Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

" The story is apocryphal and they are believed to have scored at least one two among the singles.

One theory is that they or part of them dwelt or moved among other coastal people perhaps confederated up to the basin of the Saale ( in the neighbourhood of the ancient canton of Engilin ) on the Unstrut valleys below the Kyffhäuserkreis, from which region the Lex Angliorum et Werinorum hoc est Thuringorum is believed by many to have come.

These genetic factors are believed to, in part, explain the differing rates of alcohol dependence among racial groups.

It is also believed that Baltic languages are among the most archaic of the remaining Indo-European languages, despite their late attestation.

This theological viewpoint was also widespread among Judah ’ s neighbors of differing religions who believed the destruction of a particular city could be attributed to the city ’ s deity who was punishing the city for some communal sin or wrongdoing.

Less politically, most faiths have any number of people that are believed to have been touched by divine forces: saints, prophets, heroes, oracles, martyrs, and enlightened beings, among others.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

: Disks of space dust surround many stars, believed to originate from collisions among asteroids and comets.

Lévi-Strauss aimed, through a structural method, at discovering universal invariants in human society, chief among which he believed to be the incest taboo.

In early times the deceased pharaoh was believed to ascend to the sky and dwell among the stars.

He also believed that it was important to train teachers in observation so that they would be able to see individual differences among children and adjust the curriculum to the students.

Francis devoted much of his life to missions in Asia, after being appointed by King John III of Portugal to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio in Portuguese India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding among the Portuguese.

Cleveland did not know which man was the father, and is believed to have assumed responsibility because he was the only bachelor among them.

Politically, these opposition forces organized into three competing parties: The liberal elements among the industrial capitalists and nobility, who believed in peaceful social reform and a constitutional monarchy, founded the Constitutional Democratic party or Kadets in 1905.

Sullivan III, however, argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people themselves, since the custom was known in Wales prior to the 1700s when he believed Gypsies arrived there.

81. 4 " Moreover also among us a man named John, one of the apostles of Christ, prophesied in a revelation made to him that those who have believed on our Christ will spend a thousand years in Jerusalem ; and that hereafter the general and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place ").

Alfred strongly believed in the superiority of breech-loaders, on account of improved accuracy and speed, but this view did not win general acceptance among military officers, who remained loyal to tried-and-true muzzle-loaded bronze cannon.

Hitler visited Gustav just before the Röhm purge in 1934, which among other things eliminated many of those who actually believed in the " socialism " of " National Socialism.

She asserted that Atwood " was a truly revolutionary woman ... among the first white women to fight so righteously for their beliefs and to die for what they believed in.

However, the odal hymn as used by others has a stronger unity among its parts, and Coleridge believed in writing poetry that was unified organically.

The view that homosexuality was a curable sickness was widely believed in the medical community, general population, and among many lesbians themselves.

" The tractarian doctrine that the truths of logic are tautologies was widely believed among the logical positivists.

However there has been no evidence so far and as a result it was believed that it was act of the new government to get their popularity and support among the civilians.

Christianity emerged early in the first century AD as a movement among Jews ( Jewish Christians ) and their Gentile converts ( sometimes called Godfearers ) who believed that Jesus is the Christ or Messiah.

In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

Their ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, which they believed deviated from the true messages of Islam.

A famous example of a vestigial structure, the eye of the blind mole rat, is believed to retain function in photoperiod perception.

His aged and blind father, King Wermund believed him to be a simpleton and in order to preserve his son's position as king had him marry the daughter of Freawine ( a neighbouring warlord / king ) so that Freawine would assist Uffi when he became king.

Two of the more unusual endemic cichlids are the whitish ( non-pigmented ) and blind Lamprologus lethops, which is believed to live as deep as below the surface, and Heterochromis multidens, which appears to be more closely related to cichlids of the Americas than other African cichlid.

After an incident where Father Porras purportedly restored the sight of a blind youth by placing a cross over his eyes, the Hopi at Awatovi believed in Christianity.

He believed the study of this art would somehow give him an advantage in battle, since it provided him with information on the psyche of his opponents and informed him of their psychological blind spots.

Treves believed that Merrick's hope was to go to live at an institution for the blind, where he might meet a woman who could not see his deformities.

After a childhood fever, he suffered from very sensitive eyes, and believed that he would soon go blind.

Van Sant originally believed Clarke's title referred to the story of several blind men trying to describe an elephant and each one drawing different conclusions based on which body part they were touching.

* It is believed that one who assists a blind man for forty steps becomes worthy of entering heaven.

It had been believed that the last blind kobzar, ( Ostap Veresai ) had died in 1890, however upon investigation six blind traditional kobzars were found to be alive and performed on stage at the conference.

After a brutal night during which one pair is almost killed by a snake, another by a scorpion, another by a falling ceiling, a fourth by poison gas and the fifth by a bomb, they all collect in the office where the butler — believed to have been murdered earlier — is sitting behind the desk very much alive and not at all blind: " The butler did it ".

For half of season two, it is believed that Lionel is blind.

He is the first totally blind physicist in the United States, and is believed to be the first astronomer who was blind from birth ( although some astronomers have become blind in their old age, most notably Galileo Galilei ).

Victorians believed disabilities were inherited, and thus it was not socially acceptable for the blind to marry ( although they often did in reality ).

For example, in many tribal cultures a blind person or their parents were believed to be wicked, hence the gods or the spirits have blinded them.

Vision is not believed to be significant in hunting, as blind animals have been observed to survive in the wild.

This saint is believed to help not only the blind but women who wish to have fertility and to bear children.

His gnarled physical appearance, being blind in one eye, combined with his propensity to use hyperbolic language, made Haywood more likely to be associated with conspiracy and murder in the minds of the jurors, the prosecution believed.