Madison's origins begin in 1829, when former federal judge James Duane Doty purchased over a thousand acres ( 4 km² ) of swamp and forest land on the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, with the intention of building a city in the Four Lakes region.

Other possible origins include the French " terre maudit "" ( cursed land ), the Slavic " moch " ( moor ) or a derivation from the German ( Berlin dialect ) " Moorjebiet " ( swamp area ).

The origins of the blues are undocumented, though they can be seen as the secular counterpart of the spirituals.

Heavy metal's origins lie in the hard rock bands who took blues and rock and created a heavy sound centered around the guitar and drums.

It features parts of an interview in which he discusses the origins of the blues and the nature of love.

The origins of jazz are in the musical traditions of early twentieth-century New Orleans, including brass band music, the blues, ragtime and spirituals, and some of the most popular early standards come from these influences.

The key component characterizing the groups gathered under the term is the synthesis of rock and roll rhythm and energy with a decided will to distance themselves from specifically American blues origins, but to draw on German or other sources instead.

The Delta is strongly associated with the origins of several genres of popular music, including the Delta blues and rock and roll.

Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music ; with country and western and Pop.

The Delta blues is often regarded as the most rootsy or traditional style of the blues, or as the ultimate origins of the blues.

Roots rock is rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music.

Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music ; in addition to country and western.

The boogie / blues inspired Nothin ' but the Blues was followed with 2007's Midnight Communion which hearkened back to the Aces eclectic roots music origins.

Its origins lie in the British hard rock bands who between 1967 and 1974 took blues and rock and created a hybrid with a heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound.

Theories of apparently altruistic behavior were accelerated by the need to produce theories compatible with evolutionary origins.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Hill settlements origins were as the economic foci of the district engaging in the spinning and weaving of woollen cloth.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

The success of this legend of origins was partly due to theories in anthropology, which were based on a tribal paradigm.

However, this translation may not accurately represent the role of the bunyip in Aboriginal mythology or its possible origins before written accounts were made.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

As a legal concept, its origins in Britain were from a reaction to printers ' monopolies at the beginning of the 18th century.

Pole climbing and rope climbing were among the first exercises to be included in the origins of modern gymnastics in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

The origins of rights were seen as being in an ancient constitution, which had existed from time immemorial.

Two further major 1950s developments were the origins of digital sound synthesis by computer, and of algorithmic composition programs beyond rote playback.

The islands of Manihiki and Rakahanga trace their origins to the arrival of Toa ( an outcast from Rarotonga ) and Tupaeru ( a woman of high-ranking in the Puaikura tribe of Rarotonga ) The remainder of the northern islands were probably settled by expeditions from Samoa and Tonga.

He then embarks on a discussion of the origins of Greek culture and technology, arguing that most of the important figures in the Greek world were foreigners, and ( erroneously ) that Jewish culture was the most significant influence on Greece.

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

It has occasionally been argued that its origins were in heterodox Judaism or Oriental and Grecian philosophies.

In the 19th and early 20th century, these images were used by many Danish historians, with a good flair of nationalism, trying to date the origins of the flag to 1219.

There were occasional reminders of the mounted infantry origins of this class of soldier.

It is generally thought that Jimmu's name and character evolved into their present shape just before the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were chronicled in the Kojiki.

The myths about these gods were meant to explain the origins and behavior of the forces they represented.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Suizei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Annei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōshō, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōan, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōrei, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

It is undisputed that this identification is Chinese in form and Buddhist in implication, which suggests that the name must have been regularized centuries after the lifetime ascribed to Kōgen, possibly during the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were compiled as the chronicles known today as the Kojiki.

Meinhof's system of classification of the Hamitic languages was based on a belief that " speakers of Hamitic became largely coterminous with cattle herding peoples with essentially Caucasian origins, intrinsically different from and superior to the ' Negroes of Africa '.

The most likely scenario, based on Mandinka oral tradition, suggests that the origins of the Kora may ultimately be linked with Jali Mady Fouling Cissoko, some time after the founding of Kaabu in the 16th century.

In Germany, the plant is known as the Alraune: the novel ( later adapted as a film ) Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers is based on a soulless woman conceived from a hanged man's semen, the title referring to this myth of the Mandrake's origins.

Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when Music Television's format was based on them.

There are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth ; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society.

The origins of her cult are uncertain, but it was based on very old agrarian cults of agricultural communities.

Its origins were in African American vocal groups of the 1930s and 40s, like the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, who had enjoyed considerable commercial success with arrangements based on close harmonies.

Priests were officially nominated and organized by the state, and they instructed the youth in a form of Shinto theology based on the official dogma of the divinity of Japan's national origins and its Emperor.

However, that study was later found to be based on incomplete data, and recent studies point to multiple maternal origins, with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, originating from the Indian subcontinent, where a large number of unique haplotypes occur.

Early in 1998, reports of a forthcoming book allegedly containing revelations about the origins of the so-called " Zinoviev letter ," based on information from Soviet archives led to renewed press speculation and parliamentary questions.

Rule by fiefdoms and aristocracy was widely replaced by national ideologies based on shared origins and culture.

It is difficult to find out much information about the origins of the Assassins because most early sources are either written by enemies of the order or based on legends.

However Zohary and Hopf conclude, " Suggestions as to the origins of these plants are necessarily based on linguistic considerations.

There is some dissent to the dithyrambic origins of tragedy, mostly based on the differences between the shapes of their choruses and styles of dancing.

Throughout the play, at the back of the stage, a huge marble wolf can be seen from which feed Romulus and Remus, with the implication being that Rome is a society based on animalistic origins.

Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium.

(" Crowner " is an archaic word for " coroner " and is based on the origins of the word.

The town received its name based on its origins as a socialist commune in the early 1900s —.

It was to investigate the origins of the village based near some of the earthenworks around the village, especially near the church and Manor Farm.

The origins of no-dig gardening are unclear, and may be based on pre-industrial or nineteenth-century farming techniques.

Western cosplay's origins are based primarily in science fiction and historical fantasy fandoms.

The precise origins of the Elymians are unknown, though it has been suggested ( based on recent archeological finds ) that they may have been migrants from Anatolia to Sicily.

However Zohary and Hopf conclude, " Suggestions as to the origins of these plants are necessarily based on linguistic considerations.

According to Walter Scott the song is based on a real incident that took place in the seventeenth century, although some modern scholars are sceptical about this story as one of the origins of the song.