This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In all his miscalculations, Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers' inspirations -- representing many peoples, time periods and styles -- into his own music by warping the harmony, melody, or form, to verify his own experiments.

The brief notes introducing each work offer salient historical or technical points, and many listeners are probably grateful for being intelligently taken by the hand through an often difficult maze.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

* Farlang many full text historical references on Amber Theophrastus, George Frederick Kunz, and special on Baltic amber.

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

As with many other game species, the best sources of historical and large scale population data are hunting bag records and questionnaires.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots.

However, there are also many modern historians who object to this view and point out that such a hostile attitude towards Athanasius is based on an unfair judgment of historical sources.

During his time at Yale he worked on the description of the Hopi language, and the historical linguistics of the Uto-Aztecan languages, publishing many influential papers in professional journals.

The definition of a battle cannot be arrived at solely through the names of historical battles, many of which are misnomers.

Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.

Such influence has caused Aramaic to have many Persian loanwords that can be seen in later historical texts.

They say that the literal meaning is true but that hidden behind this historical account are many allegories.

Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

Chicanoism is an appreciation of a historical movement, but also is used by many to bring a new revived politicized feeling to voters young and old in the defense of Mexican and Mexican-American rights.

The historical accuracy and dating of many of the events in the later Anglo-Saxon Chronicle have been called into question, and his reign is variously listed as lasting seven, seventeen, or thirty-two years.

Like many other Chinese historical figures, Chiang used several names throughout his life.

The city has many nicknames, which reflect the impressions and opinions about historical and contemporary Chicago.

* Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum – Features much historical information about Civil Defense history, its equipment and methods, and many historical photographs and posters.

There are great restoration projects underway around New Zealand and many organisations including community groups, landowners, conservation organisations, iwi, volunteers, schools, local businesses, nurseries and councils are involved in them.

Although this concept remains a guiding principle of the profession, it is a concept that has been widely critiqued within the conservation profession and is now considered by many to be " a fuzzy concept ".

Training in conservation for many years took the form of an apprenticeship, whereby an apprentice slowly developed the necessary skills to undertake their job.

In many basic problems, three conservation principles are used:

Angular momentum is conserved in a system where there is no net external torque, and its conservation helps explain many diverse phenomena.

Either regional or partial scope agreements may cover tariff relief and trade promotion ; economic complementation ; agricultural trade ; financial, fiscal, customs and health cooperation ; environmental conservation ; scientific and technological cooperation ; tourism promotion ; technical standards and many other fields.

Their areoles identify them as cacti, and in spite of their appearance they too have many adaptations for water conservation.

There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management ( agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries ), city planning ( urban ecology ), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction ( human ecology ).

He was for many years the President of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and cared passionately about the conservation of Dartmoor.

For very many sites, the costs are too great for either active measures to ensure in situ preservation or to provide for satisfactory conservation on recovery.

The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon aroused public interest in the conservation movement and resulted in new laws and practices which prevented many other species from becoming extinct.

All the adhesives used in previous restorations had deteriorated, so to find one that would last, conservation scientists at the museum tested many adhesives for long term stability.

Little sign of the original damage is visible and, except for light cleaning, the vase should not require major conservation work for many years.

The SU campus has been recognized by the city of Seattle, the EPA and many organizations for its commitment to sustainability through pesticide-free grounds, a food waste compost facility, recycling program and energy conservation program.

Among Seattle University's many environmental undertakings, there are projects ranging from composting initiatives to water conservation.

Lovejoy serves on many scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups, is the author of numerous articles and books.

There is no explanation for the particular values that physical constants appear to have throughout our universe, such as Planck's constant h or the gravitational constant G. Several conservation laws have been identified, such as the conservation of charge, momentum, angular momentum and energy ; in many cases, these conservation laws can be related to symmetries or mathematical identities.

In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier securely differentiated chemistry from alchemy by introducing rigor and precision into his laboratory techniques ; allowing him to deduce the conservation of mass and categorize many new chemical elements and compounds.

In addition to roads and fences, illegal hunting is a major conservation concern in many areas.

The global conservation status of velvet worm species is difficult to estimate ; many species are only known to exist at their type locality ( the location at which they were first observed and described ).

Accordingly, conservation in the Neotropic zone is a hot political concern, and raises many arguments about development versus indigenous versus ecological rights and access to or ownership of natural resources.

On the contrary, many conservation easements confer no use of the land either to the easement holder or to the public.

Furthermore, many conservation easements reserve to the landowner specific uses which if not reserved would be prohibited.