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Like many members of older established aristocratic families in England, Oxford flirted with Catholicism ; after his return from Italy he was reported to have embraced the religion.
Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.
Like his older brother, Davis Rich Dewey, he attended the University of Vermont, from which he graduated ( Phi Beta Kappa ) in 1879.
Like codeine, dihydrocodeine and other, especially older, opiates, morphine has been used as the salicylate salt by some suppliers and can be easily compounded, imparting the therapeutic advantage of both the opioid and the NSAID ; multiple barbiturate salts of morphine were also used in the past, as was / is morphine valerate, the salt of the acid being the active principle of valerian.
Like Andreas Karlstadt, he was at first a leading exponent of the older type of scholastic theology, but under the influence of Luther abandoned his Aristotelian positions for a theology based on the Augustinian doctrine of grace.
Like most 32-bit environments, OS / 2 could not run protected-mode DOS programs using the older VCPI interface, unlike the Standard mode of Windows 3. 1 ; it only supported programs written according to DPMI.
Like Enterprise, the new film ( which did contain an indirect reference to the series: Scotty believes he has been " exiled " to the remote Starfleet outpost, where Kirk and the older Spock encounter him, as punishment for losing Admiral Archer's beagle-whom Kirk is quite familiar with-in a transporter mishap ) also adopted a prequel concept, with a different approach.
Like other Reconstructionist traditions, Celtic Reconstructionists place emphasis on historical accuracy, and base their celebrations and rituals on traditional lore from the living Celtic cultures, as well as research into the older beliefs of the polytheistic Celts.
Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries.
Like the EX, the clock speed of its 8088 CPU was increased to 7. 16 MHz, providing a large performance benefit ; it could clock down to 4. 77 MHz for compatibility with older applications.
Like his immediate older brother, Philippe Dagobert ( who died in 1232 aged 10 ) he did not receive a county as appanage, as had his older brothers.
Like Gygax's original boxed set, each region was given a two to three hundred word description, although some details included in the older edition, such as trade goods, total population and racial mixes, were not included in this edition.
Like all precocious teenagers, Modigliani preferred the company of older companions, and Ghiglia's role in his adolescence was to be a sympathetic ear as he worked himself out, principally in the convoluted letters that he regularly sent, and which survive today.
Like a teenager helping her older sister prepare for prom night, a subordinate turkey may help his dominant brother put on an impressive team display that is only of direct benefit to the dominant member.
Like her older sister Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917, until the family was arrested following the first Russian Revolution of 1917.
Like their two younger sisters, the two older girls shared a bedroom and were very close to one another from early childhood.
Like the mainland geestland, it was formed of moraines from the older ice ages, thus being made up of a till core, which is now apparent in the island's west and centre by the cliff, dunes and beach.
Like his older brother, Er, Onan died prematurely by Yahweh's will for being wicked.
Like other nature spirits, Pan appears to be older than the Olympians, if it is true that he gave Artemis her hunting dogs and taught the secret of prophecy to Apollo.
Like Supergirl, Mary Marvel was a teen-age female version of an adult male superhero, wearing a costume that was identical to the older character's other than substituting a short skirt for tight trousers.
Ken Hollings of Sight & Sound described Mewtwo as " brooding, articulate and vengeful where the other Pokémon remain bright blobs of wordless energy ", and " Like a troubled elder brother, Mewtwo represents an older order of experience.
Like Goethe and Schiller, his older contemporaries, Hölderlin was a fervent admirer of ancient Greek culture, but his understanding of it was very personal.
Like the older Brampton plant ( see " Former Factory Facilities ", below ), this factory was also part of American Motors Canada, Inc., and with the Chrysler buy-out in 1987, became part of Chrysler Canada Limited.

Like and legends
Like mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.
Like many aspects of his life, his death, too, is blended with legends and speculation.
Like Joseph, Nicodemus became the object of various pious legends during the Middle Ages, particularly in connection with monumental crosses.
Like other " historical " takes on the Arthurian legends, the series postulates that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West.
Like many other United legends, Hughes quickly became a favourite at Old Trafford by scoring on his debut.
Labels like the " Fania All Stars ", leaders like Tito Puente, legends Like Celia Cruz and RM & M Record Label Created who passed away this year ( 2009 ), Ralph Mercado, all contributed to stars like Hector LaVoe, Ruben Blades and many, many more.
Like many urban legends, the " golden rivet " is perpetuated for the amusement of " old salts " at the expense of the gullible.
Like any other medieval city, Tallinn ( known as Reval from the 13th century until the 1920s ) has gathered legends around itself.
Like Rassilon, various contradictory legends surround the Other, some hinting that he had powers surpassing that of Rassilon or Omega, and some even suggesting that he was not born on the Time Lords ' home world of Gallifrey.
Like many former monastic sites, Beaulieu has its fair share of legends attached.
Like his opponent Glyndŵr, Gam has gained a sheen of legend and many stories about him are late oral traditions, folklore and family legends which may be unreliable.
Like other Cebu towns ’ legends as to how they were named, Samboan ’ s also came about from a language barrier between the European and natives.
Like most of the towns of the country, it is fraught with legends although most of them have no basis in fact.

Like and myths
Like many myths, there are variations of the Judgment of Paris.
Like the myths woven into her work, a myth surrounds the loss of Sappho ’ s complete oeuvre as well.
Like other archaic poets, Mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and Aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to Niobe, unlike Homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her.
Like the other royal sites there are not any great historical references or archaeological evidence to prove it was a royal residence or fortress as described in the myths with some of the best examples of ring-forts in the area dating from Christian times.
Like many myths, both contain significant elements of truth, and the historic truth is in its usual place, somewhere in the middle between the extremes.
Like many popular brands, Snapple has had urban myths and false rumors occasionally plague its brand.
Like most of his works it is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture.
Like almost all civilizations and cultures, flood myths have been circulating in different parts of Africa.
Like many film directors, Fejos exaggeratd or invented myths for large portions of his life story and according to him his father was a captain with the Hussars and his mother was a Lady-in-waiting for the Austrian-Hungarian Empress, and that as a youth Fejos himself was an official of the Imperial Court.
Like James Joyce in Ulysses, Updike drew on the myths of antiquity in an attempt to turn a modern and common scene into something more profound, a meditation on life and man's relationship to nature and eternity.
Like other contemporaries of the Prabandha period, he took themes from Puranas and added local stories and myths in his work.

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