This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

`` It is not an individual that is in the dock at this historical trial '' -- said Ben Gurion, `` and not the Nazi regime alone -- but anti-Semitism throughout history ''.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

It made constitutional history in being imposed by the laity alone, as all the bishops, except those imprisoned by the Queen and unable to attend, voted against it.

Hence, a history alone is rarely sufficient to diagnose a heart condition.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

Marx himself took care to indicate that he was only proposing a guideline to historical research ( Leitfaden or Auffassung ), and was not providing any substantive " theory of history " or " grand philosophy of history ", let alone a " master-key to history ".

The solution, set out in the series of history books from Joshua and Judges to Samuel and Kings, was to interpret the Babylonian destruction as divinely-ordained punishment for the failure of the kings to worship Yahweh alone.

Early in the history of the state of Pakistan, a resolution ( the Objectives Resolution ) was adopted proclaiming " Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust " ( 12 March 1949 )

Knight also wrote in 1956 that Max Weber was the only economist who dealt with the problem of understanding the emergence of modern capitalism " from the angle which alone can yield an answer to such questions, that is, the angle of comparative history in the broad sense.

On September 19, Saints owner Tom Benson announced that the team had sold out the Louisiana Superdome for the entire season with season tickets alone ( 70, 001 seats ), a first in franchise history.

One very striking evidence of the superiority of the royal courts over the feudal and popular courts in the matter of official skill is the fact that, until comparatively late in history, the royal courts alone kept written records of their proceedings.

21257 in Musnad Ibn Hanbal ) mentions that there were 124, 000 of them in total throughout history ( with other traditions placing the number of Prophets at 224, 000 while other scholars holding that there is even a greater number in the history of mankind, and God alone knows ), and the Qur ' an says that God has sent a prophet to every group of people throughout time, and that Muhammad is the last of the prophets, sent for the whole of humankind.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

As of October 2008, these forces remained in Kosovo and between 1998 and 2008, the aid given to Kosovo by the UAE ’ s Red Crescent Authority alone cost Dh125 million, the biggest international humanitarian mission in the UAE's history.

The city was captured by Rome five times in its history – three times in the 2nd century alone.

In the shipwreck field alone individual shipwrecks can be of significant historical importance either because of the magnitude of loss of life ( such as the Titanic ), or circumstances of loss ( Housatonic was the first vessel in history sunk by an enemy submarine ).

Thus, thermography alone cannot be used as conclusive evidence for-or against-a diagnosis of CRPS, and must be interpreted in light of the patient's larger medical history and prior diagnostic studies.

No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.

Greek history and culture were enduringly fertilized, and plagued, by the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors.

Resolved that, while we most decidedly disapprove the methods he adopted to accomplish his objects, yet in his willingness to die in aid of the great cause of human freedom, we still recognize the qualities of a noble nature and the exercise of a spirit which true men have always admired and which history never fails to honor.

“ The new Atlanta Falcons logo is fresh, strong and dynamic, and yet appreciates the tradition and history of this franchise ,” said Falcons owner and CEO Arthur Blank.

However, churches that claim apostolic succession in ministry distinguish this from doctrinal orthodoxy, holding that " it is possible to have valid orders coming down from the apostles, and yet not to have a continuous spiritual history coming down from the apostles ".

Because of its history as the nation's commercial center, New York common law has a depth and predictability not ( yet ) available in any other jurisdiction.

" 20: 9 It may be that the images of fire raining down are an ancient vision of modern weapons, others would say a supernatural intervention by God, yet others that they refer to events in history, and some would say they are symbolic of larger ideas and should not be interpreted literally.

In addition to the realization that there are major gaps in our knowledge of Chinese history is the equal realization that there are tremendous quantities of primary source material that have not yet been analyzed.

Jones compares the executions of Domitian to those under Emperor Claudius ( 41 – 55 ), noting that Claudius executed around 35 senators and 300 equestrians, and yet was still deified by the Senate and regarded as one of the good Emperors of history.

These oral histories often contained folk-tale motifs and demonstrated a moral, yet they also contained substantial facts relating to geography, anthropology and history, all compiled by Herodotus in an entertaining style and format.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

As replication indices have a relatively short history it is not yet possible to know how reliable this process will be in practice, although initially indications are that much of hedge fund returns can be replicated in this manner without the problems of illiquidity, transparency and fraud that exist in direct hedge fund investments.

Kalhana's metrical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, called the Rajatarangini, has been pronounced by Professor H. H. Wilson to be the only Sanskrit composition yet discovered to which the appellation " history " can with any propriety be applied.

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

This finding, which would be of great importance to both the history of Niger and the history of the diffusion of Iron Age metalworking technology in all of sub-Saharan Africa, is as yet contentious.

* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

Despite yet another losing season, the Mets made history in 2011 when Jason Isringhausen converted his 300th save with the team, the third player in franchise history to reach the milestone while with the organization behind John Franco and Billy Wagner.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

One Australian writer Gerard Henderson has rejected this theory, yet others such as Australian history Professors Judith Brett Latrobe Uni.

In May 2009, Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, established the History Commission of Russia ( formally, the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests ) to counter aggressive attempts to rewrite history to Russian disadvantage, yet Alexander Cherkasov of the Memorial human-rights group, called it a regression to Soviet-era control.