Historical instances of the usage of battering rams in sieges of major cities include:

Historical novels, speculative fiction, and clearly delineated dream sequences are generally not considered instances of unreliable narration, even though they describe events that did not or could not happen.

The Acts of the Apostles depicts instances of early Christian persecution by the Sanhedrin, the Jewish religious court at the time, however the Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles is disputed.

Historical records indicate, in a few instances, mature sea-run Atlantic salmon were captured in the Cowichan River ; however, a self-sustaining population never materialized.

The indictment, published in the American Historical Association's house journal, counted instances of plagiarism on 80 percent of the pages published.

The internal conflict is described in great detail in the reports of the Historical Clarification Commission ( CEH ) and the Archbishop's Office for Human Rights ( ODHAG ).

With the Respect for History Project, launched in February 2006, a great transformation has taken place within the borders of Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park.

* Cox, John G. Samuel Morton Peto ; the achievements and failings of a great railway developer, The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2008, ISBN 978-0-901461-56-8

But, according to the Kansas Historical Collections, the town of Stranger had its name changed to Linwood by Senator William A. Harris because of his great appreciation for the linwood trees that were abundant in the vicinity of Stranger Creek.

* Annual Saint David ’ s Day Dinner, March 1: hosted by the Historical Society to commemorate the Welsh roots of the City of Carbondale and to celebrate the Welsh heritage of a great many residents of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys in Pennsylvania.

Historical examples include the oldest known Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia and Ur, the Phoenician cities of Canaan ( such as Tyre and Sidon ), the Berber city-states of the Garamantes, the city-states of ancient Greece ( the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth ), the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a great power, the Maya of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ( including sites such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and El Mirador ), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road, Venice, Croatian city-state of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) and many others.

His great work is his Die Philosophie der Griechen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung ( The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development ) ( 1844-52 ).

Historical evidence suggests that large areas of grassland are of great antiquity, and areas which were cultivated at the beginning of this century have experienced nearly 100 years of chalk grassland re-colonisation.

" The great fire of 1870 ," Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, Papers and Records, XII ( 1984 ), 8 – 18.

He made great contributions to the study of Historical Chinese phonology, and is known for his annotated edition of Shuowen Jiezi.

Bill James tells a great story about how one time Jon Miller showed Morgan Bill ’ s New Historical Baseball Abstract, which has Morgan ranked as the best second baseman of all time, ahead of Rogers Hornsby.

Historical preservationists were outraged, not wishing to see another great theater turned into a multiplex or destroyed.

As a sequel to 1837, Ryerson ’ s French Canada revealed “ the militant spirit of democracy among French Canadians ” in the hopes of uniting “ them with their Anglophone compatriots .” Ryerson did follow a certain “ great man ” approach to history when, in the early chapters, he emphasized the heroes “ who struggled for self-determination and / or Canadian unity ”; this approach was complemented by an emphasis on “ the Quebec masses and their rise out of feudal subjugation toward political power .” Very much the Historical Materialist, Ryerson viewed the previous administrations of Quebec as working with representatives of English Canada and international capitalism to keep Quebec in economic subservience.

In chapter 3 " The Point of View of Historical Materialism ", Beauvoir relates The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels but ultimately finds it lacking any basis or reasons for its claims to assign " the great historical defeat of the female sex " to the invention of bronze and the emergence of private property.

Historical research suggests that there has always a been a great deal of individual variation in methods of discipline and thus no century was notably cruel or kind.

Historical currents of great magnitude have periodically caught masses of people, along with their leaders, in their wake.

( Historical accounts from much later tablets asserted that Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab, a slightly earlier king, had also conquered as far as the Mediterranean and the Taurus mountains, but contemporary records for the entire period before Sargon are still far too sketchy to permit scholars to reconstruct actual events with great confidence.

The great Florilegium of his work was finally published in 1988 by Alecto Historical Editions in 35 volumes and has since been digitized by the Natural History Museum in London.

The internal conflict is described in great detail in the report of the Historical Clarification Commission ( Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, or CEH ), which estimates that government forces and their paramilitary confederates were responsible for 93 % of the violations.

For the great house masonry pueblos, see Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

A great deal of Nanango's colourful history is preserved in its buildings-especially Ringsfield House, a restored circa 1908 Queenslander developed by architect Robin Dods and now the headquarters of the Nanango Historical Society.

Because Adler wanted to operate within the framework of the rising Social Democratic movement, he was highly circumspect in his subsequent references to Stirner, and, while continuing to accord him great significance as Marx ’ s “ psychological counterpart ”, initially adopted most aspects of the doctrine of Historical Materialism: the essence of history is class struggle, and its realization entails a union of theory with revolutionary practice.

The principal sources of these narratives are the two great historical records compiled during the Koryo dynasty: Samguk sagi ( 1146 ; " Historical Record of the Three Kingdoms ") and Samguk yusa ( 1285 ; " Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms ").

Much of the credit for awakening interest in Georgia's great Revolutionary heroes is due to the efforts of William Harden, former longtime librarian of the Georgia Historical Society at Savannah.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

The Peenemünde Historical and Technical Information Centre opened in 1992 in the shelter control room and the area of the former power station and is an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Historical accounts disagree about the importance of Na Hangbe, but do find that Agaja came to power after Akaba through a struggle over succession to the throne.

Stable measuring unit assumption: financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units or traditional Historical cost accounting only under the traditional Historical Cost paradigm ; i. e., accountants consider changes in the purchasing power of the functional currency up to but excluding 26 % per annum for three years in a row ( which would be 100 % cumulative inflation over three years or hyperinflation as defined in IAS 29 ) as immaterial or not sufficiently important for them to choose Capital Maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting at all levels of inflation and deflation as authorized in IFRS in the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a ) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power under Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate of all constant real value non-monetary items in all entities that at least break even in real value at all levels of inflation and deflation-ceteris paribus-remedies for an indefinite period of time the erosion caused by Historical Cost Accounting of the real values of constant real value non-monetary items never maintained constant as a result of the implementation of the stable measuring unit assumption at all levels of inflation and deflation under HCA.

: Revenues and expenses are measured in nominal monetary units under the Historical Cost Accounting model and in units of constant purchasing power ( inflation-adjusted ) under the Units of Constant Purchasing Power model.

CIPPA by measuring financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power incorporates an alternative capital concept, financial capital maintenance concept and profit determination concept to the Historical Cost capital concept, financial capital maintenance concept and profit determination concept.

According to church law, only the Pope had the power to depose a king. Historical depiction of Adolf ’ s death at the Battle of Göllheim, by Master Simon, Koblenz, 1829

Historical the movement gained unchallenged precedence in the Arabian peninsula through an alliance between Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the House of Muhammad ibn Saud who provided political and financial power for the religious revival represented by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab ( see Alliance with the House of Ibn Saud ).

Historical examples of a " power behind the throne " include Diego Portales of Chile ; Martin Bormann of Nazi Germany ; General Hideki Tōjō of Japan, who was influential in the military's actions leading up to World War II and later became Prime Minister of Japan in 1941.

" Historical references for the Dodecarchy and the rise of Psamtik I in power, establishing the Saitic Dynasty, are recorded in Herodotus Histories, Book II: 151-157.

Locations of Appointments in Historical Context The account of Korenobu's ascent within circles of power is described in Konjaku Monogatari as having been due to his attempts during his time as governor of Mutsu to restore the shrine of a god that had been neglected.

In a paper presented to the German Historical Convention in 1953 entitled " The Problem of Militarism in Germany ", Ritter argued traditional Prussian leaders such as Frederick the Great were a Machtpolitiker ( power politician ), not a militarist since in Ritter's view, Frederick was opposed to "... the ruthless sacrifice of all life to the purposes of war " and instead was interested in creating "... a lasting order of laws and peace, to further general welfare, and to moderate the conflict of interests ".

* A Historical sector, which consists of two power plants, Northern Aluminum Company ( NAC ) and Shawinigan 2, and the ruins of a third one ( Alcan 16 ), as well as an electricity distribution station and an aluminium smelter.

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It was the brainchild of South Spur Rail Services ( SSRS ) and began using four restored coaches hired from the Australian Railway Historical Society ( ARHS ) and a power car purchased from the ARHS and restored to running condition and modified by SSRS.