Compared to the hagiographic Zurara and the fallible Gomes, historians have relished and lauded the reliability and detail provided by Cadamosto, giving a richer and clearer view of how the Henrican enterprise operated.

Nonetheless, having little else to draw upon, historians have had to rely heavily on Zurara.

It is probable that the chronicles of the early kings of Portugal from Sancho I to Afonso IV which were published under Pina's name in the 18th century were written by Fernão Lopes and edited by Pina, while that of King Duarte seems to have been the joint production of Lopes and Gomes Eanes de Zurara, with Pina again as the editor only.

Historical novel based on medieval Zurara ’ s chronicles.

Fernão Lopes held his official positions until around 1454, when he was forced to retire on account of his advanced age, and was succeeded by Gomes Eanes de Zurara.

Afonso corresponded with Zurara on terms of affectionate intimacy, and no less than three comendas of the order of Christ rewarded his literary services.

However, a little over a decade later, Damião de Góis ( writing in 1567 ), announced that the Zurara manuscript had disappeared.

From the first Africans that were brought to Lagos for sale in 1444 ( see his contemporary biography by Zurara ), he received from the merchants the value corresponding to the fifth part ( o quinto ) as the expedition had been sponsored by the shipowners.

Zurara had little of the picturesque ingenuousness of Lopes, and loved to display his erudition by quotations and philosophical reflections, showing that he wrote under the influence of the first Renaissance.

* John I ( 1385 – 1433 )-skipped by Rui de Pina, done by Fernão Lopes up to 1411, by Gomes Eanes de Zurara from 1412.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

Initial claims for jobless benefits were said to have dropped by 8,100 in the week ending March 4.

This bodes heated contests in several districts where claims have already been staked out by Democratic hopefuls who don't see eye-to-eye with the Aj.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.

Since the concept of high fidelity became important some dozen years ago, the claims of technical improvements have multiplied tenfold.

We have every obligation to take seriously their claims to being democratic and free countries ; ;

To put it differently, state and federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction with respect to most claims of federal right.

The cases have allowed transfer of claims if beneficial ownership is not changed.

The successor corporations have been held entitled to sue on such claims.

In the past such government claims have been found exaggerated.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

Seven nations have made official Territorial claims in Antarctica.

When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

" He points to the fact that the Pope claims universal jurisdiction and he therefore argues that " it would be intolerable to have, as the sovereign of a Protestant and free country, one who owes any allegiance to the head of any other state " and contends that if such situation came about " we will have undone centuries of common law.

Typical claims might include ineffective assistance of counsel and actual innocence based on new evidence.

Some astrologers make claims that the position of all the planets must be taken into account, but astrologers were unable to predict the existence of Neptune based on mistakes in horoscopes.

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

Harvey writes that the asymptotic time complexity of this algorithm is O ( n < sup > 2 </ sup > log ( n )< sup > 2 + eps </ sup >) and claims that this implementation is significantly faster than implementations based on other methods.

Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and " more recent channelled material " from St. Germain.

Although the Bible never says " Jesus is God ", trinity based theology summarily claims: " Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man in one person, and will be so forever.

From then on the French succession not only excluded females, but also rejected claims based on the female line of descent.

The Austrian Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, has confirmed the legal admissibility of these lawsuits under the condition that all claims are essentially based on the same grounds.

It claims to collect them together based on statistical or clinical patterns.

Two psychologists associated with Christian colleges in the US have argued that it is not conclusive that homosexuality does not meet the DSM's criteria, based on their review of some of the research relating to claims of statistical infrequency, personal distress, maladaptiveness and deviation from social norms.

In the housing setting there could be claims that a person was refused negotiations on seeking a house, contracting / leasing a house or getting a loan based on his or her gender.

Another setting where there have been claims of gender discrimination is banking ; for example if one is refused credit or is offered unequal loan terms based on one ’ s gender.

The claims clearly renounce historical research that shows that all ethnic and income groups score differently on all standardized tests and standards based assessments and that students will achieve on a bell curve.

Dr. Martin Carnoy of Stanford, Patrick J. McEwan claims that based on his research, when controls for the student's background ( parental income and education ) are introduced, the difference in performance between public and private subsectors is not significant.

" A common example, as shown below, is an argument based on tax protestor claims.

The 1973 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( along with the 2003 remake ) claims to be based on true events, but this is not the case.

The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.

Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism ; John Henry Newman claimed Scott " had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages ," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.

The most complicated aspect of the insurance business is the actuarial science of ratemaking ( price-setting ) of policies, which uses statistics and probability to approximate the rate of future claims based on a given risk.

Incoming claims are classified based on severity and are assigned to adjusters whose settlement authority varies with their knowledge and experience.

It had also held Portuguese Timor from 1975 to 2002, based on irredentist claims.

In part, however, the apologists of royal authority based their claims on a just assessment of the powers claimed by England and Scotland's medieval monarchs.