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It is possible that Johnston's duel in 1837 had caused nerve damage or numbness to his right leg and that he did not feel the wound to his leg as a result.
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It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.
It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.
It is possible that the idea of enrichment of emotion is a fifth idea.
It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.
Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;
Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.
But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.
It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.
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Johnston's wife — who is thus the viceregal consort — is Sharon Johnston.
Every August, 10 days are devoted to " Bill Johnston's Pirate Days ", a town-wide festival that features professional performers acting out pirate battles and a " siege " of the town by none-other than the " Pirate of the Thousand Islands ," Bill Johnston ( pirate ), whom the festival is named after.
Holladay is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Utah, since Salt Lake City was abandoned for a time in 1857 when Johnston's Army occupied the city.
Johnston's niece Stephanie is developmentally handicapped and her experience is shared in recent story lines on the integration of developmentally handicapped students in April's class.
) Out of print for decades, Arcade was reissued on compact disc in early 2007 by specialty label Wounded Bird Records, which is also the home of Southern Pacific's and Tom Johnston's catalogs.
The pedicel ( the second segment ) contains the Johnston's organ which is a collection of sensory cells.
Johnston's translation is influenced by Nabokov.
Johnston's compositional style is eclectic, employing serial processes, folksong idioms ( String Quartets 4, 5 and 10 ), repetitive processes, traditional forms like fugue and variations, and intuitive processes ( Fonville 1991, 120 – 21 ).
Samuel Johnston's personal collection of books, which he bequeathed to his son James, is preserved in a full-scale replication of Hayes Plantation's library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
* Pedicel ( antenna ), the second segment of the antenna in the class Insecta, where the Johnston's organ is found
Johnston's first book, the 1992 Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business is an account of how the junk-bond kings usurped mob control of the casino industry in the 1980s.
Johnston's wife, the former Mary Gunn, is a native of Natchitoches, Louisiana.
The video conferencing room at Southern University at Shreveport is named in Johnston's honor ; it is located inside Stone Hall, named for the late civil rights activist and former president of the Southern University System, Jesse N. Stone of Shreveport.
This is also the first album to feature the classic lineup of the Beach Boys ( Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine ) since the mid 1960s with Bruce Johnston's mild departure from the group.
The observatory is located by the site of volcanologist David A. Johnston's camp on the morning of May 18, 1980, and opened in 1997.
Along with other people killed by the volcano, Johnston's name is inscribed on memorials dedicated to their memory.
As the blast overwhelmed Johnston's post, Martin declared solemnly, " Gentlemen, the uh, camper and the car sitting over to the south of me is covered.
Prof. Johnston's son, Chris ( Paul Walker ) is more infatuated with Kate than digging, until Marek shows him a sarcophagus of a French knight with a lopped ear, in an unusual position, holding hands with his lady beside for eternity.
While he is gone, the archeologists make a startling discovery in the ruins ; a lens from a pair of glasses as well as parchment with a request for help written in modern English, apparently in Professor Johnston's handwriting.
He may have surrendered with Johnston's army in North Carolina on April 26, 1865 ; however, there is no record of his parole.
The freshwater crocodile ( Crocodylus johnsoni or Crocodylus johnstoni ; see below ), also known as the Australian freshwater crocodile, Johnston's crocodile or colloquially as freshie, is a species of reptile endemic to the northern regions of Australia.
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In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day.
One famous user of the suburi-sized bokken is Miyamoto Musashi who used one in his duel against Sasaki Kojiro.
One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.
One of the more modern refinements of the blood feud is the duel.
Then, on Easter Day, young kids would duel with them saying ' Christ is resurrected, Indeed He is ', breaking and eating them.
However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.
8, which states in the film's plot synopsis, A spectacular duel is arranged on the summit of Mt.
After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax.
A 2004 film version of Troy has Achilles slaying Hector following a duel, whereas in the Iliad it is rather different.
The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.
The main source of the duel is the Hyoho senshi denki (" Anecdotes about the Deceased Master ").
Other accounts claim he actually served on the Tokugawa side, but such a claim is unproven, although Musashi had a close relationship with some Tokugawa vassals through his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, and in the succeeding years, he did not drop out of sight as might be expected if he were being persecuted for being on the losing side.
' Love and honor ' is an early theme in Mitchell's writing, as in The Knight and the Lady ( c. 1909 ), where the " good knight " and the " bad knight " duel with swords for a lady.
* 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
McKay and Buck fight with each other, but Hannassey stops the conflict when Buck draws his gun on McKay, who is unarmed, and decides they will settle their quarrel with a formal duel.
It is part of a wider genre of turn-based artillery games in which each player controls characters who duel with projectile weapons ; similar games include Scorched Earth and Gorillas.
* July 11 – Alexander Hamilton is shot during a duel with Aaron Burr and dies the next day.
Not only Esmond but also Barry Lyndon and Catherine are set then, as is the sequel to Esmond, The Virginians, which takes place in America and includes George Washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel.
Rawdon leaves his wife and through the offices of the Marquis of Steyne is made Governor of Coventry Island to get him out of the way, but Rawdon challenges the elderly marquis to a duel.
After recovering, Rand, accompanied by Asha ' man, attacks Illian and defeats Sammael in a duel of the One Power in Shadar Logoth, where Sammael is destroyed by Mashadar.
In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Kaggath is a duel between two Sith lords, the loser of which could be sentenced to a kind of damnatio memoriae.
Dueling and the carrying of arms is a socially accepted way of maintaining civility in public-a man can wear distinctive clothing to show his unwillingness to duel, but this results in a lower social status.
If they cannot, then a duel is reasonable ... to wait would be to continue suffering the horrible torture of offended honor ...".
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