Whether ethnicity is a fixed perception is not crucial in the instrumentalist accounts.

Whether it is an interpreter embodying a past individual ’ s personal story or discussing a superstition of the time, these accounts allow the audience to see these past figures not as names on a page, but as actual people.

Whether any of these accounts is true, the Aemilii were probably of Sabine origin.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

Whether or not the Alemanni had been previously neutral, they were certainly further influenced by Caracalla to become thereafter notoriously implacable enemies of Rome.

Whether the motion was due to an irregular distribution of the Earth's atmosphere, thus involving abnormal variations in the refractive index, was also investigated ; here, again, negative results were obtained.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

Whether Henry actually intended to bring about the assassination of Becket is debatable, but there is no question that at the time of the murder, the two men were embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding the power of Royal Courts to exercise jurisdiction over former clergymen.

Whether there were Viking or Norse-Gael kingdoms in the Western Isles or the Northern Isles at this time is debated.

Whether these victims were gladiators or noxii is unknown.

Whether persecutions after World War II were more aimed at certain sections of society over and above detractors is a disputed point.

Whether they were actually lovers is unknown, but their destruction of their letters to each other may point to something beyond mere privacy.

Whether the dualism of the Paulicians, Bogomils, and Cathars and their belief that the world was created by a Satanic demiurge were due to influence from Manichaeism is impossible to determine.

Whether the horti Maecenatiani bought by Fronto actually were the former gardens of Maecenas is unknown, and the domus Frontoniana mentioned in the twelfth century by Magister Gregorius may also refer to the gardens of Maecenas.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.

Whether to honour a character or to mock him, these references were demeaning to the gods.

Whether fairly or unfairly, a great deal was riding on the project, and expectations were high.

Whether or not this story is credible, jurists were active and legal treatises were written in larger numbers the 2nd century BC.

Whether the two T-72s were actually delivered, or their final fate, remains unknown.

Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown.

Whether the two of them were lovers is disputed, as Menshikov was already engaged to Darya Arsenyeva, his future wife.

Whether fida ' is were actually trained or dispatched by Nizari leaders is unconfirmed, but scholars including Vladimir Ivanov purport that the assassination of key figures including Saljuq vizier Nizam al-Mulk likely provided encouraging impetus to others in the community who sought to secure the Nizaris from political aggression.

Whether or not the assize courts, whose task was to judge severe crimes, were to operate with a jury was a topic of considerable controversy.

Whether the absence of vessels in basal angiosperms is a primitive condition is contested, the alternative hypothesis states that vessel elements originated in a precursor to the angiosperms and were subsequently lost.

Whether at a " love-in " on Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco, a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Berkeley, or one of Ken Kesey's " Acid Tests ", if the " vibe " wasn't right and a change of scene was desired, hippies were mobile at a moment's notice.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

Whether Bragi the god originally arose as a deified version of Bragi Boddason was much debated in the 19th century, especially by the German scholars Eugen Mogk and Sophus Bugge.

In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

Whether Leofric had originally supported King Harold against William or if he supported William from the start is unclear.

Whether Handel originally intended to perform Messiah in Dublin is uncertain ; he did not inform Jennens of any such plan, for the latter wrote to Holdsworth on 2 December 1741: "... it was some mortification to me to hear that instead of performing Messiah here he has gone into Ireland with it.

Whether they are originally planned as such, or the result of a newer administration taking advantage of land that was left available by its predecessors is debatable.

Whether this play ever existed has been debated, with some critics speculating that the play is known by another name, a situation similar to Henry VIII, which was originally performed with the title All is True.

Whether or not Sagami was originally part of Musashi prior to the Nara period is still a topic of controversy.

Whether in tidal water or high up in hills, they are very often in limestone geology where the acidity dissolved in percolating water has dissolved the carbonates of the rock matrix as it has passed through what were originally small fissures.

Whether these represent alterations to the law over time, lawmaking by the writer of the political faction supported by the priestly source, or simply details present but not originally thought worth mentioning, is a matter of some debate.

Whether it be originally Christian or originally pagan, similar methods of healing have been reported persisting till modern times: in Westphalia, the healing of a wound by triple signing and triple cruciform sufflation, or by exsufflation accompanied by a rhyming charm ; and in Holland the alleviation of toothache by similar means.

Whether composed especially for the Ten Days of Repentance, as Rapoport ( ibid.

Whether this is due to his body being composed of external armour over his truck-cab exoskeleton ( like the original toy and Dreamwave comic ) or simply because of animator error is open to fan-interpretation.

Whether the Arsiyah were a single tribe or composed of Muslims from a number of different tribes is unclear.