Since various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women.

Modern historians have studied the Historia extensively, and a number of editions have been produced.

In recent years a large number of writers and historians have come to the conclusion it was not a new form of warfare invented by the German military, but an old method of pursuing decisive battles using new technology.

The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus.

The history of the sub-Roman period in Britain is poorly sourced and the subject of a number of important disagreements among historians.

A number of other desperate measures by Caligula are described by historians.

A number of historians note that as many as 40, 000 accused prisoners may have been summarily executed without trial or died awaiting trial.

Roman historians recalled that twelve lictors had ceremoniously accompanied the Etruscan kings of Rome in the distant past, and sought to account for the number and to provide etymologies for the name lictor.

Haitian historians have estimated the true number was much higher ; one suggested, " the total number of battle victims and casualties of repression and consequences of the war might have reached, by the end of the pacification period, four or five times that-somewhere in the neighborhood of 15, 000 persons.

Accordingly, if famine victims are included, a minimum of around 10 million deaths — 6 million from famine and 4 million from other causes — are attributable to the regime, with a number of recent historians suggesting a likely total of around 20 million, citing much higher victim totals from executions, gulags, deportations and other causes.

A number of ancient historians accuse Agrippina of poisoning Claudius, but details on these private events vary widely.

With knowledge of his sexuality becoming more common beginning in the 1970s, some film historians and gay studies scholars have detected homosexual themes in Whale's work, particularly in Bride of Frankenstein in which a number of the creative people associated with the cast, including Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive, were alleged to be gay or bisexual.

While there is a well defined lower-limit to the length of a daitō, the upper limit is not well enforced ; a number of modern historians, swordsmiths, etc.

Kit Carson's alliterative name, adventurous life, and participation in a large number of historical events has made him a favorite subject of novelists, historians, and biographers.

Music historians create a number of written products, ranging from journal articles describing their current research, new editions of musical works, biography of composers and other musicians, or book-length studies.

Information on his sons is limited and historians continue to discuss their number.

A number of historians argue that Shaka ' changed the nature of warfare in Southern Africa ' from ' a ritualised exchange of taunts with minimal loss of life into a true method of subjugation by wholesale slaughter '.

Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".

" A number of charters were issued during Stephen's reign, often giving details of current events or daily routine, and these have become widely used as sources by modern historians.

Around the 1st century AD, according to Funan epigraphy and the records of Chinese historians ( Coedes ), a number of trading settlements of the South appear to have been organized into several Malay states, among the earliest of which are believed to be Langkasuka and Tambralinga.

A number of modern historians and writers, such as Richard Marius, have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him for Anti-Protestantism and, " intolerance.

A significant number of historians have stated that Salamis is one of the most significant battles in human history.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

There have been a number of sound plans proposed.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.

A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Aside from the Ruger carbine, a number of hunting rifles have been introduced for the first time.

A number of them must have fallen into disfavor ; ;

Based on this phenomenon, a number of investigators have used this method to `` look through '' human organs.

In the GE plan, a number of individual contributors have positions and compensation higher than those of many managers.

`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.

A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.

Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

The graph, as a set, may have a finite number of components.

Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.