At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Eventually this song became " Bro goz va zadoù " (" Old land of my fathers ") and is the most widely accepted Breton anthem.

The first attestations of the word “ mail ” are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: “ maille ” “ maile ”, or “ male ” or other variants, which became “ mailye ” “ maille ” “ maile ”, “ male ”, or “ meile ” in Middle English.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

However as Old Castilian became modern Spanish, the pronunciation of the sh sound changed, and came to be pronounced with a voiceless velar fricative sound like the Scottish or German ch and today the Spanish pronunciation of " Quixote " is.

Especially noteworthy is Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), which " became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy.

For the remainder of the decade, none of her solo efforts – even " In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad )", which later became a standard – were as successful as her duets with Wagoner.

The name was transmitted via the Latin delphinus ( the romanization of the later Greek δελφῖνος – delphinos ), which in Medieval Latin became dolfinus and in Old French daulphin, which reintroduced the ph into the word.

In Old French sources this then became Escalibor, Excalibor and finally the familiar Excalibur.

Management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins ' Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority.

In 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart, who became known as " The Old Pretender ," attempted an invasion with a French fleet, but the Royal Navy prevented any from landing.

In 1916 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acquired and 17 buildings of Economy, which became the Old Economy Village historic site.

With this new vocabulary, additional vocabulary borrowed from Latin ( with Greek, another approximately one-third of Modern English vocabulary, though some borrowings from Latin and Greek date from later periods ), a simplified grammar, and use of the orthographic conventions of French instead of Old English orthography, the language became Middle English ( the language of Chaucer ).

The two men became personally acquainted, and it was in Savigny's well-stocked library that Grimm first turned over the leaves of Bodmer's edition of the Old German minnesingers and other early texts, and felt an eager desire to penetrate further into the obscurities and half-revealed mysteries of their language.

As they had been shepherded to passage in the Virginia House of Delegates by John Taylor of Caroline, they became part of the heritage of the " Old Republicans ".

The word Maka later became Makran as it is common in closely related ancient Avestan and Old Persian languages to use " an " and " ran " at the end of plurals.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, released in 2011, became the world's ' Fastest-Growing MMO Ever ' after gaining 1 million subscribers within the first three days of its launch.

From 1884 until 1906 Old Calabar was the headquarters of the Niger Coast Protectorate, after which Lagos became the main center.

His works are sometimes even said to have contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words politics and politician, and it is sometimes thought that it is because of him that Old Nick became an English term for the Devil and the adjective Machiavellian became a pejorative term describing someone who aims to deceive and manipulate others for personal advantage.

* 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

He flew his beloved flag on all patriotic occasions, using a rope suspended across the street, and Old Glory became well known to the citizenry.

Thévenot's baptismal name was Nicolas, Melchisédech being added as the second ( confirmation ) name, almost certainly in honour of his maternal grandfather, Melchisédech Garnier ( d. 1637 ), an " avocat " at the Parlement of Paris, and probably a Huguenot ( given the Old Testament name ).

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

He notes that the Elder Edda couples the Æsir and the álfar, a conjunction that recurs in Old English ês and ylfe, clearly grouping the elves as a divine or supernatural class of beings, sometimes extended by the Vanir as a third class: The Hrafnagaldr states Alföðr orkar, álfar skilja, vanir vita " The Allfather Odin | the áss has power, the álfar have skill, and vanir knowledge ".

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art opened in 2011 to coincide with the third annual MONA FOMA festival.

For the majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit ( prior English language usage: the Holy Ghost from Old English gast, “ spirit ”) is the third person of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and is Almighty God.

Architects ' Journal rated the temple third on its top-ten architecture of Star Wars list behind the second Death Star and Jabba the Hutt ’ s palace on Tatooine, and ahead of Coruscant, capital city of the Old Republic.

Since the launch of the third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the US still refer to it as Miata, a name that means " reward " in Old High German, and the vehicle in 2012 was still marketed by Mazda in the US as the MX-5 Miata.

There is also a third view on this matter, according to which the Pomeranian language is related neither to the Old Polish language nor to the Polabian language.

The Germanic gods Woden, Frigg, Tiw, and Thunor, who are attested to in every Germanic tradition, were worshipped in Wessex, Sussex, and Essex, and they are the only ones directly attested to, though the names of the third and fourth months ( March and April ) of the Old English calendar bear the names Hrethmonath and Eosturmonath, meaning " month of Hretha " and " month of Ēostre ", it is presumed from the names of two goddesses who were worshipped around that season.

Old age is listed as the third most frequent cause of death.

Example: Old English thridda became Middle English third ; English comfortable pronounced as if spelled comfterble.

The third test, held at Old Trafford, became the first test to abandoned entirely because of rain, so England secured the series undefeated.

William II ( Old Norman: Williame II ; – 2 August 1100 ), the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.

Darius I (, Old Persian: Dārayava ( h ) uš ; 550 – 486 BCE ) was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire.

The ancient Egyptian literature dates back to the Old Kingdom, in the third millennium BC.

Electrum was used for the earliest metal coins, and as early as the third millennium BC in Old Kingdom Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian pyramids and obelisks.

It came into Old English as a loanword from Old Norse þriðjungr, meaning a third part ( especially of a county ), cf.

In 1829 the Old Capitol, the third Capitol of Kentucky, was built in the Greek Revival style, designed by Gideon Shryock.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men.

In the third, Laozi was the Grand Historian and astrologer Lao Dan ( " Old Long-ears "), who lived during the reign ( 384-362 BCE ) of Duke Xiàn ( 獻公 ) of Qin.

Haakon I ( Old Norse: Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri, Norwegian: Håkon Adalsteinsfostre ), ( c. 920 – 961 ), given the byname the Good, was the third king of Norway and the youngest son of Harald I of Norway and Thora Mosterstang.

Skáldskaparmál ( Old Icelandic " the language of poetry ") is the third section of the Prose Edda, and consists of a dialogue between Ægir, a god associated with the sea, and Bragi, a skaldic god, in which both Nordic mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined.

The stadium opened in the summer of 2006, and has an all-seated capacity of 60, 355, making it the second biggest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford and the third biggest in London after Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium.

In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad ( Greek " ογδοάς ", the eightfold ) were eight deities worshipped in Hermopolis during what is called the Old Kingdom, the third through sixth dynasties, dated between 2686 to 2134 BC.