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Alkon and later
Alkon later qualifies this by writing, " It would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future ", but also says that Madden " deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backwards from the future to be discovered in the present.

Alkon and by
However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.
The main belt asteroid 11169 Alkon was discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
by George E. Slusser, Paul K. Alkon, Roger Gaillard & Danièle Chatelain.
by George E. Slusser, Paul K. Alkon, Roger Gaillard & Daniele Chatelain.

Alkon and first
For this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained the documents.

Alkon and show
Other brights include Amy Alkon, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Babu Gogineni, Edwin Kagin, Mel Lipman, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Air America Radio talk show host Lionel and Massimo Pigliucci.

later and qualifies
A document of 1058 dates itself " in the time of the most serene prince Lord Ferdinand and his consort Queen Sancha " and later qualifies him as " this emperor, the aforesaid Ferdinand ".
Some scholar trace the literacy history of Bhojpuri from Siddha Sahitya itself, as early as 8th century A. D. Kabir ’ s contribution of ‘ nirgun ’ poetry to Sant Sahitya certainly qualifies as recorded literature in Bhojpuri in the 15th century. The nineteenth century has such works as Deviksaracarita by Ramdatta Shukla ( 1884 ), Badmasdarpan by Teg Ali Teg ( 1895 ), and Jangal me Mangal and Nagari Vilap by Ram Garib Chaube in the later half of the nineteenth century.
A drawn result may be allowed to stand, unless the fixture determines which team qualifies for a later round.
If that same Marine then qualifies as a sharpshooter or marksman at a later date, they will wear that respective badge until they again qualify as an expert and the consecutive count starts over.
The term is generally used as a derogatory reference to the supposed role of the child, who automatically qualifies as an American citizen and can later act as a sponsor for other family members.
In a later work, Security, Territory, Population, Foucault admits that he was somewhat overzealous in his descriptions of how disciplinary power conditions society ; he qualifies and develops his earlier ideas.

later and by
Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.
( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.
less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.
The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.
What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
People think the dress in the picture was lengthened by an artist much later on.
Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.
But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.
In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.
It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.
That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
It is agreed that any goods delivered or services rendered after the date of this agreement for projects within categories A, B, and C under paragraph 2 above which may later be approved by the United States will be eligible for financing from currency granted or loaned to the Government of India.
The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.
If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.
Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.
If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.
The late W. R. G. Baker, a pioneer in television design and long-time vp & gm of the Electronics Division, and later, by his own choice, an individual consultant.
The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).
In later experiments, Af and Af were prepared by conjugating 8 mg of FITC per gram of globulin.
Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.

later and writing
Five days later, on receiving it, Meredith sat drumming his dactyls on his writing table.
Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.
Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.
Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.
Those writing in later centuries generally had no direct experience of democracy themselves.
When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.
He credited his mother, later writing " imbued me with the feeling that I had some sort of talent.
Twain also expressed grave doubts about the authorship of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, showing through content analysis that the quality of the writing was much better than any of Eddy's previous or subsequent work ( for example her autobiography and her later writings in the Christian Science Journal ):
Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.
The artists fought the response through letter writing and four years later succeeded in gaining the right to complete the murals.
Some early symptoms that correlate with a later diagnosis of dyslexia include delays in speech, letter reversal or mirror writing, and being easily distracted by background noise.
At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.
At a later period he was one of the leading contributors to the Encyclopædia Britannica ( seventh and eighth editions ) writing, among others, the articles on electricity, hydrodynamics, magnetism, microscope, optics, stereoscope, and voltaic electricity.
According to playwright Alan Franks, writing later in The Times, " he was indeed ' deranged '.
The writing system had two historical phases: the archaic from the 7th to 5th century BC, which used the early Greek alphabet, and the later from the 4th to 1st century BC, which modified some of the letters.
Paul Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 ) was an influential and itinerant mathematician, who spent a large portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to give him room and board.
Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.
In his much later years, he spent time writing short stories and songs, along with playing guitar.
' Robert Frost later remarked that writing free verse was like " playing tennis without a net.
His writing stint was brief, as Lang soon started to work as a director at the German film studio Ufa, and later Nero-Film, just as the Expressionist movement was building.
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
During World War II, anthropologist Margaret Mead was working in Britain for the British Ministry of Information and later for the U. S. Office of War Information, delivering speeches and writing articles to help the American soldiers better understand the British civilians, and vice versa.
The lower-case Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit a faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill.
In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the Bab Ballads.

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