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

Many colonial settlers came to Delaware from Maryland and Virginia, which had been experiencing a population boom.

Many of the original neighborhoods were inhabited by German settlers.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England, where baking foods such as pies, beans, and turkey were more common than frying as was the tradition elsewhere.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England and also brought with them traditions of dairy products and baking pies and other foods.

Many of the early European settlers in the South learned Native American cooking methods, and so cultural diffusion was set in motion for the Southern dish.

Many settled in the new free colony of Victoria, to the dismay of the free settlers in towns such as Melbourne.

Many reports, foreign and Israeli, are sharply critical of the behaviour of Hebronite settlers.

Many events illustrate violence and resistance as Aborigines sought to protect their lands from invasion and as settlers and pastoralists attempted to establish their presence.

Many of them founded their own cities and settled them with settlers from other parts of Europe.

Many thousands of settlers, typified by Daniel Boone, had already reached Kentucky and Tennessee and adjacent areas.

Many of the original settlers in French Acadia were English, for example the Melansons ( originally Mallinson ).

Many of the early settlers of Marion County were from South Carolina.

Many of the area's earliest settlers are buried here.

Many of these settlers were settled an area that was later called Franschhoek, ( Dutch for French Corner ), in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa.

Many of the settlers of that area came from Tennessee and the Carolinas.

Many of the first settlers were military veterans on half pay, while others were military veterans from France, Germany, Poland.

Many white settlers, recalling the Fort Dearborn massacre of 1812, distrusted the Potawatomis and assumed that they would join Black Hawk's uprising.

Many, if not most, of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry.

Many oral traditions of the Rain Dance have been passed down In an early sort of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of the modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns while offering to perform a rain dance for settlers in return for trade items.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax.

Many of the early settlers came to South Carolina from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Many settlers were also part of a larger reverse migration of people who had originally settled in the Willamette Valley.