In his Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers, late 20th century historian James A. Clifton called Long " a sham " who " assumed the identity of an Indian ", " an adopted ethnic identity pure and simple.

It includes as an example a work by the British historian Laurence Echard ( d. 1730 ) in 1693 that bore the title " The Gazetteer's: or Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index ".

Being a poet, lexicographer, linguist, historian, theologian and rector of Greek seminary, his variety and universality of work distinguish him from other writers of the period.

Being a comedian as well as a historian, Terry Jones takes an established belief, turns that around, and presents proof for his assertion.

“ Being located on the busiest highway in California ,” wrote historian Kane, “ the people of Gorman knew well the need for an ambulance, as so many of the injured were brought to their homes.

In his 1997 book Coming into Being, cultural historian William Irwin Thompson harshly criticized the entire project of SES, contending that systematic " theories of everything " were inherently misguided.

Being very difficult to measure, only about 60 stellar parallaxes had been obtained by the end of the 19th century, mostly by use of the filar micrometer.

Being himself one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy, ( CPI ), his theories had, in turn, been strongly influenced by the German social thinker Karl Marx, and have their ideological roots grounded in Marxist theory of false consciousness and capitalist exploitation.

On 7 June Robespierre, who had previously condemned the Cult of Reason, advocated a new state religion and recommended the Convention acknowledge the existence of the " Supreme Being ".

Being 44 years of age, he was not asked to enlist, but, notes Friedman, " Capra had an intense desire to prove his patriotism to his adopted land.

Being shiny, the wires had to be blackened.

Being 18, Bobby had the choice to either stay at home or return to the X-Men and he made the choice to rejoin the team.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

Being a strong base, that level of neodymium would have affected the melting properties of the glass, and the lime content of the glass might have had to be adjusted accordingly.

Being a classically educated Mandarin his blueprint for the Xiang Army was taken from a historical source — the Ming general Qi Jiguang who, because of the weakness of regular Ming troops, had decided to form his own " private " army to repel raiding Japanese pirates in the mid-16th century.

Being the eldest grandson of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, from his earliest childhood he had a special relationship with his grandfather.

Richard Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s – the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

The influence of Heidegger on Sartre's Being and Nothingness is marked, but Heidegger felt that Sartre had misread his work, as he argued in later texts such as the " Letter on ' Humanism '.

Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.

Being more visible, the tholoi all had been plundered either in antiquity, or in later historic times.

Plotinus had an inherent distrust of materiality ( an attitude common to Platonism ), holding to the view that phenomena were a poor image or mimicry ( mimesis ) of something " higher and intelligible " which was the " truer part of genuine Being ".

Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also been the place of several recent well-publicized murders.

Being impatient, he had decided to walk his horse through the river instead of crossing the bridge that had been too crowded with troops.

Being a pioneer in the use of cast-iron for large scaled structures, Telford had to invent new techniques, such as using boiling sugar and lead as a sealant on the iron connections.

Being plugged into the wall is obviously a major drawback, but had one advantage: the timebase for the clock was driven off of a rectified version of 60 cycle AC current.

Being chased by men loyal to king Christian and failing at creating an army to challenge the king, Gustav Eriksson had no other alternative but to flee to Norway.

Being settled people they had an economy based on farming, cattle and fishing, but they also produced metal goods.

Being named for the much-admired founding father James Madison, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers of the Constitution, may have also helped attract votes.

Being again pressed by Shahrukh, Mirza Sulaiman applied for help to Abdullah Khan Uzbek, king of Turan, who had long wished to annex Badakhshan.

" Being interrogated after his capture by the Red Army on September 2, 1944, Stauffenberg's friend, Major Joachim Kuhn stated that Stauffenberg had told him in August 1942 that " They are shooting Jews in masses.

Being granted a banner by the Pope would have been a great honour, but despite the many letters of the popes relating to the crusades, none of them mentions granting a banner to a King of Denmark.

Being healed has been described as a privilege of accepting Christ's redemption on the cross .< sup > p </ sup > Pentecostal writer Wilfred Graves, Jr. views the healing of the body as a physical expression of salvation.

* Muggled – Being caught by a non-geocacher while retrieving / replacing a cache ; also, a muggled cache has been removed or vandalized by a non-geocacher, usually out of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge.

Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large ; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all.

Notable stories of this type include " Painwise ", in which a space explorer has been altered to be immune to pain but finds such an existence intolerable, and " A Momentary Taste of Being ", in which the true purpose of humanity, found on a distant planet, renders individual human life entirely pointless.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere.

The Importance of Being Earnests popularity has meant it has been translated into many languages, though the homophonous pun in the title (" Ernest ", a masculine proper name, and " earnest ", the virtue of steadfastness and seriousness ) poses a special problem for translators.

Aside from multiple " made-for-television " versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it.

Much closer in spirit to some ancient Gnostic dicta, Wolfson understands the eschatological ideal in traditional kabbalah to have been the female becoming male ( see his Circle in the Square and Language, Eros, Being ).

Recent scholarship has shown that Heidegger was substantially influenced by St. Augustine of Hippo and that Martin Heidegger's Being and Time would not have been possible without the influence of Augustine's thought.

Being their most popular record and many fans ' first exposure to the group, the album has occasionally been performed in its entirety at live shows.

Being conspicuous elements of the ecosystem, they have been considered as indicators of ecological health.

Being exposed to the consorts of the king, they would have likely been castrated.

Being one of the classic examples of a stage thriller, it has been revived a number of times since, including a US TV movie in 1981 with Angie Dickinson and Christopher Plummer.

Being near to the military town of Woolwich there have never been any Quaker meeting houses but the Plymouth Brethren have had numerous meeting rooms in the area since about 1845.

A cassette version had earlier been given free to new subscribers to On Being, an Australian Christian magazine.

Being so physically close to Ground Zero, tourism and business had been very slow to return to the area for several years but appears to have rebounded more recently.