Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.

An exhaustive survey was made of the literature, and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

In the Notre Dame report, reference was made to the fact that faculty members were reduced to `` luncheon-table communication ''.

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family.

Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.

The origin of the name, ratified by the American Chemical Society, is in reference to the nuclear-physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, of the University of California, who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator.

The first reliable scholarly reference to rockets in China occurs in the Ko Chieh Ching Yuan ( The Mirror of Research ), which states that in 998 AD a man named Tang Fu invented a rocket of a new kind having an iron head.

In Life, the Universe and Everything Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time ( or CamTim as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to CAMRA ) which tries to preserve events as they happened before time travelling was invented.

This is regarded as unhistorical by modern scholars, perhaps invented by the comic poets or originating from a misreading of a first-person reference in a non-biographical poem.

That aspect of the play has overshadowed Hochhuth's conceit, that the play would contribute to a debate on the ethics of the area bombing of civilian areas by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, with particular reference to Operation Gomorrah, the Royal Air Force raids on Hamburg in 1943, and culminating in a lengthy and invented debate between Winston Churchill and the pacifist George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.

The legends include tales that it was invented in Europe to celebrate the defeat of the Umayyad forces at the Battle of Tours by the Franks in 732, with the shape representing the Islamic crescent ; that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Ottomans by Christian forces in the siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Ottoman flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm ; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Buda in 1686.

A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song " Fifteen men on the dead man's chest ", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island ( 1883 ).

The technique was invented by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series Out of the Inkwell starting around 1915, with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film reference for the character Koko the Clown.

Gandalf's name is Northern Mannish ( one of Tolkien's invented languages, similar to North Germanic languages ) for " Elf of the Wand ", a reference to the staff he carries.

He invented the exercise known as the hack squat, whose name is a reference to his own.

In a letter to Wilbur Wright on 3 July 1901, Chanute made a single reference to Whitehead, saying: " I have a letter from Carl E. Myers, the balloon maker, stating that a Mr. Whitehead has invented a light weight motor, and has engaged to build for Mr. Arnot of Elmira ' a motor of 10 I. H. P ....'"

However, due to the absence of an overall onscreen title for the four-episode storyline, reference works have used various titles, some originating from the BBC Production Office and others seemingly invented by fans.

Mr " Everything Comes From India "-A man who insists that just about everything comes from India or was invented by Indians ( often to the chagrin of his better knowledged son ), including William Shakespeare, Cliff Richard ( who was actually born in India and is of Indian descent ), Leonardo da Vinci, most English words: ( veranda, shampoo, conditioner ), the British Royal Family ( all except Prince Charles, whom he claims to be African, due to the size of his ears ), Superman ( who is apparently Indian as he has two jobs, a bad haircut and, in a reference to Indian railways, can run faster than a train ) and the number zero ( which is a widely attributed discovery in Indian culture ).

The name is a reference to a band member's pet rat, which in turn was named for the Fresnel rhomb, which is a prism-like device invented by the 19th Century French engineer, Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

As well as the more scientific defensible method of compiling occurrences, he also invented a new method of presentation, which showed the surrounding sentence rather than just the verse reference, this provided the literary context and so made the concordance significantly easier to handle, as the reader did not have to constantly flip back to the Bible only to find the reference was an irrelevant match.

The Tenth Doctor makes an oblique reference to the Eye's creation in the episode " The Satan Pit " when he says: " My people practically invented black holes.

No reference is made to which information is taken directly from the works of Frank Herbert himself, and which has been invented.

Who popularized or even invented the term Concept art in reference to preproduction design is perhaps ambiguous, but it may have come about as part of automotive design for concept cars or as part of the animation industry.

Apart from some scattered reference in ancient and medieval records, resting on slender evidence and in need of interpretation, the earliest clearly verifiable human flight took place in Paris in 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d ' Arlandes went in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers.

The gimbals were controlled by gyroscopic inertial reference ; this type of guidance system was invented by Robert Goddard, who had partial success with it before World War II intervened.

The choice of name was originally a reference to a sockpuppet character invented by Tim Murphy of New York, on an old CNN community called Peace in Northern Ireland.