Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Many of the refugee children being hidden in Chambon attended Cévenol and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics.

Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

Many of his works were published posthumously in the first decades after his death.

Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the first purpose-built exhibition space, the Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman Sculpture, in 1805.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

Many cavers carry two or more sources of light-one as primary and the others as backup in case the first fails.

Many of the public works instituted in his reign were based on plans first suggested by Julius Caesar.

Many Indo-European languages, for example, obey " Wackernagel's Law ", which requires clitics to appear in " second position ", after the first syntactic phrase or the first stressed word in a clause:

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

Many systems have unintentionally resulted in the first possibility.

Many of these use the Faroese and Greenlandic languages, respectively, as their first language.

Many of the first films, such as those made by Auguste and Louis Lumière, were a minute or less in length, due to technological limitations.

Many regard it as one of the world's first examples of modern journalism.

Many tried in vain to prove the fifth postulate from the first four.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

Many of the Articles in Section I are structured in two paragraphs: the first sets out a basic right or freedom ( such as Article 2 ( 1 ) – the right to life ) but the second contains various exclusions, exceptions or limitations on the basic right ( such as Article 2 ( 2 ) – which excepts certain uses of force leading to death ).

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

Many first ladies, including Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, and Michelle Obama have been significant fashion trendsetters.

Many developments in first aid and many other medical techniques have been driven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted Clara Barton to organize the American Red Cross.

Many of these vehicles are second hand ( such as the 1500 decommissioned Dutch buses, which the Netherlands donated to Cuba in the mid 1990s ) and despite the United States trade embargo, American-style yellow school buses ( imported second-hand from Canada ) are increasingly common sights.

Many of the existence proofs and some of the uniqueness proofs for the sporadic groups originally used computer calculations, most of which have since been replaced by shorter hand proofs.

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity ( compare Biblical law in Christianity ).

Many foreign " flying winemakers " have had a hand in this development, bringing global viticulture and winemaking techniques to the Colli Fiorentini.

Many high-level programming languages, and some higher-level assembly languages, such as MASM, on the other hand, have special syntax or other built-in support for certain data structures, such as vectors ( one-dimensional arrays ) in the C language or multi-dimensional arrays in Pascal.

Many, on the other hand, follow John Knox in celebration of the Lord's supper on a quarterly basis, to give proper time for reflection and inward consideration of one's own state and sin.

Many artisanal, hand made cheeses, both common varieties and local specialties, are produced by small family farms throughout Greece and offer distinct flavors atypical of the mass produced varieties found commercially in Greece and abroad.

Many other surgeons feel that since they will have to make a larger incision for specimen removal anyway, they might as well use this incision to have their hand in the operative field during the procedure to aid as a retractor, dissector, and to be able to feel differing tissue densities ( palpate ), as they would in open surgery.

Many people use machines, from hand injectors to large machines in stores, to make cigarettes for themselves.

Many variations of this type exist, such as being canted forwards or backwards, and being carried on the dominant hand side, off-hand side, or the small of the back.

Victorian England was divided on Richard: " Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament ; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him " a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man ".

Many materials are used, but nickel-plated brass is popular for the highest-quality slides, which are shaped to fit the hand and as a result have a cross-section not unlike a railroad track.

Many of his works employed esoterical allegories harking to ancient mysteries and perhaps rosicrucian and alchemical themes, but on the other hand some of his short works examined the effects of the strong industrialisation of Finnish society.

Many other languages have words that sound the same as nigger ( are homophonic ), but do not necessarily have the same meaning, while on the other hand having ethnic slurs dissimilar to ' nigger ' but carrying the same meaning.

Many of his papers, poems, and hand written lab-notes are available at the National Library of Medicine in the Oswald T. Avery Collection, the first of their Profiles in Science series.

Many illusionists attempting parlor tricks and sleight of hand receive the title of magician whether it be by label or self description through the many years.

Many of these hand gestures are well known.

Many watches also incorporate a third hand that shows the current second of the current minute.

Many simple citizens imitated the Hōjō, and an estimated total of over 6, 000 died on that day of their own hand.

Many representations of a bearded god with a thunderbolt in one hand and a wheel in the other have been recovered from Gaul, where this deity apparently came to be syncretised with Jupiter.

Many airs end a section on a G or A note in the first octave, at which point a piper will often play one of these hand chords for dramatic effect.

Many finesses involve a which is a combination of non-touching honors in the same hand, e. g. A Q or K J.

Many birds are not killed outright and are collected to be killed by hand.

Many distinguished Strauss interpreters include Willi Boskovsky, who carried on the " Vorgeiger " tradition of conducting with violin in hand, as is the Strauss family custom, as well as Herbert von Karajan and the opera conductor Riccardo Muti.