The rectors had spurned their ancient right to elect an islander to keep one key of the money-chest.

Xun Zi chapter ( 22 ) " On the Rectification of Names " claims the ancient sage-kings chose names () that directly corresponded with actualities (), but later generations confused terminology, coined new nomenclature, and thus could no longer distinguish right from wrong.

The concept of divine right incorporates, but exaggerates, the ancient Christian concept of " royal God-given rights ", which teach that " the right to rule is anointed by God ", although this idea is found in many other cultures, including Aryan and Egyptian traditions.

However, it soon became clear that Henry was not willing to concede his presumed and ancient right to name the pope and bishops within his kingdom.

At the heart of the question was the ancient right of the Holy Roman Emperor to name the pope as well as bishops and priests.

Meanwhile, the King of Bohemia, who held the ancient imperial office of Arch-Cupbearer, asserted his right to participate in elections.

The study of mathematics as a subject in its own right begins in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term " mathematics " from the ancient Greek μάθημα ( mathema ), meaning " subject of instruction ".

He further suggests the inward bend of the soundboard ( the " belly scoop ") is a deliberate adaptation by ancient builders to afford the lutenist's right hand more space between the strings and soundboard.

Its source is just 240 km ( 150 mi ) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but the river runs directly away from the sea into the Sahara Desert, then takes a sharp right turn near the ancient city of Timbuktu ( Tombouctou ) and heads southeast to the Gulf of Guinea.

In 1206 the crusaders subdued the Livonian stronghold in Turaida on the right bank of Gauja river, the ancient trading route to the Northwestern Rus.

He argued that truth was not about getting it right or representing reality, but was part of a social practice and language was what served our purposes in a particular time ; ancient languages are sometimes untranslatable into modern ones because they possess a different vocabulary and are unuseful today.

The Po (,, ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus, ) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso ( in the Cottian Alps ) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

alt = A background of dark, ancient ruins, a pillar to the left, a man in white standing on the pillar, a pillar in the middle on which a scarlet jewel sits, an outcropping on the right on which three characters stand, including Magil in dark blue clothes, Serge in blue clothes, and Kid in green and brown clothes, "' So, Vera.

" may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla ( mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the " Queen of the Catacombs " in antiquity ) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.

Among his apologetic writings, the Apologeticus, addressed to the Roman magistrates, is a most pungent defense of Christianity and the Christians against the reproaches of the pagans, and an important legacy of the ancient Church, proclaiming the principle of freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and demands a fair trial for Christians before they are condemned to death.

He hoped for the restoration of the ancient temple in Jerusalem, the exclusive right of Jews to settle on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the creation of a state based on biblical law.

The bill states that it is acting to restore " ancient rights " trampled upon by James II, though some have argued that the English Bill of Rights created a new right to have arms, which developed out of a duty to have arms.

* Tribalism and its sociological meaning-The ancient Germanic custom and notion of weregild represents a quintessential illustration of early-to-middle-stage tribalism-necessarily ethnocentric ( ethnocentrism an anthropological universal among tribal-stage societies )-beginning to attempt to develop conceptual-moral " justice "-the judicial prevention of societal self-destruction by endless, wild, lawless vendettas and might makes right " fist-law ".

Albayzín ( also written as Albaicín ), located on a hill on the right bank of the river Darro, is the ancient Moorish quarter of the city and transports the visitor to a unique world: the site of the ancient city of Elvira, so-called before the Zirid Moors renamed it Granada.

Religious freedom and the right to worship freely were practices that had been appreciated and promoted by most ancient Indian dynasties for over 5, 000 years.

He restored the Aqua Traiana, an ancient Roman Aqueduct ( named after him Acqua Paola ), bringing water to the rioni located on right bank of the Tiber ( Trastevere and Borgo ).

Women had a high status in ancient Egypt and enjoyed the legal right to own, inherit, or will property.

One must, however, evaluate such evidence with caution since it is extremely unlikely that all ancient Hebrew sounds had precise Greek equivalents.

In 1990 Frankhauser participated in a two-day seminar ( Geochemical Methods for Dating of Rock Art ) held in Canberra, which drew archeologists from three continents to evaluate the scientific soundness of the cation-ratio method of dating ancient rock art specimens.

After the discoveries of new territories and the Council of Trent ( 1545-1563 ) the movement became more systematic, when the Roman Church had to ponder how and to evaluate elements of ancient non-Christian cultures.

Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol.

* Chancellor Bay, a royal scribe to an ancient Egyptian ruler

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

In ancient Greece, the Acropolis ( literally: " peak of the city "), placed on a commanding eminence, was important in the life of the people, serving as a refuge and stronghold in peril and containing military and food supplies, the shrine of the god and a royal palace.

Secondly, the successors of Capet came to be recognised as members of an illustrious and ancient royal house and therefore socially superior to their politically and economically superior rivals.

Incestuous marriages were also seen in the royal houses of ancient Japan and Korea.

There were a few institutional or royal libraries which were open to an educated public ( such as the Serapeum collection of the Library of Alexandria, once the largest library in the ancient world ), but on the whole collections were private.

He marched as far as Compiègne, an ancient royal town, before being surrounded by Pepin's forces and captured.

In 1924 he published one of his most famous works Les rois thaumaturges: étude sur le caractère surnaturel attribué à la puissance royale particulièrement en France et en Angleterre ( translated in English as The magic-working kings or The royal touch: sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France ) in which he collected, described and studied the documents pertaining to the ancient tradition that the kings of the Middle Ages were able to cure the disease of scrofula simply by touching people suffering from it.

On gold coins struck in his royal workshop, Theodebert is shown in the pearl-studded regalia of the Byzantine emperor ; Childebert I is shown in profile in the ancient style, wearing a toga and a diadem.

In the ancient Maya civilization of Mesoamerica more than a thousand years ago, prisoners of war were paraded before the king and his royal court and subjected to ritual humiliation and torture.

The origins of tug of war are uncertain, but it is beyond dispute that this once royal sport was practiced in ancient Egypt and China, where it was held in legend that the Sun and Moon played Tug of War over the light and darkness.

Hence, the title was amended as part of the more ancient royal courts and titles of Tui-Aana, Tui-Atua.

The royal dynasty from ancient times on the island was the Sinha ( Lion ) royal dynasty and the word Sinha finds its origins here.

Once the capital of the last dynasty of Vietnam, Hue ’ s culinary tradition features highly decorative and colorful food, reflecting the influence of ancient Vietnamese royal cuisine.

He found the ancient shaft graves with their royal skeletons and spectacular grave goods.

It is generally accepted that the English witenagemot had its origins in ancient Germanic assemblies summoned to witness royal grants of land.

It is surrounded by interesting buildings such as the Neogothic " Palazzo Giordano " and the neoclassical " Palace of Sassari's Province ", where the ancient royal apartments of the House of Savoy were once located.

The young Henry accompanied King Richard to Ireland, and while in the royal service, he visited Trim Castle in County Meath, the ancient meeting place of the Irish Parliament.

The only people to complain about the arrangements were the royal servants, who found the house too small, though Queen Mary annoyed her niece by having the ancient ivy torn from the walls as she considered it unattractive and a hazard.

Part of an ancient temple was brought from Leptis Magna to the Fort Belvedere royal residence in England in 1818.