A few scholars, most prominently Christopher Beckwith and Roy Andrew Miller, argue that Chinese is not related to Tibeto-Burman.

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Going against scholarly tradition, the historian Christopher I. Beckwith hypothesizes that " barbarian " only properly refers to Greco-Roman contexts and should not be used for Central Eurasian peoples.

Christopher I. Beckwith makes the extraordinary claim that the name " barbarian " should only be used for Greek historical contexts, and is inapplicable for all other " peoples to whom it has been applied either historically or in modern times.

In contrast to mainstream academic usage, some politically correct authors ( like Christopher I. Beckwith noted above ) argue that using the word " barbarian " is insulting, even in historical contexts.

However, other scholars do not accept the tradition that separates Bon from Buddhism ; Christopher Beckwith calls Bon " one of the two types of Tibetan Buddhism " and writes that " despite continuing popular belief in the existence of a non-Buddhist religion known as Bon during the Tibetan Empire period, there is not a shred of evidence to support the idea ...

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Linguists including Christopher Beckwith argue for Japanese as a descendant of Goguryeo, and for Korean as a descendant of the Silla language, based on lexical similarities between Goguryeo and Japanese, and based upon Silla's ultimate triumph in the quest for political control of Korea.

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The Korean state of Baekje was founded by Goguryeo princes, and considered itself descended from Buyeo .< ref > 三國志卷三十-魏書十-烏丸鮮卑東夷傳 第三十高句麗傳 ," 言語諸事, 多與 < 夫餘 > 同 "</ ref > Baekje subsequently had close relations with Yamato period Japan ; Christopher Beckwith suggests that at that point the Japanese may have still recognized a relationship to Buyeo.

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* Beckwith, Christopher I. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present.

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In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

More fundamentally, Christopher Green argues that Douglas Cooper's terms were " later undermined by interpretations of the work of Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger that stress iconographic and ideological questions rather than methods of representation.

For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

" Cato's Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Christopher Preble, argues in The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free, that America's position as an unrivaled superpower tempts policymakers to constantly overreach and to redefine ever more broadly the " national interest ".

For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).

An article by Christopher Ferguson, Benjamin Winegard, and Bo Winegard, for example, argues that peer effects are much more likely to cause body dissatisfaction than media effects, and that media effects have been overemphasized.

Details of Boldog's Raid are scattered through numerous texts and versions of texts but not included in the Silmarillion as published by Christopher Tolkien, however, no aspect of it is in serious contradiction with the general story and its presence in such primary Middle-earth sources, as the Lay of Leithian is intended to be, argues for its continued inclusion.

Christopher Douglas argues that had Jardine been playing regularly, he would have been made captain for the final Test, when Chapman was dropped in favour of the sounder batsman Bob Wyatt.

Christopher Douglas argues that Jardine liked to make his runs when his side was in difficulty and enjoyed being tested ; his approach would often lead his team to recovery from an unfavourable situation.

Citing the work of the American historian Christopher Browning in his biography of Hitler, Kershaw argues that in the period 1939 – 41 the phrase " Final Solution to the Jewish Question " was a " territorial solution ", that such plans as the Nisko Plan and Madagascar Plan were serious and only in the latter half of 1941 did the phrase " Final Solution " come to refer to genocide.

Christopher Ehret argues on this basis that there are two possible homelands for Semitic, Northern Mesopotamia where Western Semitic broke away from Eastern Semitic ; or the Levant.

For instance, Queer theorist Christopher Looby argues that Fiedler's claims were noticeably given from a 20th century, urban perspective and did not adequately address the time period in which Huckleberry Finn was written.

The Cahn – Ingold – Prelog priority rules, CIP system or CIP conventions ( after Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimir Prelog ) are a set of rules used in organic chemistry to name the stereoisomers of a molecule.

The name " currying ", coined by Christopher Strachey in 1967, is a reference to logician Haskell Curry.

After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

* King Philip also appears in James Goldman's 1966 Broadway Production of The Lion in Winter and was portrayed by Christopher Walken, as well as the 1968 Academy Award winning film of the same name, with Timothy Dalton playing the role.

The first Europeans to see and name the islands were the Spanish under Christopher Columbus who sighted the islands in 1493 during his second voyage.

However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish explorers led Saint Kitts to be named San Cristobal ( Saint Christopher ), a name originally applied to Saba 20 miles north.

"< ref name =" OEDhenge "> Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning " stone ", and either hencg meaning " hinge " ( because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones ) or hen ( c ) en meaning " hang " or " gallows " or " instrument of torture ".

Christopher Paolini changed the name of his " The Inheritance Trilogy " to The Inheritance Cycle, having announced that he would be writing a fourth book.

In 1824 the British government placed Anguilla under the administrative control of Saint Kitts, later to become part of the colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla ( Saint Christopher being an earlier name for Saint Kitts ), itself a member of the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands.

The World's Columbian Exposition ( the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair ) was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

They adopted another boy, whom they named Phillip Terry, Jr. After the marriage ended in 1946, Crawford changed the child's name to Christopher Crawford.

* Peek a Boo ( 1978 ), alternative name The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, stars Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Murney, Michael Elphick, Elaine Paige and Patricia Hodge.

* Front of name: Sometimes a nickname can come from the front: Chris from Christopher / Christina, Ed from Edward / Edmond / Edgar / Edwin, Iz or Izzy from Isaac / Isaiah / Isidore / Izale / Isabel / Isabella, Joe or Jo from Joseph / Josephine / Joanna, Abby from Abigail, Nick or Nico from Nicholas, Peg from Peggy, Sam from Samuel / Samantha / Samson

The name comes from the Latin feminine form of the name of Christopher Columbus, which was at the time of the formation of the county a popular proposal for the name of the United States of America.

The name Columbia was a poetic term for the Americas derived from Christopher Columbus.

As pointed out by Christopher Clark, the actual Tannenberg is some to the west, and there was no intrinsic reason — other than the historical battle and its emotive resonance in the narrative of German and Slavic nationalism — to give its name to the 1914 battle.

Christopher Tolkien stated that the name, which means " black valley ", was given to it " not only because of the two high mountains between which it lay, but because through it passed the road from the Gate of the Dead Men, and living men did not go there ".</ div >

According to Christopher Tolkien, its name means " golden circle " and refers to the culumalda trees that surrounded it .</ div >

Over the course of the next three years, four plays with their name on the title page were published ; Christopher Marlowe's Edward II ( published in quarto in July 1593 ), and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ( published in quarto in 1594 ), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( published in octavo in 1595 ) and The Taming of a Shrew ( published in quarto in May, 1594 ).

The misleading name " pepper " ( El Pepra in Spanish ) was given by Christopher Columbus upon bringing the plant back to Europe.

In 1975, it was adapted by director John Huston into a feature film of the same name, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine as the heroes and Christopher Plummer as Kipling.

A. Milne's own son, Christopher Robin Milne, who in later life became unhappy with the use of his name, writing in one of a series of autobiographical works: " It seemed to me almost that my father had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and left me nothing but empty fame ".