antecedents extend centuries into the past according to Stigler.

However there are a few past prominent forms of entertainment contemporarily linked to clowning as its possible antecedents.

Listening to his lectures, I came to appreciate how present concerns can be illuminated by the study of the past — how the repression of the McCarthy era recalled the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the civil rights movement needed to be viewed in light of the great struggles of Black and White abolitionists, and in the brutal suppression of the Philippine insurrection at the turn of the century could be found the antecedents of American intervention in Vietnam.

The voters in the district and its antecedents primarily supported Progressive Conservative candidates in the past, but other right leaning parties polled well.

The district and its antecedents has been favorable to electing Progressive Conservative candidates in the past few decades.

While the district is currently a stronghold for Progressive Conservatives its antecedents have seen representation from the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP in the recent past.

I know nothing of his past life, as he never volunteered to tell me and it was not wise in those days to inquire too closely into a man ’ s antecedents.

The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

Shanties had antecedents in the working chants of British and other national maritime traditions.

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities, and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.

“ This doctrine is rooted in Aristotle's conception of the soul, and has antecedents in Hobbes's conception of the mind as a ‘ calculating machine ’, but it has become fully articulated ( and popularly endorsed ) only in the last third of the 20th century .” In so far as it mediates stimulus and response, a mental function is analogous to a program that processes input / output in automata theory.

Although Eugene was not Austrian he did have Habsburg antecedents.

* Enthalpy of formation, defined as the enthalpy change observed in a constituent of a thermodynamic system when, one mole of a compound is formed from its elementary antecedents.

The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, have been applied to a wide variety of cordophones since ancient times and as such is the cause of confusion.

Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar.

The spirit of the institution was semi-monastic and, while the education given was excellent in its way, it is doubtful whether there was enough social life and contact with the world for a pupil of Fichte's temperament and antecedents.

The social and cultural background from which Greenpeace emerged heralded a period of de-conditioning away from old world antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior.

During the Gupta period in India ( AD 300M – 600 ), craftmen's associations, which may have had archaic antecedents, were known as shreni.

The personal pronouns li ( he ) and ŝi ( she ) and their possessive forms lia ( his ) and ŝia ( her ) are used for male and female antecedents, while ĝi ( it ) and its possessive form ĝia ( its ) are used to refer to a non-personal antecedent, or as an epicene pronoun.

The ancient kingdom, named Xukpi, existed from the 5th century to the early 9th century, with antecedents going back to at least the 2nd century.

The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.

While it is one of the most commonly used concepts in logic it must not be mistaken for a logical law ; rather, it is one of the accepted mechanisms for the construction of deductive proofs that includes the " rule of definition " and the " rule of substitution " Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument ( the antecedents ) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols ; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment.

Halliday, an expert on ancient religion, dismissed her theory, and noted that her hypothesis relied upon " documents torn from the background of their own age and divorced from the serious study of their historical antecedents.

The best known representations of which are those of the vases found in Dipylon, one of the cemeteries of Athens.

The Dipylon Geometric pottery of Athens and the Iliad are amazing manifestations of the inherent potentialities of Greek civilization ; ;

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

Artemis Kalliste was worshipped in Athens in a shrine which lay outside the Dipylon gate, by the side of the road to the Academy.

Kerameikos () is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ( Δίπυλον ) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.

On the northern side a wide road, the Dromos, ran through the double-arched Dipylon Gate ( also known as the Thriasian Gate ) and on to the Platonic Academy a few miles away.

State graves were built on either side of the Dipylon Gate, for the interment of prominent personages such as notable warriors and statesmen, including Pericles and Cleisthenes.

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

Down the hill from the museum, visitors can wander among the Outer Kerameikos ruins, the Demosion Sema, the banks of the Eridanos where some water still flows, the remains of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate, and walk the first blocks of the Sacred Way towards Eleusis and of the Panethenaic Way towards the Acropolis.

* c. 750 BC – 700 BC — Funerary Vase ( Krater ), from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made.

Dipylon Vase of the late Geometric period, or the beginning of the Archaic period, ca.

With the Early geometrical style ( approximately 900-850 BC ) one finds only abstract motifs, in what is called the “ Black Dipylon ” style, which is characterized by an extensive use of black varnish, with the Middle Geometrical ( approx.

In the case of soldiers, a shield in form of a Diabolo, called “ Dipylon shield ” because of its characteristic drawing, covers the central part of the body.

The hand of this painter, so called in the absence of signature, is the Dipylon Master, could be identified on several pieces, in particular monumental amphorae.

Representations of ships are not common, but several have been observed on Aegean gems, gem-sealings, frying pans and vases.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

In Egypt in 1887, W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriot pottery have been found during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchâtel since about 1840, the provenience ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

In Egypt in 1887 W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Faiyum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriote pottery have been turned up during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.