The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

The Diatessaron is thought to have been available to Muhammad, and may have led to his faulty conclusion in the Qur ' an that the Christian Gospel is one text or one book alone, without reference to the canonical authors or New Testament corpus ; he calls this supposed text the Injil.

In reference frames that were either at rest with respect to the fixed stars or in uniform translation relative to these stars, Newton's laws of motion were supposed to hold.

Jane and Angela constantly reference sex, through Angela's descriptions of her supposed sexual encounters and the way the girls address each other.

It is often supposed that the name given for a king of Edom, Bela, son of Beor, is a corruption of Balaam, and that, therefore, this reference actually points to Balaam as having once been an Edomite king.

The supposed drug reference in the line " I'd love to turn you on " resulted in the song initially being banned from broadcast by the BBC.

The title of the Sloane Ranger handbook lists the subheading " the problem of Hampstead ", in reference to the stereotypical Sloane Ranger's supposed antipathy to the champagne socialist stereotype of the Hampstead liberal.

The year ( 1966 ) was a reference to the year of foundation, and was supposed to convey a modern image.

His account in De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas ... tells about feng shui masters ( geologi, in Latin ) studying prospective construction sites or grave sites " with reference to the head and the tail and the feet of the particular dragons which are supposed to dwell beneath that spot ".

In the United States, false medicines in this era were often denoted by the slang term snake oil, a reference to sales pitches for the false medicines that claimed exotic ingredients provided the supposed benefits.

The French expression Droit du seigneur roughly translates as " right of the lord ", but native French prefer the terms droit de jambage (" right of the leg ") or droit de cuissage (" right of the thigh "), in reference to the exercise of this supposed right.

Diodorus was probably following the history of Ephorus at this point, who in turn was presumably influenced by his teacher Isocrates — from whom there is the earliest reference to the supposed peace, in 380 BC.

Originally, Homer was supposed to blow Bart's money from his " Baby Stink Breath " commercials on a star that goes supernova, but the episode aired around the time that pop singer Michael Jackson caused controversy when he hung his son over a balcony in Germany and the reference was added at the last minute.

The title ( Leaving No Trace ) was a reference to von Luxburg's supposed order to the German U-boat captain who sank the ship.

One skeptic dubbed them " the cold fusion of microbiology ", in reference to a notorious episode of supposed erroneous science.

The name Streoneshalh is thought to signify Fort Bay or Tower Bay in reference to a supposed Roman settlement that previously existed on the site.

The title is a reference to the way the supposed traditional meal was apparently used as way to get people to eat meals in pubs.

It is not apparent whether this is an example of Ahura's existence being retconned from the Marvel Universe, or if this is meant to be a sarcastic comment in reference to Ahura's supposed confinement.

This is seen as an essential contrast with the works of Schubert ( especially with reference to the latter's supposed homosexuality ).

Although they were not concerned about plagiarism, the Nortons, fearing errors in a book that was supposed to be an expert reference guide, hired L ' Obel, an internationally recognized expert on plants ( who had as Gerard ’ s friend, unwittingly contributed to his book ) to proof the translations, fix the mismatched illustrations, and right its textual wrongs.

In a 2011 interview, Gibbard stated " The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on.

In other reference frames either at rest with respect to the fixed stars or in uniform translation relative to these stars, Newton's laws of motion were supposed to hold.

In the mean time, the occupant has acquired the popular nickname of the " King of Bling ", in reference to the rich grave goods and the supposed tastes of modern inhabitants of Essex.

The music contained within is a series of grating and poorly performed songs such as " Nothing Ever Happens on Mars " ( a reference to the town's supposed visit by a UFO ), and " Stool Boom ".

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

The most complicated vocal tracks ended up being Dukowski's " What I See ", which was supposed to have an improvised speech in the song's bridge but ended up having one written out by Dukowski when Rollins could not come up with anything that he was satisfied with, and " T. V.

Uhura was supposed to give a dramatic speech in Klingon during the film, but midway through production the element was scrapped and a scene where Uhura is speaking garbled Klingon, surrounded by books, was added for extra humor.

Without specifically naming Meyerbeer, he interpreted the popular success of the latter as the undermining of German music by alleged Jewish venality and willingness to cater to the lowest tastes, and attributed the supposed poor quality of such ' Jewish music ' to Jewish speech and song patterns, which ' though the cultured son of Jewry takes untold pains to strip them off, nevertheless they shew an impertinent obstinacy in cleaving to him '.

When the news announcer is supposed to read a news bulletin he has to hand it to a nearby ballerina because of his speech impediment, and the ballerina then alters her voice because it would be " unfair " to use her natural voice.

On his return to Britain, the Duke took his seat in the House of Lords, where, on 15 December 1788 during the Regency crisis, he opposed William Pitt's Regency Bill in a speech which was supposed to have been influenced by the Prince of Wales.

McDowell argued, against this Dummettian view and its development by such contemporaries as Crispin Wright, both that this claim did not, as Dummett supposed, represent a Wittgensteinian requirement on a theory of meaning and that it rested on a suspect asymmetry between the evidence for the expressions of mind in the speech of others and the thoughts so expressed.

After the film was completed, the speech proved to be controversial, and studio executives insisted upon its removal, because they felt it was too ambiguous as to whether it was supposed to be funny or sad.

After John Kerry's acceptance speech, there were supposed to be balloons and confetti on the ground of the convention.

Mika Luttinen stated as a reaction to this " it seems that basic freedoms such as freedom of publishing and freedom of speech, which are supposed to be supplied under the European Union, are no longer available to us.

His maiden speech, delivered on 13 November 1755, during the debate on the address, which excited Walpole's admiration, is generally supposed to have been his only effort in the House of Commons.

On account of several generations of association in the Dravidian Language area, the speech is supposed to have been strongly affected by Dravidian traits.

Thus, what's supposed to be representations of Spanish speech is written without brackets, but occasional actual English speech is written within brackets, to indicate that it is unintelligible to the main Hispanophone characters in the series.

Peri indicated that Gagliano's way of setting text to music came closer to actual speech than any other, therefore accomplishing the aim of the Florentine Camerata of decades before, who sought to recapture that ( supposed ) aspect of ancient Greek music.

The other orator during the parade was supposed to be Commander Fidel Castro, but due to security reasons, the speech was delegated to Division General Arnaldo Ochoa.

Both kinds of event follow the same format but the questions which the speech is supposed to answer are concentrated on either foreign or domestic political / economic topics.

According to columnist Wendy Kaminer, the case highlighted censorship of unpopular speech about sexuality and the " widespread biases about a supposed link between homosexuality and pedophilia " as children are more likely to be preyed upon by heterosexuals in their extended families.

The character of Shirley Ghostman is sometimes considered to be a parody of the supposed act of controversial psychic, Derek Acorah and contains actual satirical references to the television show 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry in Shirley's opening speech to the audience.

Jurel then makes a speech about how the whole reason for building the school was for the kids, and how the teachers are supposed to be there for them, which causes the other students ( including Eddie Pilikian and Lisa Hammond ) to give him an ovation while going back into the building.

Finally, Jordan himself mentioned that the Seanchan's slurring method of speech was supposed to sound like a " Texas drawl ".

There were supposed to be no political speeches at the event except for the message that Nelson Mandela should be freed – coming from Harry Belafonte in his opening speech, from the film stars and musicians introducing the acts or the next piece of music and from the slogans around the stage.

Luhrmann explains that Anton Monsted, Josh Abrahams and he were working on the remix when Monsted received an email with the supposed Vonnegut speech.

Charles Kingsley wrote an essay entitled, " Speech of Lord Dundreary in Section D, on Friday Last, On the Great Hippocampus Question ", a parody of debates about evolutionary theory in the form of a nonsensical speech supposed to have been written by Dundreary.