Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.

Although his paper was widely cited, a random selection of 60 of these citations revealed that 29 of the papers were direct rebuttals or criticisms of Jensen's arguments, 8 cited the paper as an " example of controversy ," 8 used it as a background reference.

This passage in King's speech is a direct reference to Amos, as translated in the American Standard Version of the BibleJoshua Heschel " The Prophets ".

In some cases, one might like to have a direct definition of the cotangent space without reference to the tangent space.

The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht ’ s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.

* To claim that one thing equals another is a claim only about the present with no reference to the future or the past — it can be disproved by direct testing ( see falsifiability ).

It is characteristic of early literature that the evolution of the thought, or the grammatical form of the sentence, is guided by the structure of the verse ; and the correspondence which consequently obtains between the rhythm and the syntax — the thought being given out in lengths, as it were, and these again divided by tolerably uniform pauses — produces a swift flowing movement such as is rarely found when periods are constructed without direct reference to the metre.

Even today, Id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.

Although Origen makes no direct reference to the Testimonium, scholars such as Louis Feldman and Zvi Baras have presented arguments that Origen may have seen a copy of the Testimonium and not commented on it for there was no need to complain about its tone.

The earliest known such reference to Josephus ' work is found in the writings of the third century patristic author Origen, although he does not provide any direct reference to the passages involving Jesus.

One who studies these books in the order of their production with reference to their inner content finds a direct development with a strong reformatory tendency.

Since definitions of left and right based on the geometry of the natural environment are unwieldy, in practice, the meaning of relative direction words is conveyed through tradition, acculturation, education, and direct reference.

One of the earliest direct reference to Mabon can be found in the tenth century poem Pa Gur, in which Arthur recounts the feats and achievements of his knights so as to gain entrance to a fortress guarded by Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, the eponymous porter.

The toadstool's connection to toads may be direct, in reference to some species of poisonous toad, or may just be a case of phonosemantic matching from the German word.

* lyrics that made direct or indirect reference to drugs, as in Jefferson Airplane's " White Rabbit " or Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ";

It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).

In the German version of the game, it avoids making direct reference to Nazi Party and the " Third Reich ", in order to comply with strict laws in Germany.

The term is used in reference to all those in all areas of the sex industry including those who provide direct sexual services as well as the staff of such industries.

" This line was a direct reference to Forsythe's earlier film, Cloak & Dagger.

More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).

* In 1910 – 11 Futurist artist Gino Severini painted " The Black Cat " in direct reference to Poe's short story.

* Report to Wordsworth, Written by Boey Kim Cheng, as a direct reference to his poems Composed Upon Westminster Bridge and The World is too Much with us

* The maximum practical size for CRTs is around 24 inches for computer monitors ; most direct view CRT televisions are 36 inches or smaller, with regular-production models limited to about 40 inches.

Such gods, while keeping the original features of celestial divinities, i. e. transcendent heavenly power and abstention from direct rule in worldly matters, did not share the fate of other celestial gods in Indoeuropean religions-that of becoming dei otiosi or gods without practical purpose, since they did retain a particular sort of influence over the world and mankind.

Although the Norwegian council never recognized the declaration formally, and Norway kept some separate institutions and its legal system, this had the practical effect that the Norwegian possessions of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came under direct control of the crown.

Although the LEDs were rather dim and not practical for use in direct sunlight, the technology proved to have major uses for alphanumeric displays and was integrated into HP's early handheld calculators.

When it comes to practical application, however, the word probability does not have a singular direct definition.

All practical transformers must therefore operate with alternating ( or pulsed direct ) current.

Instead, the UNL targets direct communicative behavior and literal meanings as a tangible, concrete basis for much or most of human communication in practical, day-to-day settings.

The easiest means of approaching this system is direct solution ( for example, LU factorization ), which for small problems is very practical.

The reflected signal will have no practical effect on digital systems because of its low level relative to the direct signal ; i. e., it will have no practical effect on the detected signal seen at the decision point of the digital optical receiver.

In telecommunication, a technical control facility ( TCF ) is a telecommunications facility, or a designated and specially configured part thereof, that ( a ) contains the equipment necessary for ensuring fast, reliable, and secure exchange of information, ( b ) typically includes distribution frames and associated panels, jacks, and switches and monitoring, test, conditioning, and orderwire equipment, and ( c ) allows telecommunications systems control personnel to exercise operational control of communications paths and facilities, make quality analyses of communications and communications channels, monitor operations and maintenance functions, recognize and correct deteriorating conditions, restore disrupted communications, provide requested on-call circuits, and take or direct such actions as may be required and practical to provide effective telecommunications services.

It is said by his detractors that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, he took no trouble to have Joan commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his ( in every sense ) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical ( in terms of securing his personal objectives ) rather than sentimental ( her connections being of no direct use to him after her death ).

In any case, Renaissance chastity belts were said to have had padded linings ( to prevent large areas of metal from coming into direct prolonged contact with the skin ), and these had to be changed fairly frequently, so that such belts were not practical for uninterrupted long-term wear.

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Although they were used only for instructional purposes, in 1828 Jedlik demonstrated the first device to contain the three main components of practical direct current motors: the stator, rotor and commutator.

While most of his contemporaries and others since have regarded Hunter as a great anatomist, he undertook anatomy not only because it was practical and allowed for the direct observation of nature in the true Baconian tradition (" his mode of studying nature was … strictly Baconian.

There were not necessarily exhortatory, but addressed practical questions of government and sometimes even included direct orders.

While it may seem easiest to order these blocks in direct serial order in each track, such as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, for early computing devices this ordering was not practical.

The inscription on the wall is NACA's mission statement: ... It shall be the duty of the advisory committee for aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution ... By an Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1915

The purpose of the committee was " to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.

The act of Congress creating NACA, approved March 3, 1915, reads, "... It shall be the duty of the advisory committee for aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution ...."

His detractors maintained that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, Richard took no trouble to have his first wife commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his ( in every sense ) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical ( in terms of securing his personal objectives ) rather than sentimental ( Joan's connections being of no direct use to him after her death ).

For practical purposes, a time-average of the direct insolation over the course of the year is commonly used.

But a more efficient, practical attack would be taking a quicker, more direct line to the opponent's body.