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He had carried out his initial fieldwork in the Andaman Islands in the old style of historical reconstruction.
It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.
The reconstruction that followed left very little historical remains and the post-war reconstruction period saw drastic renovation plans in highrise style, some of which were implemented.
Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.
Bloomfield used the materials collected in his descriptive work to undertake comparative studies leading to the reconstruction of Proto-Algonquian, with an early study reconstructing the sound system of Proto-Algonqian, and a subsequent more extensive paper refining his phonological analysis and adding extensive historical information on general features of Algonquian grammar.
But this period also saw the reconstruction ( and razing ) of much of the historical city centre.
Besides the renovation of various buildings, projects such as the reconstruction of the pavement of the streets and squares ( reversing them to their historical appearance ), and the introduction of new plants, trees and objects of ' small architecture ', are underway.
Further attempts at reconstruction of surviving accounts of historical celebrations are often made, a hallmark being variations of the traditional.
This historical reconstruction accords best with the observed levels of divergence within the family, whereby the most divergent languages are found furthest west ( since they constitute the earliest branchings during eastern migration ), and the shallowest subgroupings are found furthest to the east ( Eastern Algonquian, and arguably Core Central ).
Commenting on the fact that Egyptologists have no problem in reconstructing history using inference of this sort, whereas critics will sometimes not allow the same historical method to be applied to the Bible, Young writes, " Do those who reject the Menahem / Pekah rivalry as improbable also reject as improbable this reconstruction from Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty that Egyptologists use to explain the regnal dates of Thutmose III?
According to Karl Mannheim's historical reconstruction of the shifts in the meaning of ideology, the modern meaning of the word was born when Napoleon Bonaparte ( as a politician ) used it in an abusive way against " the ideologues " ( a group which included Cabanis, Condorcet, Constant, Daunou, Say, Madame de Staël, and Tracy ), to express the pettiness of his ( liberal republican ) political opponents.
However, neither of these two books are of a historical nature, despite containing elements that help in the reconstruction of Orosius ’ s life.
The Clusius garden ( a reconstruction ), the 18th century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese Siebold Memorial Museum symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.
At Kenilworth the speculative and commercial reconstruction of the castle gardens in an Elizabethan style led to a vigorous academic debate over the interpretation of archaeological and historical evidence.
The seminar's reconstruction of the historical Jesus portrays him as an itinerant Hellenistic Jewish sage and faith healer who preached a gospel of liberation from injustice in startling parables and aphorisms.
Wells concludes that the reconstruction of this historical figure from the extant literature would be a hopeless task.
Reliable historical accounts of the battle are scarce ; however, a critical comparison with historically contemporaneous battles ( such as Angora or Nikopolis ) enables reliable reconstruction.
Contrary to many other historical works of the time, Pasquier was seeking to create an accurate reconstruction of past for the present needs of France, which he held to be in a period of crisis.
This book is a reconstruction of the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai from extensive research of both historical documents ( collected mostly by G. C. Tambe, grandson of the Queen ) and folk tales, poetry and oral tradition ; the original in Bengali was published in 1956 ; the English translation by Seagull Books, Calcutta, 2000, ISBN 8170461758.
Rudolf Wolf ( 1816 – 1893 ), Swiss astronomer, carried out historical reconstruction of solar activity back to the seventeenth century
A modern reconstruction, in fiberglass and wood, of a historical composite bow
* Stad Amsterdam, a historical clipper reconstruction

historical and West
Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.
An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.
Some scholars, such as Martin West, claim that " Homer " is " not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name.
* S. Solagbade Popoola, Ikunle Abiyamo: It is on Bent Knees that I gave Birth 2007 Research material, scientific and historical content based on traditional forms of African Midwifery from Yoruba of West Africa detailed within the Ifa traditional philosophy.
Orhan Pamuk's historical novel Benim Adım Kırmızı ( My Name is Red, 1998 ) takes place at the court of Murad III, during nine snowy winter days of 1591, which the writer uses in order to convey the tension between East and West.
The Oaths of Strasbourg are several historical documents which include mutual pledges of allegiance between Louis the German ( d. 876 ), ruler of East Francia, and his ( half -) brother Charles the Bald ( d. 877 ), ruler of West Francia.
The Eastern Orthodox Church tradition has never adopted the Augustinian view of predestination, and formed a doctrine of predestination by another historical route, sometimes called Semi-Pelagianism in the West.
This work has value for its early historical presentation of the end of the Roman Empire in the West, although it was very popular during the Middle Ages.
* The play Romulus the Great ( 1950 ), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ; an " Ungeschichtliche historische Komödie " ( Unhistorical historical comedy ) about " Romulus Augustus's " reign, and the end of the Roman Empire in the West.
In the Historiography of the Cold War, a controversy over negationist historical revisionism exists, where numerous revisionist scholars in the West have been accused of whitewashing the crimes of Stalinism, overlooking the Katyn massacre in Poland and disregarding the validity of the Venona messages with regards to Soviet espionage in the United States.
As a foodstuff of great historical and contemporary importance, in many cultures in the West and Near and Middle East bread has a significance beyond mere nutrition.
During the latter part of this period, historical legends relate that the mighty king of Monyul invaded a southern region known as the Duars, subduing the regions of modern Assam, West Bengal, and Bihar in India.
* Count Dirk V reconquers most of West Frisia ( historical ) from the bishop of Utrecht.
During the negotiations, the British also became aware of two older historical claims, the 1628 patent granted to the Earl of Carlisle ( which was inconsistent with Hunthum's title being sold to him by the Dutch West India company ), and an order of the King in 1694 to prevent foreign settlement in the Virgin Islands.
The historical views of this battle fall into three great phases, both in the East and especially in the West.
To read in this a historical commitment of the West — over the millennia — to democracy, and then to contrast it with non-Western traditions ( treating each as monolithic ) would be a great mistake " ( p. 16 ).
" Murshidabad silk ", famous from historical times, is mainly produced in Malda and Murshidabad district of West Bengal and woven with hand looms in Birbhum and Murshidabad district.
Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.
The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.
In everyday use, " Thessaly " is identified with the administrative region, although the historical region extended south into Phthiotis and at times north into West Macedonia as well.
The Seine-Arche project is extending the historical axis to the West through the city of Nanterre, but with a slight curve.
In modern times the Assyrian Church of the East, a modern descendant of the historical Church of the East, reveres Nestorius as a saint, although the modern church does not subscribe to the entirety of the Nestorian doctrine as it has traditionally been understood in the West.
Recently, Stephanie West has argued that the historical Croesus did in fact die on the pyre, and that the stories of him as a ' wise adviser ' to the courts of Cyrus and Cambyses are purely legendary, showing similarities to the sayings of Ahiqar.

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