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He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in Spain, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works.
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There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.
The editorial `` Confrontation '' was certainly direct in its appeal to those of us living here in America.
And a gray-haired man whose glance -- direct, lifelike, and mildly accusing -- was contradicted by the gilt and black frame.
The specific staining by both direct and indirect methods showed that WTV antigen was concentrated in the pseudophloem tissue and in a few thick-walled cells in the xylem region, but was not detectable in any other tissues of the root and stem tumors.
Although the present study was not a direct replication of their investigations, the results do not confirm their conclusion.
Metaphysics is no longer a direct grappling with nature as it was in antiquity.
The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
Bridget's testimony was in direct contradiction.
Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.
I think her husband strongly suspects so, and that's why he called me in on the thing in direct defiance of his confederates and almost certainly without telling them why he was doing so.
In fact, the antipathy to outward ceremonies hailed by modern exponents as so uniquely characteristic of the `` direct thinking '' Zennist was a feature of Taoism.
The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.
The input ( programs and data ) was to be provided to the machine via punched cards, a method being used at the time to direct mechanical looms such as the Jacquard loom.
The last of his direct descendants to inhabit Abbotsford was his great-great-great-granddaughter Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott ( 8 June 1923-5 May 2004 ).
It is uncertain what the actual role and function of Abraxas was in the Basilidian system, as our authorities often show no direct acquaintance with the doctrines of Basilides himself.
He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.
He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.
Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen of age could take part, and it was a duty to do so.
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Another male lover was Cyparissus, a descendant of Heracles.
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.
After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, the unity of the Imperial Aramaic script was lost, diversifying into a number of descendant cursives.
The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke.
* The illegitimate descendant of a Bulgarian prince named Aron formed a plot in 1107 to murder Alexios as he was encamped near Thessalonica.
In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.
# A descendant of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, a chief of one of the twenty-four orders into which the priesthood was divided by David ( 1 Chr.
He was a descendant of Protestant refugees escaping the Italian Inquisition.
He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.
Rav was a descendant of a distinguished Babylonian family which claimed to trace its origin to Shimei, brother of King David ( Sanhedrin 5a ; Ketubot 62b ).
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.
His mother Reizel Perlow was also a descendant of Avraham Yehoshua Heshel and other Hasidic dynasties.
He was a descendant of the king Cuauhtototzin.
He was the son of a schoolmaster, and a descendant of Thomas Fincke on his mother's side.
AMOS is a descendant of STOS BASIC for the Atari ST. AMOS BASIC was first produced in 1990.
Paul wrote that Jesus was " born of a woman, born under the law " and " as to his human nature was a descendant of David " in the Epistle to the Galatians and the Epistle to the Romans.
He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother ; hence, he identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic.
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That girl last night, what was her name??
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.
Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.
He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
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