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The idea that alternative mathematical systems might exist was very troubling to mathematicians of the 19th century and the developers of systems such as Boolean algebra made elaborate efforts to derive them from traditional arithmetic.
The chamada can be very simple, consisting solely of the basic elements, or the ritual can be quite elaborate including a competitive dialogue of trickery, or even theatric embellishments.
From the very beginning, the Soviet's operation entailed elaborate denial and deception, known in the USSR as Maskirovka.
Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular has very elaborate and strict rules of fasting, and continues to observe the Council of Jerusalem's apostolic decree of Act 15.
Images printed on cloth for religious purposes could be quite large and elaborate, and when paper became relatively easily available, around 1400, the medium transferred very quickly to small woodcut religious images and playing cards printed on paper.
It consisted of ( sometimes very elaborate and artistic ) pictures sent over rtty through the use of lengthy punched tape transmissions and then printed by the receiving station on paper.
Round Tables were popular in various European countries through the rest of the Middle Ages and were at times very elaborate ; René of Anjou even erected an Arthurian castle for his 1446 Round Table.
Though these sizes may seem small by today's computing standards, for text-only adventures, these are large enough for very elaborate games.
One of the main attractions are its masks, which are very elaborate and colorful.
Images printed on cloth for religious purposes could be quite large and elaborate, and when paper became relatively easily available, around 1400, the medium transferred very quickly to small woodcut religious images and playing cards printed on paper.
The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win.
During the second half of the 20th century, philosophers extensively debated the possible methods or approaches to building ontologies without actually building any very elaborate ontologies themselves.
Young marriageable Hopi Indian women wear a very elaborate " Squash Blossom " hairdo that superficially resembles Princess Leia's.
At the very beginning of his philosophical career Derrida was concerned to elaborate a critique of the limits of phenomenology.
A very elaborate style that she sometimes used was the thirteen-line sonnet.
The more elaborate option of the deckwalk is by necessity reserved for shorter stretches in very high-traffic areas.
Display books of the Gothic period in particular had very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries.
Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent and very difficult Latin, which became the dominant Latin style for centuries, though eventually came to be regarded as barbarous.
Sited closer to the original Keston Court than the main village itself, Keston's small medieval church is unusual in that does not have a dedication to a saint, but built into the altar-table is the top of the 17th century altar inlaid with a very elaborate cross and inscribed " The Keston Marke: IN HOC SIGNO VINCES ", so the parish has a distinctive symbol instead.
The interior makes much use of marble in the entrance hall and flanking staircases, although the galleries as originally designed were white with restrained classical detail and mouldings, very much in contrast to the elaborate decoration of the Victorian galleries, although much of this decoration was removed in the early 20th century.
The Tabernacle also houses a very impressive organ consisting of 11, 623 pipes, making it one of the largest and most elaborate organs in the world.
Dave Kehr, in the Chicago Reader, wrote, " Richter seems to have invented an elaborate mythology for his hero ... but he never bothers to explicate it ; the film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke ".
Map of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and surrounding Gardens showing the elaborate moat systemJapanese castles often have very elaborate moats, sometimes with many moats laid out in concentric circles around the castle and a host of different patterns engineered around the landscape.

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Link was portrayed by actor JR Killigrew in the live action Zelda trailer produced by Rainfall films, an elaborate April Fool's joke by IGN. com.
The Alamein line was the stage for an elaborate practical joke played on the residents of the area by comedian Barry Humphries.
This work has been the subject of ridicule since the time of its first publication, though it was likely an elaborate joke.
At first, these various aspects of what the novel terms the " godgame " seem to Nicholas to be a joke but, as they grow more elaborate and intense, Nicholas's ability to determine what is real and what is artifice vanishes.
Hoping to fool Kault with an elaborate and ultimately costly practical joke, Uthacalthing secretly instructs a furtive neo-chimp to create false evidence pointing to the existence of Garthlings — a fabled race of pre-sentient creatures that were rumored to have survived the Bururalli holocaust.
This version of the story was related by Albert Speer in his memoirs, who stated that the " mission " to Spain was an elaborate practical joke, concocted by Hitler and Goebbels, designed to punish Hanfstaengl after he'd displeased the Führer by making " adverse comments about the fighting spirit of the German soldiers in combat " in the Spanish Civil War.
In the interim, Martha awakens and, seeing a photograph of the three friends, assumes she has been the target of an elaborate practical joke.
The final day was heavily attended by members of the press and some became a little carried away by the slightly festive atmosphere and wrongly reported that a defendant by the name of " Mr Bunbury ", who did not attend court, was in fact fictitious and that the case was an elaborate joke on the part of the court and a completely unsuspecting solicitor, Sean Caulfield since Mr Bunbury is a character in a work by Oscar Wilde, a previous defendant at Bow Street Magistrates ' Court.
When it approached the Ganges in September 1833, many believed the delivery was an elaborate joke, but the ship still had 100 tons of ice upon arrival.
Despite its cleverness and some positive critical response, many fans felt alienated by the shows ; new material from the Pop album didn't go down as well as U2 might have hoped and too many people just didn't seem to get the joke and took the elaborate effects on face value.
However, after taking eight wickets for 63 runs in a match in the Sri Lankan Cricket Premier League, his bowling figures were mentioned in the Notes by the Editor in the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack 2004 — not particularly because of the achievement, but because of the uncanny number of initials, which prompted the rhetorical question: " Is this an elaborate joke, along the lines of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?".

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Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.
Earlier critics in the 19th and 20th century considered the poem a piece of elaborate flattery that vindicated the regime of Domitian, however, more recent scholars have viewed the poem as a subversive work that criticizes the authoritarianism and violence of the Flavians by focusing on extreme violence and social chaos.
Actor James Mason, who worked with Ophüls on two films, wrote a short poem about the director's love for tracking shots and elaborate camera movements:
With Gray as his model, Rogers took great pains in polishing his verses, and six years elapsed after the publication of his first volume before he printed his elaborate poem on The Pleasures of Memory ( 1792 ) — regarded by some as the last embodiment of the poetic diction of the 18th century.
The humour of the poem comes from the storm in a teacup of pride being couched within the elaborate, formal verbal structure of an epic poem.
The malicious wit of Antoine de Rivarol's mot on the critical failure of the poem, " Cest le plus beau naufrage du siècle ," reflects the fact that one of the most elaborate passages describes a shipwreck.
His next stop was Leipzig, and thence to Vienna, where he hoped to win the emperor Maximilian's favour by an elaborate national poem on the war with Venice.
In addition to the poem, Fagrskinna only briefly mentions Ragnvald, while Heimskringla contains a more elaborate account of him.
He accompanied his masterpiece, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, with an elaborate poem providing historical, literary, or mythological context to each of the characters depicted.
It is not provided with a glossary, but contains an elaborate and most valuable analysis of the diction, synonymy and syntactical features of the poem.
His debt to fragmentary poets is far harder to gauge, but it is likely that he alludes to earlier poets ' treatments of the life of Dionysus, such as the lost poems by Euphorion, Peisander of Laranda's elaborate encyclopedic mythological poem, Dionysius, and Soteirichus.
Earlier scholars have looked to elaborate ring composition, a prophetic astrological program in the tablets of Harmonia, rhetorical encomium, or epyllion as structural concepts behind the poem to make sense of the unconventional narrative.
The classic form of qasida maintains a single elaborate metre throughout the poem, and every line rhymes.
The poem has been variously interpreted as a charming epyllion or as an elaborate allegory in which the shepherd symbolizes Augustus and the gnat Maecenas.
Because the poem has fewer stanzas than " Ode on Indolence " and " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", the rhyme scheme appears less elaborate, with the first and second stanzas sharing a rhyme scheme of: ABABCDECDE, while the third takes on one of its own: ABABCDEDCE.
While some of the Puritan ministers of Oliver Cromwell wrote poetry that was elaborate and carnal ( such as Andrew Marvell's poem, " To His Coy Mistress "), such poetry was not published.
The poem is complex, with numerous geographic references and elaborate litotic double negatives in a list-like manner.
The completed work, styled " An Illuminated Symphony ", was first performed at Queen's Hall on 20 January 1908, conducted by Thomas Beecham: on this occasion the orchestra and chorus were hidden from the audience behind an elaborate screen whilst the text of the poem was projected onto the screen using lantern slides at corresponding points in the music.
The Bodhi-Vamsa, or Mahabodhi-Vamsa, is a prose poem in elaborate Sanskritized Pali, composed by Upatissa in the reign of Mahinda IV of Sri Lanka about AD 980.
Their elaborate hairdressing gained them the name of " Fuzzy-wuzzies " among the British troops ( this was likely the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's poem, Fuzzy-Wuzzy.

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