I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Far away in Baghdad, the current Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, had long been planning to depose the Umayyad who dared to call himself emir of al-Andalus.

By this long route, Spain reaped some of the profits of Far Eastern commerce.

Far more subtle than the Crusades, but far more successful over the long run, was Urban II's program of bringing Campania and Sicily firmly into the Catholic sphere after generations of control under the Byzantine Empire and the Aghlabid and Fatimid emirs.

Between 1901 and 1937, the United States military maintained a strong presence in China to maintain Far East trade interests and to pursue a permanent alliance with the Republic of China, after long diplomatic difficulties with the Chinese Empire.

Far more spectrum is available for long distance communication in the shortwave bands than in the longwave bands ; and shortwave transmitters, receivers and antennas were orders of magnitude less expensive than the multi-hundred kilowatt transmitters and monstrous antennas needed for longwave.

During the debate, the contribution of British airborne forces in the Far Eastern theatres was perhaps underplayed, to the long term detriment of the argument.

" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.

" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.

* Far infrared, infrared radiation of long wavelength (> 15-1, 000 µm ), far from visible region

Far and away the most successful effort was the Schoolhouse Rock series on ABC, which became a television classic ; ABC also had several other short-form animated featurettes, including Time for Timer and The Bod Squad, that had long runs.

East Indiamen of various European countries were heavily armed for their long journeys to the Far East.

The genus has a long history of use, dating back 2, 500 years to the Far East, where they were used medicinally.

Far more spectrum is available for long distance communication in the shortwave bands than in the longwave bands ; and shortwave transmitters, receivers and antennas were orders of magnitude less expensive than the multi-hundred kilowatt transmitters and monstrous antennas needed for longwave.

Eastern Siberia and the Soviet Far East are also mountainous regions, especially the volcanic peaks of the long Kamchatka Peninsula, which jutted down into the Sea of Okhotsk.

Its extremely long bill measures, and rivals the bill of the larger-bodied Far Eastern Curlew as the longest bill of any shorebird.

Wolfberry ( 枸杞子 ) is grown in the Far East and is grown from shrubs with long vines.

In London the Chindits and their exploits were viewed as a success after the long string of Allied disasters in the Far East theatre.

The Andersen Project, his last solo play inspired by the life and works of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen and his tale ' The Dryad ', is set to have a long and prosperous life, similar to The Far Side of the Moon ; it received many international prizes and, after being presented by Lepage himself in more than ten countries, is currently starring Yves Jacques who did the same in the past for The Far Side of the Moon.

The domestication of camels allowed Arabian nomads to control the long distance trade in spices and silk from the Far East to the Arabian Peninsula.

Far more than an economic deal, it was a " nation to nation " ( the Cree and Quebec nations ) declaration of peace after long, bitter legal disputes between Cree leaders and the Government of Quebec.

), Robert Shaplen ( Far Eastern Correspondent, New Yorker Magazine ) and Don Luce ( former freelance journalist in Vietnam ) on U. S. withdrawal policy as it relates to possibilities of a political settlement in Vietnam ; value and supervision of South Vietnamese elections ; current situation in SE Asia as a whole and probable immediate and long range consequences of various policy alternatives.

The Rockaway Boardwalk is 5. 5 miles long running from Beach 9th St. in Far Rockaway to Beach 126th St. in Rockaway Park at the edge of Belle Harbor.

Phylogeographic analysis with extant tiger subspecies suggests that less than 10, 000 years ago the ancestor of Amur and Caspian tigers colonized Central Asia via the Gansu − Silk Road corridor from eastern China then subsequently traversed Siberia eastward to establish the Amur tiger population in the Russian Far East.

Phylogeographic analysis suggested that less than 10, 000 years ago the ancestor of Caspian and Amur tigers colonized Central Asia via the Silk Road from eastern China, then traversed Siberia eastward to establish the Amur tiger in the Russian Far East.

Phylogeographic analysis suggested that less than 10, 000 years ago the ancestor of Caspian and Amur tigers colonized Central Asia via the Silk Road from eastern China, then traversed Siberia eastward to establish the Amur tiger in the Russian Far East.

The Siberian and Far Eastern subtypes diverged about 2250 years ago.

Far from being concerned, Dinah instead flirted with Jeffrey, bringing to mind when they met two years ago — when he rescued Dinah ( who had miscarried her baby ) who was languishing in a European prison.

They are concentrated mostly in Moscow, but also in some rural areas in Kuban, southern Siberia, and the Russian Far East, where they were deported generations ago.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

Some dioceses around the Mediterranean Sea which were Christianised early are rather compact, whereas dioceses in areas of rapid modern growth in Christian commitment — as in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Far East — are much larger and more populous.

At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

Far from rewarding his loyalty, they participated in the effort to convict him by depriving him of the money and information which might have provided him with some legal defence.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

The most popular of Lowell's books on the Orient, The Soul of the Far East, ( 1888 ) contains an early synthesis of some of his ideas, that in essence, postulated that human progress is a function of the qualities of individuality and imagination.

Visual and other puns and word games are also common in Dutch gable stones as well as in some cartoons, such as Lost Consonants and The Far Side.

Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East.

Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East ( although in his histories Herodotus proves, disbelievingly, that some Phoenicians had done so far earlier than this ).

Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and his tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East.

Biogeography and mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data indicate that these might better be classified with some Far Eastern " nightingales ", leaving only the European species in Erithacus.

Okhotsk was of some military importance during the Russian Civil War, when the White army generals Vasily Rakitin and Anatoly Pepelyayev used it as their place of arms in the Far East.

According to Philostratus ' Life, en route to the Far East, Apollonius reached Hierapolis Bambyce ( Manbij ) in Syria ( not Nineveh, as some scholars believed ), where he met Damis, a native of that city who became his lifelong companion.

From 1934 to 1942, he taught classes in Far Eastern and Latin American history, and also lectured some years on Greek and Roman history.

The church also owns and operates some Latter Day Saint historic sites in Far West, Missouri ; Lamoni, Iowa ; and Plano and Nauvoo, Illinois.

While the linen industry survived to some degree in Ulster until well into the 1960s, increased fabric imports from the Far East led to tremendous difficulties for the industry across Northern Ireland.

The date is significant in some of the works of Thomas Hardy, e. g., Tess of the d ' Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.

Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve some 34 destinations, operating scheduled domestic and international services and cargo flights to Europe, North America, Africa and the Near and Far East from its main base in Ben Gurion International Airport.

Possibly some Xianbei groups also lived in ancient Eastern Heilongjiang or Hulun Manchu Imperial province, currently Khabarovsk and Amur regions in the Russian Far East.

Up to 1939 it must have seemed possible to some that Japan would be moderate and reasonable in its expansion in the Far East – that the Mr. Motos would defeat the Japanese military fanatics.

Far more rarely, some stories are based on literary or historical sources, such as book 5 of Dante's Purgatory ( part 1, story 11 ), the Lucretia and Tarquin episode in Livy's History of Rome ( part 2, story 15 ), story # 23 of the Heptameron ( part 2, story 17 ), and Francesco Petrarch's Triumph of Love ( part 2, story 41 ).

" This was attributed possibly to Tōgō's ' Far Eastern metabolism ', the lack of rice, ' or that some other essential element was missing ; or perhaps the climatic differences sharpened his appetite.