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was and creation
Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!
That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.
The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.
The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.
From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.
For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.
" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.
Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.
Arcadianism was based on nostalgic memories of rural England, and led to the widespread creation of orchards and gardens.
The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.
This was connected to a devout religiosity that declared depiction of living things in art an immoral rivalry to Allah's creation.
He was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.
* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.

was and monstrous
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 ; ;
John Tzetzes says that it was the skin of the monstrous giant Pallas whom Athena overcame and whose name she attached to her own ( name ).
Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.
Her animal alter ego was a monstrous black cat, not a large dog as in Dracula.
" His vanity, though child-like, was monstrous, his ambition unbridled.
The yawning gates of Hades were guarded by the monstrous watchdog Cerberus, whose function was to prevent the living from entering the underworld, and the dead from leaving it.
Many of Tenniel's political cartoons expressed strong hostility to Irish Nationalism, with Fenians and Land leagues depicted as monstrous, ape-like brutes, while " Hibernia "— the personification of Ireland — was depicted as a beautiful, helpless young girl threatened by these " monsters " and turning for protection to " her elder sister ", the powerful armoured Britannia.
The creature that left the prints was not witnessed, but Bonaventure wrote that it " must have been monstrous: the marks of the claws were noted on the ground, and these formed a print about three feet in circumference.
The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur.
Even in its earliest use, it was demonstrated with monstrous images such as the Devil.
His solution was in the manner of a true follower of Innocent III: he issued what in retrospect has been viewed as the magna carta of the University, assuming direct control by extending papal patronage: his Bull allowed future suspension of lectures over a flexible range of provocations, from " monstrous injury or offense " to squabbles over " the right to assess the rents of lodgings ".
The general response was " as the Westminster Review put it, that Gosse's theory was ' too monstrous for belief.
Nature was widely believed to be unstable and capricious, with monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life.
He was responsible for the synoikismos (" dwelling together ")— the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing highly localized ogres and monstrous beasts.
For over thirty years we have sanctimoniously and dishonestly pretended respect, if not awe, for an organisation which all the time we knew was a monstrous and farcical humbug ....
This Trial of the Sixteen ( or the trial of the " Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center ") was the first Moscow Show Trial and set the stage for subsequent show trials where Old Bolsheviks confessed to increasingly elaborate and monstrous crimes, including espionage, poisoning, sabotage, and so on.
This Trial of the Sixteen ( or the trial of the " Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center ") was the first Moscow Show Trial and set the stage for subsequent show trials where Old Bolsheviks confessed to increasingly elaborate and monstrous crimes, including espionage, poisoning, sabotage, and so on.
The Greeks derived this place name from the verb, pythein ( πύθειν, " to rot "), which refers to the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after she was slain by Apollo.
Looking back and getting other people's opinions of what went on, I was a pretty monstrous sort of person at that time ".
Ugly dark blotches mottled the dull orange surface and great columns of spinning flame arced around the rim .... < nowiki > watched </ nowiki > the titan sunspots drift slowly across the hideous disc, at times growing larger and merging into great gaping chasms in the fiery atmosphere, while at others dwindling almost to nothingness .... Something was stirring deep within that fiery atmosphere ; something monstrous that roared an insatiable anger against the chains of the Elder Gods which had bound it there for an eternity ....
Chester Gould ( November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
His wife was Ceto, and he is most notable in myth for fathering by Ceto a host of monstrous children collectively known as the Phorcydes.
Echidna was the mother by Typhon of many monstrous offspring, including:

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