First, at the district and municipal level, traditional shura councils met to pick electors — persons who cast ballots for Loya Jirga delegates.

* Loya jirga — " grand jirga ", a large congress called to discuss a particularly important event

* October 1747 — A jirga at Kandahar was attended by Afghan representatives who appointed Ahmad Shah Durrani as their new leader.

* September 1928 — A jirga at Paghman, called by King Amanullah, the third loya jirga of his reign ( 1919 – 1929 ) to discuss reforms.

* September 1930 — A jirga a meeting of 286 called by Mohammed Nadir Shah to confirm his accession to the throne.

* September 2001 — Four different loya jirga movements anticipating the end of Taliban rule.

* 2006 — Afghan president Hamid Karzai said that he and the Pakistani president will jointly lead a loya jirga to end a dispute over border attacks.

* Wolesi Jirga — " people's jirga ", the lower house of the Afghan legislature

* Meshrano Jirga — " elders ' jirga ", the upper house of the Afghan legislature

The electors then traveled to regional centers and cast ballots, to choose from amongst themselves a smaller number of loya jirga delegates — according to allotted numbers assigned to each district.

* Wolesi Jirga — " people's jirga ", the lower house of the Afghan legislature

* Meshrano Jirga — " elders ' jirga ", the upper house of the Afghan legislature

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".

As the patron of Delphi ( Pythian Apollo ), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.

Apollo was born on the seventh day () of the month Thargelion — according to Delian tradition — or of the month Bysios — according to Delphian tradition.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.

He concluded — correctly — that the mouthwash either did not reach, or was not present long enough, to kill the plaque organisms.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

In his introduction, Alfred explains that he gathered together the laws he found in many " synod-books " and " ordered to be written many of the ones that our forefathers observed — those that pleased me ; and many of the ones that did not please me, I rejected with the advice of my councillors, and commanded them to be observed in a different way.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

When sufficient information has been gathered, the investigation of the candidate, who is called " Servant of God ", is presented by the local bishop to the Roman Curia — in particular, the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints — where it is assigned a postulator, whose task is to gather further information about the life of the Servant of God.

He interviewed everyone — beggars, street-entertainers ( such as Punch and Judy men ), market traders, prostitutes, labourers, sweatshop workers, even down to the " mudlarks " who searched the stinking mud on the banks of the River Thames for wood, metal, rope and coal from passing ships, and the " pure-finders " who gathered dog faeces to sell to tanners.

The goods they sought — gold from the mines of Rhodesia, ivory, slaves, tortoise shell and rhinoceros horn — could more conveniently be gathered by local people in the interior and sold to the traders at the coasts during seasonal markets.

Bohemians — intellectuals who rejected Victorian ideals — gathered in the Village.

Thus late medieval Guilds of St Luke in the cities of Flanders, or the " Accademia di San Luca " ( Academy of St. Luke ) in Rome — imitated in many other European cities during the 16th century — gathered together and protected painters.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

* Buttonwood ( Finance ) — named for the buttonwood tree where early Wall Street traders gathered.

On July 19, 1848, the morning of the first day of convention, the organizing committee arrived at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel shortly before ten o ' clock on a hot, sunny day to find a crowd gathered outside and the church doors locked — an overlooked detail.

* Travel writer Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ) gathered material, including an interview with Brooke's mother, for an eventual biography of Brooke, but completion of the task fell to Arthur Springer whose Red Wine of Youth — A Life of Rupert Brooke, benefitting from Halliburton's researches, appeared in 1952.

Berlin described his visit to her flat: It was very barely furnished — virtually everything in it had, I gathered, been taken away — looted or sold — during the siege.

The Chickasaws gathered at Memphis on July 4, 1837, with all of their assets — belongings, livestock, and slaves.

" Although most scholars, and almost all Christians, read this as meaning that the gathering would include people not only from earth but also from heaven, a few Christians, mostly modern American Protestant Premillennialists, have interpreted it to mean that people would be gathered from earth and taken to heaven — a concept known in their circles as the rapture.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.