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.

Muslim historians say that Caliph Uthman ibn Affan ( the third khalifa ( caliph ) of the Rashidun Empire, or third successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary ), is generally believed to urge Muslims to record the hadith just as Muhammad suggested to some of his followers to write down his words and actions.

The dictator's last words are not known with certainty, and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike.

Music historians may examine issues in a close focus, as in the case of scholars who examine the relationship between words and music for a given composer.

The last four words are vital: historians and archaeologists coming to the Dyke have had Asser in their hand, and have been looking for an earthwork ' from sea to sea '.

Variations of the Sanskrit words Bhota-ant ( end of Bhot ) or Bhu-uttan ( meaning highlands ) have been suggested by historians as origins of the name Bhutan, which came into common foreign use in the late nineteenth century and is used in Bhutan only in English-language official correspondence.

( For a more detailed discussion of the methods see the section on " Research in Music History " below ) Some of the intellectual products of music historians include editions of musical works, biography of composers and other musicians, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the reflections upon the place of music in society.

In other words, many economists, sociologists, political scientists and historians have traditionally failed to acknowledge that everyday people do indeed play a role in shaping their world or outlook.

Modern historians suspect Callinicus may have fabricated the last words of Justinian to secure the succession for his political ally.

Beginning with the second half of the 1st millennium BCE, the city was detailed more and more intensely in the words of ancient historians, especially with the development of trade ties with Greece.

There is no scholarly consensus as to what exactly Hidalgo said at the time, as the book The Course of Mexican History states " The exact words of this most famous of all Mexican speeches are not known, or, rather, they are reproduced in almost as many variations as there are historians to reproduce them.

This commemoration led the press to note " similarities " between Burebista and Ceauşescu, and even professional historians such as Ion Horaţiu Crişan used about Burebista words of omage similar to the ones used by party activists about Ceauşescu.

Four years later, in 1831, the Introduction à l ' histoire universelle showed a very different style, exhibiting the idiosyncrasy and literary power of the writer to greater advantage, but also displaying, in the words of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, " the peculiar visionary qualities which made Michelet the most stimulating, but the most untrustworthy ( not in facts, which he never consciously falsifies, but in suggestion ) of all historians.

# That, owing partly to the want of ability in historians, and partly to the complexity of social phenomena, extremely little had as yet been done towards discovering the principles that govern the character and destiny of nations, or, in other words, towards establishing a science of history

However, professional linguists and historians, particularly the specialists in ancient Slavic, question many features of its language — vocabulary ( modern or medieval Slavic words occasionally and unwittingly used in place of their ancient equivalents ), spelling, phonetics ( distinct reflections of the nasal vowels, both following Polish and Serbian patterns in different places, the haphazard handling of reduced vowels, etc., etc.

The book was a " publishing phenomenon ", achieving fame in both the United States and Germany, despite its " mostly scathing " reception among historians, who were unusually vocal in condemning it as ahistorical and, in the words of Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, " totally wrong about everything " and " worthless ".

The difficulties about the correct interpretation of these words will probably not unravel until historians elucidate more fully the normal functions and jurisdiction of the various local courts.

It was only in the 19th century that Spanish historians started to use the words " Mozarabs " and " Mozarabic " to refer to those Christians people and their language who lived under Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages.

In Goldin's words, " the new economic historians extinguished the other side ".

According to Aviel Roshwald, despite the " widespread " belief that these famous last words are apocryphal, " the irony is that the authenticity of the official story about Trumpeldor's final utterance is actually well-attested and not disputed by historians.

Many dance historians continue to regard The Coach with the Six Insides as " the most successful — and celebrated — attempt to unite dance and words.

On the other hand, some Bulgarian historians, especially modern ones, link the Bulgar language to the Iranian language group instead ( more specifically, the Pamir languages are frequently mentioned ), noting the presence of Iranic words in the modern Bulgarian language.

While it was the name of the sheep station, without precedent in the English language, most historians believe it to have originated from Indigenous Australian words.

Many historians assert, however, that the famous four words never were actually uttered by Durocher ; the quotation as it is remembered actually came from headline writers distilling Durocher's quote that " The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place, not in this dugout " into a pithy soundbite.

* 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper, greeted him with the now famous words " Dr Livingstone, I presume?

His grave, in the churchyard of St. Michael's Church in Pirbright, Surrey, is marked by a large piece of granite inscribed with the words " Henry Morton Stanley, Bula Matari, 1841 – 1904, Africa ".

Born as the son of Julius Morton and Caroline Georgiana Wheeler ( née Anderson ) in Milwaukee, he was transferred from public school to a local German academy due to, in his own words, " persistently bad behavior ".

Morton stated that he was old and infirm and would have been unlikely to survive confinement in Inverness away from the comfort of East Lothian, and was compelled by his ' just dredour ' ( rightful fear ) of the King with his ' menacing ' and messages with ' boastful words '.

Though he never talked about his religious background, several comments by those around him during his time at WJM suggest he might have been Jewish: Phyllis Lindstrom was the first to suggest that he would get along well with Rhoda since, in her strained words, they were " both ... earthy ," and in a later episode Sue Ann Nivens assured him he would not mind singing her " non-denominational " Christmas carols.

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with " d-o-l-l " for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.

It includes words that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21, and was written during her time in college.

Keller mimics the words Sullivan spells into her hand throughout the film by spelling them back in Sullivan's hand, so at this moment it would only seem that Keller was continuing to mimic without understanding the concept.

Anne met the then-six-year-old Helen and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with " d-o-l-l " for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.

Keller was discovered to have made only minute changes to common words and phrases and used less common words to put the same point across, suggesting mere alterations to original ideas.

" While Helen Keller took pride in using rare phrases and avoids common source words, Condon was fond of expanding existing words into phrases and existing phrases into more extensive ones.

In other words, like automation machines designed to work in tandem, they shared the same programming, a mutual understanding not only of English words, but of the four stresses, pitches, and junctures that can change their meaning from black to white.

Anti-Altaicists Gerard Clauson ( 1956 ), Gerhard Doerfer ( 1963 ), and Alexander Shcherbak argued that the words and features shared by Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic were for the most part borrowings and that the rest could be attributed to chance resemblances.

It lists 144 items of shared basic vocabulary ( most of them already present in Starostin 1991 ), including words for such items as ' eye ', ' ear ', ' neck ', ' bone ', ' blood ', ' water ', ' stone ', ' sun ', and ' two '.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

The Eucharistic prayer was split in two so that Eucharistic bread and wine were shared immediately after the words of institution ( This is my Body .. This is my blood ... in remembrance of me.

They shared a few words, mostly " I love you.

" In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, " The Latin words sacerdos and sacerdotium are used to refer in general to the ministerial priesthood shared by bishops and presbyters.

In other words, discussions about interpretation of the theory, and extensions to it, are now mostly conducted on the basis of shared assumptions about the mathematical foundations.

There are shared words between, for example, Turkic and Ugric languages, because borrowing has occurred.

Memory, shared with some animals, requires a consciousness not only of what happened in the past, but also that something happened in the past, which is in other words a kind of eikasia "... but nothing except man is able to recollect.

He shared Simonides's approach to vocabulary, employing a very mild form of the traditional, literary Doric dialect, with some Aeolic words and some traditional epithets borrowed from epic.

Although Tolkien created very few original words in Adûnaic, mostly names, the language serves his concept of a lingua franca for Middle-earth, a shared language for many different people.

Some letters appear only at the beginning or at the end of words, a feature shared with Semitic writing systems.

* Loss of final of infinitives and polysyllabic words, a feature shared with most of contemporary Catalan ( except Valencian variants ).

") In the words of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, " He met his death with patient dignity ; having, indeed, disastrously shared the enthusiasms of his age, but taken no share in its crimes.

The orchestra shared in three Grammy awards for the score to Star Wars ; and the LSO Classic Rock recordings, in the words of the orchestra's website, became hugely popular and provided handsome royalties.

Lexicostatistics is a tool that linguistic relations through the comparative method of historical linguistics ( identification of demonstrable shared innovations ) but only 100 or 200 words from Swadesh lists are used and since Pawley's 1966 publication, teasing out the ancient relationships of the Polynesian languages and the proofs of shared innovations.

That same month Eric Brown, a British test pilot who had known her before the war, was surprised to receive a letter from Reitsch in which she reminisced about their shared love of flying, the letter ending with the words ; " It began in the bunker and there it shall end ".

Because of the widespread influence of the Tang culture during the great Tang dynasty, we find today still many Min Nan pronunciations of words shared by the Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese language.

" The purpose of mail art, an activity shared by many artists throughout the world, is to establish an aesthetical communication between artists and common people in every corner of the globe, to divulge their work outside the structures of the art market and outside the traditional venues and institutions: a free communication in which words and signs, texts and colours act like instruments for a direct and immediate interaction.

All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept ( as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 45 ).

Orc itself is from Rohirric and the Hobbit-language, which shared linguistic roots, but the term is clearly related to the older Elvish words.

Given the prevalence of-assa place-names and words scattered around all sides of the Aegean Sea, this possessive suffix was sometimes considered evidence of a shared non-Indo-European language or an Aegean Sprachbund preceding the arrivals of Luwians and Greeks.