Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

The great Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides ( Ramban 1195-1270 ), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted in Job's saying " God does all these things twice or three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit to ... the light of the living ' ( Job 33: 29, 30 ).

Joab avenged David by fatally striking and killing Absalom, by the use of three spears, followed by a group of swordsmen, an act that caused David great sorrow.

But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

His three complete operas written during this time show the development of his compositional skills, but included no great success, either commercially, or artistically.

There, the three of them secretly healed him in a great chamber.

river he was faced by Pompey with an army at least three times as great.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

The Ravens have experienced great success in their brief history, making the playoffs eight times since 2000, and winning the AFC North three times ( 2003, 2006, and 2011 ).

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

These three epistles are considered to be " the three great doctrinal books of the New Testament ," and Habakkuk's statement concerning faith forms the backbone of each book.

The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

Canal building progressed steadily in Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries with three great rivers, the Elbe, Oder and Weser being linked by canals.

Revelation divides the great tribulation into three sets of increasingly catastrophic judgments: the Seven Seals, the Seven Trumpets, and the Seven Bowls, in that order.

The demand for tickets was so great that all 81 home games were sold out before Opening Day on at least three separate occasions.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

The various mathematical processes can be simplified by carrying the results to only two or three decimal places.

Ask any group of ballerinas to do ten push-ups or three chin-ups and the results, considering the amount of physical training they have had, will be very disappointing.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

No generalization of these results to spaces of more than three dimensions has so far been found possible.

Interesting evidence can be found in the results of the Chamber of Commerce elections, which took place three weeks before national elections.

The much stronger axiom of determinacy, or AD, implies that every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable, has the property of Baire, and has the perfect set property ( all three of these results are refuted by AC itself ).

After a player places a tile, and the results of that placement have been handled, he may purchase up to three shares of stock.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

Food is consumed and transferred to points ( an increasing scale of 1000 points is awarded for each enemy burst in tandem with another meaning: one enemy burst equals one food item worth 1000 points, two enemies burst equals two food items worth 1000 and 2000 points, three enemies burst equals three food items worth 1000, 2000, and 4000 points, and so on ) which results in more lives.

Gardner and Conan Doyle, perhaps rather optimistically, interpreted the results of the three expert evaluations as two in favour of the photographs ' authenticity and one against.

A 1998 case study found that users would consult the help menu for an average of two or three screens, abandoning the assistance if desired results weren ’ t found by that time.

However, the differences in the rules between the Hebrew and Gregorian cycles results in Passover falling about a month after Easter in three years of the 19-year cycle.

Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).

In May 2008, three groups reported positive results using gene therapy to treat Leber's Congenital Amaurosis ( LCA ), a rare inherited retinal degenerative disorder that causes blindness in children.

At any time taking more than three steps is considered travelling and results in a turnover.

The results of these three experiments provided evidence that DNA was the biomolecule that carried genetic information.

He captained the One Day International team to 99 wins out of 138 matches with one tied match and three no results.

She holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

The results showed that, unlike wolf-dog hybrids, jackal-dog hybrids show a decrease in fertility, significant communication problems, and an increase of genetic disorders after three generations of interbreeding, much like coydogs.

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.

There are three general manifestations of such trauma-the typical knock out which results in a sustained loss of consciousness ( comparable to general anesthesia-where the recipient emerges and has lost memory of the event ), a " flash " knock out where a very transient ( less than three seconds ) loss of consciousness occurs ( where the recipient often maintains awareness and memory of the combat ), and lastly a " stunning " where consciousness is maintained despite extremely distorted proprioception, visual fields, and auditory processing.