Bronx Local: While hundreds of songs about New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn can be found in Wikipedia's List of songs about New York City and also in Marc Ferris's 5-page, 15-column list of " Songs and Compositions Inspired by New York City " in The Encyclopedia of New York City ( 1995 ), only a handful refer to The Bronx.

While his exact birthplace is not known, the Encyclopedia of World Biography states that " widespread evidence indicates that he came originally from the British Isles ", although a few sources suggest he may have been born in Brittany in modern France.

While an article in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust asserts that hundreds of Polish Jews who had sought asylum amongst the Polish population after having escaped from the ghettos were murdered by the NSZ, many NSZ soldiers and their families are credited with saving lives of countless Jews including personalities such as Maria Bernstein, Leon Goldman, Jonte Goldman, Dr. Turski, and others.

An Encyclopedia of Psychology notes that “ enerally, these terms are not used by either educators or psychologists .” While the concept of over-and underachievers has wide acceptance among practicing teachers, it remains a controversial topic on several points:

While the concept of the Final Encyclopedia as an information construct containing the total sum of human knowledge came about in the early days of computer technology ( though including such fictional progenitors as the Brain of the Skylark of Valeron in E. E. Smith's Skylark series ), the conceptualization anticipated the concept of cyberspace and, of course, of wiki.

While the first edition of the work contained only a few Jansenist points, its tendency became more apparent in the second edition, and in its complete form, as it appeared in 1693, it was – in the words of the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia – " pervaded with practically all the errors of Jansenism ".

While The Elvis Encyclopedia believes that the Wilburton Trestle was shown in the movie, further evidence points to a different location.

While the Baltimore Ceremonial thus classified the Missa Cantata as a High Mass, Adrian Fortescue wrote in his 1910 article " Liturgy of the Mass " in the Catholic Encyclopedia, that a Missa Cantata " is really a low Mass, since the essence of high Mass is not the music but the deacon and subdeacon.

While some claim " The Tune " was inspired by Bill Gaither and Gloria Gaither's 1969 song " God Gave the Song ", Norman claims in a 1981 article in Contemporary Christian Music magazine: " Bill Gaither's music first came to my attention in 1973 when a friend played me ' God Gave the Song '.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

While Scotland and Northern Ireland have always had separate legal systems to England ( see Scots law and Northern Ireland law ), this has not been the case with Wales ( see English law, Welsh law and Contemporary Welsh Law ).

While not released as a single, it peaked at No. 7 in the US Adult Contemporary chart due to strong radio airplay.

While many Christian bookstores at the time sold much more than books — they also sold religious movies, Contemporary Christian music, and other goods — such stores did not sell video games.

While Professor of English at Birmingham University ( 1962 – 1973 ), he founded the institution's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964 and was its director until 1969.

While in Sarajevo one can also visit the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Museum of the City of Sarajevo, and the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museum of Literature.

While the tag Hip Hop Soul is rarely applied to musical artists anymore, it has never really gone away, and most artists who mix hip hop sounds with soul are labeled as being Contemporary R & B artists.

While " Take Five " was not the first jazz composition to use this meter, it was one of the first in the United States to achieve mainstream significance, reaching # 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 5 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey, the precursor to today's Adult Contemporary charts, in 1961, two years after its initial release.

" While the song is well recognized today, it was all but ignored by typical Top 40 radio during its chart life, making only the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

While in college, Longo and his friends established an avant garde art gallery in their co-op building, the Essex Art Center, which was originally a converted ice factory ; the gallery became Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While some Anglicans claim it for their communion, their views are often nuanced and there is widespread reluctance to ' unchurch ' Christian bodies which lack it.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While reliance on prayer is central to Christian Science, Christian Scientists are not officially required to refuse medicine.

While most of these testimonies represent ailments neither diagnosed nor treated by medical professionals, the Church does require three other people to vouch for any testimony published in its official organ, the Christian Science Journal.

While members of the Christian Science church claim their religion is based in, reconcilable with, and part of Christianity ( being based on the teachings of Jesus ), there are orthodox Christian theologians and others who disagree.

While operated from an evangelical Christian perspective, the entries also include links to material from a variety of viewpoints.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

While preparing for an evening lecture on 21 April 1820, Hans Christian Ørsted made a surprising observation.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

While most Protestants agree that baptism in the Holy Spirit is integral to being a Christian, others believe that it is not separable from conversion and no longer marked by glossolalia.

While in Hawaii he became a controversial figure for his vehement opposition to the activities of Christian missionaries seeking to convert the native population.

While the concept of heaven ( malkuth hashamaim מלכות השמים, the Kingdom of Heaven ) is well-defined within the Christian and Islamic religions, the Jewish concept of the afterlife, sometimes known as olam haba, the World-to-come, is not so precise.

While Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann is often cited as the inventor of the harmonica in 1821, other inventors developed similar instruments at the same time.

While early scholars considered the Testimonium to be a total forgery, the majority of modern scholars consider it partially authentic, despite some clear Christian interpolations in the text.

While the Jewish Messiah is considered to be one of the things that precede creation, he is not considered to be divine nor is he considered to be Jesus, in sharp contrast to Christian belief.

While Shi ' a and Druze parties command fierce loyalty to their leaderships, there is more factional infighting among many of the Christian parties.

While on his journey to England, Mellitus received a letter from Gregory allowing Augustine to convert pagan temples to Christian churches, and to convert pagan animal sacrifices into Christian feasts, to ease the transition to Christianity.

While Arab Christian families continued to live in Nazareth, its status was reduced to that of a poor village.

While the Middle Ages did see secular politics in practice under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, the academic field was wholly scholastic and therefore Christian in nature.