Whether uterine vellum ( vellum made from aborted calf fetuses ) was ever really used during the medieval period is still a matter of great controversy.

Whether built during the Byzantine, Bulgarian or Ottoman rule of the city, the churches of Nesebar represent the rich architectural heritage of the Eastern Orthodox world and illustrate the gradual development from Early Christian basilicas to medieval cross-domed churches.

Whether or not the Inventio is the source of the medieval concept of the North Pole as a magnetic mountain surrounded by a circular continent divided by four powerful rivers, maps as early as Martin Behaim's 1492 globe depict the region in this way.

Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

Whether this was a reflection of his age or of the fact that Christie was by now heartily sick of him it is difficult to assess.

Whether and under what conditions this final aim can in fact be stably achieved is a difficult question, and it will be considered in the section devoted to the effects of coercion.

Whether in fact a person's actions promote and fulfill his own life or not is a question of fact, as it is with all other organisms, but whether a person will act to promote his well-being is up to him, not hard-wired into his physiology.

Whether a person " leaves " a society does not change anything to the fact that this society will still contain suicides.

Whether we must attribute this to the malignity of matter or to the total depravity of inanimate things, whether the exciting cause is hurry, worry, or what not, the fact remains.

Whether there is any validity in the story of the huge Viking who stood his ground on a bridge against the might of Harold Godwinson's army we will never know, but the fact is that a bridge was mentioned in both Manuscript C of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and again in its extended 12th century version.

* Whether the author ( or person being represented ) is in fact a victim or sufficiently affected by an act or omission of the State.

Whether he became world champion against Thomas or against Mike Sullivan has always been up to debate, but the fact remains that it is Mike Sullivan and not Thomas who is historically remembered as a world champion.

Whether hundreds of millions died or " merely " a few major cities were destroyed, Kahn argued, life would in fact go on, as it had for instance after the " Black Death " of the 14th century in Europe, or in Japan after a limited nuclear attack in 1945, contrary to the conventional, prevailing doomsday scenarios.

"" Yim continues, " Whether it was Madame Geoffrin's design to attract all the most eminent foreigners to her salon, thereby spreading the reputation of her home throughout Europe, as Marmontel wrote, or whether this was the natural consequence of the presence of so many philosophes and Encyclopédistes, it was a fact that no foreign minister, no man or woman of note who arrived in Paris failed to call on Madame Geoffrin in the hope of being invited to one of her select dinners.

Deng's famous “ Cats Theory ” (“ Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat ”), in fact, originated from Liu.

' Whether this is a pious hope or frankly based on self-interest, the fact remains that one can't serve two masters.

Whether or not the story told by Poseidonius of a shipwrecked Indian pilot teaching Eudoxus about the monsoon winds is true, Greek ships were in fact soon using the monsoon winds to sail to India.

Whether or not he is in fact insane is often debated, due to demonstrations in his fine tuned skills of acting and mimicry.

Whether that was an urban myth based on the intense rivalry between the state-established Church of Ireland and the local predominantly Roman Catholic population in Bohermeen ( who were subject to the discriminatory Penal Laws and forced to pay tithes to the Church of Ireland ) or had some basis in fact, is unclear.

Whether Mara's resignation was in fact forced has been the subject of a police investigation since May 21, 2003, when the Police Investigations Department confirmed that they had opened an investigation into the events surrounding his departure from office.

Whether these coordinates are in fact the center of Asia is disputed.

Whether there has been an infringement of a patent is usually a question of fact .< ref >

Whether Johann Georg was in fact Hitler's biological paternal grandfather is considered unknown by modern historians, but his case is the most plausible and widely accepted.

Whether one approves or disapproves his introduction of a number of Arabic words into Hebrew, and the fact that, by analogy with the Arabic, he gives to certain Hebrew words meanings different from the accepted ones, the magnitude of his work can not be questioned.

However, satellite data show that cloud optical thickness actually increases with increasing temperature .< ref name = tselioudis-1992 > Whether the net effect is warming or cooling depends on details such as the type and altitude of the cloud ; details that are difficult to represent in climate models.

Whether the " hobbit " skeletons represent a species distinct from modern humans has been a subject of scientific debate.

Whether all of these orders represent relatives of the Passeriformes is uncertain, but not well-supported by more recent data ; however the bulk of evidence supports the hypothesis that most do indeed form a clade that also includes the Passeriformes.

Whether Y is a vowel or a consonant, is another matter of discussion, since Y can represent both a vowel or a ( half -) consonant.

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 or not particular forms of " work " can be called child labour depends on the child's age, the type and hours of work performed, the conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries.

Whether or not a cloud is low, middle, or high level depends on how far above the ground its base forms.

Whether cultural, or internal, people recognize and react to color, shapes, lines, fonts and other symbolic forms with emotions tied to their experiences.

Whether quark-degenerate matter forms at all in these situations depends on the equations of state of both neutron-degenerate matter and quark-degenerate matter, both of which are poorly known.

Whether the old text was already too deeply rooted, or whether Rabbenu Tam did not correct these verbal forms consistently and grammatically, the old perfects are still retained at the beginning of the formula, although a future meaning is given to them.

He always asserts the substantive reality of the soul ; and in the opening words of his, " Whether we rise to heaven, or descend to the abyss, we never get outside ourselves -- it is always our own thoughts that we perceive ," we have the subjectivist principle that forms the starting-point of Berkeley.

Whether gerundive forms like " start reading " are compound verbs is controversial in English ; many linguists prefer to treat " reading " as a nominal in its gerundive form.

# Whether the country has implemented its commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.

Whether Prabhu will become a victim or emerge a victor forms the rest of the story.

Whether these two forms were species, subspecies or simply variants due to age or sex cannot be determined with certainty, but for the time being, they are more often being treated as different species than not.