I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

He was extremely skeptical of Peter Bartholomew's discovery in Antioch of the Holy Lance, especially because he knew such a relic already existed in Constantinople ; however, he was willing to let the Crusader army believe it was real if it raised their morale.

There had been, however, a good deal of other evidence available before 1876, which, had it been collated and seriously studied, might have discounted the sensation that the discovery of the citadel graves eventually made.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

It was, however, intended not for scholarly use but to provide results of research and discovery in a simple and popular form without extensive detail.

Some < sup > 238 </ sup > U atoms, however, could absorb another two neutrons ( for a total of 17 ), resulting in < sup > 255 </ sup > Es, as well as in the < sup > 255 </ sup > Fm isotope of another new element, fermium .< ref >< sup > 254 </ sup > Es, < sup > 254 </ sup > Fm and < sup > 253 </ sup > Fm would not be produced because of lack of beta decay in < sup > 254 </ sup > Cf and < sup > 253 </ sup > Es </ ref > The discovery of the new elements and the associated new data on multiple neutron capture were initially kept secret on the orders of the U. S. military until 1955 due to Cold War tensions and competition with Soviet Union in nuclear technologies.

" The Chinese word for " gunpowder " is, which literally means " Fire Medicine "; however this name only came into use some centuries after the mixture's discovery.

One day, however, she makes a discovery about the descolada — that it's in every native lifeform — and Pipo rushes out to talk to the piggies about the discovery without telling her or Libo why it's important.

Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.

Russell, however, viewed the letters upon their discovery and described them as very touching and naive in some respects, erotic in others.

Not everyone accepted the veracity of Lescarbault's " discovery ", however.

The record of the treasure, however, now exists only in the fine engravings made at the time of its discovery and in some reproductions made for the Habsburgs.

Ever since the discovery of cuneiform enabled actual Assyrian records to be deciphered in the 19th century, however, historians have ascribed little value to the Greek account.

Since the 1970s, however, courts have held plaintiffs to higher standards, giving antitrust defendants an opportunity to resolve cases in their favor before significant discovery.

This protects defendants from bearing the costs of antitrust " fishing expeditions ," however it deprives plaintiffs of perhaps their only tool to acquire evidence ( discovery ).

The discovery was little utilized at first, however, and the manufacture of sugar from beets did not attain commercial importance for over half a century.

In 2010, however, the discovery of Aciculopoda from Famennian – stage rocks in Oklahoma extended the group's fossil record back to.

From the viewpoint of the investor, however, the Dutch Auction would be more effective at price discovery, and potentially result in a lower offering price.

Lucifers were however quickly replaced after the discovery in 1830 by Frenchman Charles Sauria who substituted the antimony sulfide with white phosphorus.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, dating from c. 150 BCE-75 CE, shows however that in this period there was not always the scrupulous uniformity of text that was so stressed in later centuries.

The discoverers did not, however, submit a claim for the discovery of ununseptium when JWP was reviewing claims on discoveries of trans-copernicium elements.

Edward's first marriage, about 1527, to Catherine Fillol, was annulled ; the reason is alleged to have been the discovery of a relationship between Catherine and Edward's father ; however, this is disputed by the Dictionary of National Biography.

A better situation than that, however, is for the deed to be done in ignorance, and the relationship discovered afterwards, since there is nothing odious in it, and the discovery will serve to astound us.

Henrietta's feeling of identity with Sara Sullam was crowned by her discovery of the coincidence that Sara's epitaph in the Jewish cemetery in Venice referred to her as `` the Sulamite ''.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

This complacency was blown to bits by the relativity of Einstein, the revelation of the complex anatomy of the atom and the discovery of the expanding universe.

He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.

Esmarch was among those who witnessed Oersted's first demonstration of his discovery.

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

To find a place for them in their theory of knowledge would require them to revise the theory radically, and yet that theory was what they regarded as their most important discovery.

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

The Norse discovery was documented in the 13th century Icelandic Sagas and was corroborated by recent L ' Anse aux Meadows archeological evidence.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.

The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.

Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.

In the end, this was solved by the discovery of modern quantum mechanics and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

The discovery of CP violation helped to shed light on this problem by showing that this symmetry, originally thought to be perfect, was only approximate.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

The discovery of such a powerful antibiotic was unprecedented, and the development of penicillin led to renewed interest in the search for antibiotic compounds with similar efficacy and safety.