Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon.

He wrote in his essay " The Rebel " that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

It is unlikely that Alexander wrote all of the Quaestiones, some may be Alexander's own explanations, while others may be exercises by his students.

Charlotte wrote to her father who took Anne home where she remained while she recovered.

He wrote that the central theme of the topics above is that of topos theory, while the first and last were of the least importance to him.

" Lumping us all together ", Dickerson wrote, " erases the significance of slavery and continuing racism while giving the appearance of progress ".

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

Housman wrote most of them while living in Highgate, London, before ever visiting that part of Shropshire ( about thirty miles from his home ), which he presented in an idealised pastoral light, as his ' land of lost content '.

Beethoven wrote the two piano trios while spending the summer of 1808 in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, where he had completed his Symphony No. 5 the previous summer.

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

One account suggests that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC, just before the downfall of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC.

One account suggests that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC, just before the downfall of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC.

Ezekiel and Jeremiah wrote prior to the fall of Jerusalem, while continuing to prophesy in the earlier exile period.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

He was also invited to contribute an article to a theosophical journal, Theosophist, published in Madras, India, for which he wrote " Language, Mind and Reality ".

The Chinese Buddhist monk and pilgrim Yijing wrote about relationship between the various " vehicles " and the early Buddhist schools in India.

The earliest written record of inoculation is thought to be found in 8th century India, when Madhav wrote the Nidāna, a 79-chapter book which lists diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications.

He wrote: " Visions of similar deeds in India came before, of gallant fight for freedom and in my mind India and Italy got strangely mixed together.

Nehru specifically wrote Article 44 of the Indian constitution under the Directive Principles of State Policy which states: ' The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.

He observed the effects of superstition on the lives of the Indian people and wrote of religion that “… it shuts its eyes to reality .” Nehru thought that religion was at the root of the stagnation and lack of progress in India.

Additionally, he himself and Panchen Lama of Dirgacha wrote a secret letter ot East India Company seeking military assistance.

As he wrote to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company in 1654 he hoped that " the deceitful race, – such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ, – be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

He wrote to the Dutch West India Company, " Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony.

Megasthenes wrote detailed descriptions of India and Chandragupta's reign, which have been partly preserved to us through Diodorus Siculus.

After an accidental meeting between Jamsetji N. Tata and Swami Vivekananda on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to Vivekananda five years later:

The next year, twenty-fifth anniversary of Powell's " Rivers of Blood " speech, Powell wrote an article for The Times, in which he claimed the concentration of immigrant communities in inner cities would lead to " communalism ", which would have grave effects on the electoral system: " communalism and democracy, as the experience of India demonstrates, are incompatible ".

Cosmas Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria, who lived in the 6th century, and made a voyage to India, and subsequently wrote works on cosmography, gives a figure of the unicorn, not, as he says, from actual sight of it, but reproduced from four figures of it in brass contained in the palace of the King of Ethiopia.

Vivekananda wrote several letters to India, giving advice and sending money to his followers and brother monks.

Flavius Philostratus ( c. AD 170 ), who wrote the biography Life of Apollonius of Tyana, refers to the phoenix as a bird living in India, but sometimes migrating to Egypt every five hundred years.

In 1997, Keith learned that the poem " The Paradoxical Commandments " had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India ; and, two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding on the themes of the poem:

In the record of his journeys through the kingdoms of India, Xuanzang wrote that Asaṅga was initially a Mahīśāsaka monk, but soon turned toward the Mahāyāna teachings.

On July 1, 1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a memo directing that the maps of India be revised to show definite boundaries on all frontiers.

In 1990, she wrote a report for the FAO on Women and Agriculture entitled, “ Most Farmers in India are Women ”.

He wrote that spiritual adepts migrated to Hawai ‘ i from Egypt, passing on to the priests of India some of their basic beliefs.

He also wrote the Indica, an account of the voyage by Alexander's fleet from India to the Persian Gulf under Nearchus.