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This idea was eventually expanded into the concept of a multiverse, including such worlds as Earth-Three, which was an " opposite " world where heroes were villains and historical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life ( e. g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the " real world " and used to explain how real-life DC staffers ( such as Julius Schwartz ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth.
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`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.
To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.
Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.
The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.
He had no idea where he was.
He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.
Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.
By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.
And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.
That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.
Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.
This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.
`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.
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Nonetheless it was founded with the idea of creating a ' total ' work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together.
The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).
Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….
The idea eventually rose through the military bureaucracy and gained supporters.
Throughout the 1980s and ' 90s, Young promised fans a follow-up to the original Decade collection, provisionally titled Decade II ; eventually, this idea was scrapped in favor of a much more comprehensive anthology to be titled Archives, spanning his entire career and ranging in size from a box set to an entire series of audio and / or video releases.
Duesberg claims as support for his idea that many drug-free HIV + people have not yet developed AIDS ; HIV / AIDS scientists note that many drug-free HIV + people have developed AIDS, and that, in the absence of medical treatment or rare genetic factors postulated to delay disease progression, it is very likely that nearly all HIV + people will eventually develop AIDS.
Mothersbaugh doesn't rule out the idea of the band gathering in the studio, eventually, to record a new Devo album.
At first Newson was opposed to the radical idea of his daughter becoming a doctor but eventually came round and agreed to do all in his power, both financially and otherwise, to support Elizabeth in the long uphill battle.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler spoke enthusiastically about the " National Socialist corporative idea " as one which would eventually " take the place of ruinous class warfare ".
Although an early Owenite socialist, he eventually rejected its collective idea of property, and found in individualism a " universalism " that allowed for the development of the " original genius.
The DOB spread to Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, and The Ladder was mailed to hundreds — eventually thousands — of DOB members discussing the nature of homosexuality, sometimes challenging the idea that it was a sickness, with readers offering their own reasons why they were lesbians, and suggesting ways to cope with the condition or society's response to it.
He speculated that myths arose due to the lack of abstract nouns and neuter gender in ancient languages: anthropomorphic figures of speech, necessary in such languages, were eventually taken literally, leading to the idea that natural phenomena were conscious beings, gods.
In 1950, the idea was independently revived by Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort as a means to resolve a paradox: over the course of the Solar System's existence, the orbits of comets are unstable ; eventually, dynamics dictate that a comet must either collide with the Sun or a planet, or else be ejected from the Solar System by planetary perturbations.
The Society eventually shifted their idea from only words that were not already in English dictionaries to a more comprehensive project.
According to this interpretation, the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics is not a temporary feature which will eventually be replaced by a deterministic theory, but instead must be considered a final renunciation of the classical idea of " causality ".
Sega eventually chose to shelve the idea and instead release the Sega Nomad, a handheld version of the Mega Drive ( Genesis ), as the successor.
The idea of the two halves, the East and the West, re-emerged and eventually resulted in the permanent de facto division into two separate Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I ( though it is important to remember that the Empire was never formally divided, Emperors of East and West legally ruling as one imperial college until the fall of Rome's western empire left Byzantium, the " second Rome ", sole direct heir ).
( Stein's idea was eventually dramatized in the miniseries Amerika, also broadcast by ABC.
The idea of an ansible is known but none yet exists-Shevek's new physics may be-in fact, eventually is-the key.
However, Kekkonen began to see Karjalainen as a rival instead, and eventually rejected the idea.
I did some research ( I had no idea ), and I eventually found ... the strip " Back to Pinhead, the Punks and the Monks " from Yow # 2 in 1979 ... That's the first time he said, " Are we having fun yet?
Two innovations were added: 1 ) adoption was meant to ensure the " best interests of the child ;" the seeds of this idea can be traced to the first American adoption law in Massachusetts, and 2 ) adoption became infused with secrecy, eventually resulting in the sealing of adoption and original birth records by 1945.
England's magnates favoured the idea of installing Harold Harefoot temporarily as regent or joint monarch, due to the difficulty of Harthacnut's absence, and despite the opposition of Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, and the Queen, he eventually wore the crown.
That idea eventually morphed into this parlor game, wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and veteran Hollywood character actor Kevin Bacon.
Various attempts were made to substantiate the " abstract idea " test, which suffers from abstractness itself, but eventually none of them was successful.
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