It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

Whorf studied Biblical linguistics mainly at the Watkinson Library ( now Hartford Public Library ).

Although Bede is mainly studied as a historian now, in his time his works on grammar, chronology, and biblical studies were as important as his historical and hagiographical works.

Even now they are studied by both botanists and bacteriologists.

The contributions of Lavoisier led to what is now called modern chemistry — the chemistry that is studied in educational institutions all over the world.

In the 1920s, the American geologist Walter H. Bucher studied a number of sites now recognized as impact craters in the USA.

After completing high school Doppler studied philosophy in Salzburg and mathematics and physics at the k. k. Polytechnisches Institut ( now Vienna University of Technology ) where he worked as an assistant since 1829.

He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates ' teaching and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna ( now Izmir ), Corinth, Crete, Cilicia ( now Çukurova ), Cyprus, and finally the great medical school of Alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine.

From 1919 – 1922, he studied agronomy at the Munich Technische Hochschule ( now Technical University Munich ) following a brief apprenticeship on a farm and a subsequent illness.

Hesychasm, which was never anything close to a scholar's pursuit, is now studied by Western theologians who are astounded by the profound thought and spirituality of late Byzantium.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic ; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier ( formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate ), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.

A major block to understanding their significance was the importance attached by 19th-century biologists to the apparent blending of inherited traits in the overall appearance of the progeny, now known to be due to multigene interactions, in contrast to the organ-specific binary characters studied by Mendel.

Completely caseless ammunition was also studied on several occasions, notably the German 4. 7 mm designs, and this concept is now being continued with the Lightweight Small Arms Technologies Program.

After completing his secondary education, Mahfouz entered King Fouad I University ( now the University of Cairo ), where he studied philosophy, graduating in 1934.

File: Joseph von Fraunhofer. jpg | Joseph von Fraunhofer, ( 1787-1826 ): first to studied the dark lines of the Sun ’ s spectrum, now known as Fraunhofer lines, first to use extensively the diffraction grating ( a device that disperses light more effectively than a prism does ), set the stage for the development of spectroscopy, making optical glass and achromatic telescope objectives.

Adrian VI studied from a very young age under the Brethren of the Common Life, either at Zwolle or Deventer and was also a student of the Latin school ( now Gymnasium Celeanum ) in Zwolle.

The hypothesis of linguistic determinism is now generally agreed to be false, but weaker forms of correlation are still being studied by many researchers, often producing positive empirical evidence for a correlation.

Intensity-dependent phenomena have now been studied in detail with such lasers.

After graduation, George Smith Patton studied law and practiced in Charleston, Virginia ( now West Virginia ).

During that time he wrote liber amicorum, which is now studied by musicologists.

David Fabricius ( Latinization of his proper name David Faber or David Goldschmidt ) was born at Esens, Lower Saxony, studied at the University of Helmstedt starting in 1583 and served as pastor for small towns near his birthplace in Frisia ( now northwest Germany and northeast Netherlands ), at Resterhafe near Dornum in 1584 and at Osteel in 1603.

He subsequently studied western logic, western philosophy and history of European nations in the General Assembly's Institution ( now known as the Scottish Church College ).

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

Students of Imam Malik established the Maliki school of which a majority now can be found in North Africa and some Persian gulf states.

The first recorded use of regimental ( the original name for the color now called Persian indigo ) as a color name in English was in 1912.

Since the early 1970s, however, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries, and the mysteries of Mithras are now generally seen as a distinct product of the Roman Imperial religious world.

He was the second son of Sheriar Mundegar Irani, a Persian Zoroastrian who had spent years wandering in search of spiritual experience before settling in Poona ( now Pune ), and Sheriar's young wife, Shireen.

The first complete translation from Persian into the modern Japanese language was made by Ryosaku Ogawa in 1949, which is still popular and has been published from Iwanami Shoten ( it is now under public domain and also freely available from Aozora Bunko ).

Aristides told Themistocles that the Persian fleet had encircled the Allies, which greatly pleased Themistocles, as he now knew that the Persians had walked into his trap.

Once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, from Nasiriyah.

* May 23 – Persian Prophet The Báb privately announces his revelation to Mullá Husayn, just after sunset, founding the Bábí Faith ( later revolving to the Bahá ' í Faith as the Báb intended ) in Shiraz, Persia ( now Iran ).

* The Persian commander Mardonius, now based in Thessaly, wins support from Argus and western Arcadia.

In recent years, video content has also been used by the World Service ; 16 language services now show video reports in that language on the service's website and two services now have dedicated television channels-BBC Arabic launched in 2008 and BBC Persian launched in 2009.

* After turning aside south for 15 years to invade the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Persia — united now under Batu Khan with representatives of all 4 khanates leading 150, 000 Mongol, Turkish and Persian troops into Europe, resume the European invasion with the resumption of Mongol invasion of Rus ' foreshadowed by.

Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

Though he is known to most likely be Parsee / Persian, his birthplace is uncertain, but it is now generally thought that he was born in the eastern part of ancient Greater Iran.

Bactria was the Greek name for Old Persian Bāxtriš ( from native * Bāxçiš ) ( named for its capital Bactra, modern Balkh ), in what is now northern Afghanistan, and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan.

With the Persian Empire now effectively under Alexander's control, Alexander then decided to pursue Darius, but Darius was killed by a satrap, who was also his cousin, named Bessus before Alexander reached him.

The Allied fleet now sailed from Artemisium to Salamis to assist with the final evacuation of Athens ; en route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.

Following Thermopylae, the Persian army proceeded to burn and sack the Boeotian cities which had not surrendered, Plataea and Thespiae ; before marching on the now evacuated city of Athens.

Shish kebabs have a Persian origin, but are now commonplace in American cuisine.

With the successful conclusion to the Persian war, Heraclius could devote more time to promoting his compromise, which was now more urgent due to the administration of the recovered Monophysite provinces of Syria and Egypt.

Aramaic was the official script of the Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian empires and ‘ Square Hebrew ’ ( the script now used in Israel ) developed from Aramaic around the third century AD.