" It is only a question of cards and time ", wrote Henry Babbage in 1888, "... and there is no reason why ( twenty thousand ) cards should not be used if necessary, in an Analytical Engine for the purposes of the mathematician ".

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

While 55 % thought he " would have something worthwhile to contribute and should remain active in public life ", 68 % thought he would be remembered for his " involvement in personal scandal ", and 58 % answered " No " to the question " Do you generally think Bill Clinton is honest and trustworthy?

Alternatively, these experiments provide an operational definition of what is meant by " absolute rotation ", and do not pretend to address the question of " rotation relative to what?

It is a natural question to ask: under which conditions can two categories be considered to be " essentially the same ", in the sense that theorems about one category can readily be transformed into theorems about the other category?

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

* Gothic: Sentence clitics appear in second position in accordance with Wackernagel's Law, including-u ( yes-no question ),-uh " and ", þan " then ", ƕa " anything ", for example ab-u þus silbin " of thyself ?".

The entry in question is now read as "... Dynfwal ... and Domnall son Áed king of Ailech died ", this Domnall being a son of Áed Findliath who died on 915 .< ref > Domnall's death is recorded by the Annals of Ulster.

In answering the question " What do Jews think of Jesus ", philosopher Milton Steinberg claims, for Jews, Jesus cannot be accepted as anything more than a teacher.

The conservative led Centre-right government accepted this variety of " minority parliamentarism ", that is, without making it a question of the government's parliamentary survival.

Divination ( from Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god ", related to divinus, divine ) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual.

" He chose the context of psychotherapy to " sidestep the problem of giving the program a data base of real-world knowledge ", the therapeutic situation being one of the few real human situations in which a human being can reply to a statement with a question that indicates very little specific knowledge of the topic under discussion.

" An account of Fermi's question ", Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ), United States Department of Energy, ( March 1, 1985 ).

This leaves an opportunity for the controversial practice of " fatwā shopping ", in which an individual asks the same question of different sheiks until they receive an answer they like.

Moore is also well known for the so-called " open question argument ", which is contained in his ( also greatly influential ) Principia Ethica.

The question of " what is an organism ", and at what scale is it rational to speak about organisms vs. biospheres, gives rise to a semantic debate.

What is intended by the question is the sense of the word, " same ", in which an old woman is the same person at the end of her life as she is, at the beginning of her life.

* Possibly coined the term " Pagan Reconstructionism ", though the communities in question would later diverge from his initial meaning.

But the report expressed concerns that the Roman Catholic dogmatic definitions of these concepts implies them to be " revealed by God ", stating: " The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held by believers as a matter of faith.

It is not for the inquest to ascertain " how the deceased died " or " in what broad circumstances ", but " how the deceased came by his death ", a more limited question.

The three courts of Vienna, Berlin and St Petersburg had come to an understanding as to their attitude in the Eastern question, and their views were embodied in the dispatch, known as the " Andrássy Note ", sent on 30 December 1875 by Andrássy to Count Beust, the Austrian ambassador to the Court of St James.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

On October 16, 1854, in his " Peoria Speech ", Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which he repeated en route to the presidency.

On April 15, Lincoln called on all the states to send detachments totaling 75, 000 troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and " preserve the Union ", which, in his view, still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states.

Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief and appointed Henry Wager Halleck in March 1862, after McClellan's " Harrison's Landing Letter ", in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

In historical times, the priests of Delphi were called Labryaden, " the double-axe men ", which indicates Minoan origin.

In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.

In the last oracle is mentioned that the " water which could speak ", has been lost for ever.

In this interpretation, Apollo's title of Lykegenes can simply be read as " born in Lycia ", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves ( possibly a folk etymology ).

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

" He ate the cookies on the couch ", for example, could mean that he ate those cookies which were on the couch ( as opposed to those that were on the table ), or it could mean that he was sitting on the couch when he ate the cookies.

For example, a politician might say " I oppose taxes which hinder economic growth ", an example of a glittering generality.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The minimalist soundtrack features a memorable deep-toned electronic " heartbeat ", which quickens as the asteroid density is reduced by the player's fire.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.

In the same interview, Spitzy called Ribbentrop " pompous, conceited and not too intelligent ", and stated he was an utterly insufferable man to work for.

Ribbentrop further compounded the damage to his image and caused a minor crisis in Anglo-German relations by insisting that henceforward all German diplomats were to greet heads of state with the " German greeting ", who were in turn to return the fascist salute.

Ribbentrop believed the British aristocracy comprised some sort of secret society that ruled from behind the scenes, and if he could befriend enough members of Britain's " secret government ", he could bring about the alliance.

Ribbentrop wrote in his " Memorandum for the Führer " that " a change in the status quo in the East to Germany's advantage can only be accomplished by force ", and that the best way to achieve this change was to build a global anti-British alliance system.

In this, Ribbentrop was particularly supported by the German Ambassador in London, Herbert von Dirksen, who reported that Chamberlain knew " the social structure of Britain, even the conception of the British Empire, would not survive the chaos of even a victorious war ", and so would back down over Poland.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

In his funeral oration, Ribbentrop described the shooting as an attack by the Jews on the German people: " We understand the challenge, and we accept it ", he said.

The issue of what the Ryti – Ribbentrop Agreement was " in reality ", remains somewhat controversial, as also the issue of whether Finland's co-belligerence with Nazi Germany " in reality " was a concealed alliance, and whether the Continuation War " in reality " was a Finnish war of aggression although initiated as a defensive war against a Soviet pre-emptive attack.

As for the Duke of Windsor himself, upon the release of the German papers pertinent to the plot in 1957, he denounced the communications between Ribbentrop and his ambassadors as " complete fabrications and, in part, gross distortions of the truth ", while the British government issued a formal statement declaring the Duke's unwavering loyalty during the war.