Impressive as this enumeration is, it barely hints at the diverse perceptions of Jews, collectively or individually, that have been attested by their Gentile environment.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

It is first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 ( see Mongolic languages ).

The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

First, he explains that in all of history there has never been a miracle which was attested to by a wide body of disinterested experts.

The closeness of this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by Tacitus ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself.

The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

The importance of the marriage was attested by the fact that Casimir abandoned his earlier plans to marry Jutta of Bohemia.

This interest is attested to by the Dresden codex which contains tables with information about the Venus's appearances in the sky.

The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda ; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda ; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds.

It might be connected with " glowing coals ", or " fire ", but it could equally go back to, or be influenced by, the Latin name Brundisium of the city of Brindisi ( aes Brundusinum, meaning " copper of Brindisi ", is attested in Pliny ).

Lithuanian was first attested in a hymnal translation in 1545 ; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by Martynas Mažvydas was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia ( now Kaliningrad, Russia ).

Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

Eventually two dukedoms were formed — Duchy of Pannonia and Duchy of Dalmatia, ruled by Ljudevit Posavski and Borna, as attested by chronicles of Einhard starting in the year 818.

The term " Canadian English " is first attested in a speech by the Reverend A. Constable Geikie in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857.

The peace following the battle of Mons Badonicus is attested partly by Gildas, a monk, who wrote De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae or On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain during the middle of the sixth century.

The Himalayan alliance gave Chandragupta a formidable composite army made up of the cavalry forces of the Shakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Kiratas, Parasikas and Bahlikas as attested by Mudra-Rakashas ( Mudra-Rakshasa 2 ).

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Others are known only from mentions in Clement's own writings, including On Marriage and On Prophecy, although few are attested by other writers and it is difficult to separate works which he intended to write from those which were actually completed.

The latter names were well attested already in the mid-16th century ( see, e. g., " Sibier Provincia " on Sigismund von Herberstein's map of Moscovia dated 1549, or the city and region of " Sibier " on Mercator's map of Asia ( 1595 ), while Russian explorers did not even reach today's Inner Mongolia until Ivan Petlin ( 1618 ), or the Amur basin, until Vassili Poyarkov ( 1643 ).

# 249v: Herr Konrad von Altstetten ( perhaps a mayor of St. Gallen, attested 1320 – 1327 )

Examples of stars in a late medieval heraldry of the Holy Roman Empire include those of Wentz von Niederlanstein ( 1350 ), Gemm ( attested 1352 ), Geyer von Osterberg ( 1370 ), Enolff Ritter von Leyen ( d. 1392 ).

A similar incident, involving an Englishman, is attested for the French court by the German count and chronicler Froben Christoph von Zimmern: during carnival 1540, while the French king Francis I was residing at Angers, an Englishman ( ain Engellender ) wearing a mask and accompanied by other masked persons paid a visit to the king and offered him a momschanz ( a game of dice ), bringing with him a sum of money which was so high that the king was ashamed not to have a similar sum at hand and had to wait two hours until the money could be lent from local merchants.

This was Goswin von Falkenburg, who is also referred to in 1135 by the Latin translation " Cozwinus de Staelechae " and was the first attested holder of the castle in fief.

The first recorded member of this family was the knight Rudolf von Winkelried, attested in a letter dated to the 1240s.

Elf-shot ( or elf-bolt or elf-arrow ) is a word found in Scotland and Northern England, first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century.

The word " sweetbread " is first attested in the 16th century, but the etymology of the name is unclear.

The peak of activity of these courts was during the 14th to 15th centuries, with lesser activity attested for the 13th and 16th centuries, and scattered evidence establishing their continued existence during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Bushidō developed between the 9th and 20th centuries and numerous translated documents dating from the 12th to 16th centuries demonstrate its wide influence across the whole of Japan, although some scholars have noted " the term bushidō itself is rarely attested in premodern literature.

The name most likely derives from, meaning " surrounded by reeds ", the name of the locality attested at the time of the 16th century arrival of the Spanish.

The word " moustache " derives from 16th century French moustache, which in turn is derived from the Italian mostaccio ( 14th century ), dialectal mustaccio ( 16th century ), from Medieval Latin mustacium ( 8th century ), Medieval Greek μουστάκιον ( moustakion ), attested in the 9th century, which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek μύσταξ ( mustax, mustak -), meaning " upper lip " or " facial hair ", probably derived from Hellenistic Greek μύλλον ( mullon ), " lip ".

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of the fuller All-Hallows-Even, and according to some historians has its roots in the gaelic festival Samhain, where the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

The language is attested in cuneiform, in records from the 16th ( Anitta text ) down to the 13th century BC, with isolated Hittite loanwords and numerous personal names appearing in an Old Assyrian context from as early as the 20th century BC.

The name " nonagon " is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin ( nonus, " ninth " + gonon ), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French nonogone and in English from the 17th century.

The word mummer is sometimes explained to derive from Middle English mum (" silent ") or Greek mommo (" mask "), but is more likely to be associated with Early New High German mummer (" disguised person ", attested in Johann Fischart ) and vermummen (" to wrap up, to disguise, to mask ones faces "), which itself is derived from or came to be associated with mummen ( first attested already in Middle High German by a prohibition in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, 1351 ) and mum ( en ) schanz, ( Hans Sachs, Nuremberg, 16th cent.

The practice of inverting the entire escutcheon of an armiger found guilty of high treason has been attested since the Middle Ages and is generally accepted as reliable, but other abataments of arms, appearing in late 16th century texts, have never been reliably attested in actual practice.

* The Slovenian word for ' comrade ' is tovariš ( m .) or tovarišica ( f .), first attested in the 16th century.

Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland, Crete and Cyprus in the 16th to 12th centuries BC, before the hypothesised Dorian invasion which was often cited as the terminus post quem for the coming of the Greek language to Greece.

It is attested in this meaning in English roughly from the 14th century to the 16th.

The earliest attested use of the word in reference to the colour is from the 16th century.

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of the fuller All-Hallows-Eve, and according to some historians it has its roots in the gaelic festival Samhain, where the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

The tune is an old folk tune attested in the 16th century.

Romanian is attested from the 16th century.

The name Halloween is first attested in the 16th century as a Scottish shortening of All-Hallows-Even, and according to some historians it has its roots in the Gaelic festival of Samhain, when the Gaels believed the border between this world and the otherworld became thin, and the dead would revisit the mortal world.

Its usage among the Portuguese is also attested by Matteo Ricci, who entered the mainland China from the Portuguese Macau in the late 16th century.

The villages were first attested during the 16th century: Leordeni was a domain of the Băleanu family of Wallachian boyars, while Popeşti was included in the lands belonging to ancestors of the chronicler Radu Popescu.