In archaic Vedic lore, Dyauṣ Pitṛ and Prithivi Matṛ were one, single composite dvandva entity, named as the Dyavaprthivi.

Dyavaprthivi is a Sanskrit dvandva, or compound word, meaning heaven and earth.

Since the ammeter shunt has a very low resistance, mistakenly wiring the ammeter in parallel with a voltage source will cause a short circuit, at best blowing a fuse, possibly damaging the instrument and wiring, and exposing an observer to injury.

In his philosophy of science, which has much in common with that of his good friend Karl Popper, Hayek was highly critical of what he termed scientism: a false understanding of the methods of science that has been mistakenly forced upon the social sciences, but that is contrary to the practices of genuine science.

Uncle Dick has a wooden arm ; in the final Comic Relief ( 2001 ) episode, it transpires that a nurse had mistakenly placed a drip in the false arm for 18 hours after a trip to hospital after trying to remove a kidney stone with a wire coat hanger.

This has led to some pieces of music occasionally being mistakenly performed on the flauto traverso ( transverse flute ) rather than on the recorder.

Finn's position as the most visible promoter of the sport when it became widely known has often caused him to be mistakenly named as the inventor of the sport.

The famous quotation, " We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97 % of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil ", by Donald Knuth, has also been mistakenly attributed to Hoare ( by Knuth himself ), although Hoare disclaims authorship.

He has been mistakenly called a " Seeker ", both in his own time by his enemies and by his admirers in the last century.

It has been mistakenly suggested that the bodkin came into its own as a means of penetrating armour, but research has found no hardened bodkin points, so it is likely that it was first designed either to extend range or as a cheaper and simpler alternative to the broadhead.

Moreover, because Amorphophallus has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, it is sometimes mistakenly credited as having the world's largest flower.

His name has previously been mistakenly interpreted as " O Nabu, defend my kudurru ", in which sense a kudurru is an inscribed stone deed of property.

The fact that an export cultivar popular in Japan is called Maro has led some people to assume mistakenly that the English name " marrowfat " is derived from Japanese.

The first rail shipment of merchandise from San Francisco arrived in 1872 mistakenly addressed to “ Dixon ,” and the new spelling has been used since ( mainly out of simplicity ).

The CBC has also been mistakenly referred to as the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

After taking a job looking after another prospector's cabin, he falls in love with a lonely saloon girl ( Georgia Hale ) whom he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him.

This Apollodorus has been mistakenly identified with Apollodorus of Athens ( born c. 180 BC ), a student of Aristarchus of Samothrace, mainly as it is known — from references in the minor scholia on Homer — that Apollodorus of Athens did leave a similar comprehensive repertory on mythology, in the form of a verse chronicle.

In the First Branch of the Mabinogi, Pwyll mistakenly sets his hounds upon a stag, only to discover that Arawn has been hunting the same animal.

Through the earlier parts of the 20th century, Western etiquette prescribed that a white dress should not be worn for subsequent marriages, since the wearing of white was mistakenly regarded by some as an ancient symbol of virginity, despite the fact that wearing white is a fairly recent development in wedding traditions, and its origin has more to do with conspicuous consumption from an era when a white dress was luxurious, even prodigal, because of difficulties with laundering delicate clothes.

Red brings Mokey before the council when she mistakenly thinks Mokey has stolen her radish bars as seen in " Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief.

Nephthys is the Greek form of an epithet ( transliterated as Nebet-het, and Nebt-het, from Egyptian hieroglyphs ). The origin of the goddess Nephthys is unclear but the literal translation of her name is usually given as " Lady of the House ," which has caused some to mistakenly identify her with the notion of a " housewife ," or as the primary lady who ruled a domestic household.

is mistakenly referring to Crime Suspenstories # 22, cover date May This seems to be a man with a bloody axe holding a woman's head up which has been severed from her body.

Aziz mistakenly believes that the women are really offended that he has not followed through on his promise and arranges the outing at great expense to himself.

At the time, Adela mistakenly interpreted her shock as an assault by Aziz, who personifies the India that has stripped her of her psychological innocence, but he was never there.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.