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In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.
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Those who claim the codex's Hungarian authenticity either assume that it is a paleo-Hungarian script, or try to find resemblances to the Old Hungarian script, that is Hungarian ( Székely ) runes (" rovásírás ").
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These disrupted the codex's authority by creating books with holes in ; ( Picture Book, 1957, for instance ) allowing the viewer to see more than one page at the same time.
description and first
Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.
The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.
Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.
The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.
To define the Kolmogorov complexity, we must first specify a description language for strings.
A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.
This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.
The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.
Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.
The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.
However, according to George Sussman, the first obvious medical description of plague in China dates to 1644.
In Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") monk and later archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen Rimbert gives the first known description of Birka.
The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).
The first attempt at a microscopic description of magnetism was by Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising through the Ising model that described magnetic materials as consisting of a periodic lattice of quantum spins that collectively acquired magnetization.
The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.
In 1927, the first mathematically complete quantum description of a simple chemical bond, i. e. that produced by one electron in the hydrogen molecular ion, H < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >+</ sup >, was derived by the Danish physicist Oyvind Burrau.
On-sight climbing means to attempt a rock climbing route for the first time without inspection or any form of " beta " ( such as route description, watching others climb it, etc.
Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.
* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.
It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.
A description of how the device could be used as a shift register and as a linear and area imaging devices was described in this first entry.
Although migration of cells was detected from the early days of the development of microscopy ( Leeuwenhoek ), erudite description of chemotaxis was first made by T W. Engelmann ( 1881 ) and W. F.
In 1912, William Mestrezat gave the first accurate description of the chemical composition of the CSF.
In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.
The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.
description and meeting
Prosper of Aquitaine gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting, but gives all the credit of the successful negotiation to Leo.
A description of that meeting is included in the Charles Burdett book Life of Kit Carson.
This Glasgow scientist seems to have been the first to suggest the usage of a manometric gas flame for optical transmission, demonstrated at a meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society ; " The History of selenium and its action in the Bell Photophone, with description of recently designed form ", Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow No. 13, 1881, * * * Moser, J.
* Site of the Zunyi Conference – Photo and description of the building in which the landmark 1935 politburo meeting was held
A new constitution, approved overwhelmingly in February 1989, dropped the word " socialist " from the official description of the country ; guaranteed freedoms of expression, association, and meeting ; and withdrew the guarantees of female rights that appeared in the 1976 constitution.
At the meeting at which Newton was elected, he read a description of a reflecting telescope which he had invented, and " it was ordered that a letter should be written by the secretary to Mr Newton to acquaint him of his election into the Society, and to thank him for the communication of his telescope, and to assure him that the Society would take care that all right should be done him with respect to this invention.
In his description of this meeting, Theophanes Continuatus mentions that " the two emperors … conversed ", which may indicate renewed Byzantine recognition of Simeon's imperial claims.
Stephen Jones, the trial attorney who first represented McVeigh, cited evidence of a meeting in Davao City, Mindanao, in 1992 or 1993, in which 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, al-Qaeda members Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah, and a " farmer " fitting Nichols's description met to discuss the Oklahoma bombing.
The term " Aber " is associated with the ' pouring out ' of a river, hence the description of the two rivers meeting and forming an estuary.
Alan Perlis gave a vivid description of the meeting: " The meetings were exhausting, interminable, and exhilarating.
The meeting was chaired by the President of the society, Thomas Bell, who had written up the description of Darwin's reptile specimens from the Beagle expedition.
There remains a description of a Muggletonian holiday meeting held at the Reading Room at 7 New Street, London on February 14 1869.
: 19 December: Rothschild has quickly prepared a description of the bird, as Traversia lyalli, which is read by Ernst Hartert at the British Ornithologists ' Club meeting.
The first description of a modern objective ethnography of the peoples inhabiting La Gran Chichimeca was done by Norwegian naturalist and explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz in 1890 when he traveled on muleback through northwestern Mexico, meeting the indigenous peoples on friendly terms.
The transcription has then been edited to merge into a description of his and Ada's actual meeting, and then out again.
Prosper of Aquitaine gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting, but gives all the credit of the successful negotiation to Leo.
The Money Lenders begins with a vivid description of the scene in the lobby of the Sheraton Washington Hotel during that 1980 IMF meeting, which Sampson labels " the most superior of all salesmen's conventions.
20: 1-20: 42 5 ) the description of David and Jonathan's final meeting in 1 Sam.
Thomas Bell, who had written up the description of Darwin's reptile specimens from the Beagle expedition, presided over the meeting.
Includes description of the author meeting a Tropicana dancer and their subsequent love affair.
* " A description of a Tonkawa peyote meeting held in 1902 ", American Ethnography
In his description of the first meeting, Hirst wrote that what brought the men together was actually a " devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas ," and he predicted that situations would arise when their concerted efforts would be of great use.
It describes what happened to the people who actually went to the museum on the designated afternoon to see if Soames showed up ; at 2: 10 PM, a person meeting Soames ' description appears, and begins searching through the catalogue and various biographical dictionaries.
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