However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Moreover, he believed that most professional historians lacked some of the essential instruments for a proper study of history.

Hundreds of other organizations exist in the various sub-fields of anthropology, sometimes divided up by nation or region, and many anthropologists work with collaborators in other disciplines, such as geology, physics, zoology, paleontology, anatomy, music theory, art history, sociology and so on, belonging to professional societies in those disciplines as well.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

Red Sox history has also been marked by the team's intense rivalry with the New York Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

For much of history and in many cultures, enlisting professional teachers ( whether as tutors or in a formal academic setting ) was an option available only to a small elite.

The Colts faced the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game in what is considered to be among the greatest contests in professional football history.

Before placement of an IUD, a medical history and physical examination by a medical professional is useful to check for any contraindications or concerns.

* 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.

The lateral pass rule, or rather the lack of restrictions contained therein, has given rise to some of the most memorable and incredible plays in professional football history.

A third of the respondents believed disclosing their sexual history would result in a negative reaction, and 30 % had received a negative reaction from a medical professional after identifying themselves as lesbian or bisexual.

For most of their early history, the Dolphins were coached by Don Shula, the most successful head coach in professional football history in terms of total games won.

The seventh game of the 1991 World Series is widely regarded as one of the greatest games in the history of professional baseball.

These were the first two World Series in professional baseball history in which a team won the championship by winning all four home games.

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

The age of the team and its history of adversity have earned it the dubious distinction of having lost the most games of any team in the history of American professional sports.

After a run of regular-season success in the early 1990s ( making the NLCS three straight years ), the Pirates have struggled in recent decades, with 20 consecutive losing seasons to date, the longest in North American professional sports history.

For most of its history, women and men would rarely compete against each other in professional wrestling, as it was deemed to be unfair and unchivalrous.

County judges, commissioners, engineers, assessors, and others who have lived in the area for a long time may have valuable knowledge regarding the site or opinions to offer from their varied professional experiences.

He may or may not be `` better off '' than his classmate who went on to a college and professional school.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Architects in Canada who have made outstanding contributions to the profession through contribution to research, scholarship, public service or professional standing to the good of architecture in Canada, or elsewhere, may be recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and can write FRAIC after their name.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

* Sometimes professional athletes may choose to have a non-essential digit amputated to relieve chronic pain and impaired performance.

Outside the professional leagues, such as in high school or college baseball, the manager may simply request to the plate umpire to let the batter go to first instead of having the pitcher waste four outside pitches.

But the term programmer may apply to a range of program quality, from hacker to open source contributor to professional.

Chemists may belong to professional societies that specialize in chemist members, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, or the American Chemical Society ( ACS ) in the United States.

Some of those members may join a professional society, making a more defined and formalized group.

Trained athletes or young healthy individuals may also have a slow resting heart rate ( e. g. professional cyclist Miguel Indurain had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute ).

Some professional exegetes consider the Bible, to a greater or lesser degree, to be a document of its time, taking on attitudes which may not be God's.

Some professional dominatrices are also " lifestyle " dominatrices-i. e., in addition to paid sessions with submissive clients they engage in unpaid recreational sessions or may incorporate power exchange within their own private lives and relationships.

Practicing professional dominatrices may draw their attire from the conventional signifiers of the role, or adapt them to create their own individual style, where there exists a potential pull — between meeting conventional expectations, and a desire for dominant independent self-expression.

In the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, most professional orchestral players use four-string double basses with a C extension, which extends the lowest string down as far as low C, an octave below the lowest note on the cello ( more rarely, this string may be tuned to a low B ).

Doctorates may be research doctorates or professional doctorates.

The recognition process can be done by the employer or employee and may be part of the official bureaucracy for confirming professional status and is dependent on individual bilateral agreements between Germany and other countries.

An expert witness, professional witness or judicial expert is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have expertise and specialised knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially and legally rely upon the witness's specialized ( scientific, technical or other ) opinion about an evidence or fact issue within the scope of his expertise, referred to as the expert opinion, as an assistance to the fact-finder.

In professional hands this may extend from B0 to as high as B5.

The first forward pass in a professional football game may have been thrown in an Ohio League game played on October 25, 1906.

In e. g. criminal and family-related proceedings in local courts, the panel of judges may include both lay judges and professional judges, while all appeals courts and administrative courts consist only of professional judges.

Gardening may be performed at a professional level, a hobby, or for therapeutic reasons.

They may work for companies that provide software or produce materials of use to hobbyist and other professional genealogists.