According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

The islands sand dunes and shoreline are home to a number of bee and wasp species including the large Eumenid caterpillar hunting wasp, Delta dimiatipenne and the striking blue banded bee, ( Amegilla cavifrons ).

Wurm stated that the lexical similarities between Great Andamanese and the West Papuan and Timor – Alor families " are quite striking and amount to virtual formal identity [...] in a number of instances.

The faces reveal a striking specificity of subtle detail, particular to a limited number of miniatures throughout the Libro de juegos, perhaps indicative of a particular artist ’ s hand.

The stone reportedly fell through a number of banana leaves before striking the boy on the head, causing little to no pain, as it was small enough to have been slowed by both friction with the atmosphere as well as that with banana leaves, before striking the boy.

While Babylonian number theory — or what survives of Babylonian mathematics that can be called thus — consists of this single, striking fragment, Babylonian algebra ( in the secondary-school sense of " algebra ") was exceptionally well developed.

They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids ( NEAs ), near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to be tracked in space before striking the Earth.

This striking formula is one of the so-called explicit formulas of number theory, and is already suggestive of the result we wish to prove, since the term x ( claimed to be the correct asymptotic order of ) appears on the right-hand side, followed by ( presumably ) lower-order asymptotic terms.

His 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation, used a number of colors, including amber, blue, lavender, and a striking red tint for scenes such as the " burning of Atlanta " and the ride of the Ku Klux Klan at the climax of the picture.

Commander Vladimir Semenoff, a Russian staff officer aboard the flagship Suvorov, noted that " It seemed impossible even to count the number of projectiles striking us.

The article explained that over 40 symbols were drawn up by Dow artists, and all of the symbols investigated had to meet a number of criteria: "( i ) striking in form in order to draw immediate attention ; ( ii ) unique and unambiguous, in order not to be confused with symbols used for other purposes ; ( iii ) quickly recognizable and easily recalled ; ( iv ) easily stenciled ; ( v ) symmetrical, in order to appear identical from all angles of approach ; and ( vi ) acceptable to groups of varying ethnic backgrounds.

In fact, during the narration of their histories the four empires develop in the same way and there are a number of striking parallels between them that are markedly different from Rome, which Orosius praises.

The park has a number of striking sandstone formations and there is an Indigenous Australian art site at the end of the walk along the floor of the Keep River Gorge.

There are a number of churches located throughout the town, the two most striking of which are the main church, located in Voorschoten's historic centre, and the St. Laurentius Church, located in the north of the town.

In a number of species, even more striking examples exist, for instance the bilateral gynandromorphic zebra finch ( half-male, half-female body along its symmetry plane ).

He produced, however, during his life a vast number of separate publications, some of them mere pamphlets or broadsheets, which from time to time he collected, often striking out others at the same time, in the successive editions of his works.

Bomberg painted a series of complex geometric compositions combining the influences of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding World War I ; typically using a limited number of striking colours, turning humans into simple, angular shapes, and sometimes overlaying the whole painting a strong grid-work colouring scheme.

Requests were, however, received for sets of coins dated 1933 to be placed under the foundation stones of buildings erected in that year, and the Mint obliged by striking a small number of coins.

During 1987, Iran launched a number of Silkworm missiles from the Faw Peninsula vicinity striking the Liberian-flagged tanker Sungari and US-flagged tanker Sea Isle City in October 1987 and 5 other missiles struck areas in Kuwait earlier in the year.

A small number of gold £ 2 pieces were struck in 1953 in order to provide continuity of the series, but the striking was not released to the public, with the result that they are now valued at around £ 75, 000.

In Lochner v. New York, conservative justices of the United States Supreme Court could find inspiration in Spencer's writings for striking down a New York law limiting the number of hours a baker could work during the week, on the ground that this law restricted liberty of contract.

As the shadow of a claw reaches over the face of the clock, the hands spin wildly counter-clockwise, striking the number 13 every other second.

A further striking aspect is the large number of well-known writers among the deputies, including Anastasius Grün, Johann Ludwig Uhland, Heinrich Laube and Victor Scheffel.

A striking example of the general pattern is the traditionally Catholic Emsland, where the Social Democrats generally gain a low percentage of votes, whereas the Reformed Protestant region of East Frisia directly to the north, with its strong traditional streak of anti-Catholism, is one of their strongest constituencies.

The cardinals warned the New Order of the Mass “ represented, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.

They stated that it " represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent ".

According to Mack P. Holt: " All twelve cities where provincial massacres occurred had one striking feature in common ; they were all cities with Catholic majorities where there had once been significant Protestant minorities .... All of them had also experienced serious religious division ... during the first three civil wars ...

During the 1949 Asbestos Strike in Quebec, Marchand led the striking workers as secretary of the Catholic Workers Confederation of Canada ( CCCL ).

In 1899 he was sentenced to a year in prison for publicly striking Ernst Lieber, a Reichstag delegate and head of the Catholic Church-linked Center Party, with a dog whip.

Newport has a very striking railway bridge ( no longer used for rail carriage ) like an aqueduct which is commonly referred to as " The Viaduct ", which, with the Roman Catholic church on top of the hill, dominate the town and create a picturesque appearance.

Perhaps the most striking example is that in most Eastern Catholic Churches, ordination of married men to the priesthood is routine ( although no priest may marry after ordination, and only celibate priests may become bishops ).

Its immediate neighbours are St James's Cathedral ( Anglican ) and St Michael's Cathedral ( Roman Catholic ) and the trio of similarly designed churches are a striking Christian witness immediately adjacent to Canada's financial hub.

Holy Ghost Church This Catholic church was built in 1966 and is especially striking due to its version of the cross made of scrap metal and the Stations of the Cross made of linen.

The doctrine of the collegiality of the bishops as a body was enunciated by the Second Vatican Council which " desired to integrate all the elements which make up the Church, both the mystical and the institutional, the primacy and the episcopate, the people of God and the hierarchy, striking new notes and establishing new balances which would have to be worked out and theologized upon in the lived experience of the Church.

( What other purpose could a striking union have but to interrupt the flow of commerce from the struck enterprise??

Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways.

Victims and opponents of totalitarian regimes have been able to present striking critiques of these regimes through autobiographical accounts of their oppression.

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

Furthermore, as the contestants did not have heavy leather gloves and wristwraps to protect their hands, a certain amount of restraint was required when striking the head.

Naveh states, " The striking feature of the blitzkrieg concept is the complete absence of a coherent theory which should have served as the general cognitive basis for the actual conduct of operations ".

But with a few striking exceptions, such as Xavante and Tahitian-which have no dorsal consonants whatsoever-nearly all other languages have at least one velar consonant: the few languages that do not have a simple usually have a consonant that is very similar.

A search of historical observations revealed that the spots were probably the most prominent transient features ever seen on the planet, and that while the Great Red Spot is notable for its striking color, no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the SL9 impacts have ever been recorded before.

Made entirely of black marble, except for the base and cornice, the altar would have made a striking impression.

There are early literary references in the Quran, circa AD 632, to " war-horses … which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones …" which, if taken literally, is an effect that would have been obtained by shod horses, as barefoot hooves striking stone do not create sparks.

Compared to Western societies, " hat is striking about the Islamic world is that ... it seems to have been the least penetrated by irreligion ".

This is because their concentration will be on striking and their posture will have no flexibility to respond.

" Another July 1816 anonymous review, for the Anti-Jacobin, discussed the origin of the poem but dismissed the poem with lukewarm praise: " These have none of the wildness or deformity, of ' Christabel '; and though they are not marked by any striking beauties, they are not wholly discreditable to the author's talents.

The pipeline conflict turned out to be meaningless, insofar as the construction work was concerned, since pipe could not be obtained in 1956 from a striking American factory, and no work could have been done that year.

As a result, western practitioners have incorporated much more powerful hand striking techniques from boxing although some Thai purists accuse them of diluting the art.

The Brewers did have some bright moments during the season with pitcher Ben Sheets striking out 18 Atlanta Braves in one game and the Brewers coming back from a 9-run deficit to beat the Cincinnati Reds.

In a striking parallel, on Oxford's return from Europe across the Channel in April 1576, his ship was hijacked by pirates who robbed him and left him stripped to his shirt, and who might have murdered him had not one of them recognised him.

Okapis have reddish dark backs, with striking horizontal white stripes on the front and back legs, making them resemble zebras from a distance.