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The most complete account of Germania that has been preserved from Roman times is Tacitus ' Germania.
The Fenni are first mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in 98 A. D. Their location is uncertain, due to the vagueness of Tacitus ' account :" they ( Venedi ) overrun in their predatory excursions all the woody and mountainous tracts between the Peucini and the Fenni ".
According to this account Marcomer, Sunno and Genobaud invaded the Roman provinces Germania and Belgia in Gaul.
) are known to have represented a farming culture for several last millennia, the Sami people were still " hunter-gatherers " in 97 AD, when the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus describes them in his account ' Germania ', calling them " Fenni ".
Although Tacitus never travelled to Magna Germania himself and only recorded information he had obtained from others, the short ethnographic excursus below is the most detailed ancient account of the Aestii that we have:

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also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.
But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.
The account of the battle is, next to his descriptions of Garibaldi's campaigns, Trevelyan's outstanding military narrative.
The flood is not as great -- only 700 a week according to one apparently conservative account -- but it is symptomatic.
Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.
Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.
In addition to its major effort on fuel cells, Patterson Moos Research Division is continuing to carry on research in other fields, both under contract for the Defense Department, other government agencies and for our own account.
There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.
Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.
No single explanation is adequate to account for this.
All of this must be taken into account before the image of an `` all-Negro '' D.C. public school system is conjured up.
In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;
Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.
In 1961, it is estimated that multiple unit dwellings will account for nearly 30 per cent of the starts in residential construction.
Naturally, where one or the other of the effects of an action is uncertain, this has to be taken into account.
Presumably, if the reverse is the case and the good effect is more certain than the evil result that may be forthcoming, not only must the good and the evil be prudentially weighed and found proportionate, but also calculation of the probabilities and of the degree of certainty or uncertainty in the good or evil effect must be taken into account.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new creation is of any account.
But it is most interesting in its account of the unending problems of high command, of decisions and their reasons, of the myriad matters that demand attention in addition to battle action.
George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

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In the latter account, Hephaestus is there represented as older than Athena, so the mythology of Hephaestus is inconsistent in this respect.
Although the patterns are inconsistent, when English spelling rules take into account syllable structure, phonetics, etymology and accents, there are dozens of rules that are 75 % or more reliable.
Falun Gong-related commentators pointed out that the main participants ' account of the incident and other aspects of the participants ' behavior were inconsistent with the teachings of Falun Dafa.
In cases where spelling takes account of grammatical features these too may become inconsistent.
Inspired by M. Fitzgerald ’ s account of ball lightning on 6 August 1868, in Ireland that lasted 20 minutes and left a 6 metre square hole, a 90 metre long trench, a second trench 25 meters long, and a small cave in the peat bog, Pace VanDevender, a plasma physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and his team found depressions consistent with Fitzgerald ’ s report and inferred that the evidence is inconsistent with thermal ( chemical or nuclear ) and electrostatic effects.
These experimental results form a part of the account, yet the results were inconsistent with the expectations of the accepted theory.
Some White House attempts to discredit Clarke were inconsistent, specifically, the day after Clarke's revelations Vice President Dick Cheney went on the Rush Limbaugh radio program to claim that Clarke's account of the events leading to the 9 / 11 attacks was not credible because Clarke " wasn't in the loop " on pre-9 / 11 counter-terrorism planning, while at the same time National Security Adviser Rice was telling reporters that Clarke was the center of all counter-terrorism efforts.
Some elements of her account seem on their face inconsistent, such as the idea of an elaborately interdependent universal plan and the human ability to fail at it, but this for example she attributed to the permissible scope of free will within a larger divine control.
McTaggart, in his paper The Unreality of Time, argues that time is unreal since a ) the A-series is inconsistent and b ) the B-series alone cannot account for the nature of time as the A-series describes an essential feature of it.
According to cricket writer Leo McKinstry, the selectors lost faith in Chapman on account of his inconsistent, risky batting and his increased tactical shortcomings.
When the details of that worldview are shown to be inconsistent with themselves or unable to account for all the facts, the theory is revised accordingly ; the evolutionary-ecological worldview is thus self-correcting and is therefore, Callicott believes, becoming ever more refined.
in Scotland reveal of the Anti-Catholic, Anti-Jacobite, and Anti-Gaelic policy and activities of that body, Alexander MacDonald's employment in its service as a schoolmaster from 1729 to 1745 must be considered as totally inconsistent with his natural loyalties as a member of the Clanranald branch of the MacDonalds ; and one can only feel that in his young days something must have gone wrong with his career to account for this.
Because of the inconsistent nature of the record of the action, contemporary and historical coverage of it has been easily colored by preferences for one account over another.
( 1978 ) of radiatively-driven winds is insufficient to account for their CO observations of PPN fast winds which imply high momentum and energy inconsistent with that model.
At the May 1719 General Assembly, an existing " Committee for Purity of Doctrine " was instructed to " enquire into the publishing and spreading of Books and Pamphlets, tending " to the spread of doctrines " inconsistent with our Confession of Faith " and to call such authors to account.
The account was questioned by Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont as inconsistent with the piety of Theodosius.

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This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.
Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.
A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.
He regaled Claire with an account of the mock mass performed by the cassocked bloods, which he had had at firsthand from old Bud Dodington, one of the leaders of the so-called `` Order ''.
Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, pays or offers to pay, or promises to pay, or receives on account of services rendered or to be rendered in connection with any such claim, compensation which, when added to any amount previously paid on account of such services, will exceed the amount of fees so determined by the Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both, and if any such payment shall have been made or granted, the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same, and, in addition thereto, any such person shall forfeit all rights under this Title.
Vernon kept an account book with a list of all the establishments that he thought worthy of patronage.
In one company covering the country with a high-quality sales force of 10 men, the president personally phones each major account every 6 mos..
Not all the observers have used the same procedures or made the same assumptions about the lunar brightness distribution when reducing the data, and this, together with differences in the methods of calibrating the antennae and receivers, must account for much of the disagreement in the measured radio brightness temperatures.
Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.
Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.
This traffic, he declared prophetically, `` tho' it might be of small account at first, would increase with the progress of our Settlements.
Any shareholder of any of these funds who finds a mistake in his account certainly should get in touch with the bank.
For this does not account for the integral, elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as the play unfolds, nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness which comes over those who watch the play like a spell.
When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.
The briefness of this period and the swiftness with which radiation took place would help account for the relative scarcity of primitive amphibian fossils.
In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.
The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.
A late account by Rudolph de Novamagia refers to Albertus ' encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary, who convinced him to enter Holy Orders.

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