Sentences with phrase «done by historians»

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We started at the library, and by talking to Olympic historians, which I didn't know actually existed up until then.

(Incidentally, we don't know how many people died in the Great Leap Forward, piled up in village ditches or abandoned on empty grasslands: the 16.5 million once given in official tolls or the 45 million estimated by some historians.)

I don't know if Friday, Oct. 10th will be heralded by historians as the bottom of this bear market, a day on which the Dow hit an intra-day low below 8,000, but I think it might be close.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

We know by historians that Jesus Christ walked the earth to say otherwise is ignorant and has not done research.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

The left - wing historian Eric Hobsbawm was asked by an interviewer whether his position doesn't come down to «saying that had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified.»

Historians have wrangled over whether George Washington established precedent by adding the phrase on his own during his first Inaugural acceptance, but the Library of Congress website states he did.

Many historians rightfully point out that by Jewish reckoning, any portion of a day was considered the whole day, this explanation still does not get us to three days and three nights.

The process by which this happened - by which concepts such as personal freedom, human rights and equality have been slowly distorted to mean something quite other than they did when Christian Europe gave birth to them - has been laboriously traced by historians of ideas such as Charles Taylor and Alastair Maclntyre.

This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

In addition their is a great book called the 7 Truths of the Bible that have nothing to do with proving religion but the historical facts as agreed upon by archaelogist / historians / anthropologists, many of whom are nonbelievers / skeptics / atheists

Historians don't ask you to believe the historicity of any other alleged event in history...» by faith».

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Mark is preaching the gospel; he is doing it by telling a story belonging to the world of actual fact: the world in which Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate played the parts on the public stage which secular historians ascribe to them; the world in which the machinery of Roman rule operated in ways known to all students of the period; the world which was disturbed by the familiar tensions and conflicts of the last half century of the Jewish state.

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.

These intensive analyses of the human scene by historian, social scientist, political scientist, and anthropologist, do not cover up the brutal, tragic record.

Two (Noel and Gier) discuss Altizer's relation to other nontraditional options for religious thought, and two are written by historians of religions (King and Eliade), who view Altizer in perspectives provided by the discipline in which he did his doctoral study.

What the Times did not reveal, however, is that the Corriere's sensational charges were immediately and severely criticized by a host of historians and experts; and that this criticism has only grown since.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

He did not even rate a mention by ANY contemporary historian.

The history of other periods has not been well served by theological interpretation, and where it has been done it has usually not been by those considered bona fide historians.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

But as historian Lawrence W. Levine puts it, if Bryan was destroyed by the trial, «he did a masterly job of concealing it during the five days of life remaining to him.»

However, ancient historians such as Josephus, who delighted in listing Herod's crimes, do not mention what would have been Herod's greatest crime by far.

Neither does the other illustration hear critical examination by the modern historian, but it is similarly eloquent of the Orient's deep - rooting in the far past.

For example, the records with which the historian has to deal do not penetrate, except by faith, into that life to which, so the Christian believes, existence on this planet is but a prelude.

I imagine that I have a more human view of prophetic inspiration than some Mormons do, since I am a historian who sees prophets as very much creatures of their times as well as people who are inspired by God — much like the prophets of the Old Testament.

Another constitutional historian, Carl Brent Swisher (also writing almost twenty years before Roe), remarked: «By handling the case in this manner, he [Taney] hoped he could do something toward suppressing anti-slavery agitation and ward off the conflict between the two sections of the country.

Except for this one quote, which does not mention the dish by name, historians of heat can find no documented evidence of chili in Texas before 1880.

The Greek historian Thucydides shrewdly wrote that when a nation makes too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors it winds up having its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

By Angelique Piwinski, Yonkers Historian Did you know that Yonkers is home to one of the most historic bells in the America with direct ties...

Margaret Thatcher's fame, however, did not arise from the undergraduate degree she earned at Oxford University, although she wrote her thesis under future chemistry Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, who declared her a «good» student, according to an article in Notes & Records of The Royal Society by historian of science Jon Agar.

He did not mention that his wife is the White House Aisha's age at the time she was married to Muhammad has been of interest since the earliest days of Islam, and references to her age by early historians

The Cuyahoga Falls City School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and Aisha's age at the time she was married to Muhammad has been of interest since the earliest days of Islam, and references to her age by early historians

It does not exist to be appreciated artistically, or to be thematically dissected by critics and film historians.

More satirically - oriented delights from the 1930s that deal not in resignation but social revolt, like Boudu sauvè des eaux (Boudu Saved from Drowning, Jean Renoir, 1932) and Zèro de conduite (Jean Vigo, 1933), do seem more modern in their openness and much looser in style, but lack, in the words of Swedish film historian Rune Waldekranz, the «attractive 1930s patina» that Carné's films have by now acquired (6).

But if you don't immediately grasp the reference being made, it shouldn't be missed by any video game enthusiast, or amateur historian.

He's played here by the old master Timothy Spall who pulls out yet another mesmerising performance as he channels the self - styled historian into something almost human and slightly comical, though he doesn't really get to stretch his legs.

The Blu - ray and DVD feature Rivette's 1956 short Le coup du berger, which stars Jean - Claude Brialy and features appearances by his fellow film critics (and future nouvelle vague filmmakers) Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut, and an interview with critic and historian Richard Neupert.

This release offers commentary by film historian Lem Dobbs with in - house historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman (who also founded the label), a trio that has done more than a few commentary tracks together, and their ease gives the track an easy - going quality as they dig into the film and offer historical and critical perspective.

Don't miss: Extras include a comparison between the alternate and theatrical versions with an introduction by film historian Robert Gitt.

A compilation by film historian Leonard Maltin of four episodes from the Disneyland TV anthology series, this 2 - disc set offers a glimpse into the past and a look at the groundbreaking work done by Walt and his «Imagineers» in the early years of the park.

Way back in 350 BCE, a Greek philosopher, thinker, mathematician, astrologer, historian and analyst, wrote:»... for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.»

Evaluate: How far do the contemporary sources and research by historians prove that Guy Fawkes was innocent or guilty?

Kindle did launch a public notes feature in 2011, which allows people to make their notes and highlights available to others, but some still worry digital marginalia won't be preserved as technology advances, leaving future historians without the kind of marginalia penned by people like Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen, and other historical figures.