Very soon a " large colony of beachcombers, escaped convicts, and ship's deserters became established ashore ," identified as " chiefly bad characters ," according to the log of the Swedish frigate Eugenie.

Marine mollusk shells that are familiar to beachcombers and thus most likely to be called " seashells " are the shells of marine species of bivalves ( or clams ), gastropods ( or snails ), scaphopods ( or tusk shells ), polyplacophorans ( or chitons ), and cephalopods ( such as nautilus and spirula ).

The late nineteenth century also saw the first western conversions to Buddhism, including leading Theosophists Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky in 1880, " beachcombers " such as the Irish ex-hobo U Dhammaloka around 1884 and intellectuals such as Bhikkhu Asoka ( H. Gordon Douglas ), Ananda Metteyya and Nyanatiloka at the turn of the century.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

The archaeologist Kenoyer noted that this culture " may only reflect a change in the focus of settlement organization from that which was the pattern of the earlier Harappan phase and not cultural discontinuity, urban decay, invading aliens, or site abandonment, all of which have been suggested in the past.

Stone suggested that there was nothing absurd in this view, and noted that many entities now regarded as having legal rights were, in the past, regarded as " things " that were regarded as legally rightless ; for example, aliens, children and women.

This was something Tolkien often denied ; rather, he suggested that Middle-earth was the primary world, but in the past .< ref > Letters 183: " I am historically minded.

As mentioned above, in the past, some researchers have suggested that it is the protein changes that are primary and that precede or trigger the abnormal immune response.

In a 1999 Journal of Affective Disorders article, a hypothesis was suggested that the phase of the moon may in the past have had an effect on individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light during nights which would otherwise have been dark, and affecting susceptible individuals through the well-known route of sleep deprivation.

It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and became a prominent part of his ideas which suggested that past transformations of life could have had environmental causes working on the embryo, rather than on the adult as in Lamarckism.

Pantheism ( All-is-God ) is often associated with monism ( All-is-One ) and some have suggested that it logically implies determinism: in Einstein's words, " the past, present, and future are an ' illusion '".

In the past, it was suggested that the centralized state was developed to administer large public works systems ( such as irrigation systems ) and to regulate complex economies.

The episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

In a similar vein, one reader ( or Viz staffer ) suggested " Old people – are you worried that people in a hurry might be able to get past you on the pavement?

However, some philosophers and scientists believe that time travel into the past need not be logically impossible provided that there is no possibility of changing the past, as suggested, for example, by the Novikov self-consistency principle.

It is strongly suggested that he is indeed Paul, which is confirmed when he walks past Alia and says, " Stop trying to pull me into the background once more, sister.

During the World Series against the Dodgers, Munson was interviewed, and suggested that Jackson, because of his past post-season performances, might be the better interview subject.

Someone suggested looking at the Virginia Theatre, as 70 mm films had been shown there in the past.

For example, it suggested that a chicken tikka sandwich would be a " gentle nod to an imperial past and a firm statement of a multicultural present and future.

In the past, historians have suggested that she may have been a sister of Standish ’ s first Rose, and that he specifically sent for her.

Though many scholars today appear to have accepted a " near Bromborough " location, dozens of sites for the battle have been suggested in the past.

He was cast in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after being suggested for the role to Marti Noxon by one of Boreanaz's neighbors, after walking his dog past their house.

It is not clear to what extent the Mole was used for navigation in the past: In the late 13th century, Thorncroft Manor ( south of Leatherhead ) purchased a shout, a type of boat up to in length used to carry produce to market and it has been suggested that stone cut from quarries in Reigate was transported to London via the river.

Karl Deutsch ( in " Nationalism and its alternatives ") suggested that a nation is " a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours.

Shortly after IBM announced plans for a native UNIX product, Stettner, having advocated a DEC UNIX product several times in the past, suggested to Bill Doll, a marketing manager, during a hallway conversation that it was finally time for DEC to make a native VAX Unix product available to its customers.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

In the past an orthodontist might have tried, over four or five years, to straighten and fit the boy's large teeth into a jaw that, despite some growth, would never accommodate them.

Finally, while Armenia is not the only ex-Soviet state that has incurred multimillion-dollar debts to Russia over the past decade, it is the only state to have so far given up such a large share of its economic infrastructure to Russia.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

However, according to another of their papers, no large releases of gas hydrates are believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15, 000 years.

No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.

In lay terms, there is a very large — perhaps infinite — number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

This avoids confusion between past events ( which cannot be changed ), the present ( which one can test but not generally change ) and future events ( which one still has time to change even on a large scale ), which can prevent noticing or taking an action to improve a future outcome.

Over the past several years, tourism and exports of textiles, apparel, and nontraditional agricultural products such as winter vegetables, fruit, and cut flowers have boomed, while more traditional exports such as sugar, bananas, and coffee continue to represent a large share of the export market.

Although the Milky Way has never collided with a galaxy as large as Andromeda before, evidence of past collisions of the Milky Way with smaller dwarf galaxies is increasing.

Many different systems have been used in the past but modern engines are usually started by an electric motor in the small and medium sizes or by compressed air in the large sizes.

alt = A drive leads past a manicured lawn to large white rectangular building with a columns on it facade.

Amerindians are found in the southern Andes, though a large portion, also to be found in the southern and central coast due to the massive internal labor migration from remote Andean regions to coastal cities, during the past four decades.

The state of large regions of the Earth becomes unknowable in the distant past.

The common view is that there are diminishing returns with an increase in price-a turntable costing $ 1, 000 would not sound significantly better than a turntable costing $ 500 ; nevertheless, there exists a large choice of expensive turntables despite vinyl records being long past their peak in popularity as replay media.

The NGO has stated that while most of these incidents remain defensive in nature and are not like the large offensives from years past, FARC actions have been growing since 2005, and the rebel group is currently carrying out intense operations against small and medium-sized Colombian military units in vulnerable areas.

In Type II superconductors, raising the applied field past a critical value H < sub > c1 </ sub > leads to a mixed state ( also known as the vortex state ) in which an increasing amount of magnetic flux penetrates the material, but there remains no resistance to the flow of electric current as long as the current is not too large.

In the past, the large proportion of children relative to the total population put great strains on the country's economy, particularly because substantial resources were invested in education facilities.

Subsequent elections in 1970 and 1974 gave Mancham a small majority in votes, but a large one in seats, through the " first past the post " voting system.

The automobile industry in Spain is a large employer in the country, employing 9 % of the total workforce in 2009 and contributing to 3. 3 % of the Spanish GDP, despite the decline due to the economic recession of the past couple of years.

Simple irons less commonly used than in the past were simply a large copper bit on a handle, heated in a flame.