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Stark points to a number of advantages that Christianity had over paganism to explain its growth: While others fled cities, Christians stayed in urban areas during plague, ministering and caring for the sick ; Christian populations grew faster, due to the prohibition of abortion, infanticide and birth control ; Christians did not fight against their persecutors by open violence or guerrilla warfare.
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In addition, the Stark effect also removes the degeneracy of energy states having the same total angular momentum ( specified by the quantum number J ).
In London Cotman was friends with a number of artists including James Stark, George Cattermole, Samuel Prout and Cornelius Varley.
The famed tree came to the attention of the Stark Brothers a number of years before, when Mr. Mullins sent three apples to Mr. Stark one fine April.
Klein's quartic occurs in many branches of mathematics, in contexts including representation theory, homology theory, octonion multiplication, Fermat's last theorem, and the Stark – Heegner theorem on imaginary quadratic number fields of class number one ; see for a survey of properties.
In number theory, a branch of mathematics, the Stark – Heegner theorem states precisely which quadratic imaginary number fields admit unique factorisation in their ring of integers.
Bean has also acted in a number of television productions and character roles such as playing Robert Aske in Henry VIII and Eddard Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones.
; Low class number lists: Class number 1: solved, Baker ( 1966 ), Stark ( 1967 ), Heegner ( 1952 ).
: Class number 2: solved, Baker ( 1971 ), Stark ( 1971 )
See Stark – Heegner theorem, Heegner number.
Röntgen's successors, namely Wilhelm Wien, Johannes Stark and the chemists Emil Fischer and Eduard Buchner, also number among the succession of Nobel Prize winners to lecture at the university, a tradition which endures in the present-day example of Klaus von Klitzing.
Giant Man infected the parallel universe's Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts and a number of people at Stark Industries.
While Stark I and II were intended to remove potential conflicts of interest from physician decision making, a number of persons have argued that the legislation, particularly parts of Stark II, represents an unwarranted intrusion into the practice of medicine.
A few years later, after a number of successful ventures together, he received a severe setback when his friend and business mentor, Frederick Stark Pearson, was one of the passengers who went down on the on May 7, 1915, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
It was in Sedalia that Stark heard Scott Joplin play The Maple Leaf Rag, and on August 10, 1899, he bought the number for fifty dollars plus royalties of one cent per copy.
The film stars Al Pillay, and Nosher Powell as the secretary of state as well as a number of cameos, including Miranda Richardson and Nigel Planer as vile DHSS clerks, Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall as a union boss, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Jennifer Saunders, Jimmy Fagg, Kathy Burke, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Bill Wyman, Jools Holland, Hugh Cornwell, Adrian Edmondson, Angela Bowie, and Lemmy.
Using a computer virus, he disables a number of Stark Enterprises facilities, as well as Stark's armor.
Donna Stark ( RCI Records catalog number 2341 ) reached # 92 on the Billboard country music charts in 1980.
In 1960, with his brother, society columnist, Igor, opens Le Club, which becomes the number one private club in the world with members, Gianni Agnelli, Maharajah of Jaipur, Stavros Niarchos, Aristotle Onassis, and Ray Stark.
A separate development was Stark's conjecture ( Harold Stark ), which in contrast dealt directly with the question of finding interesting, particular units in number fields.
Stark and Christianity
In The Rise of Christianity, Rodney Stark argues that Christianity triumphed over paganism chiefly because it improved the lives of its adherents in various ways.
In recent writing on the city states, American scholar Rodney Stark emphasizes that they married responsive government, Christianity and the birth of capitalism.
The Rise of Christianity, ( subtitled either " A sociologist reconsiders history " or " How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries ," depending on the edition ) is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus, to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.
Stark argues that, contrary to popular belief, Christianity was a movement, not of the lower classes and the oppressed, but of the upper and middle classes in the cities and of Hellenized Jews.
Stark also discusses the exponential nature of the growth of religion, and why hence the speed of Christianity is not as miraculous as might be thought.
* 2012: The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion, by Rodney Stark
* " The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery ", Rodney Stark, Christianity Today, 7 January 2003
Stark and had
The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.
Captain America is purportedly laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, but Tony Stark ( Iron Man ) and others have actually returned Rogers ' body to the Arctic where Rogers had been found years before.
Clinton, who considered Vermont to still be a part of New York, did not want to honor the actions of the Vermont tribunals ; Stark, who had custody of the men, disagreed with Clinton.
Jesperson was the manager of Oar Folkjokeopus, a punk rock record store in Minneapolis, and had also founded Twin / Tone Records with a local recording engineer named Paul Stark.
Howard Stark states that vibranium is stronger than and a third of the weight of steel, is completely vibration-absorbent, and that all the Vibranium Stark had went into making Captain America's shield.
While in Manchester, General Benjamin Lincoln, whose promotion in preference to Stark had been the cause for Stark's resignation from the Continental Army, attempted to assert Army authority over Stark and his men.
However, Stark had decided to capitalize on weaknesses in the German's widely distributed position, and had sent sizable flanking parties to either side of his lines.
Sergeant Maylon Stark ( George Reeves ) has told Warden that Karen had many affairs at Fort Bliss, including with him.
Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as television's Superman.
( The others were Russian Admirals Oskar Victorovich Stark, who had been relieved of command following his humiliating loss in the Battle of Port Arthur, and Wilgelm Vitgeft, who had been killed in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
On May 9, 1867, the post office and community were renamed Eureka, the name given by Edward Stark " as a place where he had found and others would find a fine place for doing business.
As of the 2010 census, the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area, which includes all of Stark and Carroll counties, had a population of 404, 422.
As of the 2010 census, the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area had a population of 404, 422 and includes all of Stark and Carroll counties.
Mr. Stark, who had lived in Charleston, South Carolina prior to moving to the area, had gotten several people to come along with him on an agriculture venture, but this venture would fail.
After their house was destroyed during Spider-Man's fight with Charlie Weiderman, Peter, Aunt May, and Mary Jane Watson moved into Stark Tower ( as Spider-Man had joined the Avengers ).
When Peter changed his mind about the Superhuman Registration Act, he had to move Aunt May, Mary Jane, and himself out of Stark Tower because Iron Man was the leading supporter for the Act.
By October 2008, Downey had agreed to appear as Iron Man in two Iron Man sequels and The Avengers, the superhero team that Stark joins based on Marvel's comic book series The Avengers.
Stark was married to Elizabeth " Molly " Page, with whom he had 11 children including his eldest son Caleb Stark.
Stark agreed, but upon returning home, learned that while he had been fighting in New Jersey, a fellow New Hampshire Colonel named Enoch Poor had been promoted to Brigadier General in the Continental Army.
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