The most peculiar feature of the Minoan belief for the divine, is the appearance of the goddess from above in the dance.

When Hari inquires about that the peculiar Mycogenian ways might be the product of religious belief, Raindrop Forty-three is offended and says that the Mycogenians have something better: History.

Their use was strictly limited because of the very bad roads and because of the widespread belief, peculiar to Brown County, that cars were both autonomous and maleficent.

Although he initially believed that mastering the larger forms was the hallmark of a great composer ( a belief his early mentors reinforced ), the smaller scale of the art song proved to provide an ideal creative outlet for his musical expression and came to be regarded as the genre best suited to his peculiar genius.

This is a skill peculiar to chaos magicians, requiring a deep understanding of the nature of memory and belief and is also the proposed mechanism through which all magic works.

In rural areas folklore often claimed this condition was not just peculiar to cattle, but extended also to human twins ; this belief perpetuated for generations, as was mentioned in the writings of Bede.

Most of his observations on wildlife remain pertinent, although he did have some strange theories ; most notorious is his belief that not all swallows, martins and swifts migrated, but that some might hibernate instead, although he mocked the peculiar Swedish notion that swallows spent the winter beneath the surface of the local ponds.

Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical — not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.

Gods are everywhere on the Discworld, a crucial element of the world's peculiar ecology that gives power to belief and demands resolution to any and all narratives.

These terms may mean " magpie killer ", due to their use for luring carnivorous birds to hunters – but perhaps more likely " killer magpie ", considering that the bird was believed to be a peculiar sort of magpie by Johann Leonhard Frisch and others, and that another vernacular English name was " murdering pie ".

Suggested identities include a modern-day Rhamphorhynchus ( pterosaurs lived in the area of Africa where Kongamato has been sighted ), a misidentified bird ( such as the very large and peculiar Saddle-billed Stork ), or a giant bat.

In 1760, Mathurin Jacques Brisson had established the genus Scopus for the hammerkop, a peculiar African bird.

Of the myriad artifacts displayed within the museum, the most peculiar were a reconstructed panther skeleton, a collection of grapefruit-sized turquoise malachite eggs, fossilized elephant bird eggs, unexploded military mortar shells, an elephant skull with jaw-bone, dried elephant dung balls, a stuffed dingo, and various human skulls from the Ganges river.

This is a short-tailed robust bird with a long hook-tipped bill ; like other tityras it has a peculiar vestigial ninth primary feather.

Nothing testifies more clearly to that cleavage than the peculiar editorial page appearing in a July issue of Life Magazine, the issue which also carried the second announcement of the candidacy.

The reflection of radiation originating from the anode holder and reflected back to it by the surrounding metal surfaces should also be small because of the peculiar characteristic of the metal surfaces and of the specific geometry.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.

The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works ( 1838 ).

#" A reading altogether peculiar to one or another ancient document is suspicious ; as also is any, even if supported by a class of documents, which seems to evince that it has originated in the revision of a learned man.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

Moore is also remembered for drawing attention to the peculiar inconsistency involved in uttering a sentence such as " It is raining but I do not believe it is raining "-- a puzzle which is now commonly called " Moore's paradox.

The diminutive subspecies dacotiae, the sarnicolo of the eastern Canary Islands is peculiar for nesting occasionally in the dried fronds below the top of palm trees, apparently coexisting rather peacefully with small songbirds which also make their home there.

Philo, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher also exonerates Noah by noting that one can drink in two different manners: ( 1 ) to drink wine in excess, a peculiar sin to the vicious evil man or ( 2 ) to partake of wine as the wise man, Noah being the latter.

Bukharin himself speaks of his " peculiar duality of mind " in his last plea, which led to " semi-paralysis of the will " and Hegelian " unhappy consciousness ", which likely stemmed not only from his knowledge of the ruinous reality of Stalinism ( although he could not of course say so in the trial ) but also of the impending threat of fascism.

While refraction allows for phenomena such as rainbows, it may also produce peculiar optical phenomena, such as mirages and Fata Morgana.

There are also peculiar deities that are unique to Veddas.

* The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

Nanowires also show other peculiar electrical properties due to their size.

The Boulevard Périphérique also retains some peculiar differences:

The Bakweri also used a drum language to convey news from clan to clan, and they also utilized a horn language peculiar to them.

Some Cornish Rexes also have a mild cheesy smell peculiar to the breed ; this odor comes from scent glands in the paws.

But besides these sources, which are useful also for the biographies of the other emperors, some peculiar sources are available that allow to know in some detail Majorian's life, both before and after his rise to the throne.

" His poems however can also seem difficult and even peculiar.

The game is derived from Piquet, possibly via Marriage ( Sixty-six ) and Briscan, with additional scoring features, notably the peculiar liaison of the Q and J that is also a feature of Pinochle, Binokel, and similarly named games that vary by country.

Astronauts are also affected by this region which is said to be the cause of peculiar ' shooting stars ' ( phosphenes ) seen in the visual field of astronauts.

Clinton Rossiter, a scholar, described this view as summing " that God, at the proper stage in the march of history, called forth certain hardy souls from the old and privilege-ridden nations ... and that in bestowing His grace He also bestowed a peculiar responsibility ".

The Barbary Falcon has a peculiar way of flying, beating only the outer part of its wings like fulmars sometimes do ; this also occurs in the Peregrine, but less often and far less pronounced.

As this source of this iron is extremely rare and fortuitous, little development of smithing skills peculiar to iron can be assumed to have occurred.

In his autobiography given to the Nobel Prize Committee, he recalled, " The first stirrings of interest in science that I remember occurred during a moment of boredom at religious school, when, looking out of the window at twilight through a hand curled to simulate a telescope, I noticed something peculiar about the light ; it was the phenomenon of diffraction.

A key event had already occurred in 1857 when Richard Owen presented ( to the Linnean Society ) his view that man was marked off from all other mammals by possessing features of the brain peculiar to the genus Homo.