* Tôrkari: A general term often used in Bengal the way ` curry ' is used in English ( it is speculated to be one of the origins of curry ).

Pursuing the theory of JB Dubos, but also transforming it, he maintained that those invasions were not marked by the violent and destructive character usually attributed to them ; that the penetration of the German barbarians into Gaul was a slow process ; that the Germans submitted to the imperial administration ; that the political institutions of the Merovingians had their origins in the Roman laws at least as much as, if not more than, in German usages ; and, consequently, that there was no conquest of Gaul by the Germans.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

This is not out of keeping with its origins, probably the most humble of any in the Ivy group.

The origins and evolutionary relationships between the three main groups of amphibians is a matter of debate.

The exact number and placement of Endosymbiotic theory | endosymbiotic events is currently unknown, so this diagram can be taken only as a general guide It represents the most parsimonious way of explaining the three types of endosymbiotic origins of plastids.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

) there is no evidence that he ever bore the name Octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Having concluded that everything in the world is composed of air, Anaximenes then used his theory to devise a scheme explaining the origins and nature of the earth as well as of the surrounding celestial bodies.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

In some texts, he is referred to as something older than the giants, and his origins are not really explained.

Natural history is the study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Little is known of its origins but it is likely that an early form of the Basque language was present in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages to the area.

The U. S. census race definitions says a black is a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.

" Although the work is commonly attributed to Cranmer, its detailed origins are obscure.

A statistical comparison of various alternative hypotheses has shown that universal common ancestry is significantly more probable than models involving multiple origins.

From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.

For example, agar-agar and carrageenan are extracted from seaweed, gelatin is produced by hydrolysis of proteins of bovine and fish origins, and pectin is extracted from citrus peel and apple pomace.

The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989, proscribes words or behaviours which are " threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred " against " a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation.

In Prologue, a euhemerized account of the origins of Norse mythology is provided, including that while Odin was in Saxony, Odin put three of his sons in charge of the area.

Some scholars have upset the standard account of the origins of International law, which emphasises the seminal text De iure belli ac pacis by Grotius, and argued for Vitoria and, later, Suárez's importance as forerunners and, potentially, founders of the field.

When discussing the work along with the origins of the poem, Bowring stated, " The tale is extraordinary, but ' Kubla Khan ' is much more valuable on another account, which is, that of its melodious versification.

The fullest account of Lombard origins, history, and practices is the Historia Langobardorum ( History of the Lombards ) of Paul the Deacon, written in the 8th century.

Moses is a central figure in the Deuteronomist account of the origins of the Israelites, cast in a literary style of elegant flashbacks told by Moses.

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Almost all of the dedications have their origins in the medieval era, after the account of Ailred was written.

William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis ' allegedly barbaric and pagan origins, was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century " vita " of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.

These account for about 30 % of gamma-ray bursts, but until 2005, no afterglow had been successfully detected from any short event and little was known about their origins.

Sif is introduced in chapter three of the Prologue section of the Prose Edda ; Snorri's euhemerized account of the origins of Viking mythology.

The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of an euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Nordic mythology: the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city ( an origin similar to the one chosen by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century to account for the ancestry of the British nation ).

This was used for the development of VME / K, whose designers were not confident that a high-level language could give adequate performance, and also for the IDMS database system on account of its origins as a third-party product.

The Commonitorium and the Histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that Saint Augustine exercised over Orosius. Although Paulus Orosius ’ s most important book was the Historiae Adversus Paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: Commonitorium and Liber Apologeticus.

Zerzan's typical method is to take a particular construct of civilisation ( a technology, belief, practice or institution ) and construct an account of its historical origins, what he calls its destructive and alienating effects and its contrasts with hunter-gatherer experiences.

Trevor-Roper's attacks on the philosophies of history advanced by Arnold J. Toynbee and Edward Hallett Carr, and on his colleague A. J. P. Taylor's account of the origins of Second World War, were also widely noted.

Herodotus ' account explains the origins of the Sarmatians '

Its origins are with Anton Schindler, Beethoven's unreliable biographer, whose account conflicts in a number of ways with several established facts, indicating that he did not have first-hand knowledge of events.

Jones, in an interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, confirmed Moman's account of the group name's origins in 2007.

While Bainton states that the identity of the Silver Star, which was reported to have been involved in the failed rescue attempt, has been established with some certainty, the lack of information on the sunken ship itself has given rise to suspicion about the origins and credibility of the account.

In his account of the origins of the movement, Langton claims that the aspirations of Montefiore have not been realised: Montefiore's passionate anti-Zionism was soon marginalised and his declared aim to amalgamate " the best of Judaism and Christianity " led him to propound an unpopular view of Jesus and Paul of Tarsus as religious authorities of real interest to modern Jews.

* World Congress of Faiths ' own account of their origins

An account of the origins of Purim is also included in chapter 4 of the tenth century CE compilation of Jewish history, the Josippon.