While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

While the churches originating in the Second Great Awakening have some superficial similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

While travelling south along the north Queensland coast, the Gothenburg encountered a cyclone-strength storm and was wrecked on a section of the Great Barrier Reef.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

While there he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

While young, he was the favourite of his legendary grandfather, Akbar the Great.

While Otto the Great had pardoned rebellious family members for their crimes, Otto II followed a different policy.

While religion had previously played an important role on the American political scene, the Second Great Awakening highlighted the important role which individual beliefs would play.

While the wars of religion did not re-ignite, as many as 400, 000 Protestants chose to leave France, most moving to Great Britain, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, South Africa and the new French colonies in North America.

While allowing him to participate in the All-Century Team, MLB has refused to allow him to participate in local events in Cincinnati, such as the 25th anniversary reunion of the Big Red Machine, the closing of Cinergy Field, and the opening of the Great American Ballpark, as well as the closing of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and 1980 Phillies anniversary celebrations.

While the homesteads were criticized as too small for the environmental conditions on the Great Plains, a homesteader using 19th-century animal-powered tilling and harvesting could not have cultivated the 1500 acres later recommended for dry land farming.

While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).

While their anthem changed to " God Save the Queen " after the dissolution of the Great Britain side in 2007, it is still tradition for the team to use " Land of Hope and Glory " as their walk-out theme.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

While the Eye of Providence is currently a common Masonic motif, this was not the case during the 1770s and 1780s ( the decades when the Great Seal was being designed and approved ).

While Benjamin Franklin was a Mason, he was the only member of any of the various Great Seal committees definitively known to be so, and his ideas were not adopted.

While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners especially from the Durham district ( 1873 ) and to its use in County Durham ( 1930 ).

While taking a trip through the countryside, Peng was horrified at the wreckage of the Great Leap Forward.

One last words reference work provides at least four distinct historical claims to his last words ( and additional variations of these ) – While many include the phrase " un grand peut-être " (" a Great Perhaps ") – all are listed as " doubtful " due to lack of documentation.

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.

While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While Grothendieck was at the IHÉS, opposition to the Vietnam War was heating up, and Cartier suggests that this also reinforced Grothendieck's distaste at having become a mandarin of the scientific world.

While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests and organized an October 1969 Moratorium event.

While supervising the ceasefire after the Agacher Strip War, an FABF SA. 316B Alouette III crashed at Kouni on 14 January 1986, leaving only one SA. 316B still in service with the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.

While capital ship engagements were scarce in World War I, destroyer units were almost continually engaged in raiding and patrol actions.

While at the close of the First World War the Foreign Legion's prestige was at a high, the Foreign Legion itself had suffered greatly in the trenches of the First World War.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

While Germany occupied Denmark during World War II, the United States controlled Greenland and built airports there.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

While most of China is bogged down, almost inevitably, by Civil War, Chinghai is attempting to carry our small-scale, but nevertheless ambitious, development and reconstruction schemes on its own initiative "

While the First World War was still underway, a number of governments and groups had already started developing plans to change the way international relations were carried out to try to prevent another such conflict.

While on active duty, he served in the Gulf War and later supported operations in Somalia.

While the majority of mathematicians are male, there have been some demographic changes since World War II.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

While the cathedral was virtually the only building to survive the massacres of the Thirty Years ' War, it nevertheless suffered damage in World War II.