Thus, while a roundel may be blazoned by its tincture, e. g., a roundel vert ( literally " a roundel green "), it is more often described by a single word, in this case pomme ( literally " apple ", from the French ) or, from the same origins, pomeis — as in " Vert ; on a cross Or five pomeis " ( Scottish Public Register vol.

However, this version of the story of the declaration's origins has been described as " fanciful ", a fair assessment considering that discussions between Weizmann and Balfour had begun at least a decade earlier.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

It is true that its origins are buried in the mists of time: there are no records of any emperor who was not said to have been a descendant of other, yet earlier emperors.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

John Day argues that the origins of biblical Yahweh, El, Asherah, and Ba ' al, may be rooted in earlier Canaanite religion, which was centered on a pantheon of gods much like the Greek Pantheon.

It is likely that this conception of Clann Ruadrí's origins predates Máel Snechtai and was prevalent in Mac Bethad's time or even earlier.

In their origins, these usages derived from pagus, " province, countryside ", cognate to Greek πάγος " rocky hill ", and, even earlier, " something stuck in the ground ", as a landmark: the Proto-Indo-European root * pag-means " fixed " and is also the source of the words page, pale ( stake ), and pole, as well as pact and peace.

From the 16th century he is commonly identified as member of the family of Paganelli di Montemagno, which belonged to the Pisan aristocracy, but this has not been proven and contradicts earlier testimonies that suggest he was a man of rather humble origins.

One such tradition is the patter song exemplified by Gilbert and Sullivan but that has origins in earlier Italian opera.

Like Ain't Love Grand, the album's sound was fairly far removed from the band's punk origins, yet featured a punchy, energetic, hard-rocking roots rock sound that in many ways represented a more natural progression from their earlier sound than the previous record had.

William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis ' allegedly barbaric and pagan origins, was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century " vita " of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.

The origins of what has come to be known as Occam's razor are traceable to the works of earlier philosophers such as John Duns Scotus ( 1265 – 1308 ), Maimonides ( Moses ben-Maimon, 1138 – 1204 ), and even Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ) ( Charlesworth 1956 ).

Norse mythology, as recorded in the Poetic Edda ( compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ) and the Prose Edda ( written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ) provide different mythical origins for the beings.

Oriental hip hop owes much of its origins to hip-hop groups that were briefly mentioned earlier: Islamic Force and Cartel.

( A more general term is " political economy ", an earlier name for " economics " that evokes its practical and theoretical origins but should not be mistaken for the Marxian use of the same term.

Impact events earlier in the history of Earth have been credited with creative as well as destructive events ; it has been proposed that impacting comets delivered the Earth's water, and some have suggested that the origins of life may have been influenced by impacting objects by bringing organic chemicals or lifeforms to the Earth's surface, a theory known as exogenesis.

) Linear B tablets have been found in abundance at Thebes, which might lead one to speculate that the legend of Cadmus as bringer of the alphabet could reflect earlier traditions about the origins of Linear B writing in Greece ( as Frederick Ahl speculated in 1967 ).

As a creation of the mid-1970s, with no constraints to be compatible with earlier operating systems, VME is in many ways more modern in its architecture than today's Unix derivatives ( Unix was designed in the 1960s ) or Microsoft Windows ( which started as an operating system for single-user computers, and still betrays those origins ).

" However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, The White Lion released in 1965, Richard Adams ' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 ( and its 1978 film adaptation ), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

Spying in Japan dates as far back as Prince Shōtoku ( 572 – 622 ), although the origins of the Ninja date much earlier.

It should also be noted that while the British pop art movement predated the American pop art movement, there were some earlier American proto-Pop origins which utilized " as found " cultural objects.

Other writings, dating back as far as the seventeenth century, state that many samurai stored rice balls wrapped in bamboo leaves as a quick lunchtime meal during war, but the origins of onigiri are much earlier even than Lady Murasaki.

Fado (, " destiny, fate ") is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins.

Other sources, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, trace the word's origins to earlier usage, originally applied in a military sense.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

Non-Aboriginal Australians have made various attempts to understand and explain the origins of the bunyip as a physical entity over the past 150 years.

The great majority of Ecuadorans trace their origins to one or more of three geographical sources of Human migrations: the pre-Hispanic indigenous Amerindians who settled the region over 15, 000 years ago, the Europeans ( principally Spaniards ) who arrived over 5 centuries ago, and ultimately the black sub-Saharan Africans whom they imported as slave labour during the same period.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

Given these origins, there have been various suggestions over the years to rename the town ( for example, to " Invernevis ").

Reading, such as reading books, magazines, comics, or newspapers, along with browsing the internet is a common hobby and one that can trace its origins back many hundreds of years.

In his work, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote about a single long conflict that lasted 27 years between Athens and Sparta with its origins and results.

Its origins can be thought to have been with the Zanclean flood of 5. 33 million years ago, described in more detail under Mediterranean basin.

( Some years later the original shed was taken to the Juneau Avenue factory where it would stand for many decades as a tribute to the Motor Company's humble origins.

* H. Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry, University of Chicago Press 1994-Discussion on the origins of modern science has been going on for more than two hundred years.

Hair has its origins in the common ancestor of mammals, the Synapsids, or possibly a subclade, the Sphenacodontoidea, about 310 million years ago.

The creed's ultimate origins are within the Jerusalem apostolic community having been formalised and passed on within a few years of the resurrection.

The oldest fossil " proto-frog " appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago.

Benetton Group has sponsored the Treviso rugby, basketball and volleyball teams for many years, underlining close links with its origins and its city, through a vision of sport that is both competitive and social.

This heavyweight of Irish origins and army boxing champion from 1934 to 1937 was sentenced in 1938 by a military court to 14 years of forced labour after hitting an officer.

The most recent theory into the origins of hippopotamidae suggests that hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off from other artiodactyls around 60 million years ago.

A recent study places the origins of the canyon beginning some 17 million years ago.

Their characteristics are believed to reflect the island's origins as a part of Gondwanaland and its many millions of years of isolation following the breakup of the landmass.

Over the past two thousand years the island has received waves of settlers of diverse origins including Austronesian, Bantu, Arab, South Asian, Chinese and European populations.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.

For many years after its discovery the evolutionary origins of Triceratops remained largely obscure.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific ( USP ) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan.

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.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.