This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen emerged.

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

In addition, there are several historical uses of the term that provide some background as to its meaning.

The language of Cholistan also reflects a number of features of its historical and geographical background.

They maintain that, to determine such families, five criteria should be taken into account, in particular: the historical background, the characteristic way of thought, the different institutions, the recognized sources of law, and the dominant ideology.

The historical grammatical method is a hermeneutic technique that strives to uncover the meaning of the text by taking into account not just the grammatical words, but also the syntactical aspects, the cultural and historical background, and the literary genre.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

Any voucher proposals in the Netherlands, and countries with similar systems such as Belgium, are complicated by the historical background of the " school struggle ".

Also Melodrama, in its historical meaning of the then popular romantic genre of " spoken words to a background of music ", was something Satie avoided.

Whatever the original plan might have been, the larger, historical account is often merely a background to a broad range of inquiries and, as Herodotus himself observes, " Digressions are part of my plan.

Some historical background including Lange's definition is provided by DiSalle, who says in summary:

* Cultural and historical background of Jesus, perspective on the period in which the two religions began to diverge

The sparse historical background of Arthur is gleaned from various sources, including the Annales Cambriae, the Historia Brittonum, and the writings of Gildas.

He often used a historical background for his plays-among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw.

* German A. Goncharov, " American and Soviet H-bomb development programmes: historical background ," Physics-Uspekhi 39: 10 ( 1996 ): 1033 – 1044.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of the historical territory of Latvia, including population density, ethnic background, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Each tractate is introduced with an overview of its contents, including historical and legal background material, and each Mishnah is prefaced by a thematic introduction.

Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age.

Halliday, an expert on ancient religion, dismissed her theory, and noted that her hypothesis relied upon " documents torn from the background of their own age and divorced from the serious study of their historical antecedents.

Considering the historical background of the name Persian Gulf, Sir Arnold Wilson mentions in a book, published in 1928 that:

Edwards ( 2000 ) contradicts the conventional view that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie Inherit the Wind and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

* London Uyghur Ensemble Uyghur Culture and History ; multimedia site-links to cultural and historical background, current news, research materials and photographs.

* Introduction to Uyghur Culture and History Links to cultural and historical background, current news, research materials and photographs.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

A student organization, Bottega, is open to any student interested in increasing his understanding and appreciation of the graphic and ceramic arts in their historical, technical, and productive contexts.

The quest of the historical Homer is likely never to have further success ; ;

`` It is not an individual that is in the dock at this historical trial '' -- said Ben Gurion, `` and not the Nazi regime alone -- but anti-Semitism throughout history ''.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

One of Achill's most famous historical sites is that of the Achill Mission or ' the Colony ' at Dugort.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures.

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

Amber is discussed by Theophrastus, possibly the first historical mention of the material, in the 4th century BC.

Baltic amber or succinite ( historically documented as Prussian amber ) is found as irregular nodules in marine glauconitic sand, known as blue earth, occurring in the Lower Oligocene strata of Sambia in Prussia ( in historical sources also referred to as Glaesaria ).

The historical view, of course, is mainly fantastical.