Yet it is surprisingly timeless, in part because of the way our times have come weirdly to echo those in which it was conceived.

Improvements in our understanding of the Viking period have done surprisingly little to falsify Haggard's imagination of its setting, and the book should still hold appeal to any reader interested in the period.

These gurukuls are surprisingly a complex of high standards world-class schooling, providing curricula like CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE-Cambridge through its international schools ; merged with the best blend of spirituality, morals and values which is an effort towards safeguarding our traditions in the coming generations.

Writing to Arthur Keith in 1927, he remarked "... when our Oligocene ancestor is found it will not be an ape, but it will be surprisingly pro-human ".

In other words, research has shown that people are surprisingly poor " intuitive psychologists " and that our social judgments are oftentimes inaccurate.

Variety praised the film's " surprisingly cogent, entertaining, even rabble-rousing indictment of perhaps the most influential institutional model for our era " and its avoidance of " a sense of excessively partisan rhetoric " by deploying a wide range of interviewees and " a bold organizational scheme that lets focus jump around in interconnective, humorous, hit-and-run fashion.

Henry Groom, a City of Melbourne Councillor, declared, not surprisingly, " The freeholders of Clifton Hill have no desire to depreciate the value of their property by suffering it to be annexed to a swamp which to drain itself would drain our resources.

The area closest to the Pole is also, perhaps surprisingly, warm rather than cold, as Symmes believed.

Wortley Recreation Ground is closest to the city centre, and offers surprisingly good views of surrounding areas, including the city centre.

However, Kuykendall ran a surprisingly competitive race, taking 46 percent of the vote to Gore's 53 percent -- the closest a Republican had come to winning a full term in the Senate since Reconstruction.

Constantly rebuked by Sansa's and her governess, Septa Mordane, her closest relationship is surprisingly with her half-brother Jon, who also understands how it feels to be overshadowed.

Night Thrasher's grave contained only the torn remains of the costume he was wearing during the Stamford incident, with analysis of the costume revealing a surprisingly minimal amount of biological material, although the doctor who performed the analysis note that this could be explained by the fact that Taylor was only human and was within close proximity of Nitro's explosion while also being partly protected by his costume.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

Still, with the merit of supporting great opening initiatives: the appropriation of Western artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others from the Woodstock generation, the public performance of gospel-like music, the opening to big international issues ( pop culture, accountability of the leadership, tension surging during the Cold War-with surprisingly neutral positions etc.

The proof of a mathematical theorem exhibits mathematical elegance if it is surprisingly simple yet effective and constructive ; similarly, a computer program or algorithm is elegant if it uses a small amount of code to great effect.

Despite, achieving great prominence already, Čolić continued appearing at the occasional festival such as the Zagreb one in 1976 where surprisingly he finished in fourth place singing " Ti si bila, uvijek bila ".

Slaughter and Don Kernodle ; Steamboat and Youngblood being turned on by their friends Jack and Jerry Brisco ; Steamboat in a shocking ( and surprisingly emotional ) feud against former mentor Wahoo McDaniel ; and his last great series in the territory, feuding with Tully Blanchard over the NWA TV title.

Saladin had raised Baldwin's ransom to a great sum, but surprisingly released him with the promise to pay later.

At the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, in the 1500 m. final, Larva fought a great battle against Frenchman Jules Ladoumègue, and surprisingly won in a time of 3: 53. 2.

Bolotnikov won his first national championship title in 10, 000 m in 1957, when he surprisingly beat the great Vladimir Kuts in a finishing straight by 0. 2 seconds.

Not surprisingly he was a great Sevens player: I don't think Gordon shone at the short game.

According to a review by Martin Bronfenbrenner in The Journal of Political Economy, about half of the book was devoted to dialectical philosophy, " with a strong epistemological stress ", with the other half devoted to discussions of economic and general history, anthropology and sociology, and actual economics, including a surprisingly large helping of business administration – Bronfenbrenner noted that LaRouche seemed to have " more private-business experience than the great majority of academic economists ", including a familiarity with the way speculative overcapitalization, operating at the borders of white-collar crime, creates " fictitious capitals " that later do not match their actual earning power.

Somewhat surprisingly, his great friend and mentor, Edward Thomas, likened Davies to Wordsworth, writing: " He can write commonplace or inaccurate English, but it is also natural to him to write, such as Wordsworth wrote, with the clearness, compactness and felicity which make a man think with shame how unworthily, through natural stupidity or uncertainty, he manages his native tongue.

He hoped to succeed Rayleigh as Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1884, but was surprisingly ( given that he was also Rayleigh's choice ) passed over in favour of Sir J. J. Thomson, which was a great disappointment to him.

During the past few years this deposit has yielded a great quantity of beautiful raw material, which has included crystals of surprisingly large dimensions and perfectly bounded crystal faces.

Not surprisingly, his arrival caused a great deal of controversy ; Hajduk fans had differing opinions, with a significant number seeing Ćiro as a miracle worker that would help Hajduk regain its former glory.

:" A solid scrummager, he was a superb minder at the line-out and surprisingly for a prop, was well known as a great cover tackler.

After Cadbury gets the supplies ( a card in Latin, a language he is fluent in, to warn him and Keenbean's mixture, which will eat through literally anything ), he is attacked by one of Van Dough's henchmen ; surprisingly, he shows great strength for his appearance, and knocks the goon unconscious.

Not surprisingly for someone with a Quaker background, Calpin greeted Chamberlain ’ s diplomatic intervention at Munich with enthusiasm, noting in an October 1938 editorial that “ the agreement signed in Munich lifts a burden almost too great to be borne by the peoples of the world ”.

Bogdanovic, then ranked at 457 in the world, made a great start on the clay court surface against a surprisingly lacklustre Hewitt and led 5 – 3 in the first set, but Hewitt then found his form and cruised to victory in straight sets, 7 – 5, 6 – 1, 6 – 2.

A contemporary of the painter-architects Jacob van Campen, Salomon de Bray, and Pieter Post, he is noted for his surprisingly modern paintings of church interiors, the great bulk of his production.

Although his works for early instruments are clearly composed from a twentieth ( or twenty-first ) century point of reference, Risher's writing for such instruments is surprisingly idiomatic, showing his great familiarity with early instruments and genres.

A great number of welded Steel Moment Resisting Frame buildings, which looked earthquake-proof, surprisingly experienced brittle behavior and were hazardously damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

He has proficiency and great experience with edged weapons and wields a variety of swords, shields and spears and, not surprisingly, he wears a suit of armor.

Gnomes also tend to be surprisingly strong for their height, described as " the strength of a man compressed into a body six inches tall ".

Not surprisingly, these individuals tend to be supporters of the president.

The accent of Norwich is ( not surprisingly ) similar but the vowels tend to be different.

Not surprisingly, people with a high capacity of Gf tend to acquire more Gc knowledge and at faster rates.

Members of this genus tend to be fairly easy in culture, and some plants are surprisingly drought-tolerant.

Larger groups of five or more, surprisingly, tend to get along much better than two or three, as they will establish a stable hierarchy ; such a group will require a very large heavily planted aquarium, however.

Not surprisingly, males generally being smaller than females, the males of many species mature faster and do not undergo ecdysis as many times as the females before maturing.

Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist ( existence ), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity ( smoothness ).

Although ammonites do occur in exceptional lagerstatten such as the Solnhofen limestone, their soft part record is surprisingly bleak.

Told by his sister Lisa about what she needed to do to maintain his life and keep him at home, McClellan, who remains 80 % deaf, was surprisingly able to hear and understand his sister and gave his approval.

The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are surprisingly close to reality.

Gender-specific body movements are not reliably associated with a person ’ s sexual orientation This is true of face shape, but surprisingly not for voices, even though people think they do.

The bottom ridge of the palm is a surprisingly solid striking surface, and can do just as much damage as a closed fist when utilized properly ( some studies have shown that a palm strike actually can produce more energy than a punch in most cases ), with far less risk of injury to the striker's own hand.

From the opening kick off the game descended into a series of high or late tackles and several all-in brawls, though surprisingly referee Keith Page didn't send any player off, despite threatening to do so and repeatedly handing out cautions, including twice to all 26 players on the field.

Sadly, ( not surprisingly ) the government and forest department hardly ever do anything and this has resulted in the loss of rare trees and loss of habitat for wild animals.

Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave I Don't Want to Grow Up four stars out of five, saying that " When the four want to be straight up and perfectly poppy, they can and do with smashing success, with surprisingly mature, emotional lyrics and playing that doesn't rely on all-speed all the time.

The main reason people choose not to contribute to online communities surprisingly does not have to do with societal laziness, but in fact the potential contributors belief that their entries will not be taken seriously or given the credit that they deserve.

He does so badly in school, he has to pretend his last name is Rodriguez just to stay on the football team, but surprisingly learns to speak Spanish to do so convincingly.

In the final episode, the forces of evil surprisingly win over the forces of good as Christina finally embraces her evil self, kills Jesse after a final showdown, and walks out of the ruins of Point Pleasant with the intent to bring on the end of the world, and the rest of humanity as well, while the defeated and demoralized Kramers are left by themselves to debate on what to do next.

In 1963, whilst his county form on overgrassed pitches was back to something close to his best, on the less grassy surfaces in the First Test against the West Indies his bowling lacked its old venom, and he was surprisingly replaced by the veteran Derek Shackleton for the rest of the series-a move criticised heavily in the press because it was known fast bowlers would do well at Lord's.

Not only do pictures and literature manifest the same organising principles, but, more broadly, seeing and hearing, though certainly not identical, interact in surprisingly complex ways at deeper levels of the sign hierarchy which Hjelmslev sought to understand.

Still, she felt she could not do it ; George would prove to be surprisingly generous and understanding, giving her the Mogoşoaia Palace ( Mogosoëa in certain French renderings ) in 1912.

Not surprisingly, they do not perform the flight-initiating jumps that characterize the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus.

Despite her unwillingness to help Thurgood do his job, she is surprisingly friendly to Muriel.