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Besides having the right to sit on a Curule Chair ( sella curulis ) and to wear a toga praetexta, the Curule Aediles also held the power to issue edicts ( jus edicendi ).
Besides Frege and Russell, others credited for having preceding ideas of truth-tables include Philo, Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ernst Schröder.
Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".
Besides arguing that Arlequin be a character of Sufi origins, Idries Shah also wrote a chapter of The Sufis on the sufi influence over Saint Francis, arguing him having adopted the patched robe as his only garment was a clear example of a sufi influence ( Shah, I.
Besides its notoriety in attracting many unsavory characters it often ended with the police having to curb disorderly conduct bordering on rioting.
Besides its notoriety in attracting many unsavory characters it often ended with the police having to curb disorderly conduct bordering on rioting.
Besides having advantages or disadvantages for certain races, at night most creeps fall asleep, making nighttime scouting safer ; however, the line of sight for most units is also reduced.
Besides its size, remoteness from heavily populated areas, and having a moderate climate that afforded year-round operations, most importantly, Cooke's coastal location allowed missiles to be launched into the Pacific Ocean without population overflights.
Besides having status as one of Barks ' best stories, The Old Castle's Secret is also notable for being Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie's first treasure hunt with their uncle, Scrooge McDuck.
Besides having hundreds of classically designed buildings, the city is also home to some of the most modern and interesting buildings in Mexico.
Besides developing physical beauty, they differed from most Athenian women in being educated ( often to a high standard, as in Aspasia's case ), having independence, and paying taxes.
Besides these chosen foci, he was required to study mathematics, biology, English literature, composition, Latin, and two additional languages — despite having some knowledge of French, he chose German and Hebrew.
Besides being matchless on the battlefield, especially in man-on-man duels, Lü Bu was also notorious for having betrayed and slain two separate lords who were both his adoptive fathers.
Besides having a social focus and interest in the computer revolution, Whole Earth always made efforts to be at the forefront of technological innovation, being the first to publish articles about speculations on space colonization, molecular nanotechnology and the technological singularity.
Besides automatics, there are also other types of automated transmissions such as a continuously variable transmission ( CVT ) and semi-automatic transmissions, that free the driver from having to shift gears manually, by using the transmission's computer to change gear, if for example the driver were redlining the engine.
Besides being superheated, the water is also extremely acidic, often having a pH value as low as 2. 8 — approximately that of vinegar.
Besides people from other parts of the former Soviet Union, the oblast is home to Nivkhs and Ainu, with the latter having lost their language in Sakhalin recently.
) Besides the émigrés having their property taken by the State, relatives of émigrés were also persecuted.
Besides both having been businessmen and meeting at the same club, it is unclear what else Harry and Tobias have in common except that they have known one another for a long time and neither sleeps with his wife.
" Besides having a bad temper, he also suffered from headaches and bulimia, and temporarily dropped out of high school at age 14.
Besides having gained popularity as “ windproof ” lighters, Zippo lighters are able to stay lit in harsh weather, due to the design of the windscreen and adequate rate of fuel delivery.
Besides having to compete with WBTV and WSOC-TV, it also lost significant audience share to WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, WIS-TV in Columbia and WFBC-TV / WYFF in Greenville, all of which were much longer-established NBC affiliates on the VHF band and whose grade B signals reached into the outer portions of the Charlotte market.
Besides having interesting architectural features in most of its houses, Stone Town is punctuated with major historical buildings, several of which are found on the seafront ; these include former palaces of the sultans, fortifications, churches, mosques, and other institutional buildings.
Besides having his jersey retired, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the State of Arizona Sports Hall of Fame and the Arizona State University Hall of Fame.

Besides and shared
Besides their shared commitment to lesbian visibility, many held a Dyke March which took place the Saturday before LGBT Pride.
Besides building area, these parks offer a number of shared resources, such as uninterruptible power supply, telecommunications hubs, reception and security, management offices, restaurants, bank offices, convention center, parking, internal transportation, entertainment and sports facilities, etc.
Besides the creation of additional modules, XBRL International supports several methods for continuing expansion of shared XBRL functionality.
Besides chassis and internals, the Skipper shared the front clip and lower doorpanels with the sedan.

Besides and interest
Besides painting, Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature.
Besides the interest attached to these Selinuntine metopes from their important bearing on the history of Greek sculpture, the remains of these temples are of value as affording the most unequivocal testimony to the use of painting, both for the architectural decoration of the temples, and as applied to the sculptures with which they were adorned.
Besides designing video games, Mizuguchi has expressed interest in directing music videos.
Besides other aspects of sexuality, these moral codes seek to regulate the situations which can give rise to sexual interest and to influence people's behaviour and practices which could arouse such interest, or which overstate a person's sexuality.
Besides small shops and businesses, including a bakery and a dance studio, as well as a diner and gas station, there is little of economic interest in Holley.
Besides its interest for seismologists and volcanologists, who monitor the mountain's activity, Mount Tambora is an area of scientific studies for archaeologists and biologists.
Besides, the Kayyath Naagam authorities show keen interest to preserve the vegetation by not allowing the poachers to enter the preserved area.
Besides cultural anthropology and its interest in games in the human culture, one of the first efforts to think about sports in more general way was Johan Huizinga's " Homo Ludens " or Thorstein Veblen's " Theory of the Leisure Class ".
Besides composing and conducting orchestral scores for television and film, Gray developed an interest in the Ondes Martenot, which he used to produce unconventional musical notes as well as electronic sound effects in several of his scores, perhaps most notably those for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Doppelgänger.
Besides his law practice, Rutherford was a successful real estate investor, and also owned an interest in gold mining equipment situated on the North Saskatchewan River.
Besides his literary career, under the influence of Pierre de Combas, he developed an interest in esoterism, and especially astrology.
Besides some historical works he left a correspondence of considerable political interest.
Besides adopting some terms, such as that of natural agents, from Say, Senior introduced the word abstinence which, though obviously not free from objection, is for some purposes useful to express the conduct of the capitalist which is remunerated by interest ; but in defining cost of production as the sum of labor and abstinence necessary to production he does not seem to see that an amount of labor and an amount of abstinence are disparate, and do not admit of reduction to a common quantitative standard.
Besides charging a higher interest rate to compensate for their risk, consumer finance companies are usually able to operate successfully because their employees are given more flexibility in structuring loans and in collections than banks.
Besides being a sexual interest of Rigsby, Miss Jones is also a social interest to him, being as she is genuinely middle class ( seemingly upper middle class ).
Besides astronomy, Hell also had an interest in magnet therapy ( the alleged healing power of magnets ), although it was Franz Anton Mesmer who went further with this and received most of the credit.
Besides the usual areas included when the city is to be shown to somebody who is unfamiliar with it, other areas of interest include the Barrio Inglés (' English Quarter ') where the British foremen and technicians who built the railways and ports lived, and Villa Harding Green, a suburb where the railway and port managers dwelled.
Besides being trained technically, these masons are also trained to work together and on how to promote their services. They speak to households independently, and some 95 well owners have since expressed interest in their services.
Besides the anthropologist's reason — better understanding of a particular culture in its own terms, that is, for the purposes of cultural anthropology — there are very varied reasons behind the interest of the mythographer.
Besides, these mechanical occupations ( banausos ) leave a man no leisure to attend to his friends ' interests, or the public interest.
Besides the basic site, the NEWSru service owns a number of special interest news sites.

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