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This manifestation may be an early sign of multiple sclerosis or the beginning of sewer's cramp.
Whether the flag has its origins in a divine sign, a banner of a military order, an ecclesiastical banner, or perhaps something entirely different, Danish literature is no help before the early 15th century.
Nobody seemed to realize it at the time, but evidently this was an early sign of Iceman undergoing a secondary mutation of his own.
As early as 1646 reference is made to a superstition of laying a knife across another piece of cutlery being a sign of witchcraft.
In early 20th century, Great Britain sent an expedition force to Tibet and forced Tibetans to sign a treaty.
Some problems with this theory are that there is no evidence that Godberd was ever known as Robin Hood and no sign in the early Robin Hood ballads of the specific concerns of de Montfort's revolt.
The earliest proto-birds such as China's Protarchaeopteryx, discovered in the early 1990s, had well-developed feathers but no sign of the top / bottom asymmetry that gives wings lift.
All sources agree that before his accession, either in his early childhood or later, members of the royal household witnessed a nimbus of fire about his head while he slept, a sign of divine favour, and a great portent.
* Creation of the first fair in Portugal in Ponte de Lima, it is an early sign of the commercialization and economic development of a still backwardish and self-contained region.
In early 1988 the band played at Dingwalls in London, a show attended by representatives of Zomba and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis, and both subsequently wanted to sign the band, Rough Trade even funding studio time to record a single, " Elephant Stone ", with Peter Hook producing.
This manifested itself in the early IWW's consistent refusal to sign contracts, which they felt would restrict workers ' abilities to aid each other when called upon.
During the early 20th century, prominent feminist and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger argued that abstinence from sexual activity led to greater endurance and strength, and was a sign of the best of the species:
Discontinuity also affects the past sign of the pressure of the cosmological constant, changing from the current negative pressure to attractive, with lookback towards the early Universe.
However, there are worries about a decreased age at first spawning ( often an early sign of stock collapse ), combined with the level of discards and unreported catches.
* The Saxon city of Goslar starts making efforts to redeem its already issued annuities, a sure indication of financial difficulty and maybe an early sign of the 13th century crisis.
It is a clear indication of financial difficulty and maybe an early sign of the crisis of the 13th century.
This has been interpreted as a lone early sign of Bruckner's artistic ambitions.
In the early 1980s, when speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians ( as some would say there's as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate ).
This visit is often cited as a sign of the early importance of the Roman See.
His early use of a form of sign language, the combined system, was the first codification of what was to become British Sign Language.
In the early 1980s, Inès de la Fressange was the first model to sign an exclusive modeling contract with an haute couture fashion house, Chanel.
" (" Darkstar " is also a call sign of AWACS aircraft from a different squadron at Tinker AFB ) A month later, radio enthusiasts in California monitoring Edwards AFB Radar ( callsign " Joshua Control ") heard early morning radio transmissions between Joshua and a high flying aircraft using the callsign " Gaspipe ".
In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.
Louis XVI was convinced by Pierre Beaumarchais to secretly send supplies, ammunition and guns from 1776, sign a formal Treaty of Alliance in early 1778, and go to war with Britain.

early and future
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
The shell, which served the strain so well at a relatively early stage in the evolutionary scheme, tended to cancel out the possibility of future development.
At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).
It is also significant that Germany ’ s position in the centre of Europe to a large extent obviated the need to make a clear distinction between bombers suitable only for ’ tactical ’ and those necessary for strategic purposes in the early stages of a likely future war.
Developed in the early 1990s, CDPD was large on the horizon as a future technology.
FT depicts a broad trend, and an extrapolation of historical rates therefore tends to underestimate future BAU deforestation for counties at the early stages in the transition ( HFLD ), while it tends to overestimate BAU deforestation for countries at the later stages ( LFHD and LFLD ).
Poe's early detective fiction tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature.
There, she met Emily Davis, the early feminist and future co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge.
The Sortes Sanctorum ( Lots of the saints ) were, in early Christianity, a divination which consists in taking passages of the Bible at chance, and drawing conclusions from them concerning future.
He decided he would name his future studio " Zoetrope " after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.
The government also borrowed against future Compact disbursements in the early 1990s, yielding an external debt of $ 111 million in 1997 ( over 50 % of GDP ).
" Fort Collins continues to grow in population at a measured pace, with competition from other development in northern Colorado, debate over future growth patterns and town and gown relations emerging as dominant local issues in the early 21st century.
After the HTML and HTML + drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed " HTML 2. 0 ", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.
After initial environmental issues like the highly publicized formaldehyde scandals in the early 1980s and 1992, IKEA took a proactive stance on environmental issues and tried to prevent future incidents through a variety of measures.
Recognizing that the lack of software could be a serious problem for the future, Intel made thousands of these early systems available to independent software vendors ( ISVs ) to stimulate development.
On the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence some 15 km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev where he retired to his bedroom to sleep.
As a result of ongoing improvements in the road system during the early 1990s, however, it is expected that in the future villagers will more easily be able to seek medical care, send children to schools at district centers, and work outside the village.
It also expressed a preference that in the future only one of these two symbols should be retained, but in 1990 said it was still too early to do so.
Much of his early work put Mazda back into profitability and laid the foundations for future success.
After much debate a future campus location was selected in what was then a semi-rural part of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales.
Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans in the future.
Bismarck stayed in Saint Petersburg for four years, during which he almost lost his leg to botched medical treatment and once again met his future adversary, the Russian Prince Gorchakov, who had been the Russian representative in Frankfurt in the early 1850s.
By the early 1960s, Paramount's future was doubtful.

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