In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

One of Joan's " miracles " is legendarily recorded here: the wind which had brought the boats upriver, upon loading, suddenly reversed itself, allowing them to sail back to Orleans smoothly under the cover of darkness.

He is also legendarily an ancestor of Romulus, Remus and the Gens Julia.

" Aemeth " or " Emeth " is Hebrew for " truth "; the same word was written on the forehead of a Golem in Jewish folklore by magicians who legendarily animated these beings.

Another example is the legendarily high deaf population of Martha's Vineyard, which resulted in the development of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.

Historically, there is no physical evidence for the existence of this " katana like sword legendarily used by ninja ", though it is believed that they are based on the design of the wakizashi or chokutō type swords.

It is in this way that Yukinaga legendarily wrote the script of the Tale of the Heike, and taught it to a mosobiwa from eastern Japan, named Shobutsu, renowned for his impressive narrative delivery and extensive knowledge of warriors, bows, and horses.

Chronologically assigned to the 8th century, the historically poorly attested battle of Bråvalla ( in a location legendarily between West and East Gothenland ) was fought between the " king of Sweden " who is said to have ruled Westrogothians, and the " king of Denmark " whose realm is said to have included Ostrogothians.

DeLong also has expressed that the new way is likely to endure “ because it's a better business ecology than the legendarily lugubrious model refined at Xerox Parc — a more productive set of processes for rapidly developing and commercializing new technologies ”.

Buried in the church yard is the body of the French aristocrat, Adolphe, Vicomte du Barry, a nephew-by-marriage and close personal friend of Madame du Barry, Louis XV's legendarily beautiful mistress.

A few metres to the north of the madonna monument, there is an entrance to a large cistern ( called the Olla del Panecillo ), which was legendarily said to be of Inca origin ; however, recent tests showed it dated from after the Spanish arrived.

The presence of Mount Ida ( Crete ), which is a sacred mountain because it was legendarily the childhood home of Zeus, made the area attractive to early settlers.

Fraser Sr., as he is sometimes known, was a legendarily effective officer in the RCMP and often appears to his son as a ghost throughout the series to offer help and advice.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The latter is not reduced to the former.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.

Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.

For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

The essential difference between the new trans-illuminated boards and existing billboards is that the former, constructed of translucent plastic panels, are lighted from within.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

The former is intended to decrease the amount of work necessary to extend dictionary coverage.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.

No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.

This way of escape is theoretically possible, but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not, so far as I know, been urged by positivists, it is perhaps best not to spend time over it.

Unless one takes refuge in the theory -- however disguised -- that Negroes are, somehow, different from white people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusion that the Negro's status in this country is not only a cruel injustice but a grave national liability.

Especially is this true when, because the good effect is remote and speculative while the evil is certain and grave, the action is prohibited.

Make no mistake, this Gorky Studio drama is a respectable import -- aptly grave, carefully written, performed and directed.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

( The two-syllable form learnèd, usually written without the grave, is used as an adjective to mean " educated " or to refer to academic institutions in both BrE and AmE.

When Thomas Hobbes wrote that " the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof ", he was promulgating an enormously important truth.

He warns that this is open to the grave objection that it makes grace a ( quasi ) material commodity and represents an almost mechanical method of imparting what is by definition a free gift.

Canon law permits its administration to any Catholic who has reached the age of reason and is beginning to be put in danger by illness or old age, unless the person in question obstinately persists in a manifestly grave sin.

* Job 26: 6-the grave ( Sheol ) is naked before Him, and destruction ( Abaddon ) has no covering.

The murder site now has a monument erected from public money and the grave is at Davidstow churchyard.

It is still a major destination for cultural tourism, and many people visit his grave and the surrounding temples.

Together with the Gandhara grave culture and the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, it is considered by some scholars a nucleus of Vedic civilization.

Hence " entering marriage with the intention of never having children is a grave wrong and more than likely grounds for an annulment.

Thus usage of any form of contraception, in vitro fertilization, or birth control besides Natural Family Planning is a grave offense against the sanctity of marriage and ultimately against God.

Hell ( Hebrew: Sheol ; Greek: Hades, Gehenna ) is understood to refer exclusively to death and the grave, rather than being a place of everlasting torment ( see also annihilationism ).

Emma is horrified until Cloak fades into the grave and discovers there is no body inside.