In historical times, the priests of Delphi were called Labryaden, " the double-axe men ", which indicates Minoan origin.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.

* Britons ( historical ), the Celtic people of Great Britain in ancient times

Capoeira has a long and controversial history, since historical documentation in Brazil was very scarce in its colonial times.

In the 1990s, about twenty civil wars were occurring concurrently during an average year, a rate about ten times the historical average since the 19th century.

According to one of the historical chronicles ( the Gunji Yoshu ), nine sets of five beats would summon an ally to battle, while nine sets of three beats, sped up three or four times is the call to advance and pursue an enemy.

However, when and where the ancestors of the Goths assigned this name to themselves and whether they used it in Indo-European or proto-Germanic times remain unsolved questions of historical linguistics and prehistoric archaeology.

After Latham agreed to publish the book, Mitchell worked for another six months checking the historical references, and rewrote the opening chapter several times.

Numerous times, he and Engels expressed irritation with dilettante academics who sought to knock up their skimpy historical knowledge as quickly as possible into some grand theoretical system that would explain " everything " about history.

Towards the end of his life, Engels commented several times about the abuse of historical materialism.

While ancient writers do not normally share modern historical practices, their work remains valuable for its insights within the cultural context of the times.

The tomb was still there in historical times, and the inhabitants of Dyme honored Sostratus as a hero.

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

The value of Heimskringla as a historical source has been estimated in different ways during recent times.

* In modern times, the historical figure lent his name to Imhotep, the title character of the 1932 film The Mummy and its 1999 remake along with a sequel.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

The Mishnah also quotes the Torah for principles not associated with law, but just as practical advice, even at times for humor or as guidance for understanding historical debates.

In historical times, Megara was an early dependency of Corinth, in which capacity colonists from Megara founded Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse in Sicily.

Megara was known for its money in historical times.

Scott Atkins with critical introduction, historical contexts, and new footnotes from American Studies at the University of Virginia.

* Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with an historical introduction by Ludwig Noiré, available at

The first edition of the first part of the Grammar ( which appeared in 1819 ), and is now extremely rare, treated of the inflections of all these languages, and included a general introduction, in which he vindicated the importance of an historical study of the German language against the a priori, quasi-philosophical methods then in vogue.

Bloomfield made extensive use of Indo-European materials to explain historical and comparative principles in both of his textbooks, An introduction to language ( 1914 ), and his seminal Language ( 1933 ).

Each tractate is introduced with an overview of its contents, including historical and legal background material, and each Mishnah is prefaced by a thematic introduction.

" The two most important historical figures who signify the introduction of the concepts of national boundary and sovereignty in Ethiopia are Emperor Menelik II and Ras Gobana Dachi, who used guns manufactured in Europe to bring a large swath of Biyas ( regions / nations ) under a centralized rule.

Starting with the third edition, Darwin prefaced the introduction with a sketch of the historical development of evolutionary ideas.

Besides the renovation of various buildings, projects such as the reconstruction of the pavement of the streets and squares ( reversing them to their historical appearance ), and the introduction of new plants, trees and objects of ' small architecture ', are underway.

Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara's modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups ( living under Berber tribal rule and in contact with the Roman Empire ) such as the Sanhaja group and the introduction of Islam and the Arabic language the end from the 8th century AD.

Grimm's law was the first non-trivial systematic sound change to be discovered in linguistics ; its formulation was a turning point in the development of linguistics, enabling the introduction of a rigorous methodology to historical linguistic research.

Each volume will contain an analytical historical introduction, a critical edition of the music and a critical commentary ( comprising a list, description and criticism of the sources, an account of the interpretational problems and a list of variants ).

With an historical introduction and an index by William Frederick Poole ( Andover, MA: W. F. Draper, 1654 1867.

* The. 45 Long Colt shot clip appears in the historical introduction to the film Tombstone, as do numerous other clips from the film, notably the man shot while attempting to escape the robbers.

Michael Sragow wrote in 2000 that the documentary was " a wonderful introduction to Peckinpah ’ s radically detailed historical film about American outlaws in revolutionary Mexico — a masterpiece that ’ s part bullet-driven ballet, part requiem for Old West friendship and part existential explosion.

An introduction to historical linguistics.

Some of Sybel's numerous historical and political essays have been collected in Kleine historische Schriften ( 3 vols, 1863, 1869, 1881 ; new ed., 1897 ); Vorträge und Aufsätze ( Berlin, 1874 ); and Vorträge und Abhandlungen, published after his death with a biographical introduction by C. Varrentrapp ( Munich, 1897 ).

A revised edition of this work, with a historical and biographical introduction, was published in 1885 by Charles Plummer, under the title The Governance of England.

In the North, the historical borders of Ostrobothnia towards Västerbotten and Laponia are somewhat undefined, partly because the permanently fixed inhabitation was a relatively new phenomenon at the time of the introduction of county system, which replaced the older provincial divisions.

Two important historical events have dramatically reshaped Berchtesgadener Land in recent years, namely Austria's signing of the Schengen treaty in 1990 and the introduction of the Euro in 2002 in both Germany and Austria.

A number of popular accounts in historical Chinese literature have led to the popularity of certain legends regarding the introduction of Buddhism into China.

The further historical evolution of idée fixe was much entangled with the introduction of psychologists into legal matters such as the insanity defense, and is found in a number of texts.

A mathematical introduction and historical overview with a stress on group theory and the application in high-energy physics.

Decolonization is rarely achieved through a single historical act, but rather progresses through one or more stages of emancipation, each of which can be offered or fought for: these can include the introduction of elected representatives ( advisory or voting ; minority or majority or even exclusive ), degrees of autonomy or self-rule.

In 1977, he edited a comprehensive compilation of Harrington tracts, with a lengthy historical introduction.