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On hearing of South Carolina's secession from the United States, Sherman observed to a close friend, Professor David F. Boyd of Virginia, an enthusiastic secessionist, almost perfectly describing the four years of war to come:
Professor Paul McEuen of Cornell University then found the same noise in a paper describing a third experiment.
Professor Marian Bohusz-Szyszko of the Polish School of Art, London, said he was " thunderstruck " at Wawro's drawings, describing them as " an incredible phenomenon rendered with the precision of a mechanic and the vision of a poet ".
The Government response to this further criticism was again negative describing Professor Stavenhagen's report as " disappointing, unbalanced and narrow.
The Nobel Prize-Winning candidate Derek Walcott had withdrawn his candidacy, after The Sunday Times and Cherwell revealed that various Oxford academics had been sent, anonymously, photocopied pages from The Lecherous Professor, a University of Illinois publication on the prevalence of sexual harassment in American universities, describing two such cases laid against Walcott at Harvard University and Boston University.
The May 4, 1929 issue contained an article by Dr. Norbert Wiener, then Assistant Professor of Mathematics, describing some deficiencies in a paper Albert Einstein had published earlier that year.
While describing his creation, Reilly stated that he had always intended for Calderon to survive, and to return in future novels, similar to Professor Moriarty and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
The Primary Times released a review of Professor Fiendish's Book of Diabolical Brain-benders on November 25th 2002, describing the title as " intriguing, fun to do, and not at all dry ", and adding " I warn you, once you start, you'll be ' hooked '!".
Robert Seidenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY, wrote that Chesler defined manhood " with a brilliance and erudition equal to the task ", describing Chesler as men's " Tocqueville ".
" Professor of Polish-Jewish history Gershon D. Hundert wrote in 2006 " There is no evidence to support the theory that the ancestors of Polish Jewry were Jews who came from the Crimean Jewish kingdom of Khazaria ", describing Koestler as the " best-known advocate " of the theory.

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In a letter home describing the battle, Baker said it was the " biggest thrill I ever had in my life ", and compared it to the feeling after a big sports game.
Baker also opposed nuclear power, describing it as " hopelessly uneconomic ", and warning that new nuclear power stations " would generate vast quantities of nuclear waste and divert essential funding away from energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy.
Baker produced a book describing a very similar system.

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The Sumerian King List, describing the Akkadian Empire after the death of Shar-kali-shari, states:
Snorri Sturluson writes in the Gylfaginning after describing Odin, Thor, and Baldr:
" Chemical engineering ", describing the use of mechanical equipment in the chemical industry, became common vocabulary in England after 1850.
An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.
The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.
Tiles are generally named after their two values ; e. g. 2 – 5 or 5 – 2 are alternative ways of describing the tile with the values 2 and 5.
" Cardoso claimed that " gonzo " was South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after an all-night drinking marathon.
In 1849, shortly after the revolutions of the previous year, Molinari published two works: an essay, " The Production of Security ", and a book, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, describing how a market in justice and protection could advantageously replace the state.
Often enough, the first records potentially describing use of gunpowder in warfare were written several centuries after the fact, and may well have been colored by the contemporary experiences of the chronicler.
The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir Walter Scott wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth.
According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.
Quintus Ennius wrote a historical epic, the Annals ( soon after 200 BC ), describing Roman history from the founding of Rome to his own time.
With two close friends, Mao began undertaking feats of physical endurance – such as sleeping outdoors and living on a frugal diet – and they began describing themselves as the " Three Heroes " after the rebels that featured in Chinese literature.
After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.
One suggested starting point is ordinary quantum field theories which, after all, are successful in describing the other three basic fundamental forces in the context of the standard model of elementary particle physics.
Another early written reference to the islands may have been when Tacitus reported in AD 98 after describing the discovery and conquest of Orkney that the Roman fleet had seen " Thule, too ".
* General Uzi Narkiss – A historic radio interview with General Uzi Narkiss taken on June 7 – one day after the Six-Day War, describing the battle for Jerusalem
Iraqis and Americans who spoke with Saddam after his capture generally reported that he remained self-assured, describing himself as a " firm, but just leader.
The equation describing how R varies with time is known as the Friedmann equation, after its inventor, Alexander Friedmann.
" He was one of several critics to react negatively to her reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth in 1955, saying that her performance was insubstantial and lacked the necessary fury demanded of the role ; however, after her death he revised his opinion, describing his earlier criticism as " one of the worst errors of judgment " he had ever made.
The Z notation (), named after Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems.
The description almost immediately appears to be describing the persecution of Reformers and Protestant or pre-Protestant groups of people who suffered persecution and execution before, during, and after the Middle Ages, and this view seems to have been held by Bruce R. McConkie in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.
Breaking with tradition and many thinkers after him, Descartes explicitly did not divide the incorporeal soul into parts, such as reason and intellect, describing them as one indivisible incorporeal entity.

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Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.
Snorri especially quotes passages from Bragi's Ragnarsdrápa, a poem supposedly composed in honor of the famous legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrók (' Hairy-breeches ') describing the images on a decorated shield which Ragnar had given to Bragi.
This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.
While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".
In an RCA ( Radio Corporation of America ) advertisement in Popular Science Magazine describing a new " memory " vacuum tube it had developed, RCA stated:
Although Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation, perfected the dioptric apparatus independently, Brewster was active earlier in the field than Fresnel, describing the dioptric apparatus in 1812.
On 15 December, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Burghley describing a plan she and Mary had devised to arrange a meeting between Oxford and his daughter.
I could never come to an end describing to you the great consolation which fills my soul when I see idols being destroyed by the hands of those who had been idolaters.
In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.
It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.
Reading a newspaper article describing a gas attack on British forces which he hypothesized had employed chlorine gas, Garner remembered experiments he had performed while teaching at the University of Chicago, thus he set about creating the first gas mask which he tested on two of his associates in a gas filled chamber.
For example, states and activities, but not usually achievements, can be used in English with a prepositional for-phrase describing a time duration: " I had a car for five hours ", " I shopped for five hours ", but not "* I bought a car for five hours ".
However, according to Nelson, the concept of transclusion had already formed part of his 1965 description of hypertext ; he also interprets the notion of " trails " in Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay As We May Think as describing transclusion rather than hyperlinks.
" Although Marrow may have been using some artistic license in describing his bank robbing exploits, he also stated he was glad the United States justice system has a statute of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early-to mid-1970s.
From there he went north to Hangzhou, which he described as one of the largest cities he had ever seen, and he noted its charm, describing that the city sat on a beautiful lake and was surrounded by gentle green hills.
In describing this optical spectrum he acknowledged that the spectrum had a continuum of colors, but specifically named seven colors: " The originall or primary colours are Red, yellow, Green, Blew, & a violet purple ; together with Orang, Indico, & an indefinite varietie of intemediate gradations.
# " The accomplishments in international law ", describing the fleshing out of several international criminal law concepts which had not been ruled on since the Nuremberg Trials ;
" The reason why Taylor believes this, is that " a friend of Kosinski's wrote a letter to the Times, which was published in the Book Review, describing the detailed plans he and Jerzy had made to meet that weekend at Polanski's house on Cielo Drive.
However, Calvin had always warned against describing him as an " idol " and Geneva as a new " Jerusalem ".

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