By the twelfth century depictions of a figure of God, essentially based on the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel had started to appear in French manuscripts and in stained glass church windows in England.

The windows in the east transept depict David, Ruth, Solomon, The Queen of Sheba, Elijah, Esther, Isaiah, Judith, Daniel, and Hannah.

Although dwarfed by other buildings in the area, notably the Chrysler Building and MetLife Building, the Lincoln has a number of interesting features, including gothic windows at the top, the lobby, and the bronze model by Daniel Chester French of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. ( after renaming of the building in 2009, the model was removed ).

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Frank Gaebelein argues that the non-existence of other Greek words does not support the theory of Daniel being written in the Hellenistic period.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

Daniel 7-12 focuses on God ’ s plan for the future in regard to the fate of world kingdoms being replaced by His kingdom.

Daniel also foresees the Greek Empire being divided among the four generals upon the death of Alexander.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

Dallas Theological Seminary professor Daniel Wallace understands it to be an extension of on being filled by the Holy Spirit.

The Book of Daniel provides accounts of Jews in exile being assigned names relating to Babylonian gods and " Mordecai " is understood to mean servant of Marduk, a Babylonian god.

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

After being laid off, he begins to work closely with Michael on a secret project that evokes feelings of jealousy from Daniel.

In the mid-eighteenth century, English theologian Daniel Waterland defined pantheism as: " It supposes God and nature, or God and the whole universe, to be one and the same substance — one universal being ; insomuch that men's souls are only modifications of the divine substance.

* January 23 – Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan, accused of being a CIA agent by his captors.

Daniel Burston, however, has argued that overall the published works of Szasz and Laing demonstrate far more points of convergence and intellectual kinship than Szasz admits, despite the divergence on a number of issues related to Szasz being a libertarian and Laing an existentialist ; that Szasz employs a good deal of exaggeration and distortion in his criticism of Laing's personal character, and unfairly uses Laing's personal failings and family woes to discredit his work and ideas ; and that Szasz's " clear-cut, crystalline ethical principles are designed to spare us the agonizing and often inconclusive reflections that many clinicians face frequently in the course of their work ".

* ( 2004 ) In Neal Stephenson's The System Of The World, a fictionalized Sir Isaac Newton dies of " gaol fever " before being resurrected by Daniel Waterhouse.

Upon both of them entering and tying for first place in a scientific contest at the University of Paris, Johann, unable to bear the " shame " of being compared as Daniel's equal, banned Daniel from his house.

Daniel Logan had not seen the Star Wars films prior to being cast as Fett, but he watched the original trilogy at Lucas ' request.

" Dole had to wait nine hours on the battlefield before being taken to the 15th Evacuation Hospital, where he began a recovery that would take until 1948 at Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan ( where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and Philip Hart ).

In late 2006, the foundation sent out a holiday card featuring a picture of Electric Cord ( 1961 ), a painting that had been missing since 1970 after being sent out to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer by the Leo Castelli Gallery.

This line-up made a video to promote the title track, directed by Van Vliet and Ken Schreiber, with cinematography by Daniel Pearl, which was rejected by MTV for being " too weird.

( Daniel J Flood Tower is in Kingston and the VA Medical Center is in Wilkes-Barre Township, but they are part of the Wilkes-Barre skyline, being close enough to blend in )

Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and chairman of the appropriations committee, said he initially had favored keeping Guantanamo open until Obama produced a " coherent plan for closing the prison.

O2EM, ( originally not open source ) was created in 1997 by computer programmer Daniel Boris and further enhanced by Andre Rodrigues de La Rocha.

To investigate this, Daniel experimented by puncturing the wall of a pipe with a small open ended straw and noted that the height to which the fluid rose up the straw was related to fluid's pressure in the pipe.

Stanton's young nephew Daniel was lifted through an open window so that he could unbar the doors from the inside.

However, on 1 October 2010 Chairman Daniel Levy advised that the club had registered an interest in bidding for the stadium in conjunction with AEG ( Europe ) to keep its options open whilst there remained uncertainties about the success of the Northumberland Development Project.

A stage-musical adaptation, with book, music, and lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik, is scheduled to open in New York City in the fall of 2012.

The Kendra Initiative founded by Daniel Harris in late 1999 is an open source initiative to create ways of using the Internet to discover, use, share and pay for digital media such as music, web content, books and films.

In 2009, the Swiss Guard commandant, Daniel Anrig, suggested that the Guard might someday be open to recruiting women, but he added that the admission of female recruits remained far in the future.

Colonel William Thornton ( of the 85th Regiment ) was to cross the Mississippi during the night with his 780-strong brigade, move rapidly upriver and storm the batteries commanded by Commodore Daniel Patterson on the flank of the main American entrenchments and then open an enfilading fire on Jackson's line with howitzers and rockets.

The New Klezmer trio kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi music and paved the way for John Zorn's Masada, Naftule's Dream, Don Byron's Mickey Katz project and violinist Daniel Hoffman's band Davka.

Daniel Belgrad argues that in the 1880s centralized range management was the solution to the overgrazing that had depleted open ranges.

She is currently the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, vying for an open seat vacated by retiring U. S. Senator Daniel Akaka.

In October 2011, Lingle said on KSSK radio show that she will run for the open seat vacated by retiring U. S. Senator Daniel Akaka ( D-HI ).

The papers of Daniel Coit Gilman were donated to Johns Hopkins University by Gilman's daughter Elisabeth, and are open on an unrestricted basis to the public at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Hopkins.

As Daniel Dennett points out in Freedom Evolves, it is possible for everything to have a necessary cause, even while indeterminism holds and the future is open, because a necessary cause does not lead to a single inevitable effect.

When Daniel took over the role, Brak's mother inexplicably acquired a British accent, and became far more open in her discontent with domestic life and her annoyance with and disdain for Brak's father.

Daniel Defoe, in his book A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, passed through Baldock and commented: " Here is that famous Lane call'd Baldock Lane, famous for being so unpassable, that the Coaches and Travellers were oblig'd to break out of the Way even by Force, which the People of the Country not able to prevent, at length placed Gates, and laid their lands open, setting Men at the Gates to take a voluntary Toll, which Travellers always chose to pay, rather than plunge into Sloughs and Holes, which no Horse could wade through.

In 2010, Dennis Bramble and Daniel Lieberman also proposed that early humans were scavengers that used stone tools to harvest meat off carcasses and to open bones.

During her 23-minute call, she reported that none of the crew could open the cockpit door, passenger Daniel M. Lewin and two flight attendants had been stabbed and one of the hijackers had sprayed Mace in the first class cabin.

The problem remained open until 1976, when Daniel Quillen and Andrei Suslin independently proved that the answer was affirmative.

Richard then proceeded to open a restaurant, Daniel ( named after their newborn son ).

Hirono is the Democratic Nominee for the U. S. Senate seat left open by Senator Daniel Akaka.

On May 19, 2011, Mazie Hirono announced her candidacy for the U. S. Senate seat left open by Senator Daniel Akaka, who is retiring at the end of his term in 2012.

However, Daniel slays the dragon by baking pitch, fat, and hair ( trichas ) to make cakes ( mazas, barley-cakes, but translated " lumps ") that cause the dragon to burst open upon consumption.