When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

Some have speculated that this was to allow multiple persons to use the same identity.

It has been speculated that his ancestor Iddo was the head of a priestly family who returned with Zerubbabel (), and that Zechariah may himself have been a priest as well as a prophet.

Medical historians have speculated that the transformation to pigs was not intended literally but refers to anticholinergic intoxication.

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Mythologers have speculated that if Cerberus was given his name in Trikarenos it could be interpreted as " three karenos ".

It has been speculated by experts that 6x86 was designed to perform well specifically on business-oriented benchmarks of the time, most notably Ziff-Davis ' Winstone benchmark.

Some scholars have speculated that he may have been a widower since he was a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin, positions in which the social norm of the day required the men to be married.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

He pointed out that Duke Nukem 3D was appropriately rated " M " and had no real nudity, and speculated that that was enough to make it inoffensive to the general public.

Others have speculated that the word comes from the Arabic-Persian word Darazo ( " bliss ") or from Shaykh Hussayn ad-Darazī, who was one of the early converts to the faith.

" Leveritt speculated that the small local police force was overwhelmed by the crime, which was unlike any they had ever investigated.

When police speculated about the assailant, the juvenile probation officer assisting at the scene of the murders speculated that Echols was " capable " of committing the murders, stating " it looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.

Some have speculated that a contributing factor to Dolly's death was that she could have been born with a genetic age of six years, the same age as the sheep from which she was cloned.

At that time, versions of the Prose Edda were well known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was another Edda — an Elder Edda — which contained the pagan poems Snorri quotes in his book.

Isideo was not the father, and it has often been speculated — although with little firm evidence — that the child belonged to Goya.

Some have speculated that a contributor to nouvelle cuisine was World War II when animal protein was in short supply during the German occupation.

Some historians have speculated that since Rome lacked advanced naval technology the design of the warships was probably copied verbatim from captured Carthaginian triremes and quinqueremes or from ships that had beached on Roman shores due to storms.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

The reaction of certain City Council members to California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing.

The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

One of the leading members of the Amen corner was cook ; ;

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

In this view, supported by only three members of the Court, a power denied by the specific provisions of Article 3, was granted by the generality of Article 1.

It was compiled as a control sample to determine if the opinions and practices of companies on the lists submitted by the members of the Aerospace Industries Association were materially different from those of other small firms selling to defense programs.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

One of the conditions of the pool was a prohibition upon the withholding of patent rights among A.L.A.M. members.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

One of Cotten's last films was Heaven's Gate ( 1980 ), critically mauled in the United States.

" Mr Cameron replied to concerns about the " Devonwall " constituency by stating that " It's the Tamar, not the Amazon, for Heaven's sake "; a move that was read in the press as indicative of his plan not to oppose the merger of the constituencies in Devon and Cornwall.

Additionally, the Guns N ' Roses performance of " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door " was released in August 1992 as a Double A-side with the original Guns N ' Roses studio recording of the song.

According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.

" Heaven's Gate was a dramatic romance vaguely based on events while The Johnson County War was based on the 1957 novel Riders of Judgment.

The Theatre features prominently in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson and was used as stand in for Harvard in the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.

In 1971, Michael Cimino submitted the original script for Heaven's Gate, then called The Johnson County War, to United Artists executives ; the project was shelved when it failed to attract big name talent.

Reviewing the shorter cut in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert criticized the film's formal choices and its narrative inconsistencies and incredulities, concluding that Heaven's Gate was " he most scandalous cinematic waste I have ever seen, and remember, I've seen Paint Your Wagon.

Robin Wood was an early champion of Heaven's Gate and its reassessment, calling it " one of the few authentically innovative Hollywood films.

While the money loss due to Heaven's Gate was considerable, United Artists was still a thriving studio with a steady income provided by the James Bond, Pink Panther and Rocky franchises.

Heaven's Gate was marred by accusations of cruelty to animals during production.

Though Heaven's Gate was not the first film to have animals killed during its production, it is believed that the film was largely responsible for sparking the now common use of the " No animals were harmed ..." disclaimer and more rigorous supervision of animal acts by the AHA, which had been inspecting film production since the 1940s.

After the aborted one-week run in New York, Cimino and United Artists pulled Heaven's Gate ; Cimino wrote an open letter to the studio that was printed in several trade papers blaming unrealistic deadline pressures for the film's failure.

In 1982, Z Channel aired the 219-minute premiere version of Heaven's Gate on cable television — the first time that the longer version was widely exhibited — which Z Channel dubbed the " director's cut.

Notwithstanding the wide availability of the 219-minute premiere version of Heaven's Gate and its frequent labeling as " uncut " or the " director's cut ," " Cimino insisted that the so-called original version did not fully correspond to his intentions, that he was under pressure to bring it out for the predetermined date and did not consider film ready ," making even the 219-minute version essentially an unfinished film.

Two live albums followed in the late 1990s: the double-disc Heaven's Bright Sun and Woven Cord, which was performed with the All Souls Orchestra.

* Marshall Applewhite ( May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997 ), the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, was born in Spur.

She made her American film debut in Michael Cimino's 1980 film Heaven's Gate, which was a notorious flop at the U. S. box office.

Shang Tang was commanded to destroy Xia with the promise of Heaven's help.

Jessie Bond, who was to open the show with a solo song alone on stage, finally said to him, " For Heaven's sake, Mr. Gilbert, go away and leave me alone, or I shan't be able to sing a note!