Some modern sources allude to a linguistic connection between the bunyip and Bunjil, " a mythic ' Great Man ' who made the mountains and rivers and man and all the animals.

Great Ages of Man: The Reformation.

The Bennington Gazette wrote of the local hero, " the patriotism and strong attachment which ever appeared uniform in the breast of this Great Man, was worth of his exalted character ; the public have to lament the loss of a man who has rendered them great service ".

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

One of the most forceful critics of Carlyle's formulation of the Great Man theory was Herbert Spencer, who believed that attributing historical events to the decisions of individuals was a hopelessly primitive, childish, and unscientific position.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

Among modern critics of the theory of Great Man one should mention Sidney Hook, whose book The Hero in History is devoted to the role of the hero and in history and influence of the outstanding persons.

Leonid Grinin defines a historical figure ( a Great Man ) thus:

So, he concludes that the role of Great Man depends on a number of factors, or none at all.

Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were: Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland in Western Europe, with a population of over 75, 000.

* Mark Bingham: a Tribute to a Wonderful Man, a Great Friend, a Loving Brother, and an American Hero.

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

Universal retained the services of Powell however, which ultimately resulted in his appearance in the classic screwball comedy My Man Godfrey the same year as The Great Ziegfeld.

Alfred the Great: the Man Who Made England ( 2005 )

It first opened on 31 July 1902 and runs on a daily basis from late March to late October taking visitors to the summit of The Great Orme, climbing a mile of track to the summit complex at a height of 679 ft ( 207 ) m. There are panoramic views of the Welsh mountains and as far as the Isle of Man, Blackpool and the Lake District.

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole Pimlico, 2008.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

He continued to give creditable performances in lesser pictures, for example as Inspector Nielson in some of Paramount Pictures ' Bulldog Drummond mysteries, and offered one last bravura dramatic turn in RKO's 1939 feature The Great Man Votes.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes authored a book entitled The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money outlining the key theories of Keynesian economics.

Yale University economist Irving Fisher wrote in 1933 on the relationship between economics and economic history in his " Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions " ( Econometrica, Vol.

McIntosh, I, Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press, Great Britain, 1997.

* Great Ideas in Physics: the Conservation of Energy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.

* Takahashi's fiscal and monetary policies during the Great Depression were in many ways similar to what Keynes later published just a few years later in 1936 in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

The lyrics, written by Tanya Hadlock-Piltz ( Annapolis Class of 2005 )., contain references to some of the texts read in the school's Great Books program, including The Iliad, and Plato's Theory of Forms.

In his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes introduced concepts that were intended to help explain the Great Depression.

In a chapter entitled " On the Origins of Expectancy Theory " published in Great Minds in Management by Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt, Vroom himself agreed with some of these criticisms and stated that he felt that the theory should be expanded to include research conducted since the original publication of his book.

It seems, during the Great Meteoroid Strike, the Angels lost their information about the Theory of Relativity and since the ship has been travelling at near light-speed for over one-hundred years, more time has passed on Earth than on the ship.

* 1986, The Great Dying: Cosmic Catastrophe, Dinosaurs & The Theory of Evolution, San Diego: Random House, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

* 1988, The Great Dying: Cosmic Catastrophe, Dinosaurs & The Theory of Evolution, USA: Random House, Ballantine, Pan.

" The Philosophy of History: A Case Comparison and Rationale for Great Man Theory and for the History of Medicine in Mainstream History " ( Diss., West Virginia Wesleyan College, 2006 ), 2-4, 6.

Meanwhile, PL fiercely opposes the Theory of Productive Forces espoused by past communists, which it points out placed more emphasis on achieving abundance in socialist societies than it did on actually winning the working class to communist ideology and practice, particularly in the cases of the Great Leap Forward and the Five Year Plans.

Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory.

The Third International Theory, the Third Universal Theory ( Arabic: نظرية عالمية ثالثة ), or simply called Gaddafiism or erroneously Green socialism, refers to the style of government proposed by Col. Muammar Gaddafi in the early 1970s, on which his government, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was officially based.

* A New Germ Theory: Part 3: The Great Synthesizer

* Areas of Studies of Prof. Jose David Lapuz: ( 1 ) International Politics and Security Studies ; ( 2 ) Conflicting Methodologies in International Politics & Foreign Policy which he specialized in postgraduate courses University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, as a British Council Scholar under the supervision of Dr. WJM Mackenzie, C. B. E., Classics Don at Magdalen College, Oxford and James Bryce Chair of Politics at University of Glasgow, and also the head of its Department of Politics and Moral Philosophy ; ( 3 ) Ethical Foreign Policy: Where does the Ethics Come From ; ( 4 ) Nationalism in Contemporary Perspective: Insightful Overview about the extent of Ethnic COnflict in today's world ; ( 5 ) Globalization and Development and ; ( 6 ) Development of International Relations Theory and the Great Debates.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.