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origin and was
The dance was of Haitian origin.
And in the context of drifting personal utterances we have examined, there was occasional evidence of the origin of all such evasions.
Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.
He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.
When Littlepage was introduced, if the General behaved as usual, the newcomer faced a staccato salvo of queries: origin??
The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.
There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).
The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.
Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).
The coronary arteries were sclerotic and diffusely narrowed throughout their courses, and the right coronary artery was virtually occluded by a yellow atheromatous plaque 1.5 cm. distal to its origin.
Wheaton stated that the public law was essentially `` limited to the civilized and Christian peoples of Europe or to those of European origin ''.
Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.
For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.
Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".
As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").
The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.
The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.
Unfortunately the Nepōhualtzintzin and its teaching were among the victims of the conquering destruction, when a diabolic origin was attributed to them after observing the tremendous properties of representation, precision and speed of calculations.
German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.
The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.
In another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.
The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.

origin and credited
The origin of Labrador is credited to João Fernandes Labrador, the Portuguese navigator who explored the region.
Although Pius V is often credited with the origin of the Pope's white garments — supposedly because after his election Pius continued to wear his white Dominican habit — this claim must be regarded as legendary on account of the great number of contemporary portraits of earlier popes wearing the same white cassock he supposedly inaugurated.
Typically this was accomplished through a system of " checks and balances ", the origin of which, like separation of powers itself, is specifically credited to Montesquieu.
The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name " Arcadia " to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia.
The origin of the word " herpetoculture " is credited to Tom Huff, who devised the word to distinguish what he, as a self-described " herpetoculturist ", was doing -- working to keeping reptiles and amphibians alive and healthy -- from what herpetologists of that era were generally doing, namely, collecting specimens for preservation in museum collections.
The child of Tamanuiterā and Hineraumati, Tane-rore, is credited with the origin of dance.
" ( 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.
The origin of the name Hymera is credited to John Badders, who was postmaster.
The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name " Arcadia " to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia ( note the inclusion of the ' r ' of the original Greek name ).
Although not the origin of the breed, this area is credited with the breeding which led to the original Pomeranian type of dog.
Although Willie Bryant and Leonard Reed are often credited with the origin while at the Lafayette Theater, flash-dancer Joe Jones of The Three Little Words has stated that he helped invent the routine.
* Palladium Ballroom, credited as the origin of the mambo craze in the U. S.
He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and is credited by some with initiating historians ' investigation of the historical Jesus.
" St. James Infirmary Blues " is an American folksong of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose ( a pseudonym for Irving Mills ).
Leo is credited with proposing that the origin of the word " Africa " comes from Greek meaning " without cold or fear.
Spring Moon, the Peninsula Hong Kong's Chinese restaurant is often credited with the invention of XO sauce, although others claim the sauce's origin in the urban area of Kowloon.
Tarifa is sometimes credited with being the origin of the word " tariff, since it was the first port in history to charge merchants for the use of its docks, but other sources point to the Arabic word ta ' rïf, as the origin.
Lauterbur is credited for the idea of introducing gradients in the magnetic field which allows for determining the origin of the radio waves emitted from the nuclei of the object of study.
Although often credited with prehistoric origin, most were erected in medieval times, and some in later centuries.
Its origin is credited to the Tang Emperor Xuanzong in 732.
The origin of the unusual name is credited to early Portuguese settlers who thought the ensemble of the hill tops resembled the pipes of organs in European cathedrals.
The story is credited by Robert A. Heinlein as possibly the origin of the flat cats in his novel The Rolling Stones, since he may have read it or heard it as a child, but due to the intervening time he could not be sure.
The origin of the phrase is credited to Christopher Trace, founding presenter of the children's television programme Blue Peter, who used it ( in all seriousness ) as a link between segments.

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