However, there were more ancient measures that were also farthingales.

However, there have been many wild claims of ancient mid eastern ancestry ( including Assyrian ) throughout Europe, Africa and even the Americas, none of which have been supported by mainstream opinion or strong evidence, let alone proof.

However, there is controversy about whether they were genuinely recorded at the time or merely ascribed to ancient rulers by posterity.

However, other ancient witnesses ( such as the Old Syriac Version, 2nd century ) put John's time on Patmos during the reign of Nero.

However, the similarity between the central concerns of Job and those of certain ancient Babylonian and Egyptian texts reveals a shared interest in the question of why the innocent suffer.

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

However, an earlier version of events by the same ancient author downplays Agrippa's role — so it is not known how large a hand he had in things.

However, the Council is not accepted by several of the ancient eastern churches, including the Oriental Orthodox of Egypt, Syria and Armenia, and the Assyrian Church of the East.

However, ancient as well as modern scholars have doubted the legitimacy of such inscriptions.

However, both the serpent and the spirit serve as jealous guardians of the graves of kings or ancient civilizations.

However, Valla added the translation of ancient Greek works on mathematics ( firstly by Archimedes ), newly discovered and translated.

However, wine flavored with wormwood goes back to ancient Rome.

However, some have taken the feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent, and the antebellum American South.

However, it soon became clear that Henry was not willing to concede his presumed and ancient right to name the pope and bishops within his kingdom.

However, not all such grimoires of this era were based upon Arabic sources ; the 13th century the Sworn Book of Honorius for instance was, like the ancient Testament of Solomon before it, largely based upon the supposed teachings of the Biblical king Solomon, and also included ideas such as prayers and a ritual circle, with the mystical purpose of having visions of God, Hell and Purgatory, and gaining much wisdom and knowledge as a result.

However, there were those who did not believe this, for instance the Fransiscan friar Roger Bacon ( c. 1214-1294 ) stated that books falsely claiming to be by ancient authors " ought to be prohibited by law ".

However, Galen and the ancient Greek medical tradition generally continued to be studied and followed in the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the Byzantine Empire.

However, Guarducci also states that in 1950 an ancient image of Mary at the Church of Santa Francesca Romana was determined to be a very exact, but reverse mirror image of the original circular icon that was made in the 5th century and brought to Rome, where it has remained until the present.

However, in view of the difficulty in finding accurate counts in the first place, Caesar's propagandistic purposes, and the common exaggeration of numbers in ancient texts, the stated totals of enemy combatants are likely to be too high.

However, studies of ancient DNA have revealed that in prehuman times it was far more widespread up the west coast of the South Island and was present in the lower half of the North Island where it was the only kiwi species detected.

However, in the 11th century, the Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, drawing on ancient legends of the fallen angel or angels, brought back to the mainstream of rabbinic thought the personification of evil and the corresponding myth.

However, the ancient Ligurian language, which probably was Indo-European, is not directly connected to the Italian dialect spoken by the modern inhabitants of Liguria, nor to the modern Monegasque language.

However, the ancient Romans recognized the health benefits of a simple or " frugal " diet ( from the Latin fruges, the common name given to cereals, vegetables and legumes ) and thick vegetable soups and vegetables remained a staple.

However, the Arab invasions came at a time when both ancient powers were exhausted from the protracted Byzantine – Sassanid Wars, particularly the bitterly fought Byzantine – Sassanid War of 602 – 628 which had brought both empires close to collapse.

However, others of late have come to favour a different hypothesis: that the Frankish Kingdom comprised several regna ( loosely translated as kingdoms ) that since ancient times had maintained different customs and dialects.

However, the endemic radiation of adapids in the early and middle Eocene of Europe included a number of taxa ( e. g., Anchomomys ) that were very small ( about 250 g or less ) and partly insectivorous.

However, the Vikings lacked both the equipment necessary to undertake a siege against the burh and a developed doctrine of siegecraft, having tailored their methods of fighting to rapid strikes and unimpeded retreats to well defended fortifications.

However the original kit version lacked many features that prevented its use as a serious computer system.

However, with his campaigns in India exhausting the state treasury, and with his troops stretched thin throughout Central Asia, Ahmad Shah lacked sufficient resources to check the advance of Qing forces.

However, based on skeletal details of the neck, at least some Borophaginae ( such as Aelurodon ) are believed to have lacked this ligament.

However, the spring offensives all failed, as the Allies fell back and regrouped, and the Germans lacked the reserves necessary to consolidate their gains.

However, even in the 18th century, the vast majority of people in Europe lacked formal schooling, which means they were homeschooled or received no education at all.

However by the time this was achieved the Luftwaffe lacked the fuel and trained pilots to make this achievement worth while.

However, it lacked the rate of fire of the longbow.

However, that agency had little power and lacked a centralized coordination mechanism.

However, these interim bodies lacked any independent authority or de jure sovereignty, which was still held by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea based in China, but U. S. leaders chose to ignore its legitimacy, partly due to the belief that it was communist-aligned.

However, it lacked a definitive subject, being a combination of geography and ethnography created as the more concrete counterpart to the rather theoretical sociology.

However, Besser was not solely to blame for the lackluster quality of these final entries: the scripts were tired rehashes of earlier efforts ( 7 of the 16 films were remakes ) and Moe and Larry's performances lacked energy.

However, Harrison was seen as more of a reformer than his father, which helped him garner the middle class votes his father had lacked.

However, this solution was imperfect as it lacked the original abstractness.

However, he lacked the skills and experience to deal with these problems.

However, because they lacked capital and the planters continued to own the means of production ( tools, draft animals and land ), the freedmen were forced into producing cash crops ( mainly cotton ) for the land-owners and merchants, and they entered into a crop-lien system.

However, because of the predicted thousand years until the rise of the next Empire ( of which only a few hundred had elapsed ), the series lacked a sense of closure.

However, P ' yongyang ultimately lacked confidence in getting simultaneous help from Beijing and Moscow.

However, as plastids only appear in relatively derived ( as opposed to ancestral ) groups, others argue the alveolates originally lacked them and possibly the dinoflagellates and Apicomplexa acquired them separately.

However, it does not guarantee a decision by an independent court: on 23 October 1985 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Crown Appeal by the Council of State, then by exclusion the highest administrative appeal court, lacked the necessary independence.

However, the Hornets lacked the experience and depth to defeat the New York Knicks, falling in five games in the second round.

However, the Jews of the city lacked the necessary funds.

However, the NRC faced the same problems in obtaining accurate information as the state, and was further hampered by being organizationally ill-prepared to deal with emergencies, as it lacked a clear command structure and the authority to tell the utility what to do, or to order an evacuation of the local area.

However, such small political entities often survived only for short periods because they lacked the resources to defend themselves against incursions by larger states.

However, as the North American and PAL hardware lacked this chip, the releases outside of Japan feature only the PSG soundtrack.