This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

The historical sign tells its story, but nothing gets interest across as well as some of the original historical items or places themselves which still have the character of the period covered.

Also, there are housed here some priceless historical treasures from 400 to 600 years old -- paintings, lacquer, brocade, etc..

* A language may spell some words with unpronounced letters that exist for historical or other reasons.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Because Ambrosius and Vortigern are shown in the Historia Brittonum as being in conflict, some historians have suspected that this preserves a historical core of the existence of two parties in opposition to one another, one headed by Ambrosius and the other by Vortigern.

Since some modern scholars do detect subtle theological and historical differences between the texts, such scholars do not subscribe to the rough-draft / polished-draft theory.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

The concentration on historical data led to some claims of high accuracy that were comparatively weak when compared to the statistically led investigations in Europe.

In all, Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects including Talmud, Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy.

Below a list of some of the historical events in which the Brazilian Armed Forces took part:

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

In fact, due to the repetitious nature of some of phrases or intertextuality with Jeremiah, an argument has been put forth that the “ historical Jeremiah ” is hard to validate and should be abandoned.

The first stage was the collection and arrangement of some spoken sayings of the historical Micah ( the material in chapters 1-3 ), in which the prophet attacks those who build estates through oppression and depicts the Assyrian invasion of Judah as Yahweh's punishment on the kingdom's corrupt rulers, including a prophecy that the Temple will be destroyed.

* A collection of historical articles on the Borzoi breed, some dating as far back as 1891

In addition, there are several historical uses of the term that provide some background as to its meaning.

For each physical quantity, a number of different units ( some only of historical interest ) are shown and expressed in terms of the corresponding SI unit.

Yet for historical perspective, some rough date ranges will be provided for each to indicate the " height " or accepted time span of the movement.

In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.

The later volumes contain some stories rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp ( like " The Treasure of Tranicos "), including several non-Conan Howard stories, mostly historical exotica situated in the Levant at the time of the crusades, which he turned into Conan yarns.

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

Religious, historical and socio-cultural factors have helped define the bounds of endogamy for Muslims in some parts of Pakistan.

However, wall depictions of this instrument have not been discovered, casting some doubt over the extent to which this instrument was used.

These included some for the Triumphs of Maximilian, where he followed the overall style presumably set by Hans Burgkmair, although he was able to escape somewhat from this in his depictions of the more disorderly baggage-train, still coming through a mountain landscape.

" It is noteworthy that all of the images so mentioned by Tertullian and Clement were common Greco-Roman depictions used by non-Christians ; but Christians adopted them for their own use, even giving a specifically Christian significance to some of them.

The surviving evidence for the earliest depictions of Christ, Mary and saints therefore comes from wall-paintings, mosaics and some carvings.

In some depictions, these resurrections are immediately after she is killed, while other depictions indicate that resurrection must occur at a " correct " time, sometimes taking a century.

The earliest depictions show the pair love-making with some explicitness — more so than in any depictions of a human pair made by artists of high quality in the same period.

Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some interesting depictions in paintings and illuminations, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts.

This alternative tradition survived into the Renaissance, and still figures in some modern depictions, such as Steele Savage's illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology ( 1942 ).

In some Western cultures, the geographic North Pole is described as being the location of the workshop and residence of Santa Claus, although the depictions have been inconsistent between the geographic and magnetic North Pole.

Many depictions show him as villainous or even demonic in nature, though some portray him in a more positive light.

In particular, some of his studies of the perspective foreshortening of the torus are preserved, and one standard display of drawing skill was his depictions of the mazzocchio.

Such depictions are mostly dystopian, and in some cases humorous or satirical ; positively presented theocracies are very much the exception.

It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera's leading singers.

There are some depictions of chariots among the petroglyphs in the sandstone of the Vindhya range.

While depictions of the dragon in art and literature are largely consistent throughout the cultures in which it is found, there are some regional differences.

Hustler has often featured more explicit photographs than comparable magazines and has contained depictions of women that some find demeaning, such as a naked woman in a meat grinder or presented as a dog on a leash — though Flynt later said that the meat grinder image was a criticism of the pornography industry itself.

In The Gods of the Celts, author Green states that some depictions of Arduinna show her riding a boar ( Green 1986, p. 180 ).

Excavation of the site revealed several inscribed altars, some with depictions of Coventina in typical Roman nymph form ; two are shown here.

In some depictions, the middle figure is depicted with loose hair and wearing a headband, and the other two wear head dresses.

Prodigy's 1997 video for " Smack My Bitch Up " was banned in some countries due to depictions of drug use and nudity.

In some depictions he carried a large, white seashell on his back, representing the moon itself ; in others he had butterfly wings.

In some depictions, the robe was more similar to a kilt.

Even some war goddesses were depicted with the body of Min ( including the phallus ), and this also led to depictions, ostensibly of Min, with the head of a lioness.