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This proved to be a very popular alternative milieu, so much so that much of the supplemental material is now included in the core rule book.
* An alternative look at deconstruction, from a perspective of its use in popular culture
Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists.
Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.
The British presence was broadly popular ( particularly given the alternative of a German occupation ).
The alternative spelling Xavier is also popular in Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy.
Finally, an alternative also popular, especially among blue-collar workers, is to lunch on a sandwich, possibly followed with a dessert ; both dishes can be found ready-made at bakeries and supermarkets for budget prices.
When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.
Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.
Increasingly popular alternative construction materials include insulating concrete forms ( foam forms filled with concrete ), structural insulated panels ( foam panels faced with oriented strand board or fiber cement ), and light-gauge steel framing and heavy-gauge steel framing.
By the 13th century, Hindustān emerged as a popular alternative name of India, meaning the " land of Hindus ".< ref >
Harp use has recently expanded in the " alternative " music world of commercial popular music.
Legal disputes caused production delays for several years, but AMD's 40 MHz part eventually became very popular with computer enthusiasts as a low cost and low power alternative to the 25 MHz 486SX.
A popular alternative recipe calls for the addition of an alcoholic beverage to the mix, contributing approximately one third to one half of the liquid added after the gelatin has been dissolved in the boil.
Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.
A lot of the telephone lines were destroyed or plundered in the two civil wars, making cellular phone networks a popular and safer alternative that reach remote regions of the country.
In November 2006, Minsky published The Emotion Machine, a book that critiques many popular theories of how human minds work and suggests alternative theories, often replacing simple ideas with more complex ones.
Initially, Marmite was popular with vegetarians as a meat-free alternative to beef extract products such as Bovril, which were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, is the most popular alternative candidate for the author behind the alleged pseudonym, Shakespeare.
Though nearly all scholars reject any alternative authorship candidates, including Oxford, popular interest in various authorship theories persists.
Ogburn's efforts secured Oxford the place as the most popular alternative candidate.
Hence, it is a popular English usage in the underground comic book Merton of the Movement, by Bobby London, while ideologically sound, an alternative term, followed a like lexical path, appearing in Bart Dickon ’ s satirical comic strips.
A popular alternative definition of chronic pain, involving no arbitrarily fixed durations is " pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing.
Soul Coughing was a popular New York-based alternative rock band.

alternative and etymology
An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).
The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.
In alternative etymology, linking the ginn-prefix in Ginnungagap with that found in terms with a sacral meaning, such as ginn-heilagr, ginn-regin ( both referring to the gods ) and ginn-runa ( referring to the runes ), interprets Ginnungagap as signifying a " magical ( and creative ) power-filled space ".
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.
An alternative etymology is from, pherein phonon, " to bring ( or cause ) death ".
An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.
Food scholar Terence Scully has proposed the alternative etymology of bland mangier, " bland dish ", reflecting its often mild and " dainty " ( in this context meaning refined and aristocratic ) taste and popularity as a sick dish.
An alternative etymology may lie in the Romany, itself rooted in násfalo, meaning ill.
Though some scholars suggested that the Rugii passed their name to the isle of Rügen in modern Northeast Germany, other scholars presented alternative hypotheses of Rügen's etymology associating the name to the mediaeval Rani ( Rujani ) tribe.
" However, as both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, might have Celtic names, an alternative etymology has been postulated from " Cunorix " which would mean " hound-king " in Old British ( rendered as Cinir in Old Welsh, Kynyr in Middle Welsh ).
Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").
The alternative spelling leithbrágan stems from a folk etymology deriving the word from leith ( half ) and bróg ( brogue ), because of the frequent portrayal of the leprechaun as working on a single shoe.
An alternative etymology would be from the common noun hwicce " ark, chest, locker ", in reference to the appearance of the territory as a flat-bottomed valley bordered by the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills.
However, an alternative, more obscure etymology exists which suggests the name means " promontory into marsh ", which would make sense considering that Frodsham had a promontory castle very close to marshland.
An alternative etymology notes that the Latin verb iūbilō, " shout for joy ," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin jubilo ( meaning shout ), as well as Middle Irish ilach ( victory cry ), New English yowl, and Ancient Greek iuzo ( shout ), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root * yu-( shout for joy ).
An alternative etymology is that " c :" was used for copy and " cc :" indicates the plural, just as " p ." means page and " pp. " means pages.
This alternative etymology explains the frequent usage of " c :" when only one recipient is listed, while " cc :" is used for two or more recipients of the copies.
An alternative etymology suggests that the medieval Latin merulus ( mentioned from the end of the 10th century ) functioned as a diminutive of Latin merle, expressing an image of blackbirds sitting on a wall.
" An alternative etymology posits dog-walking as the origin of the term ; audience members, and indeed participants, could use the ordinary exercise of their pets as cover for their sexual assignations.
An alternative etymology was proposed by Wittek ( 1952 ), who believed that the Gagauz were the offspring of a group of Rum-Seljuks who surrendered to the Byzantine emperor ; thus, he attributed the name to a leader of this group, the Seljuk prince Kaykaus.
No historical evidence supports an alternative folk etymology by which the word is traced to the letter " J " ( characterizing the route a jaywalker might follow ).
An alternative etymology for the compound is cited by Ramamurti Mishra, who says that:
An alternative etymology has been suggested, from Middle French pale-mail or " straw-mallet ", in reference to target hoops being made of bound straw.

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