The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

" An alternative account says that the Germans who boarded Nicosian were killed by the freighter's engine room staff ; this report apparently came from the officer in command of the muleteers.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community, several alternative theories have been proposed to try to explain the anomalies for which dark matter is intended to account.

An alternative account of probability emphasizes the role of prediction – predicting future observations on the basis of past observations, not on unobservable parameters.

Stich doesn't defend any alternative theory of knowledge or justification, but instead argues that all accounts of normative epistemic terms are culturally biased and instead only a pragmatic account can be given.

Salmon attempted to provide an alternative account for some of the problems with Hempel and Oppenheim's model by developing his statistical relevance model.

A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous ( due to clusters of galaxies ) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all, however this conclusion is disputed.

In an alternative account, Apollonius identifies the buried sickle as a scythe belonging to Demeter, yet the name Drepane probably originated in the sickle-shape of the island.

These provide an alternative account of historical development and emphasize the self-destructive contradictions and law of motion of specific modes of production.

An alternative is the linear discriminant analysis, which does take this into account.

In the alternative account of the origin of Typhon ( Typhoeus ), the Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus or Mars, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined there in the enigmatic Arima, or land of the Arimoi, en Arimois ( Iliad, ii.

Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as ' naturalistic ' including the ' functional generalization ' view of John Pollock, the evolutionary / etiological account provided by Ruth Millikan, and a dispositional view held by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter.

An alternative account says that the Roman general Pompey believed he could make himself immune to poison by ingesting small amounts of various poisons, and he took this treatment with a grain of salt to help him swallow the poison.

eBay announced that starting in March 2008, eBay had added to this requirement that all sellers with fewer than 100 feedbacks must offer PayPal and no merchant account may be used as an alternative.

There is an alternative account of Uther Pendragon's background in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

GDP does not take into account other aspects such as leisure time, environmental quality, freedom, or social justice ; alternative measures of economic well-being have been proposed ( more ).

A new model, efficiency sensing, which takes into account both problematics, population density and spatial confinement, has been proposed as an alternative.

* For an alternative account of the trial, see Anne Somerset's Unnatural Murder ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997 ).

( An alternative account is given in a Maya chronicle from the Colonial era, claiming that Mayapan was contemporary with Chichen and Uxmal and in alliance with those cities, but archeological evidence shows this version to be less likely.

However, as prior continuity established the existence of alternative Dalek installations and colonies outside their homeworld, Skaro's own survival is unnecessary to account for post-nova remnants.

However, this theory has been questioned based on results showing that in brain slices of immature mice incubated in artificial cerebrospinal fluid ( ACSF ) ( modified in a way that takes into account the normal composition of the neuronal milieu in sucklings by adding an energy substrate alternative to glucose, beta-hydroxybutyrate ) GABA action shifts from excitatory to inhibitory mode.

The A + L show at PS1 offered an alternative account of the antecedents and legacy of ' classic ' Conceptual Art and reinforced a transatlantic rather than nationalistic version of events 1968-72.

Third, Robinson claims that elements consistent with John's alternative chronology can be found in each of the Synoptic accounts, whereas the contrary is never the case.

The Bastard proposes that England and France unite to punish the rebellious citizens of Angiers, at which point they propose an alternative: Philip's son, the Dauphin, should marry John's niece Blanche, a scheme that gives John a stronger claim to the throne, while Louis gains territory for France.

For a year he ran an alternative school in St. John's, known as " Animal Farm ".

The Great Books program ( often called simply " the Program " or " the New Program " at St. John's ) was developed at the University of Chicago by Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, Robert Hutchins, and Mortimer Adler in the mid-1930s as an alternative form of education to the then rapidly changing undergraduate curriculum.

An alternative view is that the Pharisees and Sadducees are coming to be baptized, and that this reflects the mass popularity of John's program.

The Kingerlees ' alternative outlook on life somehow seems to be in complete harmony both with the space they inhabit and with the art that flows from John's palette knife and brush.

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He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

It was only after Zhdanov's death that Nikita Khrushchev began to be considered as a possible alternative to the Beria-Malenkov axis.

It is only a living organism that faces a constant alternative: the issue of life or death ..." The survival of the organism is the ultimate value to which all of the organism's activities are aimed, the end served by all of its lesser values.

An alternative etymology is from, pherein phonon, " to bring ( or cause ) death ".

Steiner had an enormous influence on the alternative health movement before his death in 1925 and far beyond.

Cassius Dio, on the other hand, tells an alternative version of Boudica's death, simply saying that she " fell sick and died.

In the ancient world, population transfer was the more humane alternative to putting all the males of a conquered territory to death and enslaving the women and children.

However, archivists have not located any such marriage certificate or any birth, baptismal or death certificate information for anyone called Juan Vivion de Valera or de Valeros, an alternative spelling.

Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year it seemed that British alternative rock had finally turned back the tide of grunge dominance.

Harold's brothers were not so fortunate — their deaths deprived the English of an alternative leader after the death of Harold.

A less destructive alternative of this theory suggests the death of the time traveller whether the history is altered or not ; an example would be in the first part of the Back to the Future trilogy, where the lead character's alteration of history results in a risk of his own disappearance, and he has to fix the alteration to preserve his own existence.

288 of the Deputies voted against death and for some other alternative, mainly some means of imprisonment or exile.

The term golden goal was introduced by FIFA in 1993 along with the rule change because the alternative term, " sudden death ", was perceived to have negative connotations.

* The first series of the British sitcom Blackadder is set in a comic alternative history where the Princes in the Tower survived and grew to adulthood, Prince Richard assuming the throne as Richard IV upon Richard III's death at Bosworth Field.

In an alternative version, Hera's crab was at the site to bite his feet and bother him, hoping to cause his death.

In this case, it is unlikely that any alternative investment of the $ 1000 per year would have yielded the required $ 100, 000. 00 at death.

During the 18th century, transportation was the only alternative to death for most offences.

The first few pages of the novel deal with a sourcerer's father who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour ; the alternative is to risk destroying the Discworld.

Critics of alternative medicine often point to bad advice given by unqualified practitioners, leading to serious injury or death.

No speeches for the defence are mentioned ; the senators had little alternative but to vote for the death penalty, in the form of the ' free choice of death ' ( liberum mortis arbitrium ), that is, an order to commit suicide.

Russell's will, drawn up in 1907, had named the five people he wished to run the magazine after his death ; Rutherford appeared only on a second list of five alternative members to fill any vacancies that arose.

In 1974 he founded the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation ( Mowelfund ), which helps filmmakers through medical reimbursements, hospitalization, surgery and death benefits, livelihood, and alternative income opportunities and housing.