The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

Another explanation is that the passages were added to the Antiquities to highlight the power of the Pharisees, but he considers the last explanation less likely than the others.

The last three books give an atomic and materialist explanation of phenomena preoccupying human reflection, such as vision and the senses, sex and reproduction, natural forces and agriculture, the heavens, and disease.

The writer and scholar Guy Davenport offers another explanation: " he pseudonym that he began to write under in prison is constructed from the first two letters of Ohio and the second and last two of penitentiary added.

Reginald Aldworth Daly offered a somewhat different explanation for atoll formation: islands worn away by erosion, by ocean waves and streams, during the last glacial stand of the sea of some below present sea level developed as coral islands ( atolls ), or barrier reefs on a platform surrounding a volcanic island not completely worn away, as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.

At the last minute, Roddenberry sent down several pages of new script for the dinner scene, in which Spock was to give a long-winded explanation of the philosophy.

Grappelli's own explanation for the changed spelling was that he was tired of people mispronouncing his last name as " Grappell-eye ".

As series such as Friday the 13th added more and more sequels, with the recurring killer who had been killed in the previous film coming back to life to kill again, police reaction was often to laugh it off-their explanation being that the main characters were still traumatised from the killings they had witnessed in the last film.

Discovering that Demosthenes is Valentine Wiggin, Ender's sister – but that Valentine has been on a starship en route to Lusitania for the last thirty years – Qing-Jao concludes that the only possible explanation is advanced computer software closely tied to the communication network.

The last chapter was written by Blair, and was an explanation of how to plan and execute a vacation in the wilderness.

Upon arrival in Alabama, Melanie demands a divorce and an explanation as to why, for the last seven years, Jake has returned the divorce papers unsigned.

Given the unusual form and fabric of Beaker pottery, and its abrupt appearance in the archaeological record, along with a characteristic group of other artefacts, known as the Bell Beaker " package ", the explanation for the Beaker culture until the last decades of the 20th century was to interpret it as a diffusion of one group of people across Europe.

This last article includes the designer of the flag's explanation of his intentions regarding the stars.

Manjusri is the last bodhisattva to answer, and says that " by giving an explanation they have already fallen into dualism ".

This last explanation is the nearest to the truth: a Parisian law had been in place since 1783, restricting the heights of buildings to 20 meters ( 65 feet ).

However, Wilson cancelled the event at the last moment, without notifying the press or fans, and no explanation was given.

Later episodes with fantasy elements included the bizarre poisoning of freemasons in Poison, the Christmas episode Fires in the Fall ( which features a Bergman-esque representation of Death which appears, to judge from the last line, to have been real in spite of a ' Scooby-Doo ' explanation having been offered a scene earlier ), A Man of Sorrows which is the only episode of the sixth series set almost entirely outside Jersey, the only episode at all to lack Charlie Hungerford and-partly because of the heroin nature of the storyline, partly because of the lack of familiar characters-a dark, humourless episode unlike any other in the series ), the densely plotted The Other Woman, The Dig involving an apparent Viking's curse ( apparently inspired by Hammer Horror movies ), and Warriors about a group who believed in the existence of Atlantis.

' It from bit ' symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation ; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes – no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses ; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

The physicist Steven Weinberg named the additional particle the " Z particle ", later giving the explanation that it was the last additional particle needed by the model – the W bosons had already been named – and that it has zero electric charge.

An explanation based on game theory similar to the last two above is that the participation of the public and the open debate send clear and reliable information regarding the intentions of democracies to other states.

Lucy has a habit of establishing long-term romantic relationships which last a few books and are then ended with little explanation.

Noel Odell, the last man to see Mallory and Irvine on their ascent in 1924, offered a more benign explanation that the ice-axe had merely been placed there on the ascent to be collected on the way back in view of the fact that the climbing ahead was almost entirely on rock under the prevailing conditions.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

The unshielded flux is given in the last column ; ;

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

The climate and the events of the last decade, and the steady pressure of the `` cold '' war, have given Americans yet another means of avoiding self-examination, and so it has been decided that the riots were `` Communist '' inspired.

He also complained that not enough notice was given on the hearing, since the bill was introduced only last Monday.

Halleck said the voluntary care plan enacted last year should be given a fair trial first.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

Rabbi Trugman states that in the last five centuries the concept of reincarnation, which until then had been a much hidden tradition within Judaism, was given open exposure.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

At his death, his last $ 30, 000, 000 was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

( The final verses record how Jehoiachin, the last king, is set free and given honour by the king of Babylon ).

The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic " call ", and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571.

In contemporary records his name is most often given as Blackbeard, Edward Thatch, or Edward Teach and it is the last that today is most often used.

Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites.

Calls are normally given at least the first few times through, and often for the last.

In the twenty-fifth and last session, the doctrines of purgatory, the invocation of saints and the veneration of relics were reaffirmed, as was also the efficacy of indulgences as dispensed by the Church according to the power given her, but with some cautionary recommendations, and a ban on the sale of indulgences.

His attendant witnesses heavenly light in the direction of Columba, and Holy angels joins the saint in his passage to the Lord: And having given them his holy benediction in this way, he immediately breathed his last.

Other advantages are that one can easily find the first or last elements on the list ( most likely to be useful in the case of numerically sorted data ), or elements in a given range ( useful again in the case of numerical data, and also with alphabetically ordered data when one may be sure of only the first few letters of the sought item or items ).

* NRIC number ( The last digit is an odd number for a male soldier, while an even number is given for a female soldier.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").