" They attempted to destroy these books, the earliest vita already says, and this account underlies the status of the Ragyndrudis Codex, now held as a Bonifacian relic in Fulda, and supposedly one of three books found on the field by the Christians who inspected it afterward.

Red colours of the Core objects together with their unperturbed orbits suggest that these objects could be a relic of the original population of the belt.

One interesting relic of the newer independent cities is that, in some cases, the government administrative buildings ( docheong ) of the provinces they were once a part of are still located within city boundaries, meaning that these provinces have capitals that are not within their borders.

Paramount among these is the question of solitude versus loneliness, as embodied by Bemis's moment of near-suicide ; the portrayal of societal attitudes towards books also speaks to the contemporary decline of traditional literature and how, given enough time, reading may become a relic of the past.

In the Gallican Church, a survival or relic of these feasts of charity is seen in the pain béni ; and, in the Eastern Orthodox Church in the ( antidoron ) or eulogiæ, also known as prosphora distributed to non-communicants at the close of the Divine Liturgy ( Eucharist ), from the loaf out of which the Lamb ( Host ) and other portions have been cut during the Liturgy of Preparation.

“ Here in these three tombs lie the three Irish knights who brought the head of St. Brigid, Virgin, a native of Ireland, whose relic is preserved in this chapel.

From these fragments of evidence and others of later date ( the " Pilgrimage " of the monk Bernard shows that the relic was still at Mount Zion in 870 ), it is likely that a purported Crown of Thorns was venerated at Jerusalem from the fifth century for several hundred years.

Constantine was one of these people who was, as they thought, protected because he had a relic in his possession.

One obvious conclusion from the geographical configuration, is that the four, now extinct, ‘ oasis ’ dialects are the last remnants of a large, single area ( Sprachbund ) over all of which this feature was once found, before the penetration of Arvanitika which had the effect of dividing and separating these four relic areas from each other.

The largest differences between the two systems are the loss of grammatical case ; the loss of the previous system of grammatical mood, along with the evolution of a new system ; the loss of the inflected passive voice, except in a few relic varieties ; and restriction in the use of the dual number.

This may be a relic of past dialectal differences.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

This relic radiation is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation.

In cosmology, cosmic microwave background ( CMB ) radiation ( also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation ) is thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly.

This is the source for the alternate term relic radiation.

The Charioteer of Delphi is another ancient relic that has withstood the centuries.

In some models of broken Lorentz symmetry, it is postulated that the symmetry is still built into the most fundamental laws of physics, but that spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance shortly after the Big Bang could have left a " relic field " throughout the universe which causes particles to behave differently depending on their velocity relative to the field ; however, there are also some models where Lorentz symmetry is broken in a more fundamental way.

It is the Foreign Legion's most precious relic.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

Some of the helium-3 found in the terrestrial atmosphere is also a relic of atmospheric and underwater nuclear weapons testing, conducted by the three big nuclear powers before 1963.

Another theory is that the spliceosome and the intron-exon structure of genes is a relic of the RNA world ( the introns-first hypothesis ).

For his part, Kennedy thought that Adenauer was a relic of the past, stating " The real trouble is that he is too old and I am too young for us to understand each other.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

However, in the extensive documents of the Templar inquisition there was never a single mention of anything like a Grail relic, let alone its possession by the Templars, nor is there any evidence that a Templar wrote a Grail Romance.

The historic Frank-Loeb house is another relic of the Jewish presence in Landau: its proprietor in the late 19th Century was Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank.

Freud considered that in a neurotic ' the omnipotence which he ascribed to his thoughts and feelings ... is a frank acknowledgement of a relic of the old megalomania of infancy '.

The most impressive relic of their time is the remains of a fortress of refuge at Otzenhausen in the north of the Saarland.

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.

The Lebak relic inscriptions, found in lowland villages on the edge of Ci Danghiyang, Munjul, Pandeglang, Banten, were discovered in 1947 and contains 2 lines of poetry with Pallawa script and Sanskrit language.

Some of the relic species with strong gondwanan associations that are found within the park include legless lizards like the common scaly-foot, Delma Fraser, Delma australis and Aprasia striolata.

Metropolitan Church of Saint Gregory Palamas, Thessaloniki, where his relic s are found.

This relic was found at Mont Ventoux in France.

Modern Chinese has lost some of the synthetic features of Old Chinese, such as syllable modification ( modern tonal alteration being a relic ) for verbification and utilisation of the " s -" causative prefix found in many Sino-Tibetan languages.

The only relic from this period is a 7th century brooch found in Epsom and now in the British Museum.

A relic found amid the ashes of Chan Kusalo ( the Buddhist Patriarch of Northern Thailand ) is placed inside a Stupa | chedi shaped vial and displayed inside Wat Chedi Luang in Chiang Mai

The rock where she found it is now kept in a backroom in the basilica and is revered as a sacred relic and object of inspiration.

Peter claimed Saint Andrew took him to the Church of St. Peter, inside Antioch, and showed him where the relic of the Holy Lance could be found.

At some point, however, the relic went missing, and remained lost until 1856 when a workman repairing the abbey claimed to have found a reliquary hidden inside a wall, containing the missing foreskin.

The name is something of a relic, though ( the term was coined by Dr. Vern Paetkau, University of Victoria ); it has since been found that interleukins are produced by a wide variety of body cells.

The skeletal remains of the river dam found at the southeastern edge of the bush are a relic from an era when shipping traffic was common on the Nith.

Although it may be the oldest church relic found in Meycauayan, it is doubtful that it came from the parish founders Diego de Oropesa and Juan Plasencia.

Writing in The Times, John Russell Taylor found that, “ After a slowish beginning, which shows up the deficiencies of acting and direction, things really start hopping when a mysterious missile-like object discovered in a London excavation proves to be a relic of a prehistoric Martian attempt ( successful.

Merrin returns to Rome and meets with the collector at a cafe, explaining he was unable to find the relic, the collector replies, " But you found something .... Didn't you ?"...

Harold Fleming also notes that " initial inspection suggests some possible commonality " between Oropom and the Kuliak languages, a probably Nilo-Saharan relic group found in Northern Uganda among such tribes as the Ik.

A polished stone hand-axe, a relic of the Neolithic Age, was discovered there in 1941 and in 1986 fragments of flint tools were found on a local farm.

Sir James George Frazer found in the figure of the May Queen, a relic of tree worship:

Later that day they encounter a small town, and Tom trades a relic he found aboard Salthook for some food.

In 1995, a stone relic box was found in a Baekje-era Buddhist temple in Buyeo County, Chungcheongnam-do.

The upper few hundred feet are covered in a dense spruce forest, a relic boreal forest environment similar to those found in northern New England and Canada.