Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as dinosaurs ; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra ; and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats or " ABCs " ( an initialism commonly used by cryptozoologists that stands for Alien Big Cats ).

Criminal contempt includes anything that could be called a disturbance such as repeatedly talking out of turn, bringing forth previously banned evidence, or harassment of any other party in the courtroom.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

That the place was populous already is borne out by archeological evidence, which includes 23 graves and six horse burials from the sixth and seventh centuries.

Internal evidence for this includes the use of words like “ malign ” ( 2: 12 ; 3: 16 ), and “ reviled ” ( 4: 14 ).

Apart from the similarity of the names, evidence includes the transmission of grip laths for composite bows from Central Asia to the west and the similarity of Xiongnu and Hunnic cauldrons, which were buried on river banks both in Hungary and in the Ordos.

Their evidence includes 14 sightings of the birds and 300 recordings of sounds that can be attributed to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, but also includes tell-tale foraging signs and appropriately sized tree nest cavities ( Hill et al., 2006 ).

This includes the prima facie evidence.

* British Prime Minister Blair tells the House of Commons they will be given incontrovertible evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement, which includes direct ties with three of the hijackers over the past year, though some evidence will remain concealed.

The evidence includes failure of crops in China, as well as evidence from tree rings.

Other evidence includes, for example, an 8th century combination of iconography and inscriptions discovered at Kuntillet Ajrud in the northern Sinai desert where a storage jar shows three anthropomorphic figures and an inscription that refers to " Yahweh … and his asherah ".

Further evidence includes the many female figurines unearthed in ancient Israel, supporting the view that Asherah functioned as a goddess and consort of Yahweh and was worshiped as the Queen of Heaven.

Additional evidence against this hypothesis includes the fact that Mediaevalis is likely too young to have produced the Black Death due to its recent divergence from Orientalis.

Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands ( particularly when curved ) such as a " beaver tail ", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow-or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front flank precipitation core from the wall cloud.

This argument is supported by evidence that includes overall more feminine white matter and neuron patterns observed in male-to-female transsexual participants and overall longer instances of the androgen receptor gene.

The limited evidence for Offa's direct involvement in the kingdom between 765 and 776 includes two charters of 774 in which he grants land in Kent ; but there are doubts about their authenticity, so Offa's intervention in Kent prior to 776 may have been limited to the years 764 – 765.

The modern evidence for this specificity ( sometimes called modularity ) includes direct recording from single neurons, case studies of patients with brain damage or disease, recording of electrical or magnetic activity in the brain through advanced scanning techniques, and even direct manipulation of brain activity.

Supporting evidence includes: the identical direction of the Earth's spin and the Moon's orbit, Moon samples that indicate the surface of the Moon was once molten, the Moon's relatively small iron core, lower density compared to the Earth, evidence of similar collisions in other star systems ( that result in debris disks ), and that giant collisions are consistent with the leading theories of the formation of the solar system.

Archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements.

The date of 4000 BCE is based on evidence that includes the appearance of dental pathologies associated with bitting, changes in butchering practices, changes in human economies and settlement patterns, the depiction of horses as symbols of power in artifacts, and the appearance of horse bones in human graves.

) there is no evidence that he ever bore the name Octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.

Seddon claims that arguments for economy of scale are a mix of a ) the plausibly obvious and b ) a little hard data, brought together to produce two broad assertions, for which there is little hard factual evidence.

One obvious way to resolve the Fermi paradox would be to find conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The most obvious evidence of mining to the casual visitor to Dartmoor are the remains of the old engine-house at Wheal Betsy which is alongside the A386 road between Tavistock and Okehampton.

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

Other obvious possible fuel sources include driftwood and animal dung, but there's evidence that dried seaweed may have been a significant source.

In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U. S. 579, 644 ( 1952 ), Justice Robert H. Jackson's concurring opinion cites the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers ' intent to constrain executive power even during wartime: " hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history.

Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen constantly suspected Clark Kent of being Superman, yet when obvious evidence was right in their faces — such as times when Clark was missing his glasses — they never saw the resemblance.

Due to this being an emotionally charged time, it is not unusual for mood swings to be passed off as hormonal or teenage ups and downs and for a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder to be missed until there is evidence of an obvious manic / hypomanic phase.

The discovery of a faint spiral structure in the Large Magellanic Cloud led de Vaucouleurs to further divide the irregular galaxies into those that, like the LMC, show some evidence for spiral structure ( these are given the symbol Sm ) and those that have no obvious structure, such as the Small Magellanic Cloud ( denoted Im ).

By 500 BC most contemporary Greek philosophers considered the Earth to be spherical — there was obvious evidence for this from the behavior of objects near the horizon.

The management thinker and inventor of The Vanguard Method, Professor John Seddon claims that shared service projects based on attempts to achieve ' economies of scale ' are a mix of a ) the plausibly obvious and b ) a little hard data, brought together to produce two broad assertions, for which there is little hard factual evidence ..

* Type II, formerly known as causalgia, has evidence of obvious nerve damage.

With obvious humorous overtones, they claimed a prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of people to accept theories " on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses.

A somewhat less obvious application of this rule is that admitting the use of deadly force in an attempt to disable rather than kill the assailant can be construed as evidence that the defendant wasn't yet in enough danger to justify lethal force in the first place.

Another exception is when evidence is in plain view — if the officer is legitimately on the premises, his observation is from a legitimate vantage point, and it is immediately obvious that the evidence is contraband ( for example, a cannabis cigarette on the front seat of a car while the officer has pulled the suspect over for a seat belt violation ), the officer is within his right to seize the object in question.

On 7 November 2010: Lord Taverne asked at question time in the House of Lords: " If the Government believes in evidence-based policy, is it not obvious in light of this Nutt's report and many other reports that make similar conclusions that the present classification of Ecstasy in class A and cannabis in class B is not in any way based on evidence of the physical or the social impact?

Although the most obvious physical remains of the Silures are hillforts such as those at Llanmelin and Sudbrook, there is also archaeological evidence of roundhouses at Gwehelog, Thornwell ( Chepstow ) and elsewhere, and evidence of lowland occupation notably at Goldcliff.

They also note that such a putative connection encounters an obvious problem of explaining " many centuries intervening between the Xianbei and Sibo, during which there is virtually no evidence of a ' Sibo ' people ".

There is however no published evidence, nor any obvious reason, to believe that this is other than a ( possibly quite fine ) form of Pinot blanc, having simply arisen as a selected natural mutation of the original Pinot noir in the Gouges ' vineyard.

following was written by obvious critics of Johnson, but is retained rather than deleted, or added to at great length, as evidence of the kinds of attacks that were launched by the journalist and others 60 some years after the master's thesis.

Historical documents show that, disregarding evidence to the contrary, he and his advisers believed that a revival of the Imperial House's and of the nobility's fortunes was possible, and that the Kamakura's shogunate was the greatest and most obvious of the obstacles.

The obvious defects of this theory, ( 1 ) that the senses alone cannot apprehend matter itself, ( 2 ) that it is not clear how the multiplicity of phenomena could result from these two forces, thought it is no less convincing than Aristotles hot / cold, dry / wet explanation, and ( 3 ) that he adduced no evidence to substantiate the existence of these two forces, were pointed out at the time by his pupil, Patrizzi.