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According to Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of The Joys of Yiddish, " mensch " is " someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
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According to Greek sources, principally Theophanes, it was at this point that Gregory excommunicated Leo.
According to George Cedrenus, the volcano erupted in the summer of 727, the tenth year of the reign of Leo III the Isaurian.
According to chronicler Leo of Ostia the Greek artists decorated the apse, the arch and the vestibule of the basilica.
According to Prosper of Aquitaine, Attila was so impressed by Leo that he withdrew.
According to Leo and several Church Fathers, as well as certain interpretations of the Scriptures, the Church is built upon Peter, in pursuance of the promise of Matthew 16: 16 – 19.
According to a letter to the Empress Pulcheria collected among the letters of Leo I, Hilarius apologized for not delivering to her the pope's letter after the synod, but owing to Dioscurus of Alexandria, who tried to hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had great difficulty in making his escape in order to bring to the pontiff the news of the result of the council.
According to some contemporary authors such as G. S Godkin, Leo was also said to have prohibited vaccination.
According to Bercé and Otteni, the biographers and contemporaries of Leo XII do not mention any interdict.
According to author Leo Silva, Earp showed no fear of any man.
According to some scholars, in the mid-460s, Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I wanted to balance the weight of the Germanic component of the army, whose leader was the Alan magister militum Aspar.
According to Byman, " there were no fewer than ninety-six " other companies in competition during that period, and included some of Hollywood's biggest names: Frank Capra, John Ford, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens.
According to Leo, he completed his manuscript on African geography in the same year.
According to Leo Trepp, in late Judaism the belief developed that " The people have a heavenly representative, a guardian angel.
According to Randel, a number of Baroque composers ( he lists Hasse, Handel, Porpora, Leo, and Vinci ) composed more than a thousand da capo arias during their careers.
According to She, Leo resembles Kallikrates in appearance and is his reincarnation.
According to Cora Anderson, Victor received a letter in 1960 from several witches in Italy, among them Leo Martello, asking him to form a coven in California.
According to the crime writer Leo Katcher, Rothstein " transformed organized crime from a thuggish activity by hoodlums into a big business, run like a corporation, with himself at the top.
According to Brad Kern, the reason Darryl did not show up in Season 8 was due to budget cuts on the show, which also limited the appearance of Leo.
" According to the Wall Street Journal's page one report, Deutsche Bank had prepared a list of names of 20 people who it wished investigated for criticism of the bank, including Michael Bohndorf ( an activist investor in the bank ) and Leo Kirch ( a former media executive in litigation with bank ).
According to co-star Leo Grillo, it sold six tickets, two of which were to cast members.
* " The World According to Leo Melamed ," interview with Leo Melamed, Derivatives Strategy, April 1998
A veteran of live television, Sweeney made her mark on primetime television as a series regular on George & Leo and Maybe It's Me and she guest starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun, Hope & Gloria, Mad About You, and According to Jim.
According to some it is anterior to Charlemagne ( 742-814 ), according to others it had its origin at the end of the 12th century, but it certainly antedates the year 1050, since Pope Leo IX ( 1051 ) speaks of the rose as of an ancient institution at his time.
According and Rosten
According to Alex Abella's Soldiers of Reason, Rosten was influential in forming the Social Sciences division of RAND Corporation.
According and Yiddish
According to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary, ' bagel ' derives from the transliteration of the Yiddish ' beygl ', which came from the Middle High German ' böugel ' or ring, which itself came from ' bouc ' ( ring ) in Old High German, similar to the Old English ' bēag ' ( ring ), and ' būgan ' ( to bend or bow ).
According to some scholars, there are some Judaeo-Italian loan words that have found their way into Yiddish.
According to the few remaining survivors, Dubnow repeated to ghetto inhabitants: " Yidn, shraybt un farshraybt "' ( Yiddish: " Jews, write and record ").
According to Michael Terry, Buenos Aires experienced a " golden age " of Yiddish theater in the 1930s and 1940s, becoming " the second city of the world history of Yiddish theater.
According to Dorothy Rosenberg, who wrote the afterword for the 1987 Monthly Review Press edition, statistics indicate that 319, 000 copies of The Seventh Cross were sold in the first twelve days alone, and the novel was printed in German, Russian, Portuguese, Yiddish and Spanish by 1943.
According to Jacob Adler, the play was such a sensation that a year after it was first performed in Bucharest, when Israel Rosenberg set about presenting it as the second play of his newly formed Yiddish theater troupe in Odessa, " Shmendrik " had already passed into the Yiddish language, both as a term of affection and derision, but also as slang for a sneeze, for money, and for the police.
According to playwright and cultural promoter Israil Bercovici, their disciplined approach to theater impacted not only Romanian Yiddish theater but Romanian theater generally.
According to Yiddish theatre scholar Joel Berkowitx, Shakespeare's plays served " as both sources and symbols " in helping Jewish immigrants " cross the bridge
According to the Lithuanian census of 1923, there were 19, 147 people in Panevėžys, among them 6, 845 Jews ( 36 %) ( in Yiddish the town's name was פוניבעזש, transliterated as Ponevezh ).
" According to Douglas Harper, the phrase is derived from Yiddish and is of Germanic origin.
According to the Russian census of 1874, of Kiev's 127, 251 people 38, 553 ( 39 %) spoke " Little Russian " ( the Ukrainian language ), 12, 917 ( 11 percent ) spoke Yiddish, 9, 736 ( 10 percent ) spoke Great Russian, 7, 863 ( 6 percent ) spoke Polish, and 2, 583 ( 2 percent ) spoke German.
According to the census of 1897, of Kiev's approximately 240, 000 people approximately 56 % of the population spoke the Russian language, 23 % spoke the Ukrainian language, 12. 5 % spoke Yiddish, 7 % spoke Polish and 1 % spoke the Belarussian language.
According to linguist Ghil ' ad Zuckermann, the Hebrew existential construction employed to mark possession was reinterpreted in " Israeli " ( his term for " Modern Hebrew ") to fit in with the " habere " ( to have ) construction, requiring the direct object, which is predominant in Yiddish and other European languages such as English ( in " I have this book ", " this book " is the direct object of " have ").
According to Zuckermann, the latter form, available in the feature pool together with the erstwhile non-habere Hebrew structure yésh l-i + Subject ( there is for me, followed by the nominative ), did not prevail because ikh hob is more productive in Yiddish and other European habere languages that contributed to the emergence of " Israeli ".
According to J. Hoberman, he was " the best-known ( and certainly the best-paid ) Russian Yiddish writer of the 1920s ".
According and maven
According to a 2006 article by New York Times self-described " language maven " William Safire, the term was first used by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in 1947.
According and author
According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.
According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.
According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.
According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.
According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.
According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.
According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.
According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.
" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.
According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.
According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".
According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.
According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.
According to Mara Leveritt, investigative journalist and author of Devil's Knot, " Police records were a mess.
According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.
According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.
According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.
According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle
According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.
The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.
According to Raymond E. Brown, it is not impossible that Luke was the author.
According to some, the author is unknown.
According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.
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