and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

Hero and Leander's story took place near Abydos.

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.

( That the story assumes the city ’ s existence and deliverance from judgment may indeed reflect an older tradition dating back to the eighth-7th century BC ) Assyria often opposed Israel and eventually took the Israelites captive in 722-721 BC ( see History of ancient Israel and Judah ).

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The story first appeared in written form in Vitruvius ' books of architecture, two centuries after it supposedly took place.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

Beck took the story treatment and had George Worthing Yates flesh it out into a screenplay.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

It is probable, therefore, that the story of the Trojan War as reflected in the Homeric poems derives from a tradition of epic poetry founded on a war which actually took place.

In the story, Hannibal's father took him up and brought him to a sacrificial chamber.

Blacksmiths are credited with magical powers in many parts of the world, and it is significant that the Boudas are workers in iron and clay ; in the Life of N. Pearce ( i. 287 ) a European observer tells a story of a supposed transformation which took place in his presence and almost before his eyes ; but it does not appear how far hallucination rather than coincidence must be invoked to explain the experience.

According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus.

Another story claims that he never took a bath because he did not want to be surprised unarmed.

* The satirist and short story writer Hector Hugh Monro took his pen name of ' Saki ' from Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat.

Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles High School, where he took poetry classes with Snow Longley Housh, and short story writing courses taught by Jeannet Johnson.

The story is set in the year 2203, contradicting earlier assumptions that its predecessor, Yamato III, took place in 2205.

It was something of a success, and the story spread by word of mouth and took on the quality of an urban legend.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

" In his broadcast after the 1967 devaluation of the pound, Wilson said: " This does not mean that the pound here in Britain – in your pocket or purse – is worth any less ....", and the phrase " the pound in your pocket " subsequently took on a life of its own.

It took the Commissioners two years to agree who should carry out the work, but on 22 June 1758, John Smith jnr from Attercliffe, Yorkshire was contracted to construct 20 pound locks, 20 horse haling bridges and various other works at a cost of £ 14, 070.

The current ( new ) penny coin, which was introduced when decimalisation of British coinage took effect in 1971, is almost the same size as the last minted farthings, but at a hundred to the pound is nominally worth 9. 6 times as much.

The Germans took advantage of the narrow front to pound advancing attackers with artillery, and progress remained slow as German tanks used houses as bunkers to surprise and overwhelm American foot soldiers.

In June, 1646 Mr Gearey from Barwell claimed that Captain Ottaway from hellothe Coventry garrison took a gelding worth five founds and that William Capenkwist and Thomas Bacon, his servants, had taken a mare worth one pound ( Exchequer SP 28 / 161 ).

On 15 June 2007, he took the chair of an Ethics Committee set up by BAE Systems, the UK's largest arms company, in response to allegations of multimillion pound bribery in arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

The Central Bank of Cyprus took over the issuance of paper money in 1964, introducing 10 pound notes in 1977.

* She claims to have had remaining stomach capacity after all her contests, except after eating the nine pound Barrick burger, which took her 48 minutes to finish.

The first mission was with sixteen F-84Es that flew from Misawa to Chitose AB for a pilot briefing, and then after arming with 500 pound General Purpose bombs, they took off for an attack against Sariwon, in southwestern North Korea.

This multi-million pound project took 5 years to complete and has increased the floorspace of the school by 40 % Plans for the complex were formally launched by HRH Princess Anne in 2006.

On radio in particular, Wilson's girth could be exploited, both in jokes by Benny and in audio gags, such as the amount of time it took a railroad porter to brush the soot off of Don following a train trip, or to measure charging him by the pound.

In the 2009-2010 Wrestling season, La Sierra's senior 119 pound wrestler Adam Grose took first in the CIF Individual Championships.

Christianity teaches that the immaterial God took flesh in the human form of Jesus Christ, making it therefore possible to create depictions of the human form of the Son of God.

During this period the doctrines of human depravity and the inherently sinful nature human flesh were taught by Gnostics, and orthodox Christian writers took great pains to counter them.

Roger of Hovedon relates a hermit who warned, " Be thou mindful of the destruction of Sodom, and abstain from what is unlawful ", and Richard thus " receiving absolution, took back his wife, whom for along time he had not known, and putting away all illicit intercourse, he remained constant to his wife and the two become one flesh.

As the ideas of Marx and Engels took on flesh, particularly in central Europe, socialists sought to unite in an international organisation.

The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead ( the scene of Saul's first victory ) rescued the bodies and took them to Jabesh-gilead, where they burned their flesh and buried the bones.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; [...] And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

The marks were round on the palm of each hand but elongated on the other side, and small pieces of flesh jutting out from the rest took on the appearance of the nail-ends, bent and driven back.

: For the words of God, expressed in human language, have been made like human discourse, just as the word of the eternal Father, when He took to Himself the flesh of human weakness, was in every way made like men.

* In the 1939 song Strange Fruit, written to condemn the practice of lynching, the Magnolia flower was referenced as being associated with the Southern United States, where most lynchings took place: " Pastoral scene of the gallant south / The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth / Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Two female bystanders took slight flesh wounds in the legs and buttocks by flying bullet and brick fragments.

The 25 December Nativity of Christ was attested very early by Hippolytus of Rome ( 170 – 236 ) in his Commentary on Daniel 4: 23: “ The first coming of our Lord, that in the flesh, in which he was born at Bethlehem, took place eight days before the calends of January, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of the reign of Augustus, 5500 years from Adam .” Another early source is Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea ( 115-181 ):" We ought to celebrate the birth-day of our Lord on what day soever the 25th of December shall happen.

This sorrowful sight of his own flesh and blood could nothing move him, but that he constantly and cheerfully took his death with wonderful patience, in the defence and quarrel of the Gospel of Christ.

Bennett took the opportunity to flesh out the alien race, whom he felt were ill-defined in the television series.

In Jesus, God took on human flesh at a precise moment in time, while remaining fully and eternally God: " for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily " ( John 1: 1 – 14 ; 1 Timothy 3: 16 ; Colossians 2: 9 ).

As Jesus, God took human flesh at a precise moment in time, while remaining fully and eternally God: " for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily ".

This form --" the Word ", in Oneness teaching — later took on human flesh as Jesus of Nazareth.

(' Death took hold of his sister's legs as she walked through the calf-high heather up the hill ... She was to him as ugly as the sowfaced woman Llareggub who had taught him the terrors of the flesh.

As the ideas of Marx and Engels took on flesh, particularly in central Europe, socialists sought to unite in an international organisation.

This is part of a belief held by some Gnostics that Jesus was not of flesh, but only took on the appearance of flesh ( see also Basilides and Irenaeus and Swoon hypothesis ).

He and his mother, Tataka, took immense pleasure in harassing the munis of the jungle, especially Vishvamitra, by disrupting their yajnas with rains of flesh and blood.

And first of all it took money — smelly bourgeois money: ... of careful calculations, investments and loans, of interest and dividends accumulated until surplus could be spared from the pleasures of the flesh, from the purchase of senates, signories, and mistresses, to pay a Michaelangelo or a Titian to transmute wealth into beauty, and perfume a fortune with the breath of art.

His efforts took him to morgues and hospitals where he could view, first-hand, the colour and texture of the flesh of the dying and dead.