However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

In the autumn of 1867 he accepted a $ 40 per week contract, nominally as a clerk, but really to play professionally for the Chicago Excelsiors, not an uncommon arrangement used to circumvent the rules of the time, which forbade the hiring of professional players.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

Bell Bronze is used to make the tone rings of many professional model banjos.

However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers ; see desktop publishing.

Although CCDs are not the only technology to allow for light detection, CCD image sensors are widely used in professional, medical, and scientific applications where high-quality image data is required.

While the terms ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque and sice have been made obsolete by one to six, they are still used by some professional gamblers to designate different sides of the dice.

It would eventually be replaced by cheaper systems using video compression, most notably Sony's Digital Betacam ( still heavily used as a electronic field production ( EFP ) recording format by professional television producers ) that were introduced into the network's television studios.

The file sizes of digital video used for professional editing are generally not practical for these purposes, and the video requires further compression with codecs such as Sorenson, H264 and more recently AppleProRes especially for HD.

* DVCAM, DVCPRO — used in professional broadcast operations ; similar to DV but generally considered more robust ; though DV-compatible, these formats have better audio handling.

The term dominatrix is sometimes used to describe a professional dominant ( or " pro-domme ") who is paid to engage in BDSM with a submissive.

Basic, unpadded gig bags used by students cost under 100 USD, while thickly padded gig bags for professional players typically cost as much as 500 USD.

In this context the term " professional " ( used for the first category ) as opposed to " amateur " ( used for the second and third ) refers only to the professionalism of the used medium, and not to the professionalism of the language itself or its creator.

) The 2 – 3 – 5 formation, used predominantly in Australia from relatively lowly interschool to professional interstate competitions, provides common language for many players and helps explain why " centre half " is often a name used for a player in the centre of a defence with four or five players.

The effect was to retain the Foreign Legion as a professional force which could be used for military interventions outside France and not involve the politically unpopular use of French conscripts.

Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.

Although " historian " can be used to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline.

Slide rules were used by generations of engineers and other mathematically involved professional workers, until the invention of the pocket calculator.

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

The DA statement is used to name and define the positions and length of fields within an area.

The DC statement is used to name and enter constants into the object program.

DIOCS is used to select the major methods of processing to be used, and to name the index words used by Aj.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

The procedures used by the BIH evolved, and the name for the time scale changed: " A3 " in 1963 and " TA ( BIH )" in 1969.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

Urodela is a name sometimes used for all the extant species of salamander.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

Asparagales is the name of an order of plants, used in modern classification systems such as the APG III system ( which is used throughout this article ).

( Earlier the APG had used the name Alliaceae for this group .).

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The name " Turkey " ( Türkiye ) means " land of the Turks " and was never used as a name of Anatolia specifically.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.