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* A Broad Brush History of the Cephalopoda by Dr. Neale Monks, from The Cephalopod Page.
Though he finds being affectionate in public embarrassing and is divided on disliking Sybil's status as a noble, it is clear that Vimes loves his wife dearly ; indeed when he was trapped in the past alone in a world he no longer recognised, the History Monks gave him a silver cigar case his wife had bought him to inspire him to continue with his mission.
In a similar way to the " procrastinator " cylinders of the History Monks, pyramids on the Discworld can redirect the flow of time like a dam in a river.
She possesses a unique perspective on life, in that she lacks the normal human ability to ignore things which do not fit in with a logical world-view: in Soul Music, she is able to acknowledge the enormous size of the rooms in Death's Domain, whereas most humans can only deal with the incomprehensible vastness by pretending it is not there ; Hogfather reveals that she shares the ability of witches, wizards and young children to see things which are invisible to most people, such as the tooth fairy, monsters and bogeymen ; in Thief of Time, she is able to identify the historical anomalies created by the History Monks ' reconstruction of the shattered timeline.
( The prefix ' Monks ' is explained under History below ).
According to the History Monks, the entire species has been rendered extinct three times.
Meanwhile, in a distant valley, a young apprentice of the History Monks, Lobsang Ludd, is apprenticed to Lu-Tze, known throughout the Oi Dong Monastery as ' The Sweeper '.
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The Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised, better known as the History Monks, and also sometimes referred to as THE Fighting Order of Wen, the Men In Saffron ( see Men in Black ) and No Such Monastery ( see NSA ), is a highly secretive religious organisation in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, based in the Monastery of Oi-Dong.
He is one of the History Monks and spends much of the novel in the background, disguised as a simple sweeper.
Lobsang ( born Newgate Ludd ) was raised by the Ankh-Morpork Thieves ' Guild, but was discovered by Soto of the History Monks when Lobsang performed the Stance of the Coyote ( personalized time shift, presumably a reference to cartoon character Wile E. Coyote's ability to pause in mid-air, often for comic effect ) in order to save his own life after falling from a rooftop, which would have killed him.
This has done wonders for his ability to get sent out on assignments far from the monastery, and he is currently the head of the History Monks based in Ankh-Morpork.
Title: A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
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They are roughly equivalent to Earth's Himalayas, being home to Yeti and various Buddhist-style monastic orders, such as the History Monks, which give the area the nickname " Enlightenment Country ".
It was probably during this time that he wrote the account of his travels, which was published in English in 1928 as The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe, and Markos Who as Mar Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church in Asia, translated and edited by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge.
Tooth Fairies and the History Monks are groups of humans who play godlike roles.
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History and appear
At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;
The first written records for the History of France appear in the Iron Age.
Because many of the passages involved appear in works associated with either Deuteronomy, the Deuteronomistic History ( Joshua through Kings ) or in Jeremiah, most recent scholarly treatments have suggested that a Deuteronomistic movement of this period developed the idea of monotheism as a response to the religious issues of the time.
Caratacus does not appear in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain ( 1136 ), although he appears to correspond to Arviragus, the younger son of Kymbelinus, who continues to resist the Roman invasion after the death of his older brother Guiderius.
While it is included in collections of Future History stories and appears on Heinlein's timeline chart, " The Long Watch " does not appear to share continuity with the history, but with Space Cadet published a year earlier.
The stories, part of Heinlein's Future History series, appear in the first edition as follows:
They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.
For example, small Scottish and Irish harps can be held on the lap, while some ancient Sumerian lyres appear to have been as tall as a seated man ( see Kinsky ; also Sachs, History ..., under " References ").
A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh poems, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ), and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most later versions.
In 1834 appeared the first volume of the History of the United States, which would appear over the next four decades ( 1834 – 74 ) and established his reputation.
R. L. Poole ( Studies in Chronology and History, 1934 ) put forward the theory that Bede began his year in September, and consequently November 655 would actually fall in 654 ; Frank Stenton also dated events accordingly in his Anglo-Saxon England ( 1943 ).< sup > 1 </ sup > Others have accepted Bede's given dates as meaning what they appear to mean, considering Bede's year to have begun on 25 December or 1 January ( see S. Wood, 1983: " Bede's Northumbrian dates again "
However, according to Richard Rutt in his History of Handknitting, the name " balaclava helmet " did not first appear in print during the Crimean War, but only much later, in 1881.
" He carried on an extensive correspondence with some of the leading men of his time, and many of his letters appear in Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century ( London, 1812 – 1815 ) and Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century ( London, 1817 – 1858 ) by J. Nichols, in the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vol.
They also appear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, together with Moses, as famous magicians of antiquity ; Pliny's citation is also referred to in Apuleius.
The unity of the country might appear accidental, something which Pirenne sought to disprove in his History of Belgium ( 1899 – 1932 ).
Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond ( 1852 ), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her:
The texts appear not to have been given a polish but consist of rough notes and sketches, as Allen A. Shaw, a modern commentator, concluded ; nevertheless Epiphanius ' work on metrology was important in the History of measurement.
Later examples appear in the list of subscribers to The History of Elton, by the Rev.
This investigation was the real secret of Drummond's interest in Scottish history ; and so we find that he now began his History of Scotland during the Reigns of the Five Jameses, a work which did not appear till 1655, and is remarkable only for its good literary style.
Since there appear to be some contradictions between certain passages in the History, it has been proposed that the conflicting passages were written at different times and that Thucydides ' opinion on the conflicting matter had changed.
Constitutions of Michigan appear in the Biennially printed Michigan Manuals, are located at: http :// www. legislature. mi. gov /( S ( jfrrop55xbhaoq45uwrhod55 ))/ mileg. aspx? Page = PublicationsThe " Michigan Manual " has been printed since 1850, providing a unique compilation of Michigan History, Michigan Constitutions, current elected government officials Photo & Biographical information, Election results, County demographics and officials.
Other parts of the work to appear separately in Italian and later in Spanish were " Virilità dell ' Uomo " ( Manhood of Men ) ( 4 vols., 1779-80 ); " Vecchiaja e morte dell ' Uomo " ( Old age and death of Man ) ( 1780 ); " Viaggio estatico al Mondo planetario " ( Ecstatic Journey around the World ) ( 1780 ); " Storia della Terra " ( The History of Earth ) ( 1781-83, 6 vols.
Thus, Ælfwine is given as the author of the various translations in Old English that appear in The History of Middle-earth Series.
These appear in an online in " The History and Topography of the County of Clare " by James Frost Part II.

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