These know it alls, they're Rainman style savants sitting at home memorizing the phone book.

Professor Smith is recognized to be one of the greatest scholars in English philology.

Other scholars believe that they are the descendants of Slavs, for the same very reasons, or of the Alans.

Some scholars believe Article 112 is the world s harshest and needs to be overhauled.

Because many scholars who study the history of Islamic thought Muslim scholars or Westerners think that actually the practice of dividing men and women physically came as a later development in Islam, as Muslims adopted some preexisting cultures and traditions of the Middle East.

Kyoto Antai ji was founded in 1923 by Oka Sotan as a monastery for scholars to study the Shōbōgenzō.

So, in true web fashion they put together a poll where they had a bunch of very erudite, very thoughtful, cultured names.

He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.

I've not seen corresponding figures for elite scholars in other fields, such history or philosophy, but I'd be surprised if they were different.

It also means persuading Muslim religious leaders and scholars to make the case that IS's behavior is illegitimate from the standpoint of Islam.

Scholars, thinkers, intellectuals, writers, scientists, people of arts, culture and media and the youth, who play an instrumental role in initiation and sustainment of dialogue among civilizations

At first they wrote in Greek, partly because a national style was not yet formed, and partly because Greek was the fashionable language amongst the educated, although Latin versions were probably published as well.

Some scholars have also asked whether Christophe took part of his inspiration for the palace from the Prussian emperor Frederick the Great's palace in Potsdam, Sanssouci, a symbol of European Enlightenment achievement.

His close connections with leading European scientists such as Galileo, with scholars and philosophers, kept him fully informed of the latest archaeological and scientific discoveries, for all of which he attempted to provide a visual record in his Museo .

The tradition of natural law offers an answer that was familiar to medieval scholars, for whom natural law was knowable to us by our natural reason (as opposed to those laws that could be discovered only through divine revelation).

Theories Starting with scholar Gabriel Turville Petre, scholars such as Rudolf Simek and John Lindow have theorized that Gullveig Heiðr is the same figure as Freyja, and that her involvement with the Æsir somehow led to the events of the Æsir Vanir War.

She was interrogated for tweets she published on her Twitter account and faces alleged charges of calling upon society to disobey by describing society as masculine as well as using sarcasm while mentioning religious texts and religious scholars.

During his career, Gerhard von Kügelgen painted portraits of Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder, August von Kotzebue, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottfried Seume, Ludwig Uhland, Zacharias Werner, Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern and other writers, artists and scholars of his time.

Some scholars consider the 'moți' as descendants of the Celts, because of their blonde hair and blue eyes, elements more frequent here than among other Romanians however, the hypothesis is not accepted by mainstream historians due to its lack of consistency.

In a sign of unity, a council of Sunni Muslim scholars in the eastern city of Lahore issued a fatwa, signed by 50 clerics, saying that the justifications cited by the girl s attackers were deviant and had no basis in Islamic law.

For decades, Western scholars have generally excused these atrocities in Germany and Hungary as revenge for German atrocities in the territory of the Soviet Union and for the mass killing of Soviet POWs (3.6 million dead out of total a 5.2 million POWs) by German armed forces.