Many superstitious fans attribute this collapse to an incident at Shea Stadium when a fan released a black cat onto the field, further cursing the club, although the " Amazin ' Mets " ended the season at a torrid pace, finishing with a remarkable 100 wins.

There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays ; although these collections are sometimes referred to as " cycles ," it is now believed that this term may attribute to these collections more coherence than they in fact possess.

Unlike the nomen and cognomen, an agnomen was usually not inherited unless the son also had the same attribute or did the same deeds, although some victory agnomina like Augustus (" Majestic ") and Germanicus (" the German ( Conqueror )") eventually became handed down as additional cognomina.

Some attribute this hymn to Beatus, although this is still discussed by historians.

A staff with a deer's head was also an attribute of Xiuhtecuhtli, although not exclusively so as it could also be associated with Xochiquetzal and other deities.

He was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solely to Siegel, limiting Baily to being merely the artist assigned to the feature.

The conductor recorded that the director of this theater, Theodor Löwe, required that before taking up this position he change his name of Schlesinger, which literally means Silesian, " because of its frequent occurrence in the capital of Silesia ", although other sources attribute the change to a desire to make his name sound less Jewish.

The doctors that treated the Prince at that time in fact diagnosed smallpox, although modern scholars attribute his death to appendicitis.

Arledge personally produced all ten ABC Olympic broadcasts, created the primetime Monday Night Football and coined ABC's famous " Thrill of victory, agony of defeat " tagline — although ABC insiders of that era attribute the authorship to legendary sports broadcaster Jim McKay.

Although George VI's accession allocution had already declared that his first act was to create his elder brother Duke of Windsor, and that he willed his brother to be styled His Royal Highness ( HRH ) the Duke of Windsor, Letters Patent were issued in 1937 to formalise the creation of the Dukedom, and further Letters Patent were issued in May of that year to regulate the Duke's right to the attribute of Royal Highness – although the pretext of the Letters Patent was the confirmation of the style of Royal Highness upon the Duke, its actual purpose was to restrict the title to the Duke alone, so as to exclude any future wife from sharing in it.

Richard's soliloquy from Act 3, Scene 2 was used in the film, recited by John Barrymore ( although the credits incorrectly attribute the speech to Richard III ).

This is most common for birds Some attribute this to the fact that diacritics on capital letters were not available earlier on typewriters, and it is now becoming more common to capitalize them in French and Spanish ( in both languages the rule is to preserve them, although in France, for instance, schoolchildren are often taught, yet incorrectly, that they should not add diacritics on capital letters ).

Some scholars attribute to him a Germanika, as well, although this is debated.

The ceremonial laws also serve the purpose of moral education, and are, therefore, in view of their ethical tendency, to be numbered among the moral laws ; although when compared with the doctrines of faith and the ethical laws proper, they have only a subordinate importance, as the Holy Scriptures also attribute to the sacrifices a relatively minor importance in comparison with the moral laws ( ib.

It is traditionally ascribed to Barnabas who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, although some ascribe it to another Apostolic Father of the same name, " Barnabas of Alexandria ", or simply attribute it to an unknown early Christian teacher.

On a few occasions, however, he actually exhibits genuine psychological know-how and intellect, surprising Frasier and Niles ( although Martin usually waves off these situations and thinks nothing of it ; he can, at times, attribute this to his listening to Frasier's radio show ).

Legman retells the joke, complete with its traditional vaudevillian flourishes, although he does not attribute the joke to vaudeville roots.

Other bearing designs are often better on one specific attribute, but worse in most other attributes, although fluid bearings can sometimes simultaneously outperform on carrying capacity, durability, accuracy, friction, rotation rate and sometimes cost.

* neoplasm – in such cases, the stenosis is often said to be " malignant " or " benign ", although this attribute actually refers to the neoplasm itself.

Another factor may have been that, although born in Wales, Baverstock, like most of his fellow-countrymen, did not speak Welsh-an attribute considered essential for anyone aspiring to become Controller, Wales.

This helped distinguish Zatara from the numerous Mandrake the Magician knockoffs that cluttered the comics and pulp magazines of the day, although Merlin the Magician ( Quality Comics ) also had this attribute, and it was also given to him by Zatara's creator, Fred Guardineer.

I replied that all three parties were devoted to the NHS, and that it had public support ( although I added that this was at least partly the result of the inaccurate belief that free health care for the poor is a unique attribute of the British system ).

Some attribute Trembley as being the first to study stem cells, although he obviously did not refer to them as such.

Attributes were used by a variety of other computers and consoles, including the Commodore 64, the MSX and NES, although the size of the attribute blocks and the number of colors per block varied.

It is an almost universal attribute of polyps to reproduce asexually by the method of budding.

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

" Although different people may attribute personal symbolism to the individual colours or colour combinations, " no universal symbolism should be attached to any of the colours.

Sir John Summerson wrote that " it leaves an impression of uneasily constricted bulk ", adding that " on the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century ".

They may briefly be summed up as a belief in one God whose most characteristic attribute is universal benevolence, in the moral government of the universe, and in a future state of man making up for the imperfections and repairing the inequalities of the present life.

Thomas Aquinas ' later developments specifically attribute the scope of the atonement to be universal in nature.

Sarah Morris demonstrated ( Morris 2004 ) that donkeys ' ears were a Bronze Age royal attribute, borne by King Tarkasnawa ( Greek Tarkondemos ) of Mira, on a seal inscribed in both Hittite cuneiform and Luwian hieroglyphs: in this connection, the myth would appear for Greeks, to justify the exotic attribute.

The etymology of " Britain " is so convincing that many authors use the P-form, going so far as to quote the Greek or Latin with P -, even though it is predominantly B -; they attribute the B-to replacement by the Romans in the time of Julius Caesar.

As we have no reference to this destruction in either Persian or Greek sources, some scholars attribute the destruction to natural or accidental causes.

The cornucopia became the attribute of several Greek and Roman deities, particularly those associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance, such as personifications of Earth ( Gaia or Terra ); the nymph Maia ; and Fortuna, the goddess of luck, who had the power to grant prosperity.

This merging of identities of similar goddesses has led to considerable confusion, leading to some attributing to Bastet the title Mistress of the Sistrum ( more properly belonging to Hathor, who had become thought of as an aspect of the later emerging Isis, as had Mut ), and the Greek idea of her as a lunar goddess ( more properly an attribute of Mut ) rather than the solar deity she was.

Of particular interest is the fact that Serbian folk accounts describe him as being lame ; lameness was a standing attribute of Greek Hephaestus, whom, as we have seen, the Hypatian Codex compared with Slavic smith-god Svarog, father of Dažbog.

The term appears to be linked to the attribute " might ", from the Greek root " δύναμις " in Ephesians 1: 21, which is also translated as " Virtue ".

Art historian Brunilde Ridgway suggests in her 1977 The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture that this may have been an attribute of Apollo, athleticism or magical powers, though its iconography remains obscure.

Lefktra is a traditional Greek village of Central Greece ( Roumeli ), located in the foothill of Kithairon ( 300 meters attribute ).

Scholars attribute the actual writing of the gospels in Koine Greek to the Hellenized Christian population of Antioch, with authors such as St. Luke and others.

Listeners hear a single effect — breathy voiced vowels — and attribute it to one rather than both of the consonants, assuming the breathiness on the other syllable to be a long-distance coarticulatory effect, thus replicating the historical change in the Greek word.

A bronze hoop was one of the toys of the infant Dionysus, and hoop driving is an attribute of Ganymede, often depicted on Greek vase paintings from the fifth c. BCE.