Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Scholars from this school were good orators, debaters and tacticians.

Scholars such as Dierk Lange attribute the decline of ancient Ghana to numerous unrelated factors, only one of which can be likely attributable to internal dynastic struggles that were instigated by Almalvorid influence and Islamic pressures, but devoid of any military conversion and conquest.

Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

* In 2005 Colin and Alma Powell were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

Scholars were sent to Europe to collect pamphlets, society publications, government documents, newspapers, posters, proclamations, and other ephemeral materials related to the war and the revolutions that followed it.

Scholars had to decide which hadith were to be trusted as authentic and which had been invented for political or theological purposes.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Scholars from twenty-nine countries attended the events, and 450 articles were presented at the conference.

Some Scholars suggest that the command to abstain from leavened food or yeast suggests that sacrifices offered to God involve the offering of objects in " their least altered state ", that would be nearest to the way in which they were initially made by God.

Scholars of the 19th century used chemical means to read palimpsests that were sometimes very destructive, using tincture of gall or later, ammonium bisulfate.

The sequence in question read: " Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gaza, Assyria, Shubaru [...] Sherden, Tjekker, Peleset, Khurma [...]" Scholars have advanced the possibility that the other Sea Peoples mentioned were connected to these cities in some way as well.

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

Scholars in Europe were now able to see the inscriptions and attempt to read them.

Scholars who studied the narrations according to their context ( matn ) as well as their transmission ( isnad ) in order to discriminate between them were influential in the development of early Muslim philosophy.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

Scholars in the late 19th and early 20th century explored the generations of families the authors considered disreputable, such as the The Jukes family and the The Kallikak Family ( both were pseudonyms for real families ).

Scholars conjecture that the red stains on its flanks are not blood but rather the juice from pomegranates, which were a symbol of fertility.

Scholars assume Gallienus ' efforts were placed with Aureolus, the office who betrayed him, and the defeat of the Herulians was left to his successor, Claudius Gothicus.

Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the Jews before the Babylonian captivity were solar ( based on the return of the same relative position between the sun and the earth ) or lunisolar ( based on months that corresponded to the cycle of the moon, with periodic additional months to bring the calendar back into agreement with the solar cycle ) like the present-day Hebrew calendar.

Scholars investigate questions such as which instruments or voices were used to perform a given work, what tempos ( or tempo changes ) were used, and how ( or if ) ornaments were used.

On January 31, 2006, Barrett and his wife were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Scholars were concerned chiefly with establishing language families and reconstructing prehistoric proto-languages, using the comparative method and internal reconstruction.

Scholars have identified several passages in Jeremiah that can be understood as “ confessions ;” they occur in the first section of the book ( chapters 1-25 ) and are 11. 18-12. 6, 15. 10-21, 17. 14-18, 18. 18-23, and 20. 7-18.

Scholars from the history of ideas have noticed that consultants play a part similar to that of the journeymen of the guild systems: they often travel a lot, work at many different companies and spread new practices and knowledge between companies and corporations.

Scholars suggest they are descendants of early Austroasiatic-speaking agriculturalists, who brought both their language and their technology to the southern part of the peninsula approximately 4, 000 years ago.

In his book Students, Scholars and Saints, Ginzberg quotes the Vilna Gaon instructing, “ Do not regard the views of the Shulchan Aruch as binding if you think that they are not in agreement with those of the Talmud .”

Scholars debate whether Protestants actually drew influence from Lollardy or whether they referred to it to create a sense of tradition.

Scholars have described their methods as subjective and devoid of any evidential value, saying they use a " double standard ", " consistently distort and misrepresent the historical record ", " neglect to provide necessary context " and calling some of their arguments " outright fabrication ".

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

Scholars have continued to develop these theories ever since, and they have influenced anthropologists ' understanding of fetishism in general.

Scholars outside China see this re-working of the definition of Maoism as providing an ideological justification for what they see as the restoration of the essentials of capitalism in China by Deng and his successors, who sought to " eradicate all ideological and physiological obstacles to economic reform ".

* King's Scholars: An academically select group, marked by black jumpers with white trimmings that have recently replaced their distinctive black gowns, they process wearing surplices during school services in the Cathedral.

Scholars have tried to discern the exact nature of the events that gave rise to the story, but they have reached no definitive conclusions.

King's Scholars are entitled to use the letters " KS " after their name and they can be identified by a black gown worn over the top of their tailcoats, giving them the nickname tugs ( Latin: togati, wearers of gowns ); and occasionally by a surplice in Chapel.

If they choose instead to belong to one of the 24 Oppidan Houses, they are known as Oppidan Scholars.

Scholars have generally concluded that archaeological, linguistic, and documentary evidence shows the Pequot and their ancestors to have been longer in the Connecticut River Valley ; essentially, they may be considered to have been indigenous for centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

Sheikh Abdullah Al Ghraifi, the deputy head of the Islamic Scholars Council, gave a clear warning of the clerics ' intent: " We have at our disposition 150, 000 votes that we will forward to the MPs, and I hope that they understand this message clearly.

Scholars have attempted to localize individual poems by studying the geography, flora and fauna which they refer to.

Scholars generally assume that the appearance of the blue monkey in Aegean iconography was due to the import of the actual animal from north Africa ; they were iconic religious animals in Egypt

Scholars have noted that as the mixed-race Wayles-Hemings children grew up at Monticello, they were trained and given assignments as skilled artisans and domestic servants, at the top of the slave hierarchy.

From their 312 Alumni, they have had 5 National Merit Scholars and 11 students who received Letters of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Scholars were eligible for election to the fellowship after three years of probation, irrespective of whether they had achieved a degree or not.

The Seminar began by translating the gospels into modern American English, producing what they call the " Scholars Version ," first published in The Complete Gospels.

Scholars believe they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, but 2, 900 years ago they started to spread southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast.