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In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):
They have been of special interest for the HTS materials because many researchers have wondered whether spin correlations might play a role in the mechanism of the HTS.
Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.
" Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself?
But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered ; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.
Friedman has wondered why some have attacked him for giving a lecture in Chile: “ I must say, it ’ s such a wonderful example of a double standard, because I had spent time in Yugoslavia, which was a communist country.
In the next term, Brainerd was expelled because he commented that one of his tutors, Chauncey Whittelsey, ' has no more grace than a chair ' and that he wondered why the Rector ' did not drop down dead ' for fining students perceived as over-zealous.
At the same time, however, he then wondered if the anti-poison properties associated with a unicorn's horn still held true, and undertook experiments in poisoning pets and then serving them ground up narwhal horn ( his poisoning must have been relatively mild because he reported that they did recover ).
Ashley stated that he wondered since Tourette's Syndrome had to do with " sound-making and because the manifestation of the syndrome seemed so much like a primitive form of composing whether the syndrome was connected in some way to his obvious tendencies as a composer ".
Many wondered if the USFL cards should be considered rookie cards because the league did not exist anymore.
Fans wondered if Tony was going to kill Paulie in that episode because both Pussy and Ralph ended up being murdered by Tony.
The sanctuary's necessary spring was named Adrasteia: Pausanias wondered whether it had the name because an " Adrastus " had " discovered " it, but Adrasteia, the " inescapable one ", was a nurse of the infant Zeus in Crete.
Johnson wondered whether he was on the list because of his opposition to the Iraq War.
The company traces its roots to a runny nose because Montgomery got a particularly bad cold — a virus — and in his misery he wondered why so few antivirals existed when so many antibiotics were in use.
: I kept looking at the part and wondered how I could crack it, because he was such a straitlaced character.
Many of them wondered if the new president, Lyndon Johnson, would carry on Kennedy's policies or not and if he would be the longest serving president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, being president of the United States through most of the 1960s and early 1970s, serving 9 years, because Kennedy had served more than 24 months of his term.
The Blackfoot people reportedly called him " Matoxy Sex Apee Quin " ( Bad Black White Man ) because of his courage and enormous strength, and wondered if he had connections to the spirit world.
It is not to be wondered at therefore, if those who seek after power and gain, under the pretense of government and Religion, should reproach their fellow men, should reproach their Chief Magistrate, as an enemy of religion, law, and good order, because he will not, dares not, assume the prerogative of Jehovah and make laws to govern the Kingdom of Christ.
Phillip Scudder, owner of the Hy-Line ferry service on Cape Cod, originally opposed the project because he wondered how to navigate around the turbines when going to Martha's Vineyard, but changed its opposition to support due to the economic opportunity to provide " eco-tours.
" We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked a fancy name.
Fans and reporters alike wondered whether Imai's arrest spelled the end for Buck-Tick, but in the fall of 1989, the band went back to the studio and recorded its fifth studio album, Aku no Hana (" Evil Flowers ") which was named after Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal ( a favorite book of Sakurai's ), because the album dealt with similar themes.

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If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.
And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.
How was she to behave, Claire wondered.
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.
Where was Mr. Flannagan, he wondered.
Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??
He wondered whether Needham was going to swear off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was counting on the income from Betty's estate to subsidize him.
Now he wondered if it was worth it, having a screwball for company.
The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.
Could it just be, Theresa wondered, that Anne had understood only too well, and that George all along was extraordinary only in the degree to which he was dull??
As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.
The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.
Thus Jerome acknowledged the principle by which the canon was settled — the judgment of the Church, rather than his own judgment or the judgment of Jews, though he wondered why one would sanction the version of a heretic and judaizer.
Modern historians have wondered at Duilius ’ decision not to immediately follow up with another naval attack, but Hamilcar ’ s remaining 80 ships was probably still too strong for Rome to conquer.
The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.
Oil had been discovered there by Standard Oil Company in the 1920s, and people wondered whether an immense pool of oil was lying beneath the entire area.

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She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.
This would be ironic, as Richard Ingrams in The Independent wondered whether Straw's predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, was also removed at Bush's request, allowing Straw to become Foreign Secretary in the first place.
ABC wondered how exactly the Game of the Week would reach television in the first place and who would notice if it did?

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