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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.
He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).
Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the so called Danube School setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours.
Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism ( the other is modalism, which regards " Father " and " Son " as two historical or soteriological roles of a single divine Person ).
The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:
Industrial statistics show Casablanca retains its historical position as the main industrial zone of the country.
The historical background of Philippians is traditionally gathered from two main primary New Testament sources: ( 1 ) informative internal data from the letter itself and ( 2 ) related information garnered from the rest of the New Testament Canon.
The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development.
The main historical authorities on heraldry include the following:
The historical competition continues to this day, as Hawick's main rival is the similarly-sized town of Galashiels.
At the same time scenes of ordinary life with moral, political or satirical content became often the main vehicle for expressive interplay between figures in painting, whether given a modern or historical setting.
In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.
Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.
Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.
She is the main historical character in Kathleen McGowan's novel The Book of Love ( Simon & Schuster, 2009 ).
A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the Aegean Sea.
Malcolm's main achievement is to have continued a line which would rule Scotland for many years, although his role as " founder of a dynasty " has more to do with the propaganda of his youngest son David, and his descendants, than with any historical reality.
One of the main reasons for which spelling and pronunciation deviate is that sound changes taking place in the spoken language are not always reflected in the orthography, and hence spellings correspond to historical rather than present-day pronunciation.
The main German thrusts were conducted along historical invasion routes.
This is one of the main factors of historical change of languages as described in historical linguistics.
The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.

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Seeds are a main source of starch for industrial and food use in many parts of the world.
The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.
It is named after its scholarly journal Annales d ' histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source of scholarship, along with many books and monographs.
Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.
The main source for the affair is a mythology à clef by Synesius of Cyrene, Aegyptus sive de providentia, ( 400 ) an Egyptianising allegory that embodies a covert account of the events, the exact interpretation of which continues to baffle scholars.
The chromaffin cells of the medulla, named for their characteristic brown staining with chromic acid salts, are the body's main source of the circulating catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine.
The British introduced sugar cane which was to become the main crop and source of foreign trade, and slaves were brought from Africa to work on the sugar cane plantations.
Sasso was the main source of European borax from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced it.
Marine organisms are the main source of organobromine compounds.
Bauxite is an aluminium ore and is the main source of aluminium.
In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.
Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one third of the network was closed by the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.
Babur wrote his memoirs and these form the main source for details of his life.
In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.
The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.
The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus.
* Dexippus, Scythica, ( fragments of a lost work which is the main known source of all later Roman and Byzantine historians and chronographers ), in Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, entry 100, ed.
: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.
The main source of our knowledge of the importance of filial piety is the Classic of Filial Piety, a work attributed to Confucius and his son but almost certainly written in the 3rd century BCE.
The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.
* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.
The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.
The main source of injuries comes from stunting, also known as pyramids.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the other main source that bears on this period, in particular in an entry for the year 827 that records a list of the kings who bore the title " bretwalda ", or " Britain-ruler ".
The main local source from the period is the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, a list of kings from Cináed mac Ailpín ( died 858 ) to Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ( died 995 ).

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