Since this class is an ancestor of every other class, such methods can be called on any object.

He cited Richard Owen's findings that the earliest members of a class were a few simple and generalised species with characteristics intermediate between modern forms, and were followed by increasingly diverse and specialised forms, matching the branching of common descent from an ancestor.

Like most Niger – Congo languages, the ancestor of Gur languages probably had a noun class system ; many of today's languages have reduced this to a system of nominal genders or declensions or no longer have a class system.

: See also Ríg for the account in Norse mythology of the warrior Jarl or Ríg-Jarl presented as the ancestor of the class of warrior-nobles.

VCL forms a class hierarchy with a common ancestor, the TComponent class ( which inherits from TObject, the root class in Delphi Object Pascal ).

In Ruby, the Object class ( ancestor of every class ) provides < tt > Object # instance_of ?</ tt > and < tt > Object # kind_of ?</ tt > methods for checking the instance's class.

Diode – transistor logic ( DTL ) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistor – transistor logic.

In the Poetic Edda poem Rígsþula, the blond man Jarl is considered to be the ancestor of the dominant warrior class.

In ' Prehistoric Avebury ' Burl proposes that Circles and Henge monuments, far from being astronomical observatories for a class of ' astronomer priests ' were more likely used for ritualistic practices, connected with death and fertility rites, and ancestor worship, similar to practices observed in other agriculutral cultures ( in particular the rituals of Native North American Tribes such as the Algonquin and the Pawnee ).

In technical terms, a class driver is used as a base or ancestor class for specific drivers which need to have slightly different or extended functionality, but which can take advantage of the majority of the functionality provided by the class driver.

Bryce was born to a Anglo-Peruvian family of upper class, related to John Bryce Weddle, ancestor of the Marquesses of Milford-Haven and of the duchesses of Abercon and Westminster.

This can be used to avoid the problem of ambiguous hierarchy composition ( known as the " diamond problem ") by clarifying ambiguity over which ancestor class to use, as from the perspective of the deriving class ( B in the example above ) the virtual base ( V ) acts as though it were the direct base class of B, not a class derived indirectly through its base ( A ).

Basing action on the empirical determination of cause and effect provides a toughness and bravado that no powerful otherworldly ancestor could ever impart -- plus the added liberation from the constraint of silent burial urns.

A fine summation of the position which Ryle is combating is the famous statement by Ralph Waldo Emerson that, " The ancestor of every action is a thought.

In light of Ryle's critique, we may translate the statement by Emerson ( still very much in common currency ) into, " The ancestor of every action is an action.

However, his plan was foiled on both fronts — Megatron arose from the pit, mutated by the power of his ancestor into a massive new dragon form, one he quickly used to full effect on the traitor, first roasting him with blasts of fire then telling him that while Megatron could suffer Tarantulas ' treachery, he could not suffer his incompetence ( likely meaning that this action was too much for him tolerate ), and threw him into the lava pit himself, finishing with " Treachery requires NO mistakes ".

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the ancestor of all alphabets in the West.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.

Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

# The head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests, and an ancestor of Zecharias the priest, who was the father of John the Baptist.

* ( m. 1381 )-Devlet Shah Hâtûn-Daughter of Yakub Shah of Germiyanids, Descendant of Rumi through his son Sultan Walad's daughter Mutahhara Hatun who was an ancestor of Yakub Shah ;

It has been speculated that his ancestor Iddo was the head of a priestly family who returned with Zerubbabel (), and that Zechariah may himself have been a priest as well as a prophet.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

Vordenburg is an authority on vampires and has discovered that his ancestor was romantically involved with the Countess Karnstein, before she died and became one of the undead.

They are named after the Biblical character Cush, who was traditionally identified as an ancestor of the speakers of these specific languages as early as AD 947 ( in Masudi's Arabic history Meadows of Gold ).

In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.

The last common ancestor of all eukaryotes was a ciliated cell with centrioles.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

He was proud of his paternal ancestor, a Franco-Swiss immigrant Jacob Trumbo ( likely anglicized spelling ), who settled in the colony of Virginia in 1736.

David (; Dawid ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to Christian scripture ( Matthew and Luke ), an ancestor of Jesus.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.

The first known ancestor of multi-shot weapons was created by James Puckle, a London lawyer, who patented what he called " The Puckle Gun " on May 15, 1718.

The fourth season saw Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the imprisoned scientist Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator ( Dr. Noonien Soong, also played by Spiner in at least two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ), in a three-episode arc at the end of which Soong abandons the concept of improving mankind in favor of creating artificial intelligence: an allusion to what will eventually become Data.

PTEN can be seen as the ancestor of what would become UPN and The WB, since Chris-Craft later became a partner in UPN, while Warner Bros. launched The WB at roughly the same time.

Whether or not the ancestor receives what is offered is not the issue.

It is in that sense that the translation ancestor veneration may convey a more accurate sense of what practitioners, such as the Chinese and other Buddhist-influenced and Confucian-influenced societies, see themselves as doing.

" Leaf " forms typically spring sideways from the stem, in what is often called a " half-palmette " form, named after its distant and very different looking ancestor in Ancient Egyptian and Greek ornament.

Looking for an ancestor named John Henry Pittman, who you think was born in ( probably eastern ) Tennessee circa 1853 ( based on statements of his age in later censuses, and a marriage record in Knoxville ), what is the likelihood that a particular birth record for " John Pittman " is your John Pittman?

On Funafuti and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa ; whereas on Nanumea the founding ancestor is described as being from Tonga ; These stories can be linked to what is known about the Samoa-based Tu ' i Manu ' a Confederacy, ruled by the holders of the Tu ' i Manu ' a title, which confederacy likely included much of Western Polynesia and some outliers at the height of its power in the 10th and 11th centuries.

The feud was originally started by an ancestor of Fred's making a wisecrack about a Hatrock family portrait (" I don't know what the artist got for doing that painting, but he should have gotten life !").

Tribes and sub-tribes are mostly named after an ancestor ( either male or female ): for example, Ngati Kahungunu means ' descendants of Kahungunu ' ( a famous chief who lived mostly in what is now called the Hawke's Bay region ).

She speculates that in our ancestor ’ s times, the act of sex or emotional infidelity is what triggered jealousy.

The belief that two kami, Kunitokodachi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto, were the original founders and rulers of Japan, who were driven away by Amaterasu Ōmikami, the divine ancestor of the imperial line, is what placed this religion in opposition to the government in pre-war Japan.

His youngest son William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford-the ancestor of what was first the Earl of Stafford and later Baron Stafford.

However, in the third film, when his ancestor Seamus McFly points out that Seamus's brother, Martin, was killed in an argument where someone questioned his bravery, Marty began to re-think his stance on what other people thought of him.

He proposed that Western Australia had been colonised on two separate occasions, once by a common ancestor of all three forms ( which became the Long-billed Black Cockatoo ), and later by what has become the Short-billed Black Cockatoo.

An important motivation for the group was, what they considered, deficiencies in prior angiosperm classifications since they were not based on monophyletic groups ( i. e. groups that include all the descendants of a common ancestor ).

In 1962 Masters learned what he had apparently long suspected, that he did indeed have a distant Indian ancestor.

However it remains unclear to what extent he was its technological ancestor rather than a mere precursor.

The ancestor of Magadhi, from which its name derives, Magadhi Prakrit, was spoken in the eastern Indian subcontinent, in a region spanning what is now eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

In his fiftieth year of reigning, Sigmar abdicated and set off to see what lay beyond the Worlds Edge Mountains to the east, in a similar fashion to the Dwarf ancestor / warrior deity Grimnir the Fearless, who legendarily strode off into the Chaos Wastes to do battle with the Powers of the Warp.

Ring species provide important evidence of evolution in that they illustrate what happens over time as populations genetically diverge, and are special because they represent in living populations what normally happens over time between long deceased ancestor populations and living populations, in which the intermediates have become extinct.