In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost script.

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

The original document is scanned with a fax machine ( or a telecopier ), which processes the contents ( text or images ) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system.

Thompson would instigate events himself, often in a prankish or belligerent manner, and then document both his actions and those of others.

Morrish and Lewis then signed a document, sometimes referred to as the Morrish-Lewis gift, permitting Arkham House to republish Lovecraft's works but retaining the copyrights for themselves.

The Sanskrit word was changed to Bodisav in Persian texts in the 6th or 7th century, then to Budhasaf or Yudasaf in an 8th-century Arabic document ( possibly by Arabic initial " b " ﺑ changed to " y " ﻳ by duplication of a dot in handwriting ).

Accumulating wealth in this manner throughout Christendom and the Outremer, the Order in 1150 began generating letters of credit for pilgrims journeying to the Holy Land: pilgrims deposited their valuables with a local Templar preceptory before embarking, received a document indicating the value of their deposit, then used that document upon arrival in the Holy Land to retrieve their funds.

If the inhabitants of Palestine were ready for independence under a Class “ A ” mandate, then the Palestinian Arabs that made up the majority of the inhabitants of Palestine in 1922 ( 589. 177 Arabs vs. 83. 790 Jews ) could then logically claim that they were the intended beneficiaries of the “ Mandate for Palestine ” – provided one never reads the actual wording of the document:

The will, which was not signed by Polo, but was validated by then relevant " signum manus " rule, by which the testator only had to touch the document to make it abide to the rule of law, was dated January 9, 1324.

The document then indicated some general guidelines for pastoral action.

In this approximately 800-word document about methods of franking letters he states, " Therefore, of Mr Hill ’ s plan of a uniform rate of postage … I conceive that the most simple and economical mode … would be by Slips … in the hope that Mr Hill ’ s plan may soon be carried into operation I would suggest that sheets of Stamped Slips should be prepared … then be rubbed over on the back with a strong solution of gum …".

The site would then return an XML-formatted document with the resulting data, e. g., prices, location, features.

By making sure that each copy of the document differs slightly in its wording, if any copy is leaked then it is possible to determine the identity of the informant.

It is not unusual for an individual to create an inter vivos trust with a corporate trustee who may then disburse funds only for causes articulated in the trust document.

The document says no, but quotes his son and then IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., at the annual IBM stockholders meeting, April 28, 1953, as speaking about the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, which it identifies as " the company's first production computer designed for scientific calculations ".

Until then, Congress decided that a committee should prepare a document announcing and explaining independence in the event that Lee's resolution was approved when it was brought up again in July.

The president forwarded the proposal to Congress – which then had 60 days to approve or reject the document – in May 2010, along with a report noting concerns raised by the Justice Department and restating the issues noted by Governor deJongh.

If instead of simply generating random characters one restricts the generator to a meaningful vocabulary and conservatively following grammar rules, like using a context-free grammar, then a random document generated this way can even fool some humans ( at least on a cursory reading ) as shown in the experiments with SCIgen, snarXiv, and the Postmodernism Generator.

While the document left the liberties of the Polish nobles untouched, it granted increased power to the boyars of Lithuania, whose grand dukes had till then been unencumbered by checks and balances of the sort attached to the Polish monarchy.

The structured nature of the documents also enabled TPS to provide conditional document assembly, a feature that enabled users to " tag " document elements with metadata about them, and then automatically assemble versions of the document based upon those tags.

RDM was an early document management product, acquired in the late 1980s and then integrated with Interleaf's other products.

# He cites a document from R ' Yitchok M ' Acco who was sent by the Ramban to investigate the Zohar.

In his book A Piece of Blue Sky, Jon Atack cites an internal document dated August 1982 that, he alleges, re-introduced the disconnection policy.

The Jewish Encyclopedia cites a 12th-century Karaite document as the earliest Jewish literary source to mention the symbol.

Montalembert cites one such sixth century document, the Rule of Saint Ferréol, as prescribing that " He who does not turn up the earth with the plough ought to write the parchment with his fingers.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center cites Yad Vashem document Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.

The paper also cites a documented example from 1991 with the Galileo spacecraft high-gain antenna ( see page 2 ; the technical source document from NASA regarding the Galileo spacecraft is also provided in a link here ).

The document cites CEC publications and quotes former CEC members.

But as an older document from the year 958 cites the transferral of the Kaldenkapellen-now Hohkeppel-church to the Severinsstift in Cologne and as the former was then provably subordinated to the parish church in Lindlar, this church must have already existed in that year or even up to a few decades earlier.

Examples of this mis-citation can be found at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association titled " E85 Facts " which cites a range of 100-105, and a document at the Texas State Energy Conservation Office titled " Ethanol ", which cites a 113 rating.

A 10th century document called the Burghal Hidage cites 30 burhs in Wessex and three in Mercia ( then under the domination of the West Saxon kings ), built to defend the region against Viking raids.

The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.

To document his charge, Pike set up two parallel columns in The Advocate showing the price charged by The Gazette and the considerably lower price for which the work could be done elsewhere.

The most famous document that comes out of this dispute is perhaps Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie For Poetrie, published in 1595.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

It is high time the United States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth in that document are applicable today to Katanga.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

Whether considered alone or in relation to other editions, COLH 40 is a document of prime importance.

One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

Anne folded the worrisome document.

A " notice of appeal " is a form or document that in many cases is required to begin an appeal.

The document could not become officially effective until it was ratified by all 13 colonies.

In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.

In the context of patent law and specifically in prior art searches, searching through abstracts is a common way to find relevant prior art document to question to novelty or inventive step ( or non-obviousness in United States patent law ) of an invention.

Programming languages are primarily intended for expressing algorithms in a form that can be executed by a computer, but are often used as a way to define or document algorithms.

* To obtain a declaration on a legal document, such as an application for voter registration, that the information provided by the applicant is truthful to the best of the applicant's knowledge.

Affidavits may be written in the first or third person, depending on who drafted the document.

The acceptance of an affidavit by one society does not confirm its acceptance as a legal document in other jurisdictions.

This matter is addressed by the use of the Apostille, a means of certifying the legalization of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents.

The document was signed for Russia by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Industry Minister Ilya Klebanov, while Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and defense and security strongman Serge Sarkisian signed for Armenia.

Secret history, works that document things that are not known to have happened historically but would not have changed history had they happened, is also not to be confused with alternate history.

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.