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In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.
The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square -- for purely mathematical reasons -- and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality.
This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.
Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).
Noting that the modifying component in Germanic compound words can take the form of a genitive or a bare root, he points to behavioural similarities between genitive determinants and the modifying element in regular Old Norse compound words, such as the fact that neither can be modified by a free-standing ( declined ) adjective.
The element name comes from a mischievous sprite of German miner's mythology, Nickel ( similar to Old Nick ), that personified the fact that copper-nickel ores resisted refinement into copper.
The apocryphal phrase was, in fact, attributed to the Old Guard's commander, Pierre Cambronne but whose actual reply was later asserted by other sources to be " Merde!
In fact the word cattle is the Old Norman variant of Old French chatel ( derived from Latin capitalis,of the head ”), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.
" Bugge's basis hinges on the fact that the-toskr element of the compound does not appear anywhere else in Old Norse.
Their union, one nucleus of the Old Swiss Confederacy, is recorded in the Federal Charter, a document probably written after the fact in the early 14th century.
That fact has been confirmed explicitly by the papal letter Industriae tuae ( 880 ) approving the use of Old Church Slavonic, which says that the alphabet was " invented by Constantine the Philosopher ".
Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".
Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.
( However, this story is disputed due to the fact that Sabbah died in 1124 and Sinan, who is frequently known as the " Old Man of the Mountain ", died in 1192.
In personal terms, Simon was also inspired by the fact of being over 60 years old, an age that he turned in 2001 and that he humorously referred already on his single " Old " from the You're the One.
In fact, by the end of the period in which Middle English was spoken, as much as eighty percent of Old English vocabulary was no longer in use.
The names and many details of their culture are in fact based on Germanic-derived cultures, particularly that of the Anglo-Saxons and their Old English language, towards which Tolkien felt a strong affinity.
Chong wrote in his 2009 book Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography that Komack based the show on Cheech and Chong skits titled " The Old Man in the Park " and " Pedro and Man " and had acknowledged that fact to Chong after the television series ' release.
Óskmey may be related to the Odinic name Óski ( Old Norse, roughly meaning " wish fulfiller "), referring to the fact that Odin receives slain warriors in Valhalla.
The 2005 IDW comic book Spike: Old Times, by Peter David, depicts Spike's encounter with the vengeance demon Halfrek, explaining his recognition of her in Buffy episode " Older and Far Away ", and clarifying that she was in fact his beloved Cecily.
The name change was precipitated by the predominant use of English in the church, the fact that the name " German Baptist " frustrated mission work, and to further distance themselves from the Old German Baptist Brethren.

fact and Frankish
A possible reason for the willingness of the Franks to connect themselves with the Kentish court is the fact that a Frankish king, Chilperic I, is recorded as having conquered a people known as the Euthiones during the mid-sixth century.
The outstanding handful of Frankish saints who were not of the Merovingian kinship nor the family alliances that provided Merovingian counts and dukes, deserve a closer inspection for that fact alone: like Gregory of Tours, they were almost without exception from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in regions south and west of Merovingian control.
The common contemporary Latin legal term used in documents of the Holy Roman Empire was for a long time regnum (" rule, domain, empire ", such as in Regnum Francorum for the Frankish Kingdom ) before imperium was in fact adopted, the latter first attested in 1157, whereas the parallel use of regnum never fell out of use during the Middle Ages.
Merovech ( Latin: Meroveus or Merovius ) ( c. 415-457 ) is the semi-legendary founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks ( although Chlodio may in fact be the founder ), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe.
Due to the fact that the Frankish Empire ruled Western Europe for centuries, the word " Frank " became deeply associated, by the Eastern Europeans and Middle Easterners, with Latins who professed the Roman Catholic faith.
Taking advantage of the fact that Lombard king Grimoald I of Benevento was engaged against Frankish forces from Neustria, Constans II disembarked at Taranto and besieged Lucera and Benevento.
Though often presented as the dissolution of the Frankish empire, it was in fact the continued adherence to Salic patrimony.
The fact that it was attacked by Saxons, who entered it from their own country and " laid waste as far as the city of Deutz ," the originally Frankish part of the Roman city of Cologne, identifies it at least in part as the country around Cologne.
The fact that these votive inscriptions were made by discharged veterans settling where they were discharged ; i. e., in or near their native villages, indicates a strong Frankish element in the Roman army from the beginning of the Franks. The inscriptions are most frequent in the 3rd century.
Though he is sometimes seen as a " national " king in Italian histories, he was in fact of Frankish birth.
However, some form of settlement of Crusaders in these areas is possible, as they are mentioned in several manuscripts of the time as participants of several battles against the Muslims in Georgia ( 100 " Frankish " Crusaders participated in King David's army in the Battle of Didgori ), and the fact that some passed through here after the fall of the Holy Land.
In fact, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona, a delegate of the Frankish court, was briefly imprisoned in Constantinople for not referring to the Roman emperor by his appropriate title, and in reprisal for his king, Otto I, claiming the " Roman " title by styling himself as Holy Roman Emperor.
This came as something of a surprise, given the old division into Frankish and Hunnic grape varieties used in the Germanic world, as it meant that the prototype simple " Hunnic " grape was in fact an ancestor to most of the noble " Frankish " grapes.

fact and language
In doing so, Greenberg sought to emphasize the fact that Afroasiatic was the only language family that was represented transcontinentally, in both Africa and Asia.
Recently, Corey Anton has argued that we cannot be certain what is separate from or unified with something else: language, he asserts, divides what is not in fact separate.
This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).
Antisemitism refers specifically to prejudice against Jews alone and in general, despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages ( e. g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians ) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.
This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.
In fact, no attempt to show a relationship with Ainu to any other language has gained wide acceptance, and Ainu is currently considered to be a language isolate.
The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!
For example, as in pin and as in spin are allophones for the phoneme in the English language because they cannot distinguish words ( in fact, they occur in complementary distribution ).
The difference between the pronunciation and spelling of " chicano " and " mexicano " stems from the fact that the modern-day Spanish language experienced a change in pronunciation regarding a majority of words containing the " x " ( for example: México, Ximenez, Xavier, Xarabe ).
Though the TeX typesetting language has an equivalent, the CTAN ( and in fact the CPAN's name is based on the CTAN ), few languages have an exhaustive central repository for libraries.
Where Whorf reasoned that the sophistication of a language controls the sophistication of the thoughts that can be expressed by a speaker of that language, Engelbart reasoned that the state of our current technology controls our ability to manipulate information, and that fact in turn will control our ability to develop new, improved technologies.
Those who identify a particular dialect as the " standard " or " proper " version of a language are in fact using these terms to express a social distinction.
In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.
In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.
Tillohash's strong intuition about the soundpatterns of his language led Sapir to propose that the phoneme is not just an abstraction existing at the structural level of language, but that it in fact has psychological reality for speakers.
The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.
Parties to international franchising may decide to adopt the English language for the document, as long as the Brazilian party knows English fluently and expressly acknowledges that fact, to avoid translation.
A curious fact is that Luther spoke a dialect which had minor importance in the German language of that time.
According to Akiba, the divine language of the Torah is distinguished from the speech of men by the fact that in the former no word or sound is superfluous.
Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but rarely as the first foreign language ; in fact, Italian is considered the fourth-or fifth-most taught foreign language in the world.

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