However, in the following decades something extraordinary happened in the Thirteen Colonies, at least if one views the events from " a late eighteenth-century perspective.

The Scooby Gang usually take an unimpressed, flippant attitude towards extraordinary events and supernatural occurrences.

During the course of the events of the book, Rand al ' Thor made an extraordinary claim: he believed he had discovered how to cleanse the Dark One's 3000-year-old taint on saidin.

I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

In the aftermath of the events of the novel Dracula, a now disgraced and divorced Mina Harker ( née Murray ) is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire.

Berville and Barrière, 1821 – 1822 ), an incomplete narrative of the extraordinary events of his public life.

Further, the narrator is indifferent, a characteristic enhanced by this absence of explanation of fantastic events ; the story proceeds with " logical precision " as if nothing extraordinary took place .< ref > Flores, Angel.

Although Stephen knew Wilfrid personally and had access to others who had known him, he recounts several extraordinary events and makes use of source materials in places.

As evidence, numbers stations have changed details of their broadcasts or produced special, nonscheduled broadcasts coincident with extraordinary political events, such as the August Coup of 1991 in the Soviet Union.

Parts of his tale recount some extraordinary events and phenomena ; such as his stories of conjuring up a legion of devils in the Colosseum, after one of his not innumerous mistresses had been spirited away from him by her mother ; of the marvelous halo of light which he found surrounding his head at dawn and twilight after his Roman imprisonment, and his supernatural visions and angelic protection during that adversity ; and of his being poisoned on two separate occasions.

Living in an age of extraordinary events, and revolutions he learnt ( as himself asserted ) this truth which pursuant to his intention is here declared.

Additionally, some believe that evil people who use omiti have the power to place bad thoughts into another's mind or cause extraordinary events to happen ( such as when a common illness becomes life-threatening ).

They became involved with spiritist circles in the beginning of the 20th century, and soon experienced some extraordinary events.

The history had a most extraordinary success, especially among the common people, owing, not to its scientific qualities, but to the fact that the author boldly and sternly sat in judgment upon men and events, and in his judgments voiced the feelings of the German nation in his day.

Miles played in an extraordinary number of chess events during his career, including many arduous weekend tournaments.

His first was The Wonderful Year, a journalistic account of the death of Elizabeth, accession of James I, and the 1603 plague, that combined a wide variety of literary genres in an attempt to convey the extraordinary events of that year (' wonderful ' meaning astonishing, not excellent ).

Cole completely reprinted the minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Institution of December 23, 1820, which show that these events were initiated through an observation made by a librarian of the Royal Institution named Sturt.

: The information given by Keith Harary, In his book Smith tells the reader there are those who can bend spoons with their minds, claims he has remote viewed into the future and bilocated, has some doubts about the place of extraordinary memories of his fellow remote viewers, shows he believes in Ingo Swann's teachings, honesty and versions of events, and supports the military potential of remote viewing.

* Some schools and youth agencies will give out one time use cards that have a 1-4 rides on them for special events like field trips and extraordinary trips like to an after school program or social programs or parole officer meetings, these cards can not be refilled and will not get recharged after their rides are up and are effectively disposable.

Hearst sued, arguing that a force majeure clause prevented the Times from claiming losses as reason to end the JOA when they result from extraordinary events ( in this case, a seven-week strike by members of the Newspaper Guild ).

Hearst argued that a force majeure clause prevented the Times from claiming losses in 2000 and 2001 as reason to end the JOA, because they resulted from extraordinary events ( in this case, a seven-week newspaper strike ).

Howard Snyder ’ s detailed new biography views key nineteenth-century currents and events through the lives of these two extraordinary figures, who taught a " holy populism " of simplicity, justice for the common people, and radical discipleship.

A personal crisis can occur when events of an extraordinary nature trigger extreme tension and stress within an individual which require major decisions or actions to resolve.

This caused the administration to launch an extraordinary effort to change people's perception of foreign events, essentially by exaggerating threats from abroad and demonizing selected foreign leaders.

Polish writers typically have had a more profound range of choices to motivate them to write including historical cataclysms of extraordinary violence that swept Poland, as the crossroads of Europe ; but also, Polish own collective incongruities demanding adequate reaction from the writing communities of any given period.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

The Revolution does not claim many victims in the department, but it destroys numerous extraordinary valuable historical monuments.

As he puts it " Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Newton were all extraordinary products of the apparently procrustean and allegedly Scholastic universities of Europe .... sociological and historical accounts of the role of the university as an institutional locus for science and as an incubator of scientific thought and arguments have been vastly understated.

Christopher I. Beckwith makes the extraordinary claim that the name " barbarian " should only be used for Greek historical contexts, and is inapplicable for all other " peoples to whom it has been applied either historically or in modern times.

A working farm and place of extraordinary natural beauty and historical buildings, it is the residence of active and retired members.

There, Fléchier wrote his curious Mémoires sur les Grand jours tenus à Clermont, in which he relates, in a half romantic, half historical form, the proceedings of this extraordinary court of justice.

In addition to the extraordinary amount of biographical material, extensively researched, the Acta Sanctorum broke new ground in its use of historical criticism.

* “ Żegota is the story of extraordinary heroism amidst unique depravity – compelling in its human as well as historical dimensions.

Kang has no superhuman abilities, but is an extraordinary genius, an expert historical scholar, a master physicist ( specializing in time-travel ), engineer, and technician.

The structure of the pas d ' armes at AEMMA focuses on " combats on foot " only and encompasses numerous attributes of a late 14th and early 15th centuries balanced to satisfy the expectations of the spectators in a 21st century context by allowing them to witness extraordinary unscripted single armoured combats, while providing opportunities for the combatants to demonstrate their prowess and technique through the challenges presented in the bouts by the appellants and all the while, maintaining a strong foothold in its historical counterpart.

He had an extraordinary memory, well stored with scientific knowledge, both modern and historical, a cool and impartial judgment, and a strong preference for facts as against theory of the speculative kind.

In 1992 he published The Future of the Body, a massive historical and cross-cultural collection of documentation of various occurrences of extraordinary human functioning such as healing, hypnosis, martial arts, yogic techniques, telepathy, clairvoyance, and feats of superhuman strength.

During his extraordinary career, Hunter wrote over 40 historical dramas that were performed all over the United States.

Several folktales — linked to historical figures — mention legendary kris that possess supernatural power and extraordinary ability.

While proudly wearing her Staten Island shirt, she expressed disappointment in Staten Island's inability to lure people out of the Ferry terminal, despite her confidence that Snug Harbor is an extraordinary historical site.

Putting this in historical and cultural context shows how very extraordinary his dedication to this cause was.

Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.

During the interview he said with respect to the murder, “ I was there and know that transpired there .” Although the comments by Tomás André, the correspondent for Contrapunto who conducted the interview are not known, the historical importance of the interview can be certainly discerned by the depth and extraordinary nature of the encounter that Melendez was well aware of the nature of the process that resulted in the assassination of Dalton and his friend Pancho.

Additional historical documentation of Senkei ’ s work is virtually nonexistent with one October 2nd entry in the Nekizan Nichiroku journal describing how Senkei is moved by the extraordinary beauty of chrysanthemums.