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According to the 1846 A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, " This parish, formerly called Skirdustan, signifying, in the Gaelic tongue, ' the division of Dustan ,' its tutelary saint, derived its present name from its situation at the mouth of a noisy burn, which discharges itself into the river Spey.
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According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.
According to a journal entry from 1846, Either / Or " was written lock, stock, and barrel in eleven months ", although a page from the " Diapsalmata " section in the ' A ' volume was written before that time.
According to the legend, other soldiers then took revenge on Drane by getting him drunk, luring him into the dungeon, chaining him to a wall, and sealing him in a vault ( though the last part is untrue, as Drane was courtmartialled and acquitted, living until 1846.
According to another census made in 1846, the population had risen to 223 inhabitants and there were a total of 58 houses.
According to church belief, God directed Brigham Young, Joseph Smith's successor as President of the Church, to call for the Saints ( as church members call themselves ) to organize and head west, beyond the western frontier of the United States ( into what was then Mexico, though the U. S. Army had already captured New Mexico and California in late 1846 ).
According to a University of Liverpool academic paper, conflict at an 1846 match in Derby, England, required a reading of the " riot act " and two groups of dragoons to effectively respond to the disorderly crowd.
According to Dr G. Gardner, in his Travels in the Interior of Brazil ( 1846 ), he was murdered in 1837 on the banks of the São Francisco River for charging too high for his medical assistance.
According to Richard Stang, it was a French treatise of 1846 on Dutch and Flemish painting that first popularized the application of the term realism to fiction. Stang, The Theory of the Novel in England, p. 149, refers to Arsène Houssaye, Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise ( 1846 ; 2d ed., Paris: Jules Hetzel, 1866 ).
According to the 1846 census, the territory that in 1849 formed the voivodeship included:
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According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".
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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).
According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".
According to the authoritative Dictionary of Islam jihad is defined as: " A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad ... enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.
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According to Merriam-Webster and the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word " molecule " derives from the Latin " moles " or small unit of mass.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 1933 ) the term " carol " was first used in England for this type of circle dance accompanied by singing in manuscripts dating to as early as 1300.
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According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, psychotherapy first meant " hypnotherapy " instead of " psychotherapy ".
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According to one poll, 33 % of American visitors to Scotland believed haggis to be an animal.
According to the chronicle, Scotland was later named in her honour.
According to Barbour and Fordoun, in the late summer of 1305 in a secret agreement sworn, signed and sealed, John Comyn agreed to forfeit his claim to the Scottish throne in favour of Robert Bruce upon receipt of the Bruce lands in Scotland should an uprising occur led by Bruce.
According to the Scotch Whisky Association, allowing non-Scotch whisky production in Scotland would make it difficult to protect Scotch whisky as a distinctive product.
According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor ( a non-fictional location in Scotland ).
* According to Hector Boece, the Stone was first kept in the west of Scotland at the lost city of Evonium.
According to historian David Stevenson it was also influential to Freemasonry as it was emerging in Scotland.
According to legend Fiachnae, who was at war in Scotland, came home with a victory because of a bargain made with Manannán ( either by him, or by his wife ) to let Manannán have a child by his wife.
According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Tsala Apopka Lake and thought the area looked like the headlands and lochs of Inverness, Scotland, deserving the name Inverness.
According to John of Fordun ( 14th century ), Kenneth II of Scotland ( reigned 971-995 ) attempted to change the succession rules.
According to legend, the Christian apostle and martyr Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras, ( Patrae ), in Achaea.
According to the fourteenth-century chronicler, John of Fordun, Malcolm III, King of Scotland ( reign 1058 – 93 ) married his second bride, the Anglo-Hungarian princess, Saint Margaret, at the church in Dunfermline between 1068 and 1070 ; the ceremony was performed by Forhad, the last Celtic bishop of St Andrews.
According to Irving Wallace ( in an essay originally in his book The Fabulous Originals but later republished and updated in his collection The Sunday Gentleman ) Bell was involved in several police investigations, mostly in Scotland, such as the Ardlamont Mystery of 1893, usually with forensic expert Professor Henry Littlejohn.
According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in about 872 Harald Fairhair became King of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland including the Hebrides of the west coast, and the Northern Isles.
According to Schmidt a travel speed in the ocean of 15 km per day can be assumed, so a silver eel would need 140 to 150 days to reach the Sargasso Sea from around Scotland and in about 165 to 175 when leaving from the English Channel.
According to an online survey commissioned by haggis manufacturers Hall's of Broxburn, released on 26 November 2003, one-third of U. S. visitors to Scotland believed the wild haggis to be a real creature.
According to The Guardian University Guide 2013 it is the best modern university in Scotland and 2nd-best in the UK.
According to Perrin ( 1922 ), the saltire of Scotland did not reappear on naval flags until 1658.
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According to Lomas, Sir William, the chapel builder, is also the direct ancestor of the first Grand Master of Masons of Scotland, also named William St Clair ( Sinclair ).
According to Nennius, Cunedda migrated with his sons and followers from Brythonic Lothian, in southern Scotland, in the 5th century.
According to 9th century monk and chronicler Nennius, north Wales was now defenseless and subject to increasing raids by mauraders from Mann and Ireland, a situation which led Cunedda, his sons and their entourage, to migrate in the mid-5th century from Manaw Gododdin ( Lothian, in modern Scotland ) to settle and defend north Wales against the raiders and bring the region within Romano-British control.
According to dictionaries, murrey is the colour of mulberries, somewhere between gules ( red ) and purpure ( violet ), almost maroon ; but examples registered in Canada and Scotland show it as a reddish brown.
According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Vikings then made the islands the headquarters of pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland.
According to Peter, this officer was said to have been the progenitor of all Aikmans and Aikens in Scotland.
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