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It remains a mystery just why Claudius did not authorise Placidianus to go to the relief of Augustodunum Haeduorum ; however, it is speculated that Claudius, who was fully engaged either in Italy against the Alamanni or in the Balkans against the Goths, did not wish to open a second theatre of operations in Gaul, which would not only have involved a major military effort, but would also have required Claudius to assume responsibility for the defense of the Rhine frontier had he been successful.
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Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
The owner of the codex before Nowell remains a mystery.
Because these vary considerably, and because only a few sketches are known to have been drawn from live specimens, its exact appearance remains a mystery.
The actual cause of death remains a mystery.
It was widely believed that Richard had them murdered, although their exact fate remains a mystery.
The exact origin of the name remains a mystery.
How the Komodo dragon is unaffected by these virulent bacteria remains a mystery.
The identity of the contact remains a mystery.
The final fate of the early settlers remains a mystery.
The values of these constants have been carefully measured, but the reason for their specific values remains a mystery.
Her style and her skill remains a mystery as none of her work is extant.
Much about Remus remains a mystery, including the source of its humanoid population.
and 1000 A. D. remains a mystery, though this may have been the period of great migrations that led to the settlement of present-day Polynesia.
His origin remains a mystery, but in the books his income derives from the pockets of the " ungodly " ( as he terms those who live by a less moral code than his own ).
Le Fanu worked in many genres but remains best known for his mystery and horror fiction.
Cranmer ’ s early schooling remains a mystery.
So Hortense's fate remains a mystery.
Both historians agree that no concrete evidence exists for such a possibility, and the mystery of Tubman's relationship with young Margaret remains to this day.
However, the true cause of his death remains a mystery, but it is believed that he died on 1802-09-26 in Nußdorf on the Danube, near the Austrian capital, Vienna.
No physical evidence of the Hazār Afsān has survived so its exact relationship with the existing later Arabic versions remains a mystery.
Raleigh sent others to found the Roanoke Colony ; it remains a mystery why the settlers all disappeared.
It remains a mystery how Athens was finally chosen to host the inaugural Games.
The amount of life lost in the actual procurement of slaves remains a mystery but may equal or exceed the amount actually enslaved.
Whether he actually died in this way remains a mystery and is much debated.
Never performing again at Niagara, her personal life remains a mystery and the date and place of her death are unknown.
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The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.
Whether this increase in ' status ' is real, or just a by-product of increasingly complex material assemblages remains to be convincingly validated.
In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.
The remains of a fort at Gallants Bower just outside the town are some of the best preserved remains of a Civil War defensive structure.
The authors ' caveats and repeated efforts at alternative definition have been echoed in subsequent scholarship: in the more than five decades since, there have been innumerable further attempts at definition, yet in the words of cinema historian Mark Bould, film noir remains an " elusive phenomenon ... always just out of reach ".
Heidi Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times said of the play " Far more surreal and twisted than Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 12 Ophelias is a reminder of just how morphable and mysterious Shakespeare's original remains.
It is now considered unlikely that a pre-Roman city existed, but as some of the Roman city remains unexcavated, it is still just possible that some settlement may yet be discovered.
While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.
Rachel's Tomb, just outside Bethlehem, remains a popular site for pilgrimages and prayers to this day.
Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.
:" Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that, just as easily as they raise hailstorms, so can they cause lightning and storms at sea ; and so no doubt at all remains on these points.
Two, or possibly three, large portal stones were set up just inside the north-eastern entrance, of which only one, the fallen Slaughter Stone ( 4 ), long, now remains.
Intended as a critique of just the Copenhagen interpretation ( the prevailing orthodoxy in 1935 ), the Schrödinger cat thought experiment remains a typical touchstone for limited interpretations of quantum mechanics.
The marker remains in a patch of grass near a Burger King parking lot along Route 28, just north of the Somerville traffic circle.
* February 2 – It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
There remains some disagreement over whether talent-search shows such as the Idol series, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, and Celebrity Duets are truly reality television, or just newer incarnations of shows such as Star Search.
In clock language, " one " transitions or remains high on the trailing clock edge of the previous bit and " zero " transitions or remains low on the trailing clock edge of the previous bit, or just the opposite.
Moreover, President Gerald Ford said: " The U. S. further supports the position that a just and lasting peace, which remains our objective, must be acceptable to both sides.
In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.
Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.
The candle remains lit at all worship services throughout Easter season ( or in some traditions until Ascension Day, when it is extinguished just after the Gospel ), during which time it is located in the sanctuary close to the altar.
Each of these lineages, however, remains grouped with the tetrapoda, just as Homo sapiens could be considered a very highly specialized kind of lobe-finned fish.
Rockets boiler was of the more highly developed form, with the separate firebox and a blastpipe for draught, rather than Seguin's cumbersome fans, but Rocket was not the first multi-tubular boiler, although it remains unclear just whose invention it was.
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