Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

There never was a season before, but now they want to thin 'em out on account of the drouth ''.

The southern half, however, on account of its underbracing, was considered by boat owners a menace to navigation.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

Since P was never asserted as the only sufficient condition for Q, other factors could account for Q ( while P was false ).

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

The other account is found in Deuteronomy 10: 6, where Moses is reported as saying that Aaron died at Moserah and was buried there.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

Still, the Bohr model's use of quantized angular momenta and therefore quantized energy levels was a significant step towards the understanding of electrons in atoms, and also a significant step towards the development of quantum mechanics in suggesting that quantized restraints must account for all discontinuous energy levels and spectra in atoms.

Using this physical explanation of electromagnetic motion, Ampère developed a physical account of electromagnetic phenomena that was both empirically demonstrable and mathematically predictive.

It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

Economic anthropology as influenced by Karl Polanyi and practiced by Marshall Sahlins and George Dalton challenged standard neoclassical economics to take account of cultural and social factors, and employed Marxian analysis into anthropological study.

Zeitlin and Maccoby challenged this account.

" The Revels account was first printed by Peter Cunningham in 1842, and, while its authenticity was once challenged, is now regarded as genuine ( as authenticated by A. E.

In 1966 scholar Anna Lydia Motto also challenged this view of Seneca, arguing that his image has been based almost entirely on Suilius's account, while many others who might have lauded him have been lost.

On account of this, Willemein Otten has challenged the traditional interpretation of Paschasius and Ratramnus ’ different positions as a “ controversy .”

In 1949, a paralegal named William Morrison located a man in Central Texas named Ollie Partridge Roberts ( nicknamed Brushy Bill ), who claimed to be Billy the Kid and challenged the popular account of McCarty as shot to death by Pat Garrett in 1881.

Though Frederic Cassidy challenged Dalby's claims, asserting that there is no documentary evidence that any of these African-language words had any causal link with its use in the American press, one can certainly wonder at the fact that this standard of written proof does not account for the illiteracy in which the West African speakers were kept during the period of slavery in question.

In France Condillac's doctrine, so congenial to the tone of 18th century philosophism, reigned in the schools for over fifty years, challenged only by a few who, like Maine de Biran, saw that it gave no sufficient account of volitional experience.

Other officers too had noticed his absence and when Lord George Paget of the 4th Hussars, one of the last to return after some intense, hand-to-hand fighting, encountered a " composed " Cardigan, he challenged him to account for himself.

The Party declared after its victory that it " won as New Labour and would govern as New Labour ", but Cox and Lawson challenged this view, suggesting that the party won on account of public opposition to the Conservative Party.

More recently, James Gilbert, professor of history at University of Maryland, challenged this traditional version with a more nuanced account that focused on the intellectual rivalry between Velikovsky's ally Horace Kallen and Harlow Shapley.

Mimetic desire is often challenged by feminists, such as Toril Moi, who argue that it does not account for the woman as inherently desired.

However, he died suddenly of apoplexy after leaving the king's cabinet on 16 July 1691, though this account is challenged by Voltaire, who wrote in " Le Siecle de Louis XIV " that Louvois died while taking waters in Balarue.

In more recent years, the original Piagetian object permanence account has been challenged by a series of infant studies suggesting that much younger infants do have a clear sense that objects exist even when out of sight.

Longfellow's account was later challenged by Francis Parkman in his book Montcalm and Wolfe ( 1884 ).

" At the next day's hearing, 9 / 11 Commission member James Thompson challenged Clarke with the 2002 account, and Clarke explained: " I was asked to make that case to the press.

Grange Rutan, Haig's second wife, challenged Haig's account in her 2007 book, Death of a Bebop Wife.

However, Shin's account has been challenged on the basis that it lacked support in traditional Korean and Chinese sources.

According to Beauchamp's account, he found Sharp and challenged him to a duel, but Sharp refused because he was not armed.

His account is challenged by several details in the text.

Brinkley's account of serving as a CIA sniper in Laos was challenged by the Los Angeles Times and by the book Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.

Creech challenged that result with a petition under the provisions of the Electoral Act ; supported initially by MPs Roger McClay and Winston Peters ( who had been involved in recounts in Taupo and Hunua ) but not the party hierarchy, according to Creech ’ s account in a book by Ross Meurant.

However this account has been challenged as an exaggeration: though there was certainly coolness between Stephenson and the Institution of Civil Engineers, it is more likely that the motivation behind the founding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was simply the need for a specific home for the growing number of mechanical engineers employed in the burgeoning railway and manufacturing industries.

This account is often challenged but it is " at least plausible " in the words of James Ishmael Ford.