Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Many of Alcott's educational principles are still used in classrooms today, including " teach by encouragement ", art education, music education, acting exercises, learning through experience, risk-taking in the classroom, tolerance in schools, physical education / recess, and early childhood education.

Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent DNA tests have not shown any genetic similarity with modern Europeans.

Many members of the royal family died in rapid succession in early 1205, including Amalric himself.

Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Many retailers open very early ( typically 5 am or even earlier ) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores.

Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.

Many of these materials were initially published in Church periodicals in the early days of church.

Many thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years.

Many early aircraft engines ( and a few in other applications ) had the crankshaft fixed to the airframe and instead the cylinders rotated, known as a rotary engine design.

Many of these early Polish carols were collected in 1838 by Rev.

Many of Jones ' cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Schlesinger staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.

Many early forms of music and dance were created and performed together.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many early PDP-11 applications were developed using standalone paper-tape utilities.

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots.

Many years later these alpha versions were sanctioned by id Software because of historical interest ; they reveal how the game progressed from its early design stages.

Many early experiments found that any modification of the apparatus that can determine which slit a particle passes through will reduce the visibility of interference at the screen, thereby illustrating the complementarity principle: that light ( and electrons, etc.

She outlined her family's poverty in her early songs " Coat of Many Colors " and " In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad )".

Many early bassists doubled on both the brass bass and string bass, as the instruments were then often referred to.

Many instances of video or digital playback occurred during the early 2000s and claims to significance for the development of the industry vary.

Many historic bands and early rock music recordings used this configuration, notable users including Ringo Starr in the Beatles, Mitch Mitchell in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Barbata in the Turtles and many others.

Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, Austrian Freedom Party, or the Italian Lego Nord are opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is the protection of the nation-state, sometimes, according to critics, in explicitly racist or fascist terms.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

Many plants bearing edible fruits, in particular, have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed dispersal and nutrition, respectively ; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.

Many fascist movements support the creation of a totalitarian state.

Many groups and movements have achieved profound social changes over the course of the 20th century in the name of human rights.

Many medieval religious movements emphasized mysticism, such as the Cathars and related movements in the West, the Jews in Spain ( see Zohar ), the Bhakti movement in India and Sufism in Islam.

Many Third World anti-colonial movements adopted left-wing and socialist ideas.

Many measures are part of modern psychophysiology including measures of brain activity such as ERPs, brain waves ( electroencephalography, EEG ), fMRI ( functional magnetic resonance imaging ), measures of skin conductance ( skin conductance response, SCR ; galvanic skin response, GSR ), cardiovascular measures ( heart rate, HR ; beats per minute, BPM ; heart rate variability, HRV ; vasomotor activity ), muscle activity ( electromyography, EMG ), changes in pupil diameter with thought and emotion ( pupillometry ) and eye movements, recorded via the electro-oculogram ( EOG ) and direction-of-gaze methods.

Many leaders and participants in such movements, while recognizing the importance of using non-violent methods in particular circumstances, have not been absolute pacifists.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

Many significant literary movements in the later half of the 20th century were directly or indirectly influenced by Surrealism.

Many of the early prominent video artists were those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual art, performance, and experimental film.

Many of the service club organizations have become world-wide movements, and have obtained official recognition by the United Nations and various governments as non-government organizations

Many symphonies are tonal works in four movements with the first in sonata form, which is often described by music theorists as the structure of a " classical " symphony, although many symphonies by the acknowledged classical masters of the form, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven do not conform to this model.

Many outsiders disapproved of Shakers ' mode of worship without understanding the symbolism of their movements or the content of their songs.

Many Venetian independence movements ( see Venetism ) refer to this deceit to claim for independence of Veneto.

Many speculators pay little attention to the fundamental value of a security and instead focus purely on price movements.

Many other anti-fascist resistance movements across Nazi-occupied Europe consisted partially of children ( for example, Szare Szeregi in Poland ).

Many of the major movements, such as Défense de la France, were centered on their newspapers, and, although their activities intensified, propaganda and the cultivation of positive morale remained, until the very end of the war, their most important concerns.

Many conservative movements began to explicitly formulate their policies in terms of economic neoliberalism, backed by socially conservative policies.

Many kibbutzim were initially established by Nahal groups affiliated with Israeli youth movements, among them HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, Hashomer Hatzair and HaMachanot HaOlim.

Many different self-help movements exist and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.