First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from the Latin, and it is the romanisation of the Greek " καμηλοπάρδαλις " meaning " giraffe ", from " κάμηλος " ( kamēlos ), " camel " + " πάρδαλις " ( pardalis ), " leopard ", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

The Evidence supporting this claim comes in the form of the Catecheses by Cyril where he continually refers to himself as bishop and a letter written by Cyril to Constantius in 351 where he refers to his vision of the burning cross in the sky as his “ First Fruits ”.

The First Night in Exile-This painting comes from a celebrated series illustrating one of Hinduism ’ s great epics, the Ramayana.

First comes a young man carrying a bleeding lance, then two boys carrying candelabras.

First socialist redemption, then comes national liberation like a whirlwind … Hitler stands between both opinions, but he is on his way to coming over to us completely.

First attested in English late 13th century, the word parish comes from the Old French paroisse, in turn from, which is the latinisation of the

First attested in English c. 1530, the word police comes from Middle French police, in turn from Latin politia, which is the latinisation of the Greek πολιτεία ( politeia ), " citizenship, administration, civil polity ".

First attested in English in 1874, the word pasta comes from Italian pasta, in turn from Latin pasta " dough, pastry cake ", itself the latinisation of the Greek παστά ( pasta ) " barley porridge ", in turn from παστός ( pastos ), " sprinkled with salt, salted ".

First attested in English in 1297, the word pain comes from the Old French peine, in turn from Latin poena, " punishment, penalty " ( in L. L.

First recorded as " hellembart " in 1279, the word halberd possibly comes from the German words Halm ( staff ) or Helm ( helmet ), and Barte ( axe ).

Northern Sudan's earliest historical record comes from Egyptian sources, which described the land upstream from the First Cataract, called Kush, as " wretched.

* 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.

Chronicling the First and Second Great Awakenings, Wolfe comes to describe the " Me decade as the " Third Great Awakening.

* March 23 – First Boer War comes to an end.

Subsequently the Madrid garrison follows suit and the First Spanish Republic comes to an end.

First attested in English in the middle of the 13th century, the word " rice " derives from the Old French ris, which comes from Italian riso, in turn from the Latin oriza, which derives from the Greek ὄρυζα ( oruza ).

First attested in English 1829, the word numismatics comes from the adjective numismatic, meaning " of coins ".

First used in English 1539, the word parasite comes from the Medieval French parasite, from the Latin parasitus, the latinisation of the Greek παράσιτος ( parasitos ), " one who eats at the table of another " and that from παρά ( para ), " beside, by " + σῖτος ( sitos ), " wheat ".

First attested in English in late 19th century, the word aeroplane derives from the French aéroplane, which comes from the Greek ἀήρ ( aēr ), " air " + either Latin planus, " level ", or Greek πλάνος ( planos ), " wandering ".

* The First Mithridatic War comes to an end.

First it tells about the Æsir and Ymir, then comes the poetic diction section with the poetic names of many things and lastly a poem called the List of Meters which Snorri composed about King Hakon and Duke Skuli.

First documented mention of Radom comes from the year 1155, in a bull of Pope Adrian IV ( villam iuxta Rado, que vocatur Zlauno, or a village near Radom, called Sławno ).

Nicaea (; ) was a Hellenic city in northwestern Anatolia, and is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea ( the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Church ), the Nicene Creed ( which comes from the First Council ), and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea.

In your Sept. 27 editorial appraisal of the work of the First Session of the Eighty-seventh Congress you referred to the lack of `` consciousness of destiny in a time of acute national and world peril ''.

The outbreak of the First World War was clearly a shock to Carnegie and his optimistic view on world peace.

The war between the British and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte stretched around the world and at its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250, 000 men.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

Abbott also wrote educational text books, one being " Via Latina: First Latin Book " which was published in 1898 and distributed around the world within the education system.

Verdi rival Errico Petrella's most successful opera, Jone ( 1858 ), was based upon Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the First World War.

Overt alliance with Germany was not possible due to the result of the First World War, but in general the period of 1918 to 1939 was characterised by economic growth and increasing integration to the Western world economy.

The First World War and especially the Second World War ended the pre-eminent position of Europe, except for the Soviet Union in the world.

This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.

Wallerscote was built in 1926, its construction delayed by the First World War, and became one of the largest factories devoted to a single product ( soda ash ) in the world.

Diplomat Niccolò da Correggio went even further by hailing her as " The First Lady of the world ".

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

First, he logically separates the Platonic world of constant change from the formally knowable world of fixed physical objects.

During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries in Western Africa.

Anti-war sentiment rose across the world ; the First World War was described as " the war to end all wars ", and its possible causes were vigorously investigated.

* 1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.

* 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga ( 8, 586 m .), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.

An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).

First demonstrated the form of the world by a plain wooden sphere ... thus expressing a very big thing by a little model.

The idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The outbreak of the First World War, and in particular its conclusion, made it clear to many academics that some kind of world court was needed, and it was widely expected that one would be established.