I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

But they refuse, as do the Arab states, to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between Egypt and Israel, and the U.N. troops in the Congo, which expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, but by a special budget.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were, a short while ago, in the Western camp.

It is a main flavoring for halvah, the candy of the Middle East.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

The spirit served chiefly to lull the West while Moscow made inroads into the Middle East.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

He wrote detailed comparative studies on the religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and especially South Asia.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

In the Middle East, a growing appetite for eating frog legs and the consequent gathering of them for food was linked to an increase in mosquitoes.

" What the West borrowed from the Middle East ", in Savory, R. M.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet, but because these writing systems are largely consonant-based they are often not considered true alphabets.

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In the Middle East, Aramaic gave rise to the Hebrew and Nabataean abjads, which retained many of the Aramaic letter forms.

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The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems use a script that can be traced back to it, as well as numerous non-Chinese writing systems of Central and East Asia.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

After his cases in the Middle East, Poirot returned to Britain.

In particular, we cannot in general claim that " P or not P " is true ( the law of Excluded Middle ), since in some cases we may not be able to prove the statement " P " nor prove the statement " not P ".

In some cases, the name языкъ блъгарьскъ was used not only with regard to the contemporary Middle Bulgarian language of the copyist but also to the period of Old Bulgarian.

Altogether, there have been about 150 recorded cases of blood libel ( not to mention thousands of rumors ) that resulted in the arrest and killing of Jews throughout history, most of them in the Middle Ages ...

In words coming from Middle English, most cases of the Modern English diphthongs originate from the Middle English long monophthongs through the Great Vowel Shift, although some cases of originate from the Middle English diphthongs.

In the Middle Ages, its evidence was frequently invoked in the law-courts ; and even now, there are certain cases in which appeal is made to its testimony.

The grammatical relations that were expressed in Old English by the dative and locative cases are replaced in Early Middle English with prepositional constructions.

In his book, The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages, Valentin Groebner argues that the images composed on coats of arms are in many cases designed to convey a feeling of power and strength, often in military terms.

For the fossil record of living genera, documented since the Middle Miocene ( about 15 mya ) at least in some cases, see the genus articles.

It is known that cases of the syndrome had already been observed during the Middle Ages, since it was described in the itinerary of Felix Fabri and the biography of Margery Kempe.

Elland is one of the relatively few cases retaining continuity of tenure from before the Norman Conquest into the Middle Ages, as the Elland family were, in origin, Anglo-Saxon thegns.

* Congo-Brazzaville ( variously named, often Middle Congo ) had a single High commissioner, a bit after it was granted on 28 November 1958 autonomy ( as Republic of Congo ), 7 January 1959 – 15 August 1960: Guy Noël Georgy ( b. 1918 – d. 2003 ) after many Lieutenant governors since 11 December 1888 ( under the governor-general of AEF, except the several cases when he governed the French Congo personally ); afterwards it was an independent republic

In many cases the original sense of the new negative particle is not negative per se ( thus in French pas " step ", originally " not a step " = " not a bit "), but in Germanic languages such as English and German the intermediate stage was a case of double negation, as the current negatives not and nicht in these languages originally meant " nothing ": e. g. Old English ic ne seah " I didn't see " >> Middle English I ne saugh nawiht, lit.

Of the approximately 4000 urban settlements of the Empire-with over nine-tenth having fewer than 1000 inhabitants around 1600-fewer than 200 enjoyed the status of Free Imperial City during the late Middle Ages, in some cases only for a few decades.

European records indicate cases of persons being accused or tried for taking part in Sabbat gatherings, from the Middle Ages to the 17th century or later.

Travel literature was highly popular in the Middle Ages, as fantastic accounts of far-off lands ( frequently embellished or entirely false ) entertained a society that, in most cases, limited people to the area in which they were born.

Declension was greatly simplified during the Middle English period, when the accusative and dative cases of the pronouns merged into a single oblique case that also replaced the genitive case after prepositions.

Multiple cases have also been described in Hong Kong and Brunei India, and sporadic cases in Central and South America, the Middle East, the Pacific and several African countries.