* World Wide Words — Michael Quinion writes about the changing use of the term, as does Progress Online

Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term refers to the Dutch nickname and surname Janneke ( from Jan and the diminutive-eke, meaning " Little John " or Johnny in Dutch ), Anglicized to Yankee ( in Dutch, the letter " J " is pronounced the same as the English consonantal " Y " sound ) and " used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times ".

* Michael Quinion, " World Wide Words "; Panorama

According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website the word was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas.

* Alt-usage-english. org Michael B. Quinion and Ruth Bygrave, " Merkin "

* Boffin: World Wide Words entry by Michael Quinion

* Explanation from WorldWideWords by Michael Quinion ( supports the IHC theory )

In 2004, Michael Quinion, a British etymologist and writer, postulated that the " john " in the item of apparel may be a reference to Sullivan, who wore a similar-looking garment in the ring.

Michael Quinion surmises the rhyme was already established before this date.

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Michael Quinion identified the first known ( printed ) use of the term gandy dancer as 1918.

" Michael Quinion cites a dictionary entry indicating that the blue plates were, more specifically, inexpensive divided plates that were decorated with a " blue willow " or similar blue pattern, such as those popularized by Spode and Wedgwood.

* Blue Plate Special A competing explanation by Michael Quinion

Michael Quinion of the World Wide Words website enumerates the myths regarding the origin of this phrase:

Michael Quinion of the " World Wide Words " newsletter says that it is known in Welsh as pwdre sêr ( rot of the stars ).

Michael Quinion, advisor to The Oxford English Dictionary and author of World Wide Words says " It ’ s more than likely the term came from them ".

Some, such as the etymologist Michael Quinion, considered the ruling showed that " the historic term of art had moved on ".

Michael Parenti, in his 1996 essay which examines the role of progressive media in the use of the term, " The JFK Assassination II: Conspiracy Phobia On The Left ", states,

There is a Trotskyist theory of permanent arms economy, put forward by Michael Kidron, which leads on from the contention that war and accompanying industrialisation is a continuing feature of capitalist states and that central planning and other features of the war economy are ever present.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

Although it was intended to attract writers from both France and the German states, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher was dominated by the latter, with the only non-German writer being the exiled Russian anarcho-communist Michael Bakunin.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

Alban Butler ( Lives of the Saints, 6 April ) states that Clement X gave some of his relics to Cardinal de Retz, who placed them in the Abbey of St. Michael in Lorraine.

The history of quantum chemistry essentially began with the 1838 discovery of cathode rays by Michael Faraday, the 1859 statement of the black body radiation problem by Gustav Kirchhoff, the 1877 suggestion by Ludwig Boltzmann that the energy states of a physical system could be discrete, and the 1900 quantum hypothesis by Max Planck that any energy radiating atomic system can theoretically be divided into a number of discrete energy elements ε such that each of these energy elements is proportional to the frequency ν with which they each individually radiate energy and a numerical value called Planck ’ s Constant.

Michael Campbell states: " Professor Longhair ’ s influence was.

In a note, Kirby states, " A very abbreviated list of twentieth-century writers on the NT who do not believe that the empty tomb is historically reliable: Marcus Borg, Günther Bornkamm, Gerald Boldock Bostock, Rudolf Bultmann, Peter Carnley, John Dominic Crossan, Stevan Davies, Maurice Goguel, Michael Goulder, Hans Grass, Charles Guignebert, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Randel Helms, Herman Hendrikx, Roy Hoover, Helmut Koester, Hans Küng, Alfred Loisy, Burton L. Mack, Willi Marxsen, Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Perrin, Robert M. Price, Marianne Sawicki, John Shelby Spong, Howard M. Teeple, and John T.

Michael Freeden in his study Ideologies and Political Theory ( 1996 ) states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals ; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective ; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive ; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality ; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.

It is a common misconception that Cyril and Methodius were the first to bring Christianity to Moravia, but the letter from Rastislav to Michael III states clearly that Rastislav's people " had already rejected paganism and adhere to the Christian law.

Michael Stohl and George A. Lopez have designated three categories of state terrorism, based on the openness / secrecy with which the alleged terrorist acts are performed, and whether states directly perform the acts, support them, or acquiesce to them.

* 14 November 2000: Michael Heseltine ( MP for Henley ), the Dome's original political supporter, states " I have seen the inside story, and of course, with hindsight, all of us would do it differently "

Michael Mousseau argues that in this kind of socio-economy conflict is always present, latent or overt, because individuals depend on their groups for physical and economic security and are thus loyal to their groups rather than their states, and because groups are in a constant state of conflict over access to state coffers.

Michael Urbanski states that Canada already has a hidden reserve of foreign-trained MDs eager to begin medical practice.

* 1832 Michael Faraday states his laws of electrolysis

* 1831 — Michael Faraday states his law of induction

In Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race ( 2004 ), author Maureen Mahon states: " In the 1980s, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Prince were among the African American artists who crossed over ...

In 1275, Michael VIII sent an army against Thessaly and fleet of 73 ships to harass the Latin states in Greece.

An extract states: Mr. William Townsend of Oxford, and Mr. William Smith of Warwick, were employed to be masons ; Mr. John Philipps to be the carpenter and joiner ; Mr. George Devall to be plumber ; Mr. Townsend junior to be stone carver ; Mr. Linel of Long-acre, London, to be carver in wood ; Mr. Artari, an Italian, to be their plaisterer in the fret work way ; Mr. Michael Rysbrack to be sculptor, to cut the Doctor's figure in marble ; and Mr. Blockley to be locksmith.

The Freespire. com site states that it is " dedicated to shedding light on the REAL Michael Robertson ," and discloses information and facts about Robertson.

Michael Bray was co-pastor at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Bowie when he conspired to bomb 10 clinics and offices of abortion supporters in three states and the District of Columbia from January 1984 through January 1985.