Later descriptions mention that his thick black beard was braided into pigtails, sometimes tied in with small coloured ribbons.

Ancient sources also mention the sedile, a small seat attached to the front of the cross, about halfway down, which could have served a similar purpose.

President Barack Obama later confirmed the death of bin Laden, but did not directly mention the involvement of DEVGRU, saying only that a " small team " of Americans undertook the operation to bring down bin Laden.

The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the expression pas menus is Gottfried Taubert's Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, published in Leipzig in 1717, but this source does not describe the steps as being particularly small or dainty ( Russell 2006, 140 – 41 ).

R. T. France argues for plausibility on the grounds, inter alia, that “ the murder of a few infants in a small village not on a scale to match the more spectacular assassinations recorded by Josephus ”; Schnackenburg follows this line also, and Gordon Franz points to Josephus ' failure to mention other pivotal events in the first century AD, such as " the episode of the golden Roman shields in Jerusalem which was the cause of the bad blood between Herod Antipas and Pontus ( sic ) Pilate ".

The Babylonian Talmud, as well as Flavius Josephus mention the sea by the name " Sea of Ginnosar " after the small fertile plain of Gennesereth that lies on its western side.

A serious tactical disadvantage of muzzle brakes on both small arms and artillery is that, depending on their designs, they may cause escaping gases to throw up dust and debris clouds that impair visibility and reveal one's position, not to mention posing a hazard to individuals without eye protection.

As befits the size and architectural importance, not to mention the massive running costs of such a building, St Botolph's is a member of the Anglican Greater Churches Group, established for the small number of parish churches that have cathedral-like proportions without the title to match.

deals with a massacre of Jews by Poles in a small town during the Holocaust and is based on the Jedwabne massacre, though it does not mention Jedwabne by name.

His literary output is small, though, and he authored one book worth a mention, namely Masques and Phases, a collection of previously published short stories and reviews.

According to author Cyril Elgood ( pp. 41, 110 ), who does not mention his source, it was Abul-Fath Gilani ( d. 1588 ), a Persian physician at the Indian court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who " first passed the smoke of tobacco through a small bowl of water to purify and cool the smoke and thus invented the hubble-bubble or hookah.

According to Cyril Elgood ( pp. 41, 110 ), who does not mention his source, it was Abul-Fatḥ Gilani ( d. 1588 ), a Persian physician at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I, who " first passed the smoke of tobacco through a small bowl of water to purify and cool the smoke and thus invented the hubble-bubble or hookah.

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It is estimated ( for example for small Antioquia, a region where hundreds of Spaniards arrived, of which a good portion were Basque, some limited aspects of the culture and traditions brought by Basque settlers, without even mention his particular language, it has been unclear to track the use of Euskara in the current Antioquia and Colombia, because the Basque language was always an outcast, which apparently left no written evidence in Antioquia.

A history of nail cutters, two thousand volumes to acquire the certain knowledge that until 1675 these small things had never received any mention.

The admin declined the idea but then committed a small amount of ad space to mention of using Kleenex tissue as a handkerchief.

According to A History of the Ming Dynasty – Biography of Guangxi Ethnic Minority Hereditary Headman " In Guangxi, most of the people were the Yaos and the Zhuangs, ... the other small groups were too numerous to mention individually.

This article can only mention the gross differences between different varieties of penny, but a very great number of small differences appeared, especially between 1860 and 1883.

" But he then doubts this claim, writing that Pytheas has " been found, upon scrutiny, to be an arch falsifier, but the men who have seen Britain and Ierne ( Ireland ) do not mention Thule, though they speak of other islands, small ones, about Britain.

He would also mention snippets of his own life, including his military career and the time he spent in Alaska, family anecdotes, and his affection for small animals, which he raised and set free.

There was no mention of the moneyer ’ s name, although occasionally coins featured control marks such as small symbols, letters, or monograms which might have been used to indicate who was responsible for a particular coin.

Early Ottoman records of the late 16th century mention of a small establishment in the present territory under the name of Kavalje.

* In 1904, ' Eckstein had published a small book on the sexual education of children ', although in it ' she does not mention Freud '.

Friedlander wrote that the glorification of Judaism in the letter was no more than self-defense, though “ the book does not mention the antagonists of Judaism by name, nor does it admit that its intention is to refute direct attacks .” Stein sees in the letter “ a special kind of defense, which practices diplomatic tactics ,” and Tramontano also speaks of “ an apologetic and propagandist tendency .” Vincent characterizes it as “ a small unapologetic novel written for the Egyptians ” ( i. e. the Greeks in Egypt ).

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.