This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen emerged.

The brief notes introducing each work offer salient historical or technical points, and many listeners are probably grateful for being intelligently taken by the hand through an often difficult maze.

He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies.

Dick Grune provides some brief historical notes about CVS on his site.

" One such possibility, Welch says, is that the story is of a historical telescoping nature: " that a situation that was known by Muhammad's contemporaries to have lasted for a long period of time later came to be encapsulated in a story that restricts his acceptance of intercession through these goddesses to a brief period of time and places the responsibility for this departure from a strict monotheism on Satan.

Of great historical interest is the filming, in 1899, of three brief segments from his production of King John, in which he starred and directed.

Another significant historical association possessed by Hobe Sound is the brief stay there of former Defense Secretary James Forrestal in 1949 between his resignation from that post and his death.

A brief discussion of dunk types, with descriptions, examples, variations, and historical tidbits will appear in this module.

The problem of Te Kooti is not resolved, except in the brief epilogue, further revealing the depths of Fairweather ’ s ( and Shadbolt ’ s ) ambivalence about the historical figure of Te Kooti, Fairweather ’ s hated and admired nemesis and one-time friend.

Land held directly by the Crown, known as property in the " royal demesne ", is not held under any vestigial feudal tenure ( the crown has no historical overlord other than, for brief periods, the papacy ) and there is therefore no estate to register.

Other notable anarcho-pacifist historical figures include Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day and, for a brief period between 1939 and 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party's ' Bases and Statutes ' aimed at: 1 ) Winning absolute independence for Cuba and aiding that of Puerto Rico ; 2 ) ordering a ' generous and brief war ' that would ensure peace and happiness for all Cuba's inhabitants ; 3 ) organizing this war so that it should be ' republican in spirit and methods ', and lead to a society fulfilling ' in the historical life of the continent '; 4 ) ensuring that no ' authoritarian spirit and bureaucratic make-up of the colony ' would exist in the new Cuba ; 5 ) preventing any one particular group from having more power than other groups ; 6 ) creating a harmonious fatherland with economic prosperity ensured by allowing outlets for the economic activities of all its inhabitants ; 7 ) maintaining friendly relations with the U. S .; and, 8 ) bringing the above intentions through a set of concrete aims: to unite all Cubans living abroad, to bring together all factions inside and outside of Cuba, to prepare inside Cuba the knowledge and spirit of the revolution, to collect funds, to establish relations with friendly peoples to accelerate the success of the war, and finally, to organize the Cuban Revolutionary Party according to the secret rules agreed upon by the founding organizations.

Lightfoot was one of the original members of the Westminster Assembly ; his " Journal of the Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines from January 1, 1643 to December 31, 1644 " is a valuable historical source for the brief period to which it relates.

In Profiles in Courage, Kennedy relied on Reconstruction-era historical texts to produce a brief but devastating portrait of Ames's administration of Mississippi in his profile of Mississippi Senator Lucius Q. C.

" Cowdery and some other historians assert that no actual historical evidence exists to indicate that Craig's whiskey was unique in its time or that he practiced charring of the aging barrels, and that the first known publication potentially alluding to Craig as the inventor of bourbon was not published until 1874 ( and includes only a brief entry in a densely packed list without actually mentioning Craig himself or pointing to any evidence, and without any elaboration as to what was claimed to distinguish the product as the first bourbon ).

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

Some historical characters also appear for brief cameos, to give an historical feel to the story:

" The Nation gave a brief historical overview of the New York Review of Books in 2004, writing:

Since its articulation in 1998 by South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the policy resulted in greater political contact between the two States and some historical moments for the Korean peninsula ; the two Korean summit meetings in Pyongyang ( June 2000 ) which broke ground with several high-profile business ventures, as well as brief meetings of separated family members.

* Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary follows each brief entry with a footnote ( often five or six times the length of the main text ) in which saints, historical figures, and other topics are used as examples for philosophical digression.

The historical background of this portion of the History is the invasion of the island of Melos by Athens in 416 BC during a brief lull in the Peloponnesian War.

Beam writes that Fomenko and his colleagues were discovered by the Soviet scientific press in the early 1980s, leading to " a brief period of renown "; a contemporary review from the journal Questions of History complained, " Their constructions have nothing in common with Marxist historical science.

* Brochure published by the MIT Lab for Computer Science ( formerly Project Mac ) in 1975 gives a brief historical glimpse of their activities and faces twenty years before.

He also gives a brief account of the constitution of a Roman army at that time.

A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of St Alban, is followed by the story of Augustine's mission to England in 597, which brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.

In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

Groucho's son Arthur published a brief account of an incident that occurred when Arthur was a child.

Together with the account in his Life of some of the same events, it also provides the reader with an overview of Josephus ' own part in the events since his return to Jerusalem from a brief visit to Rome in the early 60s ( Life 13 – 17 ).

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

* By what is the price of a commodity determined ?, a brief statement of Karl Marx's rival account

Suetonius, whose father had fought for Otho at Bedriacum, gives an unfavourable account of Vitellius ' brief administration: he describes him as unambitious and notes that Vitellius showed indications of a desire to govern wisely, but that Valens and Caecina encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background.

He developed a number of contacts in France, where his work continued to be taught, and a number of French students visited him at Todtnauberg ( see, for example, Jean-François Lyotard's brief account in Heidegger and " the Jews ", which discusses a Franco-German conference held in Freiburg in 1947, one step toward bringing together French and German students ).

He left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of, and in the account books of the local order of the Brotherhood of Our Lady.

In either account, Cinna was murdered not due to his politics, but as more of a brief flare up of the mob spirit within his troops.

To which is added, a brief account of the several methods proposed for the alteration of the style, the reforming the calendar, and fixing the true time of the celebration of Easter.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

* Photographs and a brief account of Johnson County War

Once into Latin language sources, Niobe's account is first told by Hyginus in his collection of stories in brief and plain Fabulae.

In his brief account, Servius differs from Ovid mainly in substituting Silvanus for Apollo, but also changes the gender of the deer and makes the god responsible for its death:

Dio's version ( 56. 30 ) reports the island visit as fact, though the brief account is likely based on Tacitus ' account ( Ann.

The brief account given of the teaching of the first two in the list, Simon and Menander, does not state whether or not they defined the number of these archons ; but it is expressly told of the third, Saturninus ( ch.

" In response to several requests from people in this community interested in Scouting I am going to try and give a brief account of the organization as it first originated her in Barre in the year 1909.

The classic brief anecdotal account of Baccio's career.

It was the only product mentioned in Marco Polo's brief account and similarly impressed the Arab trader Sulayman several centuries earlier.