An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

Peafowl are two Asiatic species of flying bird in the genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae, best known for the male's extravagant eye-spotted tail, which it displays as part of courtship.

From that research the conclusion was that the Asiatic Black Bear, when about two years old, spends much time in trees to avoid attack by larger male bears on the ground (' ground bears ').

He now studied Persian, and in two years published a Mythengeschichte der asiatischen Welt ( History of the Myths of the Asiatic World ), which was followed ten years later by Das Heldenbuch von Iran ( The Book of Heroes of Iran ), a translation of part of the Shahnama, the epic of Firdousi.

The species was described in 1831 by Vigors based on painting by John Gould although Brian Hodgson had sent a manuscript to the Asiatic Society of Bengal two years earlier describing it as the " Red-billed Erolia " but this was published only in 1835 with an apology from the editor.

Only two genera, Loxodonta ( African elephants ) and Elephas ( Asiatic elephants ), are living.

Under proposals by Dudley Zoo, in partnership with Dudley Council, St. Modwen, and Advantage West Midlands, the zoo is to be regenerated, which will see a former freightliner site redeveloped with a tropical dome, Asiatic forest, two aquatic facilities and walkthrough aviaries.

The Asiatic linsangs comprise two species classified in the genus Prionodon, the sole genus in the family Prionodontidae.

The similarities between Asiatic linsangs and cats are due to common ancestry, while the similarities between the two genera of linsangs must be convergent.

Sloth bears are sympatric with Asiatic black bears in Northern India, and the two species, along with the sun bear, co-exist in some of the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

However, his successors -- the final two last kings of this dynasty -- Seqenenre Tao and Kamose are traditionally credited with initiating the final defeat of the Hyksos since they launched the wars of liberation against the foreign Asiatic Hyksos kings.

Although disposed at first to divide the various documents into three classes, he finally adopted a classification into two: the African or older family of documents, and the Asiatic, or more recent class, to which he attached only a subordinate value.

* Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ( two volumes )*

It was proposed that the demilitarized zone of the Straits should be reduced to the following lines: on the European side-Gallipoli peninsula and the coast along the Sea of Marmora as far as Rodosto ; on the Asiatic side-from a point opposite the isle of Tenedos to Kara-Bigha ( west of Panderma ), including the islands in the Sea of Marmora and the European and Asiatic shores of the Bosporus ; the expression " demilitarized " zone was to mean that whereas the Allies might send troops to this zone, both Greece and Turkey should be deprived of this right ; the east coast of the Sea of Marmora was excluded from the demilitarized zone ; the Allied troops occupying Constantinople were to be withdrawn, after the Allies had satisfied themselves of the bona-fide peaceful intentions of the Turks ; Turkey was to have an equal voice on the international committee established to control the Straits, receiving two votes instead of one ; and if Turkey's attitude on the whole proved satisfactory, she would, in all probability, be offered the honorary presidency of the commission.

On 11 April 1887, he took command of the Asiatic Station, and two months later was promoted to Rear Admiral.

Bishops commonly preached outside their own dioceses, especially in the great cities ; polished sermons were evidently in demand, and a stipend was given, for we read that two Asiatic bishops, Antiochus and Severianus, went to Constantinople to preach, being more desirous of money than of the spiritual welfare of their hearers.

In 1846, two years after Ramkamal Sen's death, Rajendralal Mitra, then a young man, joined the Asiatic Society as its Assistant Librarian.

In 1901 two large gunboats, USS Helena ( 1290 tons and crew of 170 ) and Wilmington ( 1570 tons and 212 ), were assigned to the Asiatic Squadron's " Second Division " as permanent river patrol, although too large to patrol deep inland, until 1932 and 1923 respectively.

Following the completion of the two required years of postgraduate sea duty — which he served with the Pacific Squadron in protected cruiser Philadelphia — Upham was commissioned an ensign on 1 July 1895 and joined Olympia ( Cruiser No. 6 ) on 18 July before she sailed for the Far East to become the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron.

For the next two years, as a Passed Midshipman, he served in the cruiser Olympia, flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Station.

To qualify himself for these two positions he had to study the most diverse civilizations, including those of the East and Far East ( e. g. Hungary, Russia and Japan ) and even the antiquities of Babylonia and other Asiatic countries.

Irbit is on the Asiatic side of the Ural mountains, about two hundred versts northeast of Ekaterineburg.

Spykman sees the two continents ' geopolitical status as determined respectively by the state of control over the Mediterranean Sea and the " Asiatic Mediterranean.

In late 1914 the islands were the rendezvous for Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asiatic Squadron as he gathered his ships together prior to defeating the British under Admiral Christopher Cradock at the Battle of Coronel.

(" Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world, the chronicle of Asiatic and Egyptian matters together produced from the beginning of historical time up to the beginnings of Maccabes ")

His translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things ( 1805-1807 ), contains elaborate philological and explanatory notes, together with parallel passages and quotations from European and Asiatic authors.

Ba Maw attended the Greater East Asia Conference in Tokyo in November 1943, where he made a speech speaking of how it was the call of Asiatic blood that drew them together into a new era of unity and peace.

However, the Moroccan cats shared mitochondrial haplotypes ( H5 and H6 ) with central African lions, and together with them were part of a major mtDNA grouping ( lineage III ) that also included Asiatic samples.

Rogers made a proposal that a School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta, together with a sanatorium, would constitute an appropriate memorial ; this idea was received enthusiastically by the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

According to Gershom Scholem, the ideology of the Asiatic Brethren mixed Kabbalistic and Sabbatean ideas jumbled together with Christian theosophic doctrines.

To weld into one homogeneous mass the discordant materials of Asiatic nationalities, to solve the problem which had never been solved before, as to how a great multitude of men of diverse religions and races should live together in peace and harmony, free from discord within and aggression without-this was the work he set himself to do, and he did it.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to arrive, invading in mid-century ; the Avars attacked in AD 570 ; and the Croatian tribes invaded in the early 7th century.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

Those afflicted with leprosy were historically isolated from society, the attempts to check the invasion of syphilis in northern Europe about 1490, the advent of yellow fever in Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century and the arrival of Asiatic cholera in 1831.

The first Asiatic species to be described by western botanists were Magnolia denudata and Magnolia liliiflora, and Magnolia coco and Magnolia figo.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

The earliest American black bear fossils, which were located in Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania, greatly resemble the Asiatic species, though later specimens grew to sizes comparable to grizzlies.

Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.

Analysis completed after the media release, however, clearly showed the samples were from a Brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) and an Asiatic black bear ( Ursus thibetanus ).

In 1811, and again in 1818, projects of Asiatic exploration were proposed to Humboldt, first by the Russian government, and afterwards by the Prussian government ; but on each occasion, untoward circumstances interposed, and it was not until he had begun his sixtieth year that he resumed his early role of traveller in the interests of science.

Seized by his attendants on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus, Constantine was carried back to the palace at Constantinople ; there, his eyes were gouged out.

They were deemed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Cyrus ' Asiatic troops were on the left flank.

The Hyksos or Hycsos (; Egyptian heqa khasewet, " foreign rulers "; Greek,, Arabic: < span lang =" ar "> الملوك الرعاة </ span >, shepherd kings ) were an Asiatic people who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the thirteenth dynasty, and initiating the Second Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt.

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

Like the Scythians, Sarmatians were of a Caucasoid appearance, and before the arrival of the Huns ( 4th century AD ) it is thought that few had Asiatic or turco-Mongol features.

The house had large grounds which were used to house a collection of animals including ' zebra, Asiatic buffaloes and mountain goats ', as well as jackals.

Manila and Subic Bays were mined by the US Asiatic Fleet, stationed in Manila Bay.

Further radio monitoring revealed to the Japanese that the U. S. Asiatic Fleet had been alerted at 4: 00 am of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and they expected attacks on their own bases by B-17s ( bombing through the fog undercast ) at any time after 7: 00 am The air defense weaknesses of the FEAF were mirrored by those of the Japanese, who had prepared only for offensive operations, but no attack came before a final revised plan was issued at 7: 50 am, ordering the main attack force of Japanese land-based aircraft to launch at 9: 15 am and attack at 12: 30 pm

A Pacific Fleet was created in 1907 when the Asiatic Squadron and the Pacific Squadron were combined.