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self-proclaimed and historian
Among the best known are: Ishaq ibn Hunain ( d. 911 ) ( son of Hunain ibn Ishaq ), the physician and translator of Greek philosophical works into Arabic ; ibn Fadlan, the explorer ; al Battani ( d. 923 ), astronomer ; Tabari ( d. 923 ), historian and theologian ; al-Razi ( d. 930 ), philosopher who made fundamental and lasting contributions to the fields of medicine, chemistry ; al-Farabi ( d. 950 ), chemist and philosopher ; Abu Nasr Mansur ( d. 1036 ), mathematician ; Alhazen ( d. 1040 ), mathematician ; al-Biruni ( d. 1048 ), mathematician, astronomer, physicist ; Omar Khayyám ( d. 1123 ), poet, mathematician, and astronomer ; Mansur Al-Hallaj a mystic, writer and teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy by Caliph Al-Muqtadir.
The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote in 2003 about Mommsen ’ s functionalist understanding of the Third Reich that :" In this reading, ideology is recognized and then dismissed as irrelevant ; the suffering of the victims is readily acknowledged and then omitted as having nothing to tell us about the mechanics of genocide ; and individual perpetrators from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heyrdrich to the lowliest SS man are shoved out of the historical picture as contemptible, but ultimately unimportant pawns in the larger scheme of a “ polycratic state ” whose predilection for “ cumulative radicalization ” was a function of its structure rather the product of intentional planning or self-proclaimed will ”
Despite his lack of university education and his status as a self-proclaimed amateur historian, Wheeler-Bennett was hired to teach International Relations at St. Antony's College and at New College at Oxford University after World War II from 1946-1950.

self-proclaimed and included
A protracted 1997 flame war erupted between newsgroup users and Mike Enlow, the self-proclaimed " world's most-respected information broker / technology marketing consultant ", who spammed the newsgroups with an advertisement that included a picture of himself.
The prosecutor was Gabriel-Faustin M ' Boudou, the Chief Prosecutor of the CAR, who called various witnesses to testify against Bokassa, which included remembering victims ranging from political enemies to a newborn son of a palace guard commander who had been executed for attempting to kill Bokassa in 1978 when he was the self-proclaimed emperor.
For Croats it was a very important connection between the Lašva Valley and Herzegovina, two territories included in the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia.
The ARBiH launched an operation known as Operation Neretva ' 93 against the HVO and Croatian Army in September 1993 to end the siege of Mostar, and recapture areas of Herzegovina that were included in the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
The self-proclaimed ' naturalists ' from that period included John Dewey, Ernest Nagel, Sidney Hook and Roy Wood Sellars.

self-proclaimed and Allen
A self-proclaimed " very difficult man ," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns ( 1932 – 33 ; annulled ); Margaret Allen ( 1934 – 37 ; divorced ); actress Lana Turner ( 1940 ; divorced ); Betty Kern ( 1942 – 43 ; divorced ), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern ; actress Ava Gardner ( 1945 – 46 ; divorced ); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor ( 1946 – 48 ; annulled ); actress Doris Dowling ( 1952 – 56 ; divorced ); and actress Evelyn Keyes ( 1957 – 85 ; divorced ).

self-proclaimed and industry
While pearl button production levels in Beulah would never have been competitive with the self-proclaimed " Pearl Button Capital of the World " at Muscatine, Iowa at the height of industry in that city in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Beulah shares in the rich heritage of this industry.
The city is known for holding one of the largest light festivals in the United States, the Wonderland of Lights, and, as the self-proclaimed Pottery Capital of the World, for its sizable pottery industry.
The town is the self-proclaimed Beef Capital of the Burnett and is a hub for the regional cattle industry.
He became prominent in the industry due to his self-proclaimed “ blanket curiosity, nonstop verbosity and hyper-enthusiasm .”

self-proclaimed and .
Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.
Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.
Practitioners of BDSM vary hugely in their perception of what activities are integral to BDSM, and some borderline activities ( light bondage, hot wax, blindfolds ) may be practiced by people identifying as " vanilla " ( i. e., not into BDSM ) – so inclusion in the community is usually dependent on self-proclaimed identification with the community.
He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.
Ena was the street's busybody, battleaxe and self-proclaimed moral voice.
In addition, the self-proclaimed artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.
Brain, who knows Snake, tells him that the self-proclaimed " Duke of New York " ( Isaac Hayes ), has the President and plans to lead a mass escape across the mined and heavily guarded 69th Street Bridge, using the President as a human shield.
If Christians were persecuted, it is likely to have been part of Domitian ’ s larger policy suppressing all opposition to his self-proclaimed divinity.
In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the " Good Times " virus hoax as an exercise to " prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed " experts " on the Internet.
Al-Manar, the self-proclaimed " Station of the Resistance ," ( qanat al-muqawama ) is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its " psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy " and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire Arab world.
The radical Islamists al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad reject entirely democracy and self-proclaimed Muslims they find overly moderate, and preach violent jihad, urging and conducting attacks on a religious basis.
This self-proclaimed " Army of God " marched on London, taking the capital as well as Lincoln and Exeter.
The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.
Gaddafi also aided Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed emperor of the short-lived Central African Empire.
The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.
* 218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
* Republic of Jamtland, a self-proclaimed republic in the county of Jämtland, Sweden.
There are considerably few self-proclaimed neutral monists, most of the philosophers who are seen to have this view were classified after their deaths.
At the same time, many self-proclaimed Modern Orthodox Jews do not have a problem with historical scholarship in this area.
As described by Dave Laing, " The model for self-proclaimed punk after 1978 derived from the Ramones via the eight-to-the-bar rhythms most characteristic of The Vibrators and Clash.
In America, the most famous pragmatist and self-proclaimed postmodernist was Richard Rorty.
Fuhrmann was replaced in the early 1980s by Peter W. Schutz, an American manager and self-proclaimed 911 aficionado.
They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a self-proclaimed " Sweet Transvestite " from Transsexual, Transylvania.

low-brow and Pacific
Leslie Edwards ( Matthew Perry ), a foppish, wealthy, high-society aristocrat, and the loud, low-brow Bartholomew Hunt ( Chris Farley ) are competing against the renowned Lewis & Clark to be the first to chart and make it across the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

low-brow and .
He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.
called it " low-brow material given such workmanship as to make it high-brow " which attempts to " square everything a foreword and postscript moralizing on the gangster as a menace to the public welfare.
He does not make a convincing middle-aged, overweight, suburban-dwelling, low-brow insurance salesman, and the book is at its best when Orwell is ' out-of-character ', speaking in a voice which is recognisably his rather than an imitation of ' Fatty ' Bowling's.
Premiering on ABC in 1959 ( and moving to NBC two years later ) the series contained a mix of sophisticated and low-brow humor.
At the time of its publication, one Federal Bureau of Investigation memo described The Anarchist Cookbook as " one of the crudest, low-brow, paranoiac writing efforts ever attempted.
Aubrey, however, fought constantly with Fred W. Friendly of CBS News, and Paley did not like Aubrey's taste in low-brow programming.
The humor of these captions ranged from what many would consider the disgusting to the surreal, and from the low-brow to the cerebral.
The Volkstheater Millowitsch, also known as the Millowitsch-Theater, is a medium-sized theatre in Cologne, Germany where popular, low-brow comedies are enacted.
Gil was famous and controversial for his extreme right-wing political views, summed up in a unique brand of foulmouthed, low-brow populism punctuated by sexist, homophobic, racist and xenophobic remarks and, occasionally, by pre-democratic nostalgia.
In general, all of the movies and television shows depended on low-brow humor, usually based on simple characterizations and physical comedy.
Furthermore, the shows are marked by their often low-brow, ultra-sexual humour.
Because of their mostly rural roots, retro-aesthetics, and low-brow attitude towards sex, raggare are often depicted as uneducated white trash.
NESticle, as its name implied, also had a dash of low-brow humor.
In this environment, Juba learned to dance from his peers, including " Uncle " Jim Lowe, a black jig and reel dancer who performed in low-brow establishments.
Several of these images have also been used in the most low-brow form of marketing, i. e. direct mailing, catalogues, and adverts for businesses.
By the time of the Civil War, the mansions and shops had given way to low-brow concert halls, brothels, German beer gardens, pawn shops, and flophouses, like the one at No. 15 in which the composer Stephen Foster lived in 1864 Theodore Dreiser closed his tragedy Sister Carrie, set in the 1890s, with the suicide of one of the main characters in a Bowery flophouse.
Susan Quilliam ( born 1950 in Liverpool ) is an agony aunt and author noted for bringing systemic psychology to a mass ( and generally low-brow ) audience.
Its books are considered low-brow and formulaic, although this has also been cited as one of the reasons for their success.
Despite the novel being " tedious low-brow popular history ", Tenser felt it " had some scope, had some breadth to it ; there was canvas for a film.

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