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A contemporary Parliamentarian newspaper asserted that it was the Royalist Prince Rupert who had given Cromwell the nickname after Rupert's defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644: Munday we had intelligence that Lieutenant-Gen. Cromwell alias Ironside ( for that title was given him by P. Rupert after his defeate neere York ) Battle of Marston Moor | at Marston Moor was about Redding ( sic ) with 2500 horse marching towards Sir William Waller.
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An account of the discovery was published in 1802 in an Italian newspaper, but it was largely overlooked by the contemporary scientific community.
The five known manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address differ in a number of details and also differ from contemporary newspaper reprints of the speech.
Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.
Compared with language in a modern newspaper, magazine or popular novel, Shakespeare's language can strike contemporary readers as complex, elaborate and at times difficult to understand.
A satirical song published in The Times newspaper of 1789 referring to the rumoured clandestine marriage between Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert also reflects this symbolic usage of the broomstick imagery: “ Their way to consummation was by hopping o ’ er a broom, sir ”, and there are plentiful other examples of ‘ broomstick ’ being using in other contemporary contexts but all with a similar implication of dubiousness or fakery.
The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.
Anning found what a contemporary newspaper article called an " unrivalled specimen " of Dapedium politum.
The sole source of the story is credited to one Matthew Bloxam ( a former pupil, but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis ) in October 1876 ( four years after the death of Webb Ellis ) in a letter to the school newspaper ( The Meteor ) wherein he quotes some unknown friend relating the story to him.
A contemporary newspaper account from Jackson, Tennessee, stated that " General Forrest begged them to surrender ," but " not the first sign of surrender was ever given.
*-Transcription of the report of his death in a contemporary newspaper
In the letter, Allende informed Jessup of the " Philadelphia Experiment ", alluding to two poorly sourced contemporary newspaper articles as proof.
A well-known example of cryptograms in contemporary culture is the syndicated newspaper puzzle Crypto quip.
They entered Vienna in triumph, welcomed, according to contemporary newspaper reports, by hundred thousands of people.
Lenzi was defeated by L. E. Thatcher in an election that contemporary newspaper accounts called " a political feud between the prohibition and liquor interests ".
However, a copy of the programme booklet has also survived, containing both extracts from contemporary newspaper reports of the capture of the gang, and a synopsis of the film, in six ' scenes '.
While Lennon's lyrics were inspired by contemporary newspaper articles, McCartney's were reminiscent of his youth.
It has been claimed that the Cincinnati Reds hit an unusually high number of triples to left field where Jackson played during the series, but this is not supported by the contemporary newspaper accounts.
According to a contemporary newspaper account, the Regulators disclaimed " all connection or sympathy with McSween and his affairs " and expressed their sole desire was to track down Tunstall's murderers.
Star-News considered Culture Club as a ' new rock ' band of the 1980s, the newspaper said, " Now you see the more rhythm-oriented, ' new rock of the 80s ,' like Culture Club and the Eurythmics, fitting in more easily with urban contemporary formats ".
Jackson and Walsh researched the story by reading contemporary newspaper accounts of the trial.
Through a newspaper column which has nation-wide circulation, Winchell has achieved the position of dictator of contemporary slang.
De Geer in a contemporary newspaper caricature, depicted as St George fighting the four-headed dragon of the old four-chamber parliament.
His account of those present during the robberies committed by the Essex Gang often contains names that never appeared in contemporary newspaper reports, suggesting, according to author Derek Barlow, that Bayes embellished his story.
The funeral of Michael Collins in 1922-a contemporary newspaper drawing.
A contemporary right-wing Spanish newspaper published a condemnation of the film and of Buñuel and Dalí, which described the content of the film as “... the most repulsive corruption of our age ... the new poison which Judaism, Masonry, and rabid, revolutionary sectarianism want to use in order to corrupt the people ”.
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Strmiska asserted that contemporary Paganism could be viewed as a part of the " much larger phenomenon " of efforts to revive " traditional, indigenous, or native religions " that were occurring across the globe.
In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.
An unsympathetic German contemporary source, Dietrich of Nieheim, asserted that he was illiterate ( nesciens scribere etiam male cantabat ).
The Pope was interred in a porphyry sarcophagus that contemporary tradition asserted had been the Emperor Hadrian's.
If it be the fact, as is asserted by a contemporary, that Benedict validly acquiesced in his deposition, and if, as seems certain, no further protest was made against Leo's position, he may well be regarded as a true pope from July 964, to his death in 965, about the month of March.
Crassus ' homonymous grandfather, M. Licinius Crassus ( praetor c. 126 BC ), was facetiously given the Greek nickname Agelastus ( the grim ) by his contemporary Gaius Lucilius, the famous inventor of Roman satire, who asserted that he smiled once in his whole life.
A contemporary asserted that he could have assured a future on the concert platform, but chose to conceal his talent " as though it were a vice ".
Richer, a contemporary chronicler favourable to Odo, asserted that Fulk agreed to surrender but later reneged, claiming the agreement was not binding, though it is uncertain whether this was the case.
This he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, and asserted that air, the primal force, was intelligent:
Just before the onset of the First World War in 1914, Gabo discovered contemporary art, by reading Kandinsky ’ s Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which asserted the principles of abstract art.
Adrian Henri was described by Lucie-Smith as " the theoretician of the group " and asserted the need to be in touch with contemporary life, following T. S. Eliot's dictum " to purify the dialect of the tribe " and pointing out that his tribe included everyone from motor-bike specialists through consultant gynaecologists and Beatles fans to admen and peeping toms.
( Historical accounts from much later tablets asserted that Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab, a slightly earlier king, had also conquered as far as the Mediterranean and the Taurus mountains, but contemporary records for the entire period before Sargon are still far too sketchy to permit scholars to reconstruct actual events with great confidence.
From the start of writing the Buffy series, Joss Whedon asserted that it would never have a " very special episode " as in contemporary series Beverly Hills, 90210, The Wonder Years, or Party of Five, where the core cast of characters addresses a single issue ( AIDS, drug abuse, or alcoholism, for example ) and resolve all the problems at the end.
Historians debate the actual number of people killed during the sack, but contemporary chroniclers asserted between 2000 and 6000 people were slaughtered in the streets.
It was asserted by contemporary writers that he was beaten to death with sandbags by a band of Spanish bravadoes, but the story seems without foundation.
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`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.
A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.
most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.
The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.
A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.
I went to a retrospective of his work when I was eighteen, and I thought he was a contemporary of Cezanne's ''.
He was inspired by several others ( including Honoré Blanc ), or at least by the contemporary zeitgeist that was building around such ideas.
The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.
Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".
It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.
" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:
In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.
But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.
As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.
He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.
Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.
He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.
While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.
The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.
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