leet ; more often it is seen in situations where the argot ( i. e., " secret language ") characteristics of the system are required, either to exclude newbies or outsiders in general, i. e., anything that the average reader cannot make sense of is valid ; a valid reader should himself try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.

") He soon became the pastor and overseer of the Brethren meeting, at first over a stable but shortly, under Gosse's preaching and peacemaking, in finer quarters — which he perhaps financed himself.

To his surprise, Ben finds himself wooing Elizabeth (" In Between ") and wins her for $ 800 (" Whoop-Ti-Yay ").

All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson ; two are narrated by Holmes himself (" The Blanched Soldier " and " The Lion's Mane ") and two others are written in the third person (" The Mazarin Stone " and " His Last Bow ").

In 1881, a religious leader named Muhammad Ahmad proclaimed himself the Mahdi (" guided one ") and began a war to unify the tribes in western and central Sudan.

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

However, due to relativistic space travel Ender himself ( who now goes by his real name Andrew Wiggin or by his title " Speaker for the Dead ") is only about 35 years old.

Paxman has been widely condemned as disrespectful when commented in an absurd way the possible exit of Greece from the Eurozone (' like bad kebab vomiting ") on 31 May 2012 edition of Newsnight.

Another notable song, titled " 100 milionów " ( or " 100 million ") was a critical take on Lech Wałęsa's election promises, and was publicly commented on by Lech Wałęsa himself.

The words instinctu divinitatis (" inspired by the divine ") have been greatly commented on.

On May 4, 2004 Eugene Bird appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (" CBC ") National News and commented "" We know that the Israeli intelligence was operating in Baghdad after the war was over ... The question should be: Were there any foreign interrogators among those that were recommending very, very bad treatment for the prisoners?

As part of Greek politician Aiskhines ( Aeschines )' proof that a member of the prosecution against him, Timarkhos ( Timarchus ), had prostituted himself to ( or been " kept " by ) another male while young, he attributed fellow prosecutor Demosthenes ' nickname Batalos (" arse ") to his " unmanliness and kinaidiā and frequently commented on his " unmanly and womanish temper ", even criticising his clothing: " If anyone took those dainty little coats and soft shirts off you ... and took them round for the jurors to handle, I think they'd be quite unable to say, if they hadn't been told in advance, whether they had hold of a man's clothing or a woman's.

" One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, " Der alte Jude, er ist der Mann " (" The old Jew, he is the man ")

His eldest niece Prussian Crown Princess Victoria (" Vicky ") was for one pleased with his Prussian support and commented " I am not accustomed to hearing so much praise of Coburg here.

The New York Times praised the performers ( Montalban has " an old-fashioned luxurious voice "; Jason Alexander " provides comic relief "; Goldberg " winningly blends royal dignity with motherly meddling "; Peters " brings vigor and sly comedy ") but commented that the musical " was always a pumpkin that never turned into a glittering coach ... the songs are lesser Rodgers and Hammerstein ... it doesn't take that final leap into pure magic.

He is shown to have a wide variety of Whitelighter-specific powers, such as the ability to orb to the heavens or hear the call of his charge, which in one episode (" I Dream of Pheobe ") he commented on having Aunt Phoebe " put on mute ".

Although Bosley Crowther panned the film in the New York Times of August 2, 1956, ( calling it a " dismal tale ") Lawrence Quirk in Motion Picture Herald and William Zinsser in the New York Herald Tribune commented favorably upon the film.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood commented that " The idea of Lisa being unpopular in the light of a new girl in the school hallways is not new ( see " Lisa's Rival ") but it is done here with such class ," concluding of Homer's treatment that " this is an episode which shows that even he can find interesting ways to do things.

In writing 1632, Flint's web forum " Mutter of Demons " at Baen's Bar was soon taken over by exploratory posts as captivated readers commented on the E-ARC released book, creating a ground swell of interest (" internet Buzz ") in the months before its hardcover release.

She also mixes ambient sound into her music ( such as the sound of a frying pan in use cooking food, in the background of her song " My Secret Friend ") and has commented that " certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important.

Ahsan Haque of IGN gave the episode a 8. 7 out of 10 (" Great ") and commented that the episode had " fantastic character moments " and " brilliant CGI effects ", and that " if you're willing to accept the Scooby-Doo storyline, then the strong nostalgic vibes present in this episode should be enough to carry this episode into a must-see category.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

Before the time of Yang Luchan, the art appears to have been generically described by outsiders as zhan quan ( 沾拳, " touch boxing "), mian quan ( 绵拳, " soft boxing ") or shisan shi ( 十三式, " the thirteen techniques ").

The fear of Friday the 13th has been called friggatriskaidekaphobia ( Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom " Friday " is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen ), or paraskevidekatriaphobia a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví ( Παρασκευή, meaning " Friday "), and dekatreís ( δεκατρείς, meaning " thirteen ") attached to phobía ( φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning " fear ").

However, in dates such as 1300 (" thirteen hundred ") or when contrasting numbers in the teens, such as 13, 14, 15, the stress shifts to the first syllable: 13.

For eight years Nuevo León was abandoned and uninhabited, until a third expedition of thirteen families led by Diego de Montemayor founded Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey (" Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey ") on September 20, 1596, next to a water spring called Ojos de Agua de Santa Lucia, where the Museum of Mexican History and Santa Lucía Riverwalk are now located.

The fact that there are thirteen letters in two of the mottos (" e pluribus unum " and " annuit cœptis ") seems to be coincidental ( and depends on whether one considers the ligature " œ " to be one letter or two ).

The tonalpohualli (" day count ") consists of a cycle of 260 days, each day signified by a combination of a number from one to thirteen, and one of the twenty day signs.

He had a formal Bar mitzvah (" coming of age ") ceremony in the Kimberley synagogue when he turned thirteen.

Child care ( or " childcare ", " child minding ", " babycare ", " daycare " or " preschool ") means caring for and supervising a child or children, usually from newborn to age thirteen.

– The flag of the state shall be white, five feet and six inches ( 5 ' 6 ") fly and four feet and ten inches ( 4 ' 10 ") deep on the pike, bearing on each side in the center a gold anchor, twenty-two inches ( 22 ") high, and underneath it a blue ribbon twenty-four inches ( 24 ") long and five inches ( 5 ") wide, or in these proportions, with the motto " Hope " in golden letters thereon, the whole surrounded by thirteen ( 13 ) golden stars in a circle.

The thirteen books in the series ( or " tridecalogy ") have collectively sold more than 60 million copies and have been translated into 41 languages.

The show was created by Roy Winsor and was first written by Agnes Nixon ( who was then known professionally as " Agnes Eckhardt ") for thirteen weeks ( although star Mary Stuart disputed this in her autobiography, Both Of Me, saying the cast made up the first few weeks of scripts because they were poorly written ) and, later, by Irving Vendig.

In " The Screaming Clocks ", he invents a clock that doesn't need winding up, but the omission of an important component (" I forgot to put a little wiggly thing in ") means the clock doesn't stop at twelve but continues striking thirteen, fourteen and so forth until it can't keep up with itself.

After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, James Berlin (" Mickey ") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was sleeping in on March 9, 1977.

He was the fourth of thirteen children born to Edward M. (" Ned ") and Lavinia ( Bell ) Blackburn.

The ballerina ( Cäcilie Cerri, Vienna ’ s last Italian prima, was " Flora ") enters in a Welcome with Flowers, which leads into the biggest dance number, the Flowertorch Polonaise with " Flora ," Grete, thirteen female soloists, Gustav, four male soloists, the adult female corps and the group of female students.

It was mostly written by Rachel Portman, except for tracks one (" My Best Wishes "), thirteen (" Bluin ’ the Blues ") and fourteen (" Mood Indigo "), which were written by Fats Waller, Muggsy Spanier and Duke Ellington, respectively.

As of 2008, it consists of thirteen accommodation blocks lettered from " A " to " N " ( missing out " I ") located across a cable-stayed bridge from Wentworth College and close to the old Goodricke College buildings and the University's sports centre.