Like the other Passeroidea families, the true finches seem to be of roughly Middle Miocene origin, around 20-10 million years ago ( Ma ).

Kenichiro Terasawa ( Kosuke Toyohara ), an author of books on psychic phenomena, believes he's discovered Godzilla's true origin.

If true, this would also support an Italian origin.

However, BBC books such as The Infinity Doctors and Unnatural History imply that the Doctor's origin is complex and that every version is somehow " true " ( such as Susan's claim in the original version of An Unearthly Child that she was born in the 49th century ).

It had great authority because of its supposed Aristotelian origin, and it was only when Proclus ' Elements were translated into Latin that Thomas Aquinas realised its true origin.

Kid tells Serge that she is aware of her true origin, and knowing that is a treasure which cannot be stolen.

::: A person manifests his true nature when surrounded by family or close friends, when in his own ambience and in his place of origin.

Any symmetry group whose elements have a common fixed point, which is true for all finite symmetry groups and also for the symmetry groups of bounded figures, can be represented as a subgroup of orthogonal group O ( n ) by choosing the origin to be a fixed point.

An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".

This volume can be considered the true origin of Katchoo, Francine and the SiP universe.

Folk etymology has attributed its origin to the words for true () and image ().

The Zohar contains a discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and " true self " to " The Light of God ," and the relationship between the " universal energy " and man.

Because these characteristics are very insignificant and show a high individual variability, most of these forms were probably not true subspecies, especially as they were often based upon zoo material of unknown origin that may have had " striking, but abnormal " morphological characteristics.

The true origin of the blancmange is obscure, but it is believed that it was a result of the Arab introduction of rice and almonds in early medieval Europe.

Doucha is nothing but an effort to prove the " true Czech folk " origin of Polka.

( This, if true, would be similar to the origin of casserole, a generic name for a set of main courses originally prepared in a dish called a casserole.

The true origin of the Mexicas is uncertain.

Precapillary sphincters are rings of smooth muscles at the origin of true capillaries that regulate blood flow into true capillaries and thus control blood flow through a tissue.

" The true origin of the name is still debatable.

Moore reconfigured Swamp Thing's origin to make him a true monster as opposed to a human transformed into a monster.

Regardless of its true origin, McCrae worked on the poem for months before considering it ready for publication.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.

Here it is no longer true that every meromorphic function can be regarded as holomorphic function with values in the Riemann sphere: There is a set of " indeterminacy " of codimension two ( in the given example this set consists of the origin ).

Wizards of the Coast explains that the " Super class " label was used to hide the ship's " true nature from the Imperial Senate "; this bureaucratic fiction became the source of the type's nickname.

" The true origins of this nickname were not revealed until three years after it was first mentioned in Season Two, when it was believed to have purely violent connotations.

Its true name is " 6th Road " ( named in 1995 when postal routes were re-defined ), but residents south of Wisner ( including the Rock Creek community, which lies directly on its route ) refer to it as " The Blacktop ", after a regional nickname for its asphalt surface.

Back in camp, Cao Cao praised Xu Chu as a true mighty warrior, whose fighting ability befitted his nickname of " Tiger Craze ".

Although the nickname might seem to imply a narrow intellectual focus, quite the reverse was true of Emil.

Because of this change of loyalties away from Labour, his many business interests and, much later, his support for the Social Democratic Party ( UK ), the ' Floorcross ' nickname in the end rang true.

Once there, she became a favorite of Queen Dymphna, earning the nickname Rosebud to protect her true name: she also caught the eye of King Obrey, who-spurred on by his jester, the manipulative Amadan-magically transformed his wife into a tree and took Maryrose as his second wife.

The sandbar shark, true to its nickname, is commonly found over muddy or sandy bottoms in shallow coastal waters such as bays, estuaries, harbors, or the mouths of rivers, but it also swims in deeper waters ( 200 m or more ) as well as intertidal zones.

Regardless of the true origin, the " Gobbler " nickname had already been popularized by 1913 when local resident and VPI employee Floyd Meade trained a large turkey to perform various stunts, including pulling him in a decorated cart before a football game.

His nickname " Pacman " is used much more often than his true first name, Adam, including by broadcasters and official Web sites connected to the NFL.

Branyan has been given the nickname 3TO, which stands for three true outcomes, by some groups of fans for his propensity to either draw a walk, strike out, or hit a home run.

It is probably true that Hitler calls Albert Forster " Bubi ", which is a common nickname employed by homosexuals in addressing their partners.

As for the account that the first Chouans imitated the cry of birds of the night to recognise and call each other, it is a supposition made by those who-not knowing the true explanation-nevertheless wanted to have some explanation to satisfy their curiosity ... Maybe some insurgents had this idea which was suggested to them by their nickname.

While it is true that the TVA is vital to back and core health, the muscle also has the effect of pulling in what would otherwise be a protruding abdomen ( hence its nickname, the “ corset muscle ”).

The Minister tells her that his true name is unpronounceable and she gives him the nickname " Snake ".

Roy is his nickname, but his true name is only pronounceable in an alien language that sounds suspiciously like reverse English-played backwards, " I'm from outer space ".

The Catholic Encyclopedia " New Advent " writes: It is true that it is easy to suppose Tertullian and Hippolytus to have misrepresented the opinions of their opponents, but it cannot be proved that Cleomenes was not a follower of the heretical Noetus, and that Sabellius did not issue from his school ; further, it is not obvious that Tertullian would attack Callistus under a nickname.

Z coined the nickname T-Top after giving up on pronouncing his true name properly.