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It is possible that Roderic was probably the dux ( duke ) of Baetica before coming to the throne.
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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.
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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.
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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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Its leader is Eamon Ryan and its chairman is Roderic O ' Gorman.
"* Roderic follows this logic and agrees, stating that he is " practically " alive.
Alexei ( Roderic Noble ) is a very lively little boy who is constantly prevented from leading a normal life.
Though the reign of Roderic is traditionally dated to 710 – 11, a literal reading of the Chronicle of 754 indicates 711 – 12.
Archaeological evidence and two surviving lists of kings show that one Achila II ruled in the northeast of the kingdom at this time, but his relationship to Roderic is unknown.
The story of Sisibert abandoning Roderic with the right wing of the host is a legend.
It is possible that his enemies intended to abandon Roderic on the field, to be defeated and killed by the Muslims.
Among the legends which have accrued to the history of the battle, the most prominent is that of Count Julian, who, in revenge for the rape of ( or affair with ) his daughter Florinda ( the later Cava Rumía or Doña Cava ) by Roderic while the youth was being raised at the palace school, supposedly lent Ṭāriq the necessary ships for launching an invasion.
Also the legendary lover of King Roderic and daughter of Count Julian is named La Cava Rumía — her affair being the putative cause of the Moorish invasion of Hispania in AD 711.
It is said that Julian wished the fall of the Visigothic kingdom because his daughter had been raped by Roderic.
Current continuity has it that he was shot by a criminal named Matilda Roderic, who was presumably a reincarnation of the evil priest Hath-Set, who is apparently destined to kill Khufu in every life.
It is probable that the " invasion " was not from outside the kingdom ; because the word regnum can refer to the office of the king, it is likely that Roderic merely usurped the throne.
Nonetheless, it is possible that Roderic was a regional commander ( dux of Baetica in later, legendary sources ) or even an exile when he staged his coup.
That Roderic and Achila never appear to have come into military conflict is probably best explained by the preoccupation of Roderic with Arab raids and not to a formal division of the kingdom.
Roderic is a character of Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano's novel Eurico, o Presbítero.
Roderic Jean Brind ' Amour ( born August 9, 1970 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes.
The first bridge that is known to have been built at this point was erected as a " spacious stone bridge of 18 arches " by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair ( Anglicised Roderic O ' Connor ), the King of Connacht, around 1049.
A note is that Don Rodrigo is also the Spanish name for Roderic, the last Visigothic king of Spain.
* 711, March 15 – Muslim Umayyads ( Moors: mainly Berber with some Arabs, faithful to the Emir of Damascus and under the Berber Tariq ibn-Ziyad, invade and eventually conquer the Iberian Peninsula ( Visigothic King Roderic is killed while opposing the invasion ), except for the northernmost part-the Asturias.
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Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
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