Some scholars have hypothesized an original Proto-Indo-European pantheon, with the chief male god ( Di -) represented by the sky and thunder, and the chief female god ( feminine form of Di -) represented as the earth or fertile soil.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

An often cited study done in 1976 by Sherwyn Woods, Some Dynamics of Male Chauvinism, attempts to find the underlying causes of " male chauvinism.

Some of the common associations with yang and yin, respectively, are: male and female, light and dark, active and passive, motion and stillness.

Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.

* Pessah Shinar: Some remarks regarding the colours of male Jewish dress in North Africa and their Arabic-Islamic context.

Some spiders, such as some Synema species, members of the Thomisidae ( crab spiders ) mate while the female is still callow, during which time she is unable to eat the male.

Some feminists are engaged with men's issues activism, such as bringing attention to male rape and spousal battery and addressing negative social expectations for men.

Some are reserved for men and others for women while some may be performed by either, though these traditional distinctions are breaking down: the Farruca, for example, once a male dance, is now commonly performed by women too.

Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.

Some Buddhist schools refer to Guanyin both as male and female interchangeably.

Some features that are confined to one sex only of a particular species can be explained by selection exercised by the other sex in the choice of a mate, for example, the extravagant plumage of some male birds.

Some scholars estimate more Jewish men are studying in yeshivot ( Talmudical schools ) and Kollelim ( post-graduate Talmudical colleges for married ( male ) students ) than at any other time in history.

Some family groups contain more breeding females than one male can control, so have more than one breeding adult male in them.

Some well-known male US vocal quartets include The Statler Brothers ; The Ames Brothers ; The Chi-Lites ; Crosby Stills Nash & Young ; The Dixie Hummingbirds ; The Four Aces ; Four Freshmen ; The Four Seasons ; The Four Tops ; The Cathedral Quartet ; Ernie Haase and Signature Sound ; The Golden Gate Quartet ; The Hilltoppers ; The Jordanaires ; Mills Brothers ; The Rascals ; and The Skylarks.

Sometimes screwball comedies feature male characters cross-dressing, further contributing to the misunderstandings ( Bringing Up Baby, I Was a Male War Bride, Some Like It Hot ).

Some mythologists, such as Brian Branston, Patricia Monaghan and Janet McCrickard, contend that sun goddesses are as common as, or even more common, worldwide than their male counterparts.

* Male circumcision and HIV: Some research has suggested that male circumcision can reduce the risk of HIV infection in some countries.

Some mammals are also venomous, including solenodons, shrews, the slow loris, and the male platypus.

* Some believe that male nuances are not attached to words in various passages ; therefore, translations like the TNIV could be more accurately communicate the meaning of the text.

Some cultures have specific gender-related social roles that can be considered distinct from male and female, such as the hijra of India and Pakistan.

Some female authors used male pen names, in particular in the 19th century, when writing was a male-dominated profession.

Some universities also refer to graduate students or others who undertake ad-hoc teaching for a department as ' lecturers ' or ' sessional lecturers '.

Some lecturers targeted Christian Deism.

Some of the first lecturers to earn a doctorate at a South African University included Dr Hofni Joubert ( in the late fifties ) Dr Izak J van Zyl ( in the seventies ), with Dr Delyse Steyn being the first woman to achieve this.

Some of these students plus lecturers were expelled for approving the Hungarians.

Some of these ( Oxford, No. 2221, and Paris, Bibl.

Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.

Some Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare acted as a " front man ," receiving the plays from Oxford and pretending to have written them, but others claim that he was simply a merchant from Stratford who had nothing to do with the theatre.

Some mainstream academics also argue the Oxford theory is based on simple snobbishness: that anti-Stratfordians reject the idea that the son of a mere tradesman could write the plays and poems of Shakespeare.

Some Oxfordians also believe the non-Shakespearean play The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth was another play written by Oxford, based on the exaggerated role it gave to the 11th Earl of Oxford.

Some of the pioneering trials of penicillin took place at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language as a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill's Jamaca Viewed: " Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat.

Some of them were educated at either Oxford or Cambridge, but many were not.

* Some, such as the original members of the Oxford Movement, use official Anglican liturgical texts such as the Book of Common Prayer.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

Some of the freehold of these streets is still in the name of Christ Church Oxford.

Some historians argue that he began his teaching career in theology at Oxford in this year, whereas others have more recently argued that he used the income of this ecclesiastical post to support study in theology at the University of Paris.

Some of the paper which was produced at Taverham Mill was used in producing The Times and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Some scenes were also shot in Swindon, Oxford, and Bristol.

Some former LNWR routes were subsequently closed, notably the lines running East to West across the Midlands ( e. g. Peterborough to Northampton and to Oxford ), but others were developed as part of the Inter City network, notably the main lines from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Carlisle, collectively known in the modern era as the West Coast Main Line.

* B. W. Savile, Dr Pusey, an Historic Sketch, with Some Account of the Oxford Movement ( 1883 )

Some of her papers are deposited with the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Some early work is being done in Oxford and London in the UK.

Some opponents of the Oxford Movement viewed this as proof that the movement had sought to " Romanise " the church.

Some time after 1571, he left Oxford to become master of a school at Sandwich, Kent, where he died in 1610.

Some 60 madrigals of the English School are published in The Oxford Book of English Madrigals

* Some commemoration balls and May balls at the old universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham

Some reputable dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary now regard magnum opuses as acceptable.