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The opportunity to relocate the village occurred when it was substantially damaged by an earthquake, with villagers offered a completely new village in exchange for the old site.
Degrees in other fields were not granted until the 13th century, but the doctorate continued to be the only degree offered at many of the old universities up until the 20th century.
When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.
The observation that old windows are sometimes found to be thicker at the bottom than at the top is often offered as supporting evidence for the view that glass flows over a timescale of centuries.
Standard patterns of graduation in the arts curriculum offered 3-year ordinary and 4-year honours degrees and separate science faculties were able to move away from the compulsory Latin, Greek and philosophy of the old MA curriculum.
In Odyssey Homer carries the old belief to the ideal island for mortals Scheria, the imaginary perfect world that was offered to the future emigrants.
Many models offered the option of emulation of the customer's previous computer ( e. g. the IBM 1400 series on a 360-30 or the IBM 7094 on a 360-65 ) using a combination of special hardware, special microcode and an emulation program that used the emulation instructions to simulate the target system, so that old programs could run on the new machine.
The following morning, three young coconuts and three old soma nuts are offered by a priestess with prayer, after which the dye which has settled down in the water is collected, baked into cakes in coconut molds, wrapped in banana leaves, and hung up in the huts till required for use.
Proving that the modern world offered just as much glamour, excitement, and potential for violence as the old west, Dirty Harry signaled the end of the prolific " cowboys and Indians " era of film westerns.
James Jameson, heir to an Irish whiskey manufacturer, bought an eleven-year old girl and offered her to cannibals in order to document and sketch how she was cooked and eaten.
The old fortresses on the frontier offered but slight resistance.
The Seligmans were old friends of former President Ulysses S. Grant, and had offered Grant the position of the Presidency of the Canal Company.
" The bread and wine, offered by Melchizedek in sacrifice in the old covenant ( Genesis 14: 18 ; Psalm 110: 4 ), are transformed through the Mass into the body and blood of Christ ( see transubstantiation ; note: the Orthodox Church does not hold as dogma, as do Catholics, the doctrine of transubstantiation, preferring rather to not make an assertion regarding the " how " of the sacraments ), and the offering becomes one with that of Christ on the cross.
In Greek mythology, Hecale, or Hekálē, was an old woman who offered succor to Theseus on his way to capture the Marathonian Bull.
The fortunes of his house declined in his old age: in 1466, the rebellious Catalonians offered the crown of Aragon to René, and the Duke of Calabria, unsuccessful in Italy, was sent to take up the conquest of that kingdom.
However, it was " of so bewitching a nature ," says our old writer, " by reason of the several multiplications and advantages which it seemingly offered to the unwary punter, that a great many like it so well that they would play at small game rather than give out ; and rather than not play at all would punt at six-penny, three-penny, nay, a two-penny bank, – so much did the hope of winning the quinze-et-le-va and the trente-et-le-va intoxicate them.
In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas said that, since not all Christians, in particular the old and the children, can be trusted to observe due caution, it was by then " a prudent custom in some churches for the blood not to be offered to the people, but to be consumed by the priest alone ".
To make matters worse, Charles Louis had been deprived of half the old Palatinate under the Peace of Westphalia, leaving him badly short of money, although he still remained responsible under the Imperial laws of apanage for providing for his younger brother and had offered the sum of £ 375 per annum, which Rupert had accepted.
The old Dean of the Cathedral having died, Mr Slope campaigns to become Dean, but Mr Harding is offered the preferment, with a beautiful house in the Close and of garden.
As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".
Gail Edwards, who previously guest starred in the episode " A Potsie Is Born ," was offered the role that Crystal Bernard would fill but was never told so by her managers, as they knew she would take the role and they did not want her to be a " new character on an old show.
In 1932, West was offered a motion picture contract by Paramount Pictures, when she was 38 years old, an unusual age to begin a movie career.
The throne was first offered by the Statsraad to the most prominent feudal lord of Danish dominions, Duke Adolf VIII of Schleswig-Holstein, but ( being relatively old and childless ) he declined and recommended his nephew.
This classification theory is consistent with old breed descriptions, which are somewhat contrary to the more classical sighthound / scenthound types, like the one offered in an advertisement run by the Rhodesian Parent Club in a show catalogue in 1926, "... Rhodesian Ridgeback ( Lion Dogs ) are unsurpassed for hunting and veld ( sic ) work.

offered and guest
We are like travellers at an inn, or guests at a stranger's table ; whatever is offered we take with thankfulness, and sometimes, when the turn comes, we may refuse ; in the former case we are a worthy guest of the gods, and in the latter we appear as a sharer in their power.
The guest would be offered the meal table d ' hôte, which is a meal offered at a set price with very little choice of dishes, sometimes none at all.
But the guest offered the drink to Harthacnut.
In the most essential sense, a Hindu deity is a revered royal guest in his temple / abode, to be offered the " sixteen hospitalities "-among which are music and dance, pleasing to the senses.
Herakles was an honored guest in the House of Admetos at the time, and he offered to repay the king's hospitality by contending with Death itself for Alkestis ' life.
After being chosen to be the first teacher in space, McAuliffe was a guest on several television programs, including Good Morning America ; the CBS Morning News ; the Today Show ; and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where, when asked about the mission, she stated, " If you ’ re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don ’ t ask what seat.
When Kovacs ' guest chef did not show up in time to go on the air, Ernie offered a recipe for " Eggs Scavok " ( Kovacs spelled backward ).
He had been offered the position immediately after guest conducting for two weeks in 1984, while he was music director of Staatskapelle Dresden.
During this time, Summer was offered a guest role on the sitcom Family Matters as Steve Urkel's ( Jaleel White ) Aunt Oona.
While some of these buildings offered exhibits on the states ' history and industry, others primarily served as embassies of a sort for visitors from the state, providing sitting rooms and guest services.
The album, which featured a guest appearance by Bob Dylan, was offered through mail-order and at concerts for a price determined by the purchaser.
After some guest appearances in late 1980s television, it was his intention to enroll at the University of Southern California, but when he was offered the lead role of Chazz Russell in Second Chance he became noticed on the acting scene.
By 2000, IBM offered certain AS / 400 models that could run SSP as a " main " operating system or as a " guest.
Dinner was usually followed by a cultural presentation, after which formal toasts were offered by the President and the guest of honor.
In April 2009, it was reported that the US network CBS had offered Holden the job of one-time guest presenter on The Early Show, a daytime talk show.
In other programs, a guest expert offered advice or interpretation.
* A guest at a stately bed and brakfast is offered drinks on house by a woman looking after the house.
The Hashshashin then offered to commit a murder for Henry, as an honour to their guest.
Small parts and guest appearances in television series began to materialise throughout the 1970s, and, in May 1979, comedy writer Jimmy Perry spotted Paul playing Frank Roper in a 1979 episode of Coronation Street, and offered him the part of Ted Bovis in his new holiday-camp sitcom Hi-de-Hi !.
Over the next few years, he landed several theatre roles in the Wellington area, and eventually he moved to Auckland, where he was offered many guest roles in local shows ( one of which was playing a heroin addict in the police drama Shark in the Park ).
The show offered Hannity's conservative views and Colmes's liberal views incorporated into a current news story, or in conjunction with a featured guest.
He tells her that the Cootes had as a guest a Russian gentleman called Mosgorovsky who offered him three times his footman's salary to leave his previous employment and work at the club.

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