The suggestion that Humpty Dumpty was a " tortoise " siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War, was put forward in 1956 by Professor David Daube in The Oxford Magazine of February 16, 1956, on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected.

Basing himself on Daube ’ s theory Arvid Nybroten suggested that once the Paschal Eucharist came to be celebrated apart from an actual meal, the first blessing, breaking and eating of bread at the beginning of the meal and the breaking and eating of the afikoman at the end of the meal would have combined and would have been blessed together with the cup during the formal thanksgiving at the end of the meal, the Jewish prayer which eventually evolved into the Christian Eucharistic prayer.

Dr. David Daube, who taught civil law at both Oxford University and the University of California at Berkeley, suggested that the word afikoman was originally a Greek word meaning “ the one who is to come / who has arrived ” and that it originally represented the awaited Messiah with whose appearance at the end of this present Age the Jewish people would reach their fulfillment.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

Strauss found shelter, after some vicissitudes, in England, where in 1935 he gained temporary employment at University of Cambridge, with the help of his in-law, David Daube, who was affiliated with Gonville and Caius College.

She replaced the retiring Dr. Jonathan M. Daube, who was installed in fall 1987 and retired at the completion of the 2007-2008 academic year.

* Daube Creole Recipe at Nola Cuisine!

He then studied at New College, Oxford — under David Daube, Regius Professor of Civil Law — where he graduated with an MA ( by decree ) and DPhil, and was Dyke Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1969 to 1970 and a Fellow of New College from 1970 to 1972.

Professor David Daube, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, gave the inaugural lectures.

Points are gained by being closest to the Daube after all four players have thrown their stock.

In that book ( p. xii ), he mentions " the unflagging support and friendship " of four teachers: David Daube —" one of the two most remarkable people I have ever known "— W. D.

The University of Freiburg has been home to some of the greatest minds of the Western tradition, including such eminent figures as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Rudolf Carnap, David Daube, Johann Eck, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Friedrich Hayek, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Meinecke, and Max Weber.

David Daube argued that it represented a Hebrew or Aramaic rendition of the Greek, which he took to mean " the face of Apis ".

* Daube provençale is a stew made with cubed beef braised in wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de provence.

Daube is a classic Provencal ( or more broadly, French ) stew made with inexpensive beef braised in wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence, and traditionally cooked in a daubière, a braising pan.

Daube with lamb is traditionally made with white wine.

* Daube, David.

In target shooting, two teams of four players each take turns in aiming for a target, the so-called Daube.

Opened in June 2009, the new Great Path wing, named for the college's president emeritus Jonathan M. Daube, added additional classroom and student space.

Daube is adapted in New Orleans cuisine to make daube glacé.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

He went prone on his stomach, the better to pursue his examination.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

She went on:

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

`` Anyway '', Waddell went on.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.

The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.