A definitive guide, Quidditch Through the Ages charts the game's history
from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, to the modern - day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world.
First, the very strong connection,
from its earliest origins, between physics and religion; second, the way physics mimics the Catholic Church as one of the last strongholds of male supremacy.
Across the pond, Mark Cousins ««Story Of Film: An Odyssey» was a 15 - hour documentary about, well, the medium itself,
from its earliest origins to recent FX - filled blockbusters.
Not exact matches
We now finally get to the
earliest known
origin which was
from the Hellenistic Greek «mustax», meaning «upper lip», which may or may not have come
from the Hellenistic Greek «mullon», meaning «lip».
The intermediate - range missile is launched
from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang's international airport and the
origin of the
earlier missile that flew over Japan.
Until her escape
earlier this year, she had been sold five times to IS men of Saudi, Syrian, and Iraqi
origin — the last one, a medical doctor
from Mosul, she said.
«Emoji have developed
from their 12 × 12 pixel
origins on
early Japanese cellphones to the major cross-cultural mode of expression they are today.
In the later Book as in the
earlier, the word sweeps the gamut
from breath soul, which was its
origin, to interior spiritual life and character, which was its culmination.
Its distinction
from Mark's theology is not its
origin, but its point of departure — perhaps
from an
earlier level than Mark's — and its transcendental or metaphysical development, which in the end left that of Mark far behind, though chronologically Mark is some years later than Paul.
It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours
from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the
early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its
origins and growth.
While this book itself is too late in
origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes
from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and
early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.
It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving
from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of
early Christian
origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.
While there is some element of truth in this, it is only so because Israel herself necessarily reflected in her
earliest period the traits of the mythological
origins from which she emerged.
Though possessing many common cultural traits found also in Europe and the West, the much closer similarities between the cultures of Iran or Persia and India have led scholars to distinguish an Indo - Iranian branch of the larger whole as having
early separated itself
from the central or original Aryan migration, perhaps moving eastward
from the, as yet, not certainly located
origin of the Aryan group.
Classical Pentecostals trace their
origins back to revivals of the
early 1900's (
from Azuza Street to rural North Carolina and Tennessee).
In this sense, God's Fatherhood as explored
earlier in the Catechism, in terms of His relationship as Creator and carer of all things, is radically different
from the unique Fatherhood that Jesus reveals is His personal
Origin in a unique and incomparable way.
But evolution per se doesn't concern itself with life's
origin, but on how later forms of life stemmed
from earlier forms.
Applied to Christian
origins, historical method will seek to ferret out the
earliest and most reliable reports about Jesus and,
from them, to reconstruct the sayings and deeds that may most plausibly be attributed to Jesus and his circle.
He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than
origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the
early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear
from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.
He emphasized repeatedly the enormous value of this kind of personal contact with the contemporary religious forms for the student of religion who ordinarily studies these forms only
from literary documents belonging largely to the historical
origins or
early classical epochs of those religions.
It apparently had its
origin in the south (Judah), and it takes for granted the knowledge of the divine name, «Yahweh,»
from the
earliest times (Gen. 4:26).
These churches are usually full of young and
early - middle - aged adults, some of whom feel alienated
from their congregations and denominations of
origin because they «were not heard,» or were denied leadership opportunities, or were discouraged when innovations that they proposed were rejected.
Outlook Group has come a long way
from its
origins printing baseball and Trivial Pursuit cards during the
early 1980s.
Lion's rival, Carlton & United Breweries, which is now part of the Anheuser - Busch InBev global conglomerate, expanded its Great Northern Super Crisp beer into a national brand
from early 2015
from its original Queensland
origins.
Adapted
from one of Thomas Jefferson's recipes, polenta, with its
origins in Italy, resembles America's cornmeal mush, a staple in the US diet since the nation's very
early days.
The complex political narrative is mirrored by an unpredictable plot, reflecting the story's real - life
origin from the
early 2000's.
Country of
Origin — As noted
earlier, there aren't many regulations that protect your dog
from bad manufacturers, and the industry relies on the honor system.
Uncertain krypton measures
from earlier probes presented two possibilities: Venusian levels could match Earth's, indicating the two planets probably formed
from similar ingredients in the primordial nebula, or they could differ enough to force scientists to toss out their theories on Venus's
origins.
A family tree constructed
from the DNA data puts today's Southeast Asian breeds on the
earliest branch, implying an
origin in Asia.
Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research
from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «
Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal
origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.
Whereas methodological concerns plagued those
early studies, modern genomic techniques combined with the ability to extract DNA
from well - preserved fossils are inching scientists ever closer to the elusive question of Fido's
origins.
The analysis confirms the conclusion reached in an
earlier study, which dated the
origin of animals to the Neoproterozoic Era, which lasted
from 1000 to 540 million years ago.
Instead of approaching the
origins - of - life puzzle
from a chemistry perspective, Ranjan looked at it
from a planetary perspective, attempting to identify the actual conditions that might have existed on
early Earth, around the time the first organisms appeared.
This had been predicted as a relic
from when hot ionized plasma of the
early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the
origin and evolution of the universe.
The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the
origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed
from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts
early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.
The event's unusual characteristics have led researchers to dust off one of the
earliest theories for the
origin of gamma - ray bursts: that they come
from comets that stray too close to neutron stars.
However, the idea fell out of favour in the
early 20th century when Gerhard Heilmann, a Danish artist and scientist, published a hugely influential book, The
Origin of Birds, arguing that birds evolved directly
from a primitive archosaur, a reptilian group which also gave rise to dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles.
«These findings demonstrate a single
origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our
earliest relatives transitioned
from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US.
Earliest mysticete
from the late Eocene of Peru sheds new light on the
origin of baleen whales.
The vaccine that has been tested in the United States was made
from a cold - causing chimpanzee adenovirus that had been engineered to express proteins
from two species of the Ebola virus, known as Zaire and Sudan (after their
origins), and that was already available when the trial began in
early September.
So
from our humble
origins, my title developed into «Director of Production for Starbucks Coffee EMEA» and I now found myself in the corporate environment that I had tried to avoid several years
earlier.
«In other words, the factors that set our lineage apart
from our
earlier ancestors were unrelated to an increase in body size, which has been the linchpin of numerous adaptive hypotheses on the
origins of our genus.»
But genetic studies of modern animals had suggested that all of these creatures evolved
from a single - celled ancestor that lived at least 100 million years before that, leaving a huge gap between the estimated
origin of animals and the appearance of the
earliest known animal fossils.
Early images
from the Mariner 10 spacecraft unveiled a planet covered by smooth plains and cratered plains of unclear
origin.
In fact, plenty of «our» DNA has foreign
origins —
from extinct
early humans to viruses — and can have both good and bad effects on health.
As he wrote in his published commentary, «While many have concentrated on East Africa as the key and perhaps sole region for the
origins of the genus Homo, the continuing surprises emerging
from further south remind us that Africa is a huge continent that even now is largely unexplored for its
early human fossils.»
UNLV geoscientists Christopher Adcock, Oliver Tschauner, Elisabeth Hausrath, Arya Udry, Minghua Ren, and a team of interna - tional researchers looked at the shock - induced dehydration of minerals in meteorites, includ - ing those
from Mars, and have concluded that our
early solar system may have had more water than previously thought, which has important implications for the
origins of our solar system and the possibility of life out - side of Earth.
Such a view would yield a treasure trove of information
from which to deduce the
early history of structure formation, and the
origin of the stars, galaxies, clusters and quasars that we see today.
His research originally focussed on understanding the
early evolution of the arthropods, and now studies the
origins of the animals
from both palaeontological and developmental perspectives.
Although the diversity of sponges and their uncertain phylogeny make it doubtful that any single species can reveal the intricacies of
early animal evolution, comparison of the A. queenslandica draft genome with sequences
from other species can provide a conservative estimate of the genome of the common ancestor of all animals and the timing and nature of the genomic events that led to the
origin and
early evolution of animal lineages.