Despite this, the actual identity of the Sea Peoples has remained enigmatic and modern scholars have only the scattered records of ancient civilizations and archaeological analysis to inform them.

Likewise, the identity of numerous large dark shearwaters observed in October 2004 off Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands remains enigmatic ; they might have been either Sooty or Short-tailed Shearwaters, but neither species is generally held to pass through this region at that time

He is also famous for his role as the enigmatic Deep Throat ( whose identity was unknown at the time ) in the film All the President's Men.

His act of saving Venters and his other characteristics ( e. g., watering his horse before allowing himself to drink, honorable treatment of Jane, and frankness in honestly revealing his identity ) quickly affirm his status as an enigmatic protagonist.

" Blessed is he who was before he came into being ," is similar to other enigmatic statements commonly found in mysticism across cultures, referring to the benefits of self-awareness ( knowledge of one's true nature ) before development of ego identity beliefs.

It's an enigmatic and gripping piece about two women whose purpose and identity remains suspended metaphorically-and indeed literally, performed by young French rope and aerial specialists, Clementine Lamouret and Elsa Caillat.

Two enigmatic biovulate Euphorbiaceae from the neotropics: relationships of Chonocentrum and the identity of Phyllanoa.

A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late twentieth century, when issues of racial and sexual identity and identification have been studied.

" Westvale " as an identity probably evolved in the early twentieth century, referring to the area west of Wescott Reservoir, accessed by, but mostly south of, West Genesee Street ( since the Village of Solvay was to the north ).

While the second half of the twentieth century saw the serious decline of Welsh heavy industry, along with serious unemployment and the hardship and suffering that came with it, it also saw significant cultural gains with regard to a separate Welsh identity within the British Isles, starting with the appointing of a Secretary of State for Wales in 1964, and the establishment of a Welsh Office in Cardiff the following year.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, the term " third sex " was a popular descriptor for homosexuals and gender nonconformists, but after Gay Liberation of the 1970s and a growing separation of the concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity, the term fell out of favor among LGBT communities and the wider public.

This discipline examines the ' social construction of whiteness ' and highlights the changing ways in which whiteness has been normative to American national identity from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

The story of Long Lance has provided late twentieth century authors with much to mull over in questions of personal and ethnic identity.

The poem had a powerful effect in defining both Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

The poem had a powerful impact in both defining Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

During the late twentieth century folk music was crucial in Hungary, Romania, and the once existing Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia by allowing ethnicities to express their national identity in a time of political uncertainty and chaos.

A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.

Kalenjin in this broad linguistic sense should not be confused with Kalenjin as a term for the common identity the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya assumed halfway the twentieth century ; see Kalenjin and Kalenjin language.

When the work of revising the liturgy in the twentieth century was undertaken it was with the understanding that it was touching the nerve-centre of the Anglican ethos, since Anglican identity takes a more intangible form, deeply dependent upon the influence and binding effect of its liturgical worship.

There has been much debate over the ethnic identity of the Laks throughout the twentieth century.

In the episode, Seymour Skinner begins to celebrate his twentieth anniversary as principal of Springfield Elementary School when a man arrives claiming that Skinner has assumed his identity.

Giuseppe Sergi ( 1841 – 1936 ) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples.

Yet both in the early twentieth century, where the concept developed, and today, there are groups of Jews who had " important differences in identity based on class, culture, religious outlook, and education ", and hostility between these groups can only be considered self-hate " if one assumes that a superordinate Jewish identity should take precedence over other groupings of Jews.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

Alemannia lost its distinct jurisdictional identity when Charles Martel absorbed it into the Frankish empire, early in the 8th century.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

Temples were still being dedicated to the national god Ashur in his home city and in Harran during the 4th century AD, indicating an Assyrian identity was still strong.

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

Neither of the main ancient sources for this period, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus, mention the Bastarnae in their accounts of the 4th century, possibly implying the loss of their separate identity, presumably subsumed into the neighbouring Sarmatians or Goths.

However, in the nineteenth century, cuisine became a defining symbol of national identity.

In the mid-19th century, Cambridge was the center of a literary revolution when it gave the country a new identity through poetry and literature.

Although there were many changes during its first century, the university's identity has been held constant as privately controlled, non-sectarian, coeducational center of higher learning, distinguished by a commitment to preparing both men and women for future success.

Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ( raad ) applied to the electric ray.

Around the 9th century Frankish identity gradually changed from an ethnic identity to a national identity.

Although affected by ideologies such as communism during much of the 20th century, the Islamic identity and the dominance of Islam on political issues intensified during the early 21st century.

Until the late 20th century Protestantism — especially of the Presbyterian variety — was a central value for most Scots, helping shape their identity and way of thinking.

Walter Scott whose Waverley Novels helped define Scottish identity in the 19th century.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

From the late 20th century onward, Irish identity abroad became increasingly cultural, non-denominational, and non-political, although many emigrants from Northern Ireland stood apart from this trend.

In contrast to the Prussian-oriented periodicals, in the late 19th century such newspapers as Przyjaciel Ludu Łecki and Mazur were founded by members of the Warsaw-based Komitet Centralny dla Slaska, Kaszub i Mazur ( Central Committee for Silesia, Kashubia and Masuria ), influenced by Polish politicians like Antoni Osuchowski or Juliusz Bursche, to strengthen a Polish identity in Masuria.

He dismissed the idea of a Welsh identity, saying that " between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century Wales had practically no history at all, and even before that it was the history of rural brigands who have been ennobled by being called princes ".

In the 17th century, description of paganism turned from the theological aspect to the ethnological, and a religion began to be understood as part of the ethnic identity of a people, and the study of the religions of " primitive " peoples triggered questions as to the ultimate historical origin of religion.