The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

It is also possible that some of the dust in the vicinity of the Earth originated from meteoritic impacts upon the moon.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

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The Asterales order probably originated in the Cretaceous ( 145 – 65 Mya ) on the supercontinent Gondwana which broke up from 184 – 80 Mya, forming the area that is now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.

Modern Pueblo oral traditions hold that the Pueblo originated to the north of their current settlements, from sipapu, where they emerged from the underworld.

* The School of " Minor-talks ", which was not a unique school of thought, but a philosophy constructed of all the thoughts which were discussed by and originated from normal people on the street.

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

The style of New England cookery originated from its colonial roots, that is to say practical, frugal and willing to eat anything other than what they were used to from their British roots.

The founding members of the rock band Stereophonics originated from the nearby village of Cwmaman.

His family originated from Ovanåker in the province of Hälsingland.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Amok originated from the Malay word mengamuk, which roughly defined means “ to make a furious and desperate charge ”.

On this basis, a related hypothesis holds that the name originated from this Indo-European root via a Baltic language such as Lithuanian.

Black Forest ham originated from this region, and so, by name and reputation at least, did the Black Forest Cake.

* West Coast hip hop, a form of hip hop music in the United States that developed and originated in Los Angeles

The Brentwood, Los Angeles | Brentwood Maypole tradition originated when Archer School for Girls was still the Eastern Star Home.

" Rueda de Miami " originated in the 1980s from Miami, is a formal style with many rules based on a mix, and is a hybridization of Rueda de Cuba & Los Angeles-style Salsa and dance routines that reflect American culture ( e. g. Coca-cola, Dedo, Adios ) which is not found in the traditional Cuban-style Rueda.

In the mid-1970s, they had their own syndicated radio show called Flo & Eddie by the Fireside, which originated from KMET in Los Angeles.

To protect his amateur status he signed using the alias " Larry Walker " and local reporters were told he originated from Los Angeles, California.

The show first originated from New York City, but soon moved to Los Angeles to make it easier to get " stars " as guests.

Nachos may have originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, or in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, at a restaurant called the Victory Club, owned by Rodolfo De Los Santos.

The flight originated in Sacramento on Monday, September 25, 1978, with a stopover in Los Angeles.

SigAlerts originated in 1955 with the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ).

The idea of the pachuco – a zoot-suited, well-dressed, street-connected flamboyant man of Hispanic / Latino heritage – originated in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and moved westward, following the line of migration of Mexican railroad workers (" traqueros ") into Los Angeles, where it developed further.

The series revolves around two Los Angeles private detectives, both former government secret agents: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played Stuart (" Stu ") Bailey, a character Huggins had originated in his 1946 novel The Double Take ( which he later adapted into the 1948 movie I Love Trouble, starring Franchot Tone in the role ).

Production moved to CBS Television City, taping in Studio 31 and marking the only time a Beat the Clock series originated from Los Angeles.

Generally the show originated in Los Angeles, but Griffin often taped in Las Vegas.

The Cerro Grande Fire originated as a controlled burn for fire control but spread out of control owing to high winds, eventually burning over of forest and destroying 250 homes in Los Alamos.

Shaun Lyon's Outpost Gallifrey website, statistically the most popular fan-created Doctor Who website in the series ' history, originated out of Los Angeles and supported its extremely popular discussion forum community.

The prank was recreated when the show originated in Los Angeles.

The term originated in the United States in 1987-1988 ( specifically, from Newscasters at KTLA, a local television station ), when a rash of freeway shootings occurred on the 405, 110 and 10 freeways in Los Angeles, California.

The growth of the New York chapter, where one fourth of most Puerto Ricans then lived and the Chicago national office, where they originated and had become another Puerto Rican hub during the Great Puerto Rican Migration of the 1950's, led to the opening of more new branches including: Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Newark, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Hayward and other Puerto Rican hub cities.

It was later discovered that the site was a hoax originated by Nick Woomer, then a 16-year-old from the Michigan suburbs whose knowledge of gangs came from movies, gangsta rap, and Alex Alonso's website on Los Angeles street gangs.

While the cuisines of many cultures have taken root in Los Angeles, it is the home of the Cobb Salad, invented in the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, the French-Dip sandwich, originated early in the 20th Century by either Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet or Phillippe's — both of which still exist downtown, the ice blended coffee drink by Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Original Tommy's Hamburger.

In 2006, Beach played the role of Thénardier in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables, a role he had originated in the Los Angeles production.

Mexican rock music, often referred to in Mexico as rock nacional (" national rock "), originated in the 1950s with covers of standards by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers, among others, bands such as Los Rebeldes del Rock, Los Locos del Ritmo, Los Crazy Boys, Los Nómadas, and Javier Bátiz soon arose with original compositions, often in English.