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The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.
The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.
One may be exasperatingly aware that if the answer is favorable it will be judged such only by those of one's own age.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.
Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.
Wyatt and Whipple, 1950 ), which is a retardation of the orbital motion of particles by the relativistic aberration of the repulsive force of the impinging solar radiation, causes the dust to spiral into the sun in times much shorter than the age of the Earth.

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The exact time when hoplitic warfare was developed is uncertain, the prevalent theory being that it was established sometime during the 8th or 7th century BC, when the " heroic age was abandoned and a far more disciplined system introduced " and the Argive shield became popular.
Moreover, since the Supreme Court has recognized voting as a fundamental right, the Equal Protection Clause places very tight limitations ( albeit with uncertain limits ) on the states ' ability to define voter qualifications ; it is fair to say that qualifications beyond citizenship, residency, and age are usually questionable.
For knowledge of the internal composition of the Kingdom of Mercia, we must rely on a document of uncertain age ( possibly late 7th century ), known as the Tribal Hidage – an assessment of the extent ( but not the location ) of land owned ( reckoned in hides ), and therefore the military obligations and perhaps taxes due, by each of the Mercian tribes and subject kingdoms by name.
These assumptions include the average retirement age and lifespan of the employees, the returns to be earned by the pension plan's investments and any additional taxes or levies, such as those required by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in the U. S. So, for this arrangement, the benefit is relatively secure but the contribution is uncertain even when estimated by a professional.
A farmhouse then known as Gobes Hall marked the centre of the Lancastrian position ; nearby was " Margaret's camp ", earthworks of uncertain age.
The site has resisted attempts at scientific dating and the monument's age remains uncertain.
Unfortunately, everyone's stability was halted when bureaucratic social worker Simon P. Chillings ( guest star Timothy Stack ) showed up, found out about Henry's condition and ultimately deemed the worst: not only did he find Betty unsuitable to care for Punky in the meantime ( because she was a single woman with long working hours, already raising her granddaughter ), but he felt that Henry was unfit to be her legal guardian in the long term, due to his health, age, and uncertain financial future.
Within the northern Altiplano ( Tinajani Basin ), these prehistoric lakes were Lake Mataro at an elevation of 3, 950 m, Lake Cabana at an elevation of 3, 900 m, Lake Ballivián at an elevation of 3, 860 m, Lake ( North ) Minchin at an elevation of 3, 825 m, and Lake ( North ) Tauca at an elevation 3, 815 m. The age of Lake Mataro is uncertain and may be as old as Late Pliocene.
So far as the results of criticism are still uncertain with regard to the age and authorship of any of these, Ewald? s conclusions must of course be regarded as unsatisfactory.
No fossils are known from North America, and those claimed in Europe are of uncertain age and species.
Before February 2010, it was pointed out that the reliability of methods to asses the age of death for mummies in general was uncertain.
However, Joseph Ferdinand died on February 3, 1699 at the age of seven, leaving the Spanish Succession uncertain again.
The age of Kojirō is especially uncertainthe Nitenki says that during his childhood, he
Sturt's age, uncertain health, and comparatively small income were against him.
Like Igor, her age is uncertain, though she has apparently been with the Duckula family for several incarnations.
The date at which men should be tested is uncertain but some sources recommend age 70.
It was defended on the landward side by three banks and ditches which were destroyed during the creation of the harbour and modern village ; their age is therefore uncertain.
The exact age of the Zig Zag Road is uncertain, but it first appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1869, and has been popular with cyclists since the 1880s.
Still, the company teetered near bankruptcy and went through numerous name changes ; its success was still uncertain when Goodrich died at the age of 46 in 1888.
Potocki committed suicide in December 1815 at the age of 54, though the exact date is uncertain — possibly November 20, December 2 or December 11.
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Its construction is often attributed to Constantine, but is in fact of uncertain age.
* Agroecius Domesticus, a man of uncertain date who died at the age of 33, and was buried in Vienne

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