In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.

It may be that irreducible complexity does not actually exist in nature, and that the examples given by Behe and others are not in fact irreducibly complex, but can be explained in terms of simpler precursors.

In fact the selection includes both a number of ' Revival ' poets, and a few figures chosen as ' precursors ', with some deliberate scheme of comment on the contemporary as well as the retrospection involving the 1960s and 1970s.

It was comparatively unknown, and had in fact been grossly misrepresented by some flippant writers according to whom the German mystics were the precursors of the German Reformers.

The fact that " Dixie " and its precursors are dance tunes only further made light of the subject.

The fact that the ancestors of Velociraptor were feathered and possibly capable of flight long suggested to paleontologists that Velociraptor bore feathers as well, since even flightless birds today retain most of their feathers.

Most stone is many times weaker in tension than in compression, plugs and feathers utilize this fact.

They also were admired and respected by the tribe ; in fact, warriors that excelled in combat wore a cap of owl feathers to symbolize their bravery.

From the period of the Jiajing Emperor ( 1522 – 66 ) on, a pair of phoenixes was differentiated by the tail feathers of the two birds ( typically together forming a closed circle pattern — the male identified by five serrated tail feathers ( five being an odd, or yang number ) and the female by what appears to be one, but is in fact, two ( two being an even, or yin number ) curling or tendrilled tail feathers.

They are in fact thought by some to be closely related to the Old World orioles ( Oriolidae ), although they differ strongly in some morphological characteristics ( such as skull morphology and the arrangements of feathers on the wing ).

Tennin can fly, a fact generally indicated in art by their colored or feathered kimonos, called hagoromo (" dress of feathers ").

Additional problems include the fact that Kamehameha ’ s sash drags on the ground behind him like a royal European train ( an arrangement that would be considered degrading by Native Hawaiians and that would also damage the delicate feathers composing the sash ), and Gould ’ s decision to adorn the cloak with a European-style tassel.

Cathcart nightly makes lists of " feathers in his cap " and " black eyes ", often finding something in the former category is in fact in the latter one, considering all the possible ways in which his superiors could react to them.

The feathers contain preserved residues of carbon that were previously thought to be traces of bacteria that decomposed feather tissues but are in fact microscopic organic imprints of fossilized melanosomes.

Despite being referred to as ' the Black Gryphon ', he is not naturally black, and it is stated within the novel The Black Gryphon that he in fact dyes his feathers.

He accounted for the fact that most specimens show no tails at all by the possibility that Confuciusornis shed the feathers as a defence mechanism, a method used by several extant species, which would have been triggered by the stress induced by the very volcanic explosion that buried the animals.

Whether far-fetched or not, it is fact that at one stage the family crest was a crab ( subsequently five feathers ) and that the family motto is still " Devant si je puis " -(" forward if I can "), which could have a double meaning as of course a crab can only go sideways.

They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching ( i. e., feathers on the tail ) and a shaft that is shorter and / or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal bow.

During the conference where Bambiraptor was first introduced, the dinosaur reconstruction specialist Brian Cooley portrayed Bambiraptor as having feathers, despite the fact that no feathers were found with the fossil itself.

His decision was influenced by the fact that because Bambiraptor within a cladistic analysis was a member of a group, Paraves, that contained feathered true birds and that was the sister taxon of Oviraptorosauria, a group that also had feathered forms ( e. g. Caudipteryx ), Bambiraptor most likely had feathers too due to phylogenetic bracketing.

It was later discovered that the dollars included in every 2, 000 boxes were in fact early strikes, differing from those ultimately issued for circulation by the number of tail feathers on the eagle.

The name of this group arises from the fact that all species within it have only nine easily visible primary feathers on each wing ( in reality most, if not all, also have a 10th primary, but it is greatly reduced and largely concealed ).

News of the legislative veto appeared in the New Orleans papers, and Henry and William became incensed by the fact that they had not been told of the attempt in advance.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

After having appeared as an instrument and place for isolating counterrevolutionary and criminal elements, the Gulag, because of its principle of “ correction by forced labor ”, quickly became, in fact, an independent branch of the national economy secured on the cheap labor force presented by prisoners.

Some chess pundits said she was unprepared for the tournament and appeared affected by the fact that she'd played less chess in the last three years to concentrate on her two children.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

This later design has gained the nickname " Series 3-4 Sonic " ( relating to the fact that at the start of Series 3, in " Smith and Jones ", the first Sonic Screwdriver was supposedly destroyed ), even though strictly speaking it first appeared in Series 4.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

However, a report released in January 2005 found that the drives were in fact an artifact of an inconsistent inventory system: the report concludes that 12 barcodes were issued to a group of disk drives that needed only 10, but the two surplus barcodes nevertheless appeared on a master list.

The notice appeared in October 1931 and began with a bit of hyperbole and an incorrect fact, two hallmarks of much of the subsequent writing about Beiderbecke: " The announcement of Bix Beiderbecke's death plunged all jazz musicians into despair.

It seems that Mozart's prestige, along with the fact that he frequently appeared in public directing other musicians, led to the use of " Kapellmeister " as a term of respect.

4. naming something that in fact had not appeared.

In the absence of the forensic findings of 1560, it was often assumed that a simple accident could not be the explanation — on the basis of near-contemporary tales that Amy Dudley was found at the bottom of a short flight of stairs with a broken neck, her headdress still standing undisturbed " upon her head ", a detail that first appeared as a satirical remark in the libel Leicester's Commonwealth of 1584 and has ever since been repeated for a fact.

In fact, the colors appeared in a pre-arranged order.

The change in his position is to be explained by the fact that the condemnation of the writings mentioned was justifiable essentially, yet appeared inopportune and would lead to disastrous controversies with Western Europe.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.

" In fact, the Rabbis took over more and more power from the Reish Galuta until eventually R ' Ashi assumed the title Rabbana, heretofore assumed by the exilarch, and appeared together with two other Rabbis as an official delegation " at the gate of King Yazdegard's court.

" Despite the fact that the group had neither performed outside the Bay Area nor appeared on TV, the album garnered considerable attention in the USA and sold well enough to earn a gold record award.

In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags.

Pausanias mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phrygian and Carian river Maeander that purportedly descended underground where it appeared to enter the sea at Miletus and rose again in the Peloponnesos as Asopus.

Cole recounted this adventure in an early self-illustrated professional sale " A Boy and His Bike " ( which has often been cited as appearing in Boy's Life magazine, but in fact the source of this article is unknown, but speculated to have likely appeared in Cole's hometown newspaper ).

Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums ; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

In fact, Grohl has appeared in most countdowns run by Triple J, only excluding those in 1989, 1990, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2010.

One completely written chapter of " Secret Wars " involved the X-Men, but transporting the X-Men cast to L. A. ( where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based ) from Canada ( where the X-Men animated series was based ) was too costly in the previous episodes the X-Men appeared in, so the episode was dropped and only Storm was used for the rest of the chapters of Secret Wars due to the fact that Iona Morris ( who was the first voice of Storm ) lives in L. A. Hulk and She-Hulk weren't used in these episodes because the Hulk show was on UPN.

Later, when Thor and his company are safely out of Útgarða-Loki's hall the giant explains that Thor's opponent was much more formidable than she appeared to be and that Thor's prowess was, in fact, astonishing.