In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

The prevailing scholarly view is that Joshua is not a factual account of historical events.

This " historical account " has much of Eusebius's own theological agenda intertwined with the factual text including his view on God, Christ, the Scriptures, the Jews, the church, pagans, and heretics.

* Inerrancy relates to the absolute correctness of the Bible in factual assertions ( including historical and scientific assertions ).

This openness to doctrinal revision has extended in Liberal Protestant traditions even to the reevaluation of the doctrine of Scripture upon which the Reformation was founded, and members of these traditions may even question whether the Bible is infallible in doctrine, inerrant in historical and other factual statements, and whether it has uniquely divine authority.

Polybius held that historians should only chronicle events whose participants the historian was able to interview, and was among the first to champion the notion of having factual integrity in historical writing, while avoiding bias.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

He stated that there is no evidence of it being an historical occurrence but that ' Nobody can deny its factual occurrence in the Bay ' ah where millions of people are initiated at the hand of one man simultaneously in every continent in diverse languages through the power of the Spirit of Holiness.

Like in any other historical discipline, most research in music history can be roughly divided into two categories: the establishing of factual and correct data and the interpretation of data.

A more literal reading of Tolkien's text and comparison to historical instead of living factual persons ( notably John D. Rockefeller or the Rothschild family ) would result in a much higher estimate, as much as $ 870 billion, according to the article.

Posidonius did not follow Polybius's more detached and factual style, for Posidonius saw events as caused by human psychology ; while he understood human passions and follies, he did not pardon or excuse them in his historical writing, using his narrative skill in fact to enlist the readers ' approval or condemnation.

Today the term is often used in a pejorative sense, to refer to an excessively narrow focus on factual historical trivia, to the exclusion of a sense of historical context or process.

Pratt did exhaustive research for factual and visual details, and some characters are real historical figures or loosely based on them, like Corto's main opponent, Rasputin.

Donald Serrell Thomas ( born 1926 ) is an English author of ( primarily ) Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London.

The allegations earned Magnus the epithet of Magnus the Caresser and caused him a lot of harm, but there is no factual basis for them in historical sources.

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* Narrative history is a genre of factual historical writing that uses chronology as its framework ( as opposed to a thematic treatment of a historical subject ).

This is a part of the Babylonian Chronicles, which are concise, factual accounts of historical events, and are therefore considered to be very reliable, although not very informative.

* Useful for filling in gaps, whether they be factual, compositional, historical or other gaps

Many streets throughout California today bear the name of this famous road, often with little factual relation to the original ; but Mission Street in San Francisco and its counterpart in Santa Cruz do correspond to the historical route.

It is surprising, to say the least, that a well-known ( Dutch ) publisher could produce an expensive book of such doubtful intellectual value, of which the only good word that can be said is that it contains an enormous amount of factual historical material, untidily ordered, true ; badly written, yes ; mixed-up with conjectural nonsense, sure ; but still, much useful stuff.

Alex Haley's Queen is a partly factual historical novel, now made into a movie, which has helped to bring knowledge of the " children of the plantation " to publication attention in recent years.

Presupposition ( 5 ) points out that the validity of an understanding reached in theoretical or practical discourse, concerning some factual knowledge or normative principle, is always expanded beyond the immediate context in which it is achieved.

If all the parties and the relevant factual elements affecting formation, validity, and performance are geographically located in the same state, it will be obvious that, if the contract is silent on the point, the local municipal law ( usually called the lex loci contractus, i. e. the law of the place where the contract was made ) will be applied as the law governing substantive issues.

The U. S. government released documents, called the ' Operation Iraqi Freedom documents ', regarding which the Pentagon has cautioned it has made ' no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy.

In some U. S. States, informed consent laws ( sometimes called " Right To Know " laws ) require that a woman seeking an elective abortion be given factual information by the abortion provider about her legal rights, alternatives to abortion ( such as adoption ), available public and private assistance, and medical facts ( some of which are disputed — see fetal pain ), before the abortion is performed ( usually 24 hours in advance of the abortion ).

Misunderstanding of the difference between fact and theory sometimes leads to fallacy in rhetoric, in which one person will say his or her claim is factual whereas the opponent's claim is just theory.

The complaint should contain all relevant information to the event or events that have taken place, including a chronological factual account of the events themselves, the identifying features of the victim ( name, date of birth, nationality and so on ), as well as the state involved, and, finally, what steps have been taken by the victim to exhaust all domestic remedies available to him or her.

However, it has recently been argued that she was, in fact, innocent of the crime and convicted more on the basis of her perception as a rebellious runaway slave than on the basis of factual evidence.

" She would expound on her strong opinions on most subjects, but rarely provided a factual basis for these views.

During her time co-hosting What Not to Wear for five series, she and Woodall gained recognition for their work on the show, winning a Royal Television Society Award in 2002 for being the best factual presenters.

The true author of the pun was, however, Catherine Winkworth, an English girl then in her teens, who submitted it to Punch, which then printed it as a factual report.

Her longtime friend Noël Coward later suggested it was a romanticized and less than wholly factual account of her life.

" McCaughey responded that her claims were accurate and factual because they came " straight from the text of the bill ".

Vicki Baum accredits Walter Spies with providing her the factual historical information and details on Balinese culture for her historical fiction novel " Love and Death in Bali "-dealing with the Dutch intervention in Bali ( 1906 ), and first published in German in 1937.

Soon after her death, the novel began to be read again, and from that time onward the factual claims made by the novel's narrator, and the factuality of the whole plot of the novel, have been accepted and questioned with greater and lesser credulity.

Pupatello has defended her role in the campaign, saying " If I was presented once again with apparently what is factual and has yet to be refuted and that is sermons that were posted on the world wide web ...

She sent her joke to the new humorous magazine Punch, which printed it as a factual report under Foreign Affairs.

The designated charger is then given 60 seconds to progress his or her way up the six levels of the board by choosing one of the five spaces on a level and correcting a blooper, a factual statement with an incorrect word creating a pun ( e. g., " The B & O was the first American passenger < u > smell </ u >", with train as the correct answer ).

Meanwhile, in New York, reporter Homer Eisenhower Graham or " Ike " ( Richard Gere ), writes a column about her that contains several factual errors, supplied to him by one of Maggie's jilted exes for revenge.

Late in his life he also had an unexpected but important role in discovering the true story of Anna Leonowens, the 19th century woman whose memoirs inspired a number of dramatic and fictional works, most notably the musical The King and I. Leonowens presented her own account as factual and it was accepted in the west as such, despite being strongly disputed in Thailand.

In her 2008 semi fictional / non-fiction novel Alfred and Emily, Southern Rhodesia is a prominent backdrop in the second ' factual ' part of her account of her parents ' lives.

Kononenko points out that there is no factual basis for this image, and her research showed that the minstrel tradition was still very strong and creative up until the 1930s.