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Henrietta's feeling of identity with Sara Sullam was crowned by her discovery of the coincidence that Sara's epitaph in the Jewish cemetery in Venice referred to her as `` the Sulamite ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
This complacency was blown to bits by the relativity of Einstein, the revelation of the complex anatomy of the atom and the discovery of the expanding universe.
He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.
Esmarch was among those who witnessed Oersted's first demonstration of his discovery.
In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.
To find a place for them in their theory of knowledge would require them to revise the theory radically, and yet that theory was what they regarded as their most important discovery.
And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.
His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.
The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.
The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.
This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.
This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.
The Norse discovery was documented in the 13th century Icelandic Sagas and was corroborated by recent L ' Anse aux Meadows archeological evidence.
An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.
The discovery was kept secret and only released to the public in November 1945.
The discovery of americium and curium in 1944 was closely related to the Manhattan Project ; the results were confidential and declassified only in 1945.
Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.
In the end, this was solved by the discovery of modern quantum mechanics and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
The discovery of CP violation helped to shed light on this problem by showing that this symmetry, originally thought to be perfect, was only approximate.
The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.
The discovery of such a powerful antibiotic was unprecedented, and the development of penicillin led to renewed interest in the search for antibiotic compounds with similar efficacy and safety.

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Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to the discovery of the special situations just mentioned, which he characterized as " technicalities ".
Douglas Hunter, in Half Moon ( 2009 ), believes Hudson may not have mentioned his supposed discovery of the island because he was " loath to address a crew insurrection that might well have erupted at that time, when the men realized where he was trying to take them.
A Greco-Roman tradition, mentioned above, attributes to Kidinnu the discovery that 251 synodic months equals 269 anomalistic months.
In 2004, Henry Gee, editor of the journal Nature, mentioned the Yeti as an example of a legend deserving further study, writing, " The discovery that Homo floresiensis survived until so very recently, in geological terms, makes it more likely that stories of other mythical, human-like creatures such as Yetis are founded on grains of truth ... Now, cryptozoology, the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold.
Supporting this latter theory was the discovery of a small underground tomb by an expert in the use of divining rods in the exact place that his request mentioned, under the seventh step of the small stairs to the right of the building.
Even at the time of discovery in 2001, this 1401-digit number, of the form k · 256 < sup > 2 </ sup > + 2083, was too small to be mentioned, so Carmody created a 1905-digit prime, of the form k · 256 < sup > 211 </ sup > + 99, that was the tenth largest prime found using ECPP, a remarkable achievement by itself and worthy of being published on the lists of the highest prime numbers.
Other widely mentioned elements of a SLAPP are the actual effectiveness at silencing critics, the timing of the suit, inclusion of extra or spurious defendants ( such as relatives or hosts of legitimate defendants ), inclusion of plaintiffs with no real claim ( such as corporations that are affiliated with legitimate plaintiffs ), making claims that are very difficult to disprove or rely on no written record, ambiguous or deliberately mangled wording that lets plaintiffs make spurious allegations without fear of perjury, refusal to consider any settlement ( or none other than cash ), characterization of all offers to settle as insincere, extensive and unnecessary demands for discovery, attempts to identify anonymous or pseudonymous critics, appeals on minor points of law, demands for broad rulings when appeal is accepted on such minor points of law, and attempts to run up defendants ' costs even if this clearly costs more to the plaintiffs.
The ZDO is responsible for defining the role of a device as either coordinator or end device, as mentioned above, but also for the discovery of new ( one-hop ) devices on the network and the identification of their offered services.
Amongst the fruits of his industry may be mentioned a laborious investigation of the disturbances of Jupiter by Saturn, the results of which were employed and confirmed by Euler in his prize essay of 1748 ; a series of lunar observations extending over fifty years ; some interesting researches in terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, in the latter of which he detected a regular diurnal period ; and the determination of the places of a great number of stars, including at least twelve separate observations of Uranus, between 1750 and its discovery as a planet.
rightThe discovery of the sarcophagus is mentioned in the chronicle of the Benedictine monastery attached to the Basilica, in regard to the 19th century rebuilding.
Although the discovery is only mentioned by a few sentences, Raffles has been credited with the monument's recovery, as one who had brought it to the world's attention.
* In the L. Ron Hubbard novel Battlefield Earth, it is mentioned by the principal alien character that his race's conquest of Earth was made possible by their discovery of a space probe " that gave full directions to the place, had pictures of man on it and everything.
The post-operative nervous breakdown mentioned in the prologue and in other books by or about Roth was drawn from Roth's real-life experience of the temporary side-effects of a post-operative sedative ( triazolam ) which was later banned in several countries after discovery that the manufacturer had not published studies showing a high risk of short term psychiatric disturbance.
Other notable buildings are the Royal Hop Pole Hotel in Church Street ( which has recently been converted into a part of the Wetherspoons pub chain with the discovery of a former medieval banqueting hall in the structure ), mentioned in Charles Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers, the Bell Hotel, a large half-timbered structure opposite the Abbey gateway, and the House of the Nodding Gables in the High Street.
Up to 1950 people mentioned “ Clifford-Lipschitz numbers ” when they referred to this discovery of Lipschitz.
In the 1980s there was the discovery of what is thought to be Ubar, mentioned in the Qur ' an as Iram, which is believed to have been the capital of ʿĀd.
His great discovery regarding his solitary wave of translation was not mentioned in his obituary published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ( London ).
On 14 March 1930, Falconer Madan read the story of the new planet's discovery in The Times, and mentioned it to his granddaughter Venetia.
Film critic Roger Ebert considers it Fellini ’ s best film and lists it in his Top 10. He mentioned in his " great movies " review of the film that " Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal ".
Gedaliah was the son of Ahikam ( who saved the life of the prophet Jeremiah ) and the grandson of Shaphan ( who is mentioned in relation to the discovery of the scroll of Teaching that scholars identify as the core of the book of Deuteronomy ).
The claim to the oldest human archaeological site known in the Americas belongs to the Pedra Furada human remains and hearths, a site that precedes the Clovis culture and the other sites already mentioned by 19, 000 to 30, 000 years, but this discovery has become an issue of contention between North American archaeologists and their South American and European counterparts.
In Asimov's fictional universe, the innermost planet orbiting Tau Ceti was mankind's very first extrasolar planetary settlement, established at some point between the discovery of the hyperspatial jump in 2031 A. D. and 2064 A. D., when numerous extrasolar colonies were mentioned by Susan Calvin during an interview given in that year.
It is possible to infer from the places mentioned in these records and their discovery locations that at its zenith, the Western Maurya Kingdom comprised the Lata or South Gujarat, coastal Maharashtra, Goa, and half of the North Kanara district.
Upon the discovery of the equivalence of the names Ahasuerus and Xerxes, Bible commentators attempted to identify Ahasuerus with Xerxes I of Persia and Vashti with a wife named Amestris mentioned by Herodotus.
Tyrker ( or Tyrkir ) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders and German historical legend He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed as an older German male servant.

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