It is difficult to pinpoint the time of origin of the state purchasing automobiles for use of employees in Rhode Island.

Other theories of origin are compatible with the formulaic theory: Beowulf may contain a design for terror, and The Iliad may have a vast hysteron-proteron pattern answering to a ceramic pattern produced during the Geometric Period in pottery.

-- The results of microanalysis of tektites ( natural glasses of unknown origin ) for gallium and germanium have shown that these glasses are probably produced from terrestrial ( or less likely from lunar ) matter by impact of a celestial body.

Because the food is selected with thought for its nutritional value, care for its origin, and prepared in a manner that retains the most nutrients, the food does taste good.

Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.

Arius taught that Jesus Christ was divine and was sent to earth for the salvation of mankind but that Jesus Christ was not equal to the Father ( infinite, primordial origin ) and to the Holy Spirit ( giver of life ).

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

His advocacy of Spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with the scientific establishment, especially with other early proponents of evolution.

Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin.

There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

On the internal front the discontented Muladi families ( Muslims of Iberian origin ) represented a constant danger for the Córdoban emir.

* Anemoi, for the ancient origin of the name of this technology

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

The term lipid comprises a diverse range of molecules and to some extent is a catchall for relatively water-insoluble or nonpolar compounds of biological origin, including waxes, fatty acids, fatty-acid derived phospholipids, sphingolipids, glycolipids, and terpenoids ( e. g., retinoids and steroids ).

In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.

The distribution begins as a Dirac delta function, indicating that all the particles are located at the origin at time t = 0, and for increasing times they become flatter and flatter until the distribution becomes uniform in the asymptotic time limit.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

All these functions, including the function of the healer-god Paean, who seems to have Mycenean origin, are fused in the cult of Apollo.

All hypotheses on the origin of Basque are controversial, and the suggested evidence is not generally accepted by most linguists.

All these theories centre on two battles in Estonia, Fellin ( 1208 ) or Lyndanisse ( 1219 ), and thus try to explain the origin in relation to the tale brought forth over 300 years after the event.

The origin of the title Imperator totius Hispaniae ( Latin for Emperor of All Spain ) is murky.

All food has its origin in plants.

All of these theories have since been widely criticized ; there is no broad consensus regarding the origin of religion.

For instance, the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1963, address racial prejudice explicitly next to discrimination for reasons of race, colour or ethnic origin ( Article I ).

A Gazelle Hound from Dogs of All Nations ( 1915 ), its country of origin listed as India.

All classical rabbinic views hold that the Torah was entirely or almost entirely Mosaic and of divine origin.

Lewis described the origin of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in an essay entitled It All Began with a Picture:

Some Latinos of Mexican origin celebrate Dia de los Muertos ( Day of the Dead ) on or around All Saints Day ( November 1 ), this being a mix of a native Mesoamerican celebration and an imported European holiday.

All variations of the city's name derive from the original ( and current ) appellation in Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη ( from Θεσσαλός, Thessalos, and Νίκη, Nike ), literally translating to " Thessalian Victory " and in origin the name of a princess, Thessalonike of Macedon, who was named so because she was born on the day of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Crocus Field.

All three structures correspond to an evolutionary origin in the leg pairs of the other segments.

All of these have both natural and man-made sources ; at the present time, most of the OH · and NO · in the stratosphere is of natural origin, but human activity has dramatically increased the levels of chlorine and bromine.

All the Turkic peoples native to Central Asia are of mixed Caucasoid and Mongoloid origin.

The following account of the origin of the name Allegheny was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger: " All this land and region, stretching as far as the creeks and waters that flow into the Alleghene the Delawares called Alligewinenk, which means ' a land into which they came from distant parts '.

All sources of vitamin A can provide retinol, but retinoids are found naturally in some foods of animal origin.

All but one of the strips corresponding to circles of latitude ( radial circles around the origin ) are untwisted, while the one corresponding to the boundary of the unit circle is a Möbius strip twisted by three times 180 degrees — as is the emblem of the institute.

All padauks are of African or Asian origin.

" ( Some later accounts of Robin's origin have stated that the name comes from the American robin bird, not from Robin Hood, Frank Miller's All Star Batman and Robin being a notable exception ; sometimes both sources are credited, as in Len Wein's The Untold Legend of the Batman.

This run lasted until # 74, with a brief run thereafter in Adventure Comics # 461-466, but it had three significant developments: It introduced the popular character Power Girl in All Star Comics # 58 ; it chronicled the death of the Golden Age Batman in Adventure Comics # 461-462 ; and, after nearly 40 years, it finally provided the JSA with an origin story in DC Special # 29.

All told, 52 % of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin.

All this time he was a frequent visitor to the salons of Mlle de Scudéry and the studios of painters ; his scientific researches did not interfere with his classical studies, for during this time he was discussing with Bochart the origin of certain medals, and was learning Syriac and Arabic under the Jesuit Adrien Parvilliers.

All of these names appear to be of non-Greek, local origin, i. e. Carian.

All beta-barrel transmembrane proteins have simplest up-and-down topology, which may reflect their common evolutionary origin and similar folding mechanism.