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

The concept of a dynamical system has its origins in Newtonian mechanics.

Significant for the distancing of the concept of elves from its mythological origins was the influence from literature.

Hannah Arendt traces the origins of the concept of freedom to the practice of politics in ancient Greece.

The concept of nirvana comes from the Yogic traditions of the Sramanas whose origins go back to at least the earliest centuries of the first millennium BCE.

This concept has its origins in the work of Richard Cantillon in his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en ( 1755 ) and Jean-Baptiste Say in his Treatise on Political Economy.

The modern archetype of the evil clown has unclear origins, but one of the first appearances of the concept is that of John Wayne Gacy, an American serial killer and rapist who became known as the Killer Clown after it was discovered that he performed as Pogo the Clown at children's parties and other events.

The concept of " People's War " which is so central to Maoist thought is directly populist in its origins.

Software architecture as a concept has its origins in the research of Edsger Dijkstra in 1968 and David Parnas in the early 1970s.

The concept of drive letters, as used today, presumably owes its origins to IBM's VM family of operating systems, dating back to CP / CMS in 1967 ( and its research predecessor CP-40 ), by way of CP / M.

The phenomenological tie-in with the sociology of knowledge stems from two key historical sources for Mannheim's analysis: Mannheim was dependent on insights derived from Husserl's phenomenological investigations, especially the theory of meaning as found in Husserl's Logical Investigations of 1900 / 1901 ( Husserl: 2000 ), in the formulation of his central methodological work: " On The Interpretation of Weltanschauung " ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn41 & fn43 )-this essay forms the centerpiece for Mannheim's method of historical understanding and is central to his conception of the sociology of knowledge as a research program ; and The concept of " Weltanschauung " employed by Mannheim has its origins in the hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, who relied on Husserl's theory of meaning ( above ) for his methodological specification of the interpretive act ( Mannheim: 1993: see fn38 ).

Despite the controversial philosophical origins of the concept, particularly its close association with logical positivism, operational definitions have undisputed practical applications.

Though the concept was first proposed in 1991, software-defined radios have their origins in the defense sector since the late 1970s in both the U. S. and Europe ( for example, Walter Tuttlebee described a VLF radio that used an ADC and an 8085 microprocessor ).

At times they are regarded as one and the same goddess, though likely having separate origins, and reflections of the same divine concept.

While many workplaces through history have been crowded, dangerous, low-paying and without job security, the concept of a sweatshop has its origins between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of workshop in which a certain type of middleman, the sweater, directed others in garment making ( the process of producing clothing ), under arduous conditions.

The concept lies at the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of traditional Chinese medicine, and a central principle of different forms of Chinese martial arts and exercise, such as baguazhang, taijiquan ( t ' ai chi ), and qigong ( Chi Kung ) and of I Ching.

Other origins for the word pisco have been explored including a Mapudungun etymology where " pishku " has been interpreted as " something boiled in a pot ," which would in this hypothesis relate to the concept of burned wine ( Spanish: vino quemado ).

At that time people were bound to their millets by their religious affiliations ( or their confessional communities ), rather than their ethnic origins, according to the millet concept.

The folk concept of a dancing crow predates the Jump Jim Crow minstrelsy and has its origins in the old farmer's practice of soaking corn in whiskey and leaving it out for the crows.

The concept of the public trust relates back to the origins of democratic government and its seminal idea that within the public lies the true power and future of a society ; therefore, whatever trust the public places in its officials must be respected.

The historical origins of a concept of a cycle of repeated reincarnation are obscure but the idea appears frequently in religious and philosophical texts in both India and ancient Greece during the middle of the first millennium BCE.

Hebrew and Arab peoples are generally classified as Semitic, a concept derived from Biblical accounts of the origins of the cultures known to the ancient Hebrews.

In Chinese schools today the concept is not taught explicitly, but by tracing the origins of the Chinese state to the Xia, Shang and Zhou, rather than emphasizing the diversity of the actual archaeological record, the Chinese education system continues to promote the idea of the Mandate of Heaven.

The origins of the modern concept of prime ministerial government go back to the Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707 – 1800 ) and The Parliamentary System in Sweden 1721-1772, that coincided with each other.

Many organizations and journals that had their origins in the eugenics movement began to distance themselves from the philosophy, as when Eugenics Quarterly became Social Biology in 1969.

Tenma eventually learns the origins of this monster: from the former East Germany's attempt to use a secret orphanage known as " 511 Kinderheim " to create perfect soldiers through psychological reprogramming to the author of a children's book used in a eugenics experiment in Czech Republic.

Following the conversion to Judaism of the Khazarian royalty and aristocracy, their descendants began to claim origins in Kozar, a son of Togarmah.

Pioneering 19th-century scholarly editions of the Viking Age began to reach a small readership in Britain, archaeologists began to dig up Britain's Viking past, and linguistic enthusiasts started to identify the Viking-Age origins for rural idioms and proverbs.

The origins of the present state began with the establishment of a British settlement at King George Sound in 1826 ( later named Albany from 1832 ).

While the origins of the study of celestial features and phenomenon can be traced back to antiquity, the scientific methodology of this field began to develop in the middle of the 17th century.

The bill's origins began in 1970 with the rewriting of the Illinois Constitution.

Ukiyo-e can be categorized into two periods: the Edo period, which comprises ukiyo-e from its origins in the 1620s until about 1867, when the Meiji period began, lasting until 1912.

Cao Dai's origins began during this period as well.

Stone continued to employ the modernist vocabulary for the remainder of the 1930s, but during an automobile trip across the United States in 1940, he began to formulate an approach to design that fused the experience of his Beaux-Arts training, bucolic origins and dissatisfaction with the austerity of modernist aesthetic.

Academics began to understand the origins and corrected etymology of the brown rat towards the end of the 19th century, as seen in the 1895 text Natural History by American scholar Alfred Henry Miles:

Tuvaluans are a Polynesian people with the origins of the people of Tuvalu addressed in the theories regarding migration into the Pacific that began about 3000 years ago.

He was aware that his family had Jewish origins, and in the course of his studies, he began to consider a return to Judaism.

This traditional view of gospel origins, however, began to be challenged in the late 18th century, when Gottlob Christian Storr ( 1786 ) proposed that Mark was the first to be written.

The origins of march music began before the Gunpowder Age during which armies would maintain their troops ' morale by marching with music playing, whether that be from the beat of a drum or fife.

The origins of the Patriot League began after the eight Ivy League schools each expanded its football schedules to ten games starting in 1980.

Following the release of Days of Heaven, Malick began developing a project for Paramount, titled Q, that explored the origins of life on earth.

From the 1850s to the 1900s, Westbury's population and ethnic diversity began to rise as many people of Irish, Italian and Polish origins continued to settle.

The origins of the term ground zero began with the Manhattan Project and the bombing of Japan.

Youngstown State University, the primary institution of higher learning in the Youngstown-Warren metropolitan area, traces its origins to a local YMCA program that began offering college-level courses in 1908.

During the 1950s and ' 60s, psychologists began studying gender development in young children, partially in an effort to understand the origins of homosexuality ( which was viewed as a mental disorder at the time ).

The origins of the band date back to the summer of 1997 when Jordan Pundik ( vocals ) had met Stephen Klein ( guitars ) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the pair began writing music together.

Through The Twenty Years ' Crisis was published just months before World War II began, the Japanese historian Saho Matusumoto wrote that in a sense, Carr's book began the debate on the origins of World War II.