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There is a body of evidence that suggests that the existence of the archipelago was known by early travellers ; they were first indicated on a Venetian chart attributed to the brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano dating from 1367. Although the Canary Islands had been inhabited by a primitive population ( the Guanches ), human beings had never been known to set foot in the Madeira archipelago or the Savage Islands before the Portuguese discoveries and expansion.
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There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.
It consists of fragmentary personal revelations, such as `` The Spark '': `` There is a spark dwells deep within my soul.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There and body
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
But all of them seemed to agree that, " There is some body or other that is of its own nature supremely cold and by participation of which all other bodies obtain that quality.
There is also a growing body of evidence indicating that nitric oxide is able to induce apoptosis by helping to dissipate the membrane potential of mitochondria and therefore make it more permeable.
There is almost always a primary lesion elsewhere in the body that must be sought assiduously, because failure to treat the primary lesion will result in relapse.
There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.
There is a need to propagate these methods during this age of increasing diseases of the body and mind due to over consumptions and increasing with fasting would help maintain perfection .".
There is ample literary evidence to further substantiate that " Chicano " is a self-declaration, as a large body of Chicano literature exists with publication dates far predating the 1950s.
There is also a substantial body of Chicano literature that predates both Raso and the Federal Census Bureau.
There are two side channels, the rasanā and lalanā, which start at their respective nostrils and then travel down to the lower body.
There is a relatively small body of evidence that supports the idea that REM sleep helps consolidate highly emotional declarative memories.
There are sometimes attempts to separate the governing body as a means to resolve these frustrations, but they are rarely successful.
There is a small body of works written for piano quintet with the instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
There is an extensive body of mathematical theory that explores the consequences of making the allocation of units to treatments by means of some random mechanism such as tables of random numbers, or the use of randomization devices such as playing cards or dice.
( There have also been several reported detections of planetary-mass objects that do not orbit any parent body.
There are about 1000 environmental law treaties in existence today ; no other area of law has generated such a large body of conventions on a specific topic.
There is also a large body of contemporary research and development directed toward using expert systems for human behavior modeling and decision support systems.
There are also Body Makeup Artists who concentrate their abilities on the body rather than the head.
There are many physiological changes in the body associated with fear, which can be summarized as the " fight or flight " response.
There have been claims that faith can cure blindness, deafness, cancer, AIDS, developmental disorders, anemia, arthritis, corns, defective speech, multiple sclerosis, skin rashes, total body paralysis, and various injuries.
* Submission holds: There are generally two types of submission holds: those that would potentially strangle or suffocate an opponent ( chokes ), and those that would potentially cause injury to a joint or other body part ( locks ).
There is a trend in primates to have increased eccrine sweat glands over the general surface of the body.
There is no evidence that sexual selection would proceed to such a drastic extent over a million years ago when a full, lush coat of hair would most likely indicate health and would therefore be more likely to be selected for, not against, and not all human populations today have sexual dimorphism in body hair.
There are three body types, the GRGM ( which includes a left hand model ), which is designed after the RG, the GICM, which is designed after the Iceman, and the GDTM, which is designed after the Destroyer.
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