Yes, the boy's credentials were in order -- scholastic transcript, character references, picture, health record, successful college boards.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

The Gepids were defeated in the ensuing battle, their king slain by Alboin, and Cunimund's daughter Rosamund taken captive, according to references in the Origo.

The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

In are references to four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and Apollos respectively, using their names ( the third and fourth were Peter, identified as Cephas, and Jesus himself ).

As a result, the references were excised from further airings.

As for the non-canonical writings, the majority of references to biblical texts were made by argumentum ad verecundiam.

The theory that they were defensive military structures is not accepted by many modern archaeologists ( see the ' general references ' below ), while the alternative notion that they were farmhouses is dismissed by some others.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

Although Ireland left the Commonwealth in 1949, it is often treated as if it were a member, with references being made in legal documents to ' the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland ', and its citizens are not classified as foreign nationals, particularly in the United Kingdom.

There were references to her also in reports from agents working, for example, in the Communist party.

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

In-game music was removed, many items were renamed to avoid drug and sex references, and several levels were altered to include areas from the Plutonium Pak ( such as a Duke Burger outlet being present in the second level where there wasn't one in the original PC version ).

The few historical references to Euclid were written centuries after he lived, by Proclus and Pappus of Alexandria.

The first references to the term evangelist in Latter Day Saint theology were mainly consistent with how the term is used by Protestants and Catholics.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

We know from other references that Euclid ’ s was not the first elementary geometry textbook, but it was so much superior that the others fell into disuse and were lost.

Both prefaces were addressed to Theophilus, and the preface of Acts explicitly references " my former book " about the life of Jesus.

The most common versions — the " Infinite loop " and " ASCII buffer " editions — were much longer, containing descriptions of what exactly Good Times would do to the computer of someone who opened it, as well as comparisons to other viruses of the time, and references to a U. S. Federal Communications Commission warning.

Such references in their music and image were originally tongue-in-cheek, but as time went on, bands and members of the subculture took the connection more seriously.

Two of the letters from a " kingdom of Kheta "— apparently located in the same general region as the Mesopotamian references to " land of Hatti "— were written in standard Akkadian cuneiform script, but in an unknown language ; although scholars could read it, no one could understand it.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

These, as well as his slouching posture, are references to his earlier mild-mannered Pre-Crisis versions, but he still maintains a sense of authority and his assertive self.

Some references require a null set to be measurable ; however, subsets of null sets are still negligible for measure-theoretic purposes.

* 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government ( As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date ).

Against the Oxford theory are several references to Shakespeare, later than 1604, which imply that the author was then still alive.

From these few references, which are the only surviving evidence apart from place name analysis, it would seem that the Balts Pytheas would have encountered were past the Common Balto-Slavic stage, but still spoke one language, which would have been Proto-Baltic.

Their books are still primary references for this sub-discipline, although now somewhat dated and out of print

It ignores these references, only counting references in data structures, but before an object with reference count zero can be deleted, the system must verify with a scan of the stack and registers that no other reference to it still exists.

The primary problem with simple weighted reference counting is that destroying a reference still requires accessing the reference count, and if many references are destroyed this can cause the same bottlenecks we seek to avoid.

In addition, while references can still be made from directories, some Unixes allow that the referencing can be solely made by live processes, and there can be files that do not exist in the file system hierarchy.

Later still, the plural " Sileni " went out of use and the only references were to one individual named Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus.

Some of his books are still published today, and are used as references by artists, animators, and students of animal and human movement.

Similarly in D version 1, it is assumed that the programmer knows what to do with delegates and local variables, as their references will be invalid after return from its definition scope ( local variables are on the stack )-this still permits many useful functional patterns, but for complex cases needs explicit heap allocation for variables.

After a function returns, references are still valid.

In later life, Benn attempted to remove public references to his private education from Who's Who ; in the 1975 edition his entry stated " Education — still in progress ".

In response to a backlash against the Treaty, politician Winston Peters, the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand ( and founder of the New Zealand First Party ), and others have campaigned to remove vague references to the Treaty from New Zealand law, although the New Zealand Māori Council case of 1990 indicated that even if this does happen, the Treaty may still be legally relevant.

Despite the futuristic setting, references made in the film still set the action in the twentieth century.

The provinces of Sweden are still used in colloquial speech and cultural references, The provinces of Sweden can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept.

There are still references to " Duck Daze " in the theme song.

The term is often used interchangeably with linear type, although often what is being discussed is technically uniqueness typing, as actual linear typing allows a non-linear value to be " cast " to a linear form, while still retaining multiple references to it.

Despite these restrictions, it is still possible to trace the history of Colombia present references to the ancient language of the Basques.

In historical and monarchist references to formerly reigning families, dynastic describes a family member who would have succession rights if the monarchy's rules were still in force.

One of the earliest references to tourism is in the LNWR Tourist Guide for 1876, which waxed lyrical about the Ffestiniog Railway, which it illustrated with a drawing of a lady in Welsh national dress ( then still in regular local use ) travelling on an FR up train ( since many empty slate wagons – with two standing brakesmen – were attached at the rear ) with the caption " On the Ffestiniog Railway ".