The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical, both terms having a common antecedent in the term latten.

Some enthusiasts become generalists and accumulate a few examples from a broad variety of historical or geographically significant coins.

Capitalism is considered to have been applied in a variety of historical cases, varying in time, geography, politics, and culture.

A reasonable number of historical figures are known to have cross-dressed to varying degrees and for a variety of reasons.

This indicates a deep knowledge of a variety of historical subjects that he could not help but share.

The Sub-Roman or Post-Roman history of Dumnonia comes from a variety of sources and is considered exceedingly difficult to interpret given that historical fact, legend and confused pseudo-history are compounded by a variety of sources in Middle Welsh and Latin.

He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

In Indo-European languages, declension patterns may depend on a variety of factors, such as gender, number, phonological environment, and irregular historical factors.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

Contemporary Paganism, Modern Paganism, or Neopaganism, refers to a variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe.

These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummers ' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals.

His patients paid him in kind with a variety of objects and artifacts that would later gain historical significance.

The name Palestine carries a variety of contemporary and historical meanings, and may commonly refer to:

By 1904 he was clearly expressing his own understanding of these themes in his essays and books, though continuing to refer to a wide variety of historical sources.

Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong focus on human and romantic relationships and emotions.

While real-world sound changes often admit exceptions ( for a variety of known reasons, and sometimes without one ), the expectation of their regularity or " exceptionlessness " is of great heuristic value, since it allows historical linguists to define the notion of regular correspondence ( see: comparative method ).

Archaeologists and historical scholars use a variety of ways to organize and interpret the available iconographic and textual information.

In most competitions, including all those that subscribe to the BJCP style guidelines, as well as the International Mead Fest, the term " traditional mead " refers to this variety ( because mead is historically a variable product, these guidelines are a recent expedient, designed to provide a common language for competition judging ; style guidelines per se do not apply to commercial or historical examples of this or any other type of mead.

The revisionist project was taken on in a variety of mediums, historical literature being only one of many.

There was a rich variety of historical literature compiled by scholars, as well as encyclopedias and geographical works.

The attractions include performing arts groups, art museums, historical museums, walking tours of architectural / cultural aspects and a wide variety of parks and green spaces.

As a result a study of an archaeological landscape can involve a multidisciplinary approach requiring the inclusion of many specialists from a variety of disciplines including prehistory, historical archaeology, maritime archaeology, anthropology.

Philosophical interpretations of quantum phenomena, however, are another matter: the question of how to interpret the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics has given rise to a variety of different answers from people of different philosophical persuasions ( see Interpretations of quantum mechanics ).

Philosophers of law are also concerned with a variety of philosophical problems that arise in particular legal subjects, such as constitutional law, contract law, criminal law, and torts.

Aside from its purely prosaic use to mean road, channel, path, doctrine, or similar, the word has acquired a variety of differing and often confusing metaphorical, philosophical and religious uses.

* Panel Discussions-On a variety of subjects, such as technology of the future, writing, publishing, the philosophical and sociological implications of the genre's works, recent scientific discoveries, etc.

Questions regarding why the universe behaves in such a way have been described by physicists and cosmologists as being extra-scientific ( i. e., metaphysical ), though speculations are made from a variety of perspectives that include extrapolation of scientific theories to untested regimes ( i. e., at Planck scales ), and philosophical or religious ideas.

Proudhon supervised the printing of the book, which gave him ample opportunity to talk with Fourier about a variety of social and philosophical issues.

Proudhon's entry, titled De la Célébration du dimanche, essentially used the essay subject as a pretext for discussing a variety of political and philosophical ideas, and in it one can find the seeds of his later revolutionary ideas.

Although a variety of differing philosophical approaches are used in the provision of EMS care around the world, they can generally be placed into one of two categories ; one physician-led and the other led by pre-hospital specialists such as emergency medical technicians or paramedics ( which may, or may not have accompanying physician oversight ).

All of these are set against a history lesson of an alternate 20th century in which a variety of social and philosophical commentary is delivered.

The game uses a variety of pieces to represent a player's units ( military, resource or even philosophical premises ).

Surveying the historical, social, psychological and philosophical aspects of vanguardism, Poggioli reaches beyond individual instances of art, poetry, and music to show that vanguardists may be seen as sharing certain ideals or values which are manifested in the non-conformist lifestyles they adopted, vanguard culture being shown to be a variety or subcategory of Bohemianism.

Brongersma published extensively on a wide variety of topics, authoring some 1200 books and articles between 1930 and 1998 on social and philosophical subjects such as criminal law, constitutional law, criminology, philosophy, religion, sexuology, legislation on public morals and literary topics.

It has influenced a variety of thinkers from a broad spectrum of philosophical orientations.

Putnam, who is well known for changing his philosophical positions on a variety of issues, criticizes the experiment later in life because it is anti-functionalist.

A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

* Honour system, a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavours based on trust and honour

After the publication of Rand ’ s most explicitly philosophical novel, Atlas Shrugged, and sensing an interest on the part of Rand ’ s readers in further philosophic education, Branden created in 1958 the Nathaniel Branden Institute ( NBI ) to disseminate Rand ’ s philosophy of Objectivism, by offering live and taped lecture courses by Rand, Branden, and a variety of other Objectivist intellectuals ( including Alan Greenspan, whom Branden had brought into Rand ’ s fold ).

Borrowing language and concepts from a wide variety of philosophical schools, especially Edmund Husserl, the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- and, as some contend, Franz Xaver von Baader, Dooyeweerd builds on this foundation of a supposed " antithesis " to make distinctions between one kind of thinking and another, theorizing that diverse kinds of thinking disclose diverse kinds of meaning, and that this meaning corresponds in some way to the actual state of affairs.

" Despite the wide variety of philosophical thought, despite all the contradictions and mutually exclusive claims to truth, there is in all philosophy a One, which no man possesses but about which all serious efforts have at all times gravitated: the one eternal philosophy, the philosophia perennis.

There are a variety of philosophical approaches to decide whether an observation may be considered evidence ; many of these focus on the relationship between the evidence and the hypothesis.

Christian apologists employ a variety of philosophical and formal approaches, including ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments.

An honor system or honesty system is a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavors based on trust, honor, and honesty.

Taoism ( 道教 ; Daojiao in Chinese ) refers to a variety of related philosophical and religious traditions and concepts, born in China itself in the 6th century BCE and it's traditionally traced to the composition of the Tao Te Ching attributed to the sage Laozi, a person who subsequently came to be venerated by Taoist as Daode Tianjun in the Three Pure Ones.

As an alternative to many of the major epistemological and philosophical trends in the field, such as the focus upon experientialism ( inner spiritual states ) and perennialism ( the legacy of the perennial philosophy ), Ferrer has suggested a revision of Transpersonal Theory that focuses more upon the great variety, or pluralism, of spiritual insights and spiritual worlds that can be disclosed by transpersonal inquiry.