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was and mistake
This time he was making no mistake.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.
A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.
With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
Similar to the AMD K5, the Cyrix 6x86 was a design far more focused on integer per-clock performance than clock scalability, something that proved to be a strategic mistake.
And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.
The hospital admitted that the boy was circumcised by mistake ; the mother has sued the hospital and the doctor involved in the case.
New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.
Although both sides agreed that the failure to pay these royalties was an accounting mistake, they were upset that Biafra failed to inform the band of the mistake after he and his co-workers discovered it.
Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.
Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.
The mistake was picked up and repeated by numerous other media sources, and the moniker " D. B. Cooper " became lodged in the public's collective memory.
Thomas, realizing that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school ( something he later claimed was a mistake ), became a student at Coconut Creek High School.
Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on 19 September stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming.
The study defined ' true ' extreme sports as a leisure or recreation activity where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged accident or mistake was death.
By mistake, the year of his birth was given as 1848, not the correct 1845.

was and Egyptology
This work was one of the earliest works on Egyptology.
Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.
During the First World War, the Egyptology department was out of action and so Murray turned her attention to another subject, the history of witchcraft in Europe.
She was consequently named Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University College of London in 1924, a post she held until her retirement in 1935.
French Orientalist painting was transformed by Napoleon's ultimately unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798-1801, which stimulated great public interest in Egyptology, and was also recorded in subsequent years by Napoleon's court painters, especially Baron Gros, although the Middle Eastern campaign was not one on which he accompanied the army.
During the Christmas holidays of 1873, Evans cataloged a coin collection being bequeathed to Harrow by John Gardner Wilkinson, the father of British Egyptology, who was too ill to work on it himself.
His interest in Egyptology was originally inspired by Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns 1798 – 1801.
Champollion was subsequently made Professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France.
He went on to publish the illustrated Pyramidographia in 1646, while the Jesuit scientist-priest Athanasius Kircher was perhaps the first to hint at the phonetic importance of Egyptian hieroglyphs, demonstrating Coptic as a vestige of early Egyptian, for which he is considered a " founder " of Egyptology.
The Stone's decipherment was a very important development of Egyptology.
Egyptology was established as an academic discipline through the research of Emmanuel de Rougé in France, Samuel Birch in England, and Heinrich Brugsch in Germany.
According to the UCLA the standard text that scholars referenced for studies of Egyptology was for three decades or more, the Lexicon der Ägyptologie.
In 1923 Petrie was knighted for services to British archaeology and Egyptology.
" By linking styles of pottery with periods, he was the first to use seriation in Egyptology, a new method for establishing the chronology of a site.
Despite conflicting evidence and viewpoints over the years, the traditional view held by modern Egyptology at large remains that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC by the pharaoh Khafra, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza.
It was only in 1995, after doing substantial clearing in the outer chambers of the tomb, that they were stunned to discover the long corridors, lined with rooms ( approximately seventy in all: bear in mind that Ramesses sired at least that many sons ), running back into the hillside ; a discovery which amazed the world and reignited popular interest in Egyptology.
He noted that they included those " who openly admitted to not having read a word written by a trained Egyptologist " but who at the same time " were pronouncing how academic Egyptology was all wrong, even sinister.
Their fourth album, Egyptology ( 1997 ), written following the death of Wallinger's mother, was commercially disastrous, although " She's the One " won an Ivor Novello Award and was subsequently recorded by Robbie Williams.
W. Ward Gasque conducted a world-wide poll of twenty Egyptologists-including Professor Kenneth Kitchen of the University of Liverpool and Ron Leprohan, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Toronto-in Canada, US, UK, Australia, Germany, and Austria to verify if there was any academic support for these claims.
Evelyn later marries Walter, and Amelia marries Radcliffe, accepting his proposal by teasing that it was the only way that she could engage in Egyptology without causing a scandal.
Born in Paris, Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, when he read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne.
His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987., he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology.

was and yet
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
There was one object which sickened yet fascinated me.
Even yet there was no realization in his eyes.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.
Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
Meanwhile I myself was not yet saved.
yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.
He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
childishness compared to her grown-up understanding that life was a punishment for as yet undisclosed sins.
With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.
But that sermon, like those of hundreds of other ministers, was yet to be delivered.
He was no flaming liberal, yet the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the New Frontier needed him.

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