New research could help detectives determine whether a fingerprint is associated with a crime, temporally as well as spatiall They can now be dated to within a day of when they were made
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It has been difficult to work out how old fingerprints are—until now
They can now be dated to within a day of when they were made They can now be dated to within a day of when they were made
A piece from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” (1787) fared less well. The first act finale fit the bill because of its spatial elements—the scene takes place at a ball with three different dance bands—but despite the talented singers wandering through the audience as they performed, wearing white dresses and extravagant white wigs, the effect was underwhelming. Their voices were swallowed by the huge space and co-ordination problems between soloists and the ensemble resulted in an un-Mozartian mess.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, a 20th-century German composer who died in 2007, rejected traditional musical forms and often refused commissions, preferring to create his own avant-garde spatial works, which incorporate the physical space as a prime element. One of his more outlandish works is the “Helicopter String Quartet”, an ensemble piece, performed by musicians on four separate helicopters, transmitted via video to listeners on the ground. Its premiere, and sole performance, was in 1995 at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam.
The gleanings turn out to be a mixture of the obvious, the paradoxical and the ambiguous. Take emotion. Brain-imaging experiments suggest that older people are better at regulating it. Young people get more neurologically fired up at the prospect of loss. And they are less willing to pass up a small reward today for a greater one tomorrow; in other words, they “discount” the future more steeply than the older people, even though it is the oldies who, with their limited time horizon, ought to be the big temporal discounters.
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The final crisis came over the Act of Succession with its inescapable implications. While the supposed nullity of Henry's marriage with Catherine of Aragon was still being decided at Rome, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was then crowned Queen. More refused to attend her coronation. In 1534 the Act of Succession required the king's subjects to recognize the offspring of the marriage of Henry and Anne as successors to the throne; also that the union with Catherine of Aragon was no true marriage, but that the union with Anne was a true marriage and that the authority of any foreign prince or potentate should be repudiated. To the first part of the oath More was ready to agree, but he could not accept the other propositions, especially as only a little while before Clement VII had at last pronounced the marriage of Henry and Catherine to have been valid. Opposing the Act had been declared high treason, so after a second refusal More and John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, were committed to the Tower. This was on 13 April 1534. More was imprisoned for the remaining fifteen months of his life. Many efforts were made to induce him to conform but in vain; he forfeited all his lands and his family shared his poverty. In 1535 the Act of Supremacy which gave to the king the title ‘only supreme head of the Church in England’ came into force. John Houghton and the other London Carthusian monks were executed for ‘treason’ on 4 May and were watched by More on the way to their death. On 22 June, Fisher, More's friend and adviser, was beheaded on Tower Hill; on 1 July More, weak from illness and imprisonment, was tried in Westminster Hall. His defence was that his indictment was based directly on an Act of Parliament repugnant to the laws of God and the Church; that no temporal prince can presume by any law to take upon himself a spiritual pre‐eminence given by Christ to St. Peter and his successors in the See of Rome; that a particular country could no more make laws against the general law of the Church than the City of London could make a law against Parliament to bind the whole country; that the new title was contrary to the king's coronation oath. Further, although bishops and universities had agreed to this Act, More had not found in seven years' special study of the subject a single ancient writer or doctor that advocated the spiritual supremacy of any secular and temporal prince. In Christendom itself learned bishops and virtuous men still alive, not to mention the saints who were dead, agreed with More; therefore he was not obliged to prefer the council of one realm against the General Council of Christendom or one Parliament (‘God knows what manner of one’) to all the Councils made these thousand years. Nevertheless, he was condemned to death. Characteristically he then expressed the hope that he and his judges may ‘hereafter in heaven all meet merrily together, to our everlasting salvation’. A last affectionate meeting with his daughter Margaret followed on his way back to the Tower; she and other members of his family had taken the oath which he refused. He was executed on Tower Hill on 6 July, his last words being that he died for the faith of the Holy Catholic Church and was ‘the king's good servant, but God's first’.最後的危機，隨著繼承法的無可逃避的意含而來。雖然亨利與阿拉貢的凱瑟琳的婚姻之無效論仍在羅馬裁決時，亨利與安 博林結婚，並將她加冕為王后。摩爾拒絕出席她的加冕禮。1534年，繼承法要求國王的臣民應承認亨利和安的後代為王位的繼承者;而與西班牙阿拉貢的Catherine的婚姻並非真正的，與安的婚姻才是真正的，又任何外國公親或君主的權威應該不予承認。對於上述誓言的第一部分，摩爾準備同意，但他無法接受後者，特別是在克萊門特七世教宗接下來就會宣判亨利和凱瑟琳的婚姻已有效的時候。反對該法案最終會被宣判為犯了叛國罪，所以第二次拒絕宣誓之後，摩爾與羅切斯特主教約翰 費舍爾就被投入倫敦塔關起來。當時是1534年4月13日。摩爾生命的最後15個月一直都被囚禁在那兒。許多作了相當的努力來勸他依順法律來宣誓，可都沒成功；他的所有地產都被沒收，家人淪為窮人。在1535至高無上法案賦予國王“英格蘭教會的唯一最高負責人”的稱號生效了。5月4日，約翰 霍頓和其他倫敦嘉都西會(Carthusian)會員以“叛國罪”被處決，他們赴義途中特別安排給摩爾看到。6月22日，費舍爾，摩爾的朋友和顧問，被斬首於倫敦塔山坡。 7月1日，摩爾因監禁而體弱多病，在西敏寺的大廳受審。他的答辯是，他的起訴書乃是直接基於與上帝和教會的法律相抵觸的議會法案，沒有任何世俗王公或法律可以凌駕來自神基督和聖彼得繼任者羅馬給予他的精神力量，正如倫敦金融城不可通過法律來約束國會，所以國會無法可依來稱其臣民有違國王的的加冕誓言之罪。
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temporalの意味 -
temporal
音節tem • po • ral
発音témpərəl
[形]〔通例限定〕((形式))
1時の，時間の
1a《文法》時の，時を表す；時制の
2一時の，つかの間の，はかない
3現世の，この世の（⇔spiritual）
temporal affairs
俗事
3a世俗［俗人］の（⇔ecclesiastical）
temporal lords＝lords temporal
((英))聖職者以外の上院議員語源［原義は「時間の」］
tem・po・ral1の派生語
temporally 副
temporal 2
音節tem • po • ral
発音témpərəl
[形]名《解剖》側頭の［部，骨］
temporal prince.世俗王公
i・mam
also I·mam n. Islam.
- In law and theology, the caliph who is successor to Muhammad as the lawful temporal leader of the Islamic community.
- The male prayer leader in a mosque.
- The Muslim worshiper who leads the recitation of prayer when two or more worshipers are present.
- A male spiritual and temporal leader regarded by Shiites as a descendant of Muhammad divinely appointed to guide humans.
- An earthly representative of the 12 such leaders recognized by the majority form of Shiism.
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