Davidson further compares to early attestations of the Irish goddesses Badb ( Davidson points to the description of Badb from The Destruction of Da Choca's Hostel where Badb is wearing a dusky mantle, has a large mouth, is dark in color, and has gray hair falling over her shoulders, or, alternatively, " as a red figure on the edge of the ford, washing the chariot of a king doomed to die ") and The Morrígan.

Davidson comments that while it is uncertain that Adam's informant actually witnessed that tree is unknown, but that the existence of sacred trees in pre-Christian Germanic Europe is further evidenced by records of their destruction by early Christian missionaries, such as Thor's Oak by Saint Boniface.

Davidson also notes a further connection between fertility and apples in Norse mythology ; in chapter 2 of the Völsunga saga when the major goddess Frigg sends King Rerir an apple after he prays to Odin for a child, Frigg's messenger ( in the guise of a crow ) drops the apple in his lap as he sits atop a mound.

Bain's autobiography, published in 1904, contains a full list of his works, and also the history of the last thirteen years of his life by Professor W. L. Davidson of the University of Aberdeen, who further contributed to Mind ( April 1904 ) a review of Bain's services to philosophy.

Davidson provides further examples of elaborate loaves — Harvest Loaves — at times in the shape of sheaves and displayed in churches, bread employed for the fertility of fields in Anglo-Saxon England with parallels in Scandinavia, and examples from Ireland.

New Institutionalism is often contrasted with " old " or " classical " institutionalism, the latter of which was first articulated in the writings of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and others, and which has been further extrapolated by various philosophers and scholars such as Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Amartya Sen, Donald McCloskey, Warren Samuels, Daniel Bromley, E. J. Mishan, Yngve Ramstad, and others.

In 2002, Ford opted to further specialize the Harley Davidson Edition by adding the supercharged motor from the SVT Lightning, with a slightly larger pulley to reduce boost by 2 lbs.

Despite being only 48 at the time of his elevation to the peerage, Davidson took no further active part in political life.

Additionally, Davidson proposes further connections between Odin's role as bringer of ecstasy with the etymology of the names Wodan ( related to wut " high mental excitement, fury, intoxication, or possession ") and the later Oðinn ( from the adjective óðr meaning " raging, furious, intoxicated ").

Former NHL goaltender John Davidson commented that Hextall " thrived " on being a villain ; he further described him as a " great character ", and noted that " when he came to town, fans would want to race to the arena to boo him.

During the Iraq conflict he was trapped on a cargo plane to entertain the British soldiers for no fee, and in 2003 Jim Davidson Basra Bound was screened on BBC One and further BBC TV Specials of his live stand-up show followed.

Major Philip Hamond, one of the landowners of Morston, who had disliked Davidson since he refused to allow him to be churchwarden in 1919 and had had several further altercations with him since, was furious and accused Davidson of insulting the war dead.

David Davidson with Dr. H. Aldersmith wrote The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message ( 1924 ) and further introduced the idea that Britain's chronology ( including future events ) may be unlocked from inside the Great Pyramid.

English scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism.

" Davidson points out that Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan's detailed account of a 10th-century Rus ship funeral on the Volga River features an " old Hunnish woman, massive and grim to look upon " ( who Fadlan refers to as the " Angel of Death ") who organizes the killing of the slave girl, and has two other women with her that Fadlan refers to as her daughters.

Some of the most significant ship model basins are the David Taylor Model Basin and the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology

* Miramichi, the first ship constructed by William Davidson ( lumberman )

After killing the System Lord Ra ( Jaye Davidson ) by rigging a nuclear bomb onto his ship as it left Abydos, O ' Neill returned to Earth with two survivors of his team, leaving behind Dr. Daniel Jackson ( James Spader ), who remained with his new love Sha're ( Mili Avital ; called Sha ' uri in the movie ) and her brother Skaara ( Alexis Cruz ).

Early newspaper reports said that Clara and Margaret Hays, and Mrs. Thornton Davidson disembarked the rescue ship in New York City together and boarded a train for Montreal, while other sources say that Margaret Hays lived in New York and took care of two young child survivors ( Edmond and Michael Navratil ) who were unclaimed immediately following the disaster.

Davidson notes a connection between apples and the Vanir, a tribe of gods associated with fertility in Norse mythology, citing an instance of eleven " golden apples " being given to woo the beautiful Gerðr by Skírnir, who was acting as messenger for the major Vanir god Freyr in stanzas 19 and 20 of Skírnismál.

Davidson had initially hoped that the project would become open sourced and, since many open source projects had O ' Reilly books associated with them featuring an animal on the cover, he wanted to name the project after an animal.

This approach to semantics is principally associated with Donald Davidson, and attempts to carry out for the semantics of natural language what Tarski's semantic theory of truth achieves for the semantics of logic ( Davidson 1967 ).

As a guideline for constructing semantic theories, this is generally taken, as in the influential work on the philosophy of language by Donald Davidson, to mean that every construct of the syntax should be associated by a clause of the T-schema with an operator in the semantics that specifies how the meaning of the whole expression is built from constituents combined by the syntactic rule.

The Texans won the game through ball control, with Quarterback Cotton Davidson throwing only 17 passes.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including " Harley Davidson "; " Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plaît "; " Bubble gum "; " Contact "; " Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi "; " L ' Appareil À Sous "; " La Madrague "; " On Déménage "; " Sidonie "; " Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

Davidson adds that, on the other hand, various other examples of " certain supernatural women " connected with death are to be found in sources for Norse mythology, that they " seem to have been closely connected with the world of death, and were pictured as welcoming dead warriors ," and that the depiction of Hel " as a goddess " in Gylfaginning " might well owe something to these.

" Davidson adds that " yet this is not the impression given in the account of Hermod's ride to Hel later in Gylfaginning ( 49 )" and points out that here Hel " with authority as ruler of the underworld " and that from her realm " gifts are sent back to Frigg and Fulla by Balder's wife Nanna as from a friendly kingdom.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

It was finished in 1903 with the help of Arthur's brother, Walter Davidson.

Thomas Davidson taught a philosophy called " apeirotheism ", a " form of pluralistic idealism ... coupled with a stern ethical rigorism " which he defined as " a theory of Gods infinite in number.

Identifying Aristotle's God with rational thought, Davidson argued, contrary to Aristotle, that just as the soul cannot exist apart from the body, God cannot exist apart from the world.

* John Adams in conversation with Robert Davidson

* Louis Andriessen in conversation with Robert Davidson

However, the philosopher Donald Davidson published a highly regarded essay in 1974, " On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme ," arguing that the notion that any languages or theories could be incommensurable with one another was itself incoherent.

Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s.

He also put on 167 in a partnership with Alan Davidson, the first collaboration between the pair, who would later go on to lead Australia's bowling in the last five years of their career.

Australia had fallen to 6 / 92 on the final day chasing a target of 233 with Benaud and Davidson at the crease.

In Adelaide, with Davidson absent, Benaud bowled long spells to take match figures of 7 / 207 in addition to a score of 77 in the first innings.

Davidson says that while attempts have been made to connect Sleipnir with hobby horses and steeds with more than four feet that appear in carnivals and processions, but that " a more fruitful resemblance seems to be on the bier on which a dead man is carried in the funeral procession by four bearers ; borne along thus, he may be described as riding on a steed with eight legs.

" As an example, Davidson cites a funeral dirge from the Gondi people in India as recorded by Verrier Elwin, stating that " it contains references to Bagri Maro, the horse with eight legs, and it is clear from the song that it is the dead man's bier.

Davidson adds that the representation of Odin's steed as eight-legged could arise naturally out of such an image, and that " this is in accordance with the picture of Sleipnir as a horse that could bear its rider to the land of the dead.

Pioneered by the philosopher Donald Davidson, another formalized theory, which aims to associate each natural language sentence with a meta-language description of the conditions under which it is true, for example: ` Snow is white ' is true if and only if snow is white.