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unusual facts about self-discipline



4th of August Regime

The regime promoted the perceived Spartan ideals of self-discipline, militarism and collective sacrifice, while Byzantium provided an emphasis on a centralized state and devotion to the monarchy and Greek Orthodox Church.

Aceh Tsunami Museum

The museum walls are adorned with images of people performing the Saman dance, a symbolic gesture dedicated to the strength, discipline and religious beliefs of the Acehnese people.

Ajume Wingo

Hailing from Nso, a kingdom located in the North West Province of Cameroon, Ajume Wingo received much of his early education from Christian and Muslim missionaries, and from a Bedouin teacher (whose title of Mallam Gargari translates to "invincible teacher") known for his toughness and draconian style of discipline.

Albert Krantz

As dean of the cathedral chapter, to which office he was appointed in 1508, Krantz applied himself with zeal to the reform of ecclesiastical abuses, but, though opposed to various corruptions connected with church discipline, he had little sympathy with the drastic measures of Wycliffe or Huss.

Ancient Diocese of Vaison

Two rather important councils as regards Gallican ecclesiastical discipline were held at Vaison in 442 and 529, the latter under the presidency of St. Caesarius.

Anton Breinl Centre

The Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Anton Breinl Centre or the ABC) is a constituent discipline of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, and specialises in public health and tropical medicine.

Apostolici

Apostolici Ministerii was a papal bull issued 23 May 1724 by Pope Innocent XIII for the revival of ecclesiastical discipline in Spain.

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

Later the same day, however, at the Battle of Cacabelos, British Rifleman Thomas Plunket, a noted sharpshooter in the 95th Rifles, one of the British units still under effective military discipline, advanced alone towards the French.

Battle of the Cosmin Forest

However, once back in open space, the Poles were able again to take advantage of their heavy cavalry, and that part of the remaining troops which managed to retain a measure of order and discipline succeeded in crossing back into Poland - despite a Stephen's last effort to engage the remnants of the king's army in a battle of annihilation when they were trying to ford the Prut river at Cernǎuţi.

Battle of the Gediz

Although the battle temporarily stopped the Greek advance towards Ankara, it also showed that the irregular forces lacked discipline and experience; they had little chance in open field battles against the Greeks.

Bhadda Kapilani

As an arahant bhikkhuni, Bhadda spent most of her time in the education of the younger nuns and instructing them in monastic discipline (Vinaya).

Blake Stein

He is now Assistant Principal for Discipline and Attendance at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School.

Cabalist

Kabbalah, an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought

Charles Rowan

Rowan was to provide the military discipline and organisation that it was felt the new police force needed and the junior Commissioner, barrister Richard Mayne, was to provide the legal expertise.

Cuban refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

The refugees who represented discipline or security problems were held on the site that would later become Camp XRay, the initial site of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Cyril of Barcelona

He failed to restore ecclesiastical discipline, and displeased both Charles III and Trespalacios, Bishop of Havana, to whose care the mission was committed since 1787.

Dr. Robert Walter Johnson House and Tennis Court

Stressing sportsmanship and discipline, Johnson trained stars such as Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe, the first African-Americans to ever win at Wimbledon.

Du Yuanying

While later serving as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), he was further blamed for failure of discipline that caused his soldiers to provoke a major Nanzhao invasion against Xichuan, leading to his exile.

Edward Livingston

His Code of Reform and Prison Discipline was adopted by the government of the short-lived United States of Central America under liberal president Francisco Morazán.

Gad Horowitz

Horowitz teaches a class at the University of Toronto entitled "The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship" which revolves around general semantics, a non-Aristotelian educational discipline first theorized by Polish engineer Alfred Korzybski.

Galaxy classification

Galaxy classification is classification by means of and for the discipline of astronomy.

Gnesio-Lutherans

The Gnesio-Lutherans exercised strict doctrinal discipline, but they also opposed with equal determination what they considered to be the errors of their fellow-combatants like von Amsdorf (Amsdorfians), Flacius (Flacians), Poach, and others.

Helen Crabtree

Helen Crabtree (December 14, 1915 – January 4, 2002) was a significant equitation coach in the discipline of Saddle seat riding as well as a breeder of American Saddlebred horses.

Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics

The Plaskett Fellowship is named after John Stanley Plaskett and is awarded to an outstanding, recent doctoral graduate in astrophysics or a closely related discipline.

Human ecology

Scholarship has increasingly tended away from Gerald L. Young's idea of a "unified theory" of human ecological knowledge—that human ecology may emerge as its own discipline—and more toward the pluralism best espoused by Paul Shepard: that human ecology is healthiest when "running out in all directions.".

Industrial relations

In Britain, another progressive industrialist, Montague Burton, endowed chairs in industrial relations at Leeds, Cardiff and Cambridge in 1930, and the discipline was formalized in the 1950s with the formation of the Oxford School by Allan Flanders and Hugh Clegg.

Interdisciplinarity

This has been echoed by federal funding agencies, particularly the NIH under the Direction of Elias Zerhouni, who have advocated that grant proposals be framed more as interdisciplinary collaborative projects than single researcher, single discipline ones.

Interlingua Division of Science Service

The Interlingua Division also made publications of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) available, facilitated contacts among professionals of the same discipline, and opened IALA's extensive library, which included technical and general dictionaries, to the public at no cost.

Jean-Noël Augert

Nicknamed "Rosko", he was however a specialist of the slalom discipline, in which he won three World Cups in 1969-1972, and in which he won a Gold medal at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena.

Jeremy Brizzi

Jeremy graduated from Cary-Grove High School in 1994, attending McHenry County College as a music major college and Western Illinois University as a business management major before choosing discipline and direction through the United States Army.

Joseph Paton Maclay, 1st Baron Maclay

Maclay rejected Admiral Jellicoe’s arguments that convoys presented too large a target to U-Boats, and that merchant ship masters lacked the discipline to “keep station” in a convoy (from personal experience, he knew the latter to be false).

Julia Kristeva

One of Kristeva's most important propositions is the semiotic, as distinct from the discipline of semiotics founded by Saussure.

Karl Sudhoff

Karl Sudhoff (26 November 1853, Frankfurt am Main - 8 October 1938, Salzwedel) was a German historian of medicine, important in establishing that field as a legitimate discipline for research and teaching within faculties of medicine.

Léon Croizat

Panbiogeography is a discipline based on the analysis of patterns of distribution of organisms.

Order of Penitents

Fasting, which had always been part of the penitential discipline, became more regularized, and three major times of fasting were observed, Advent, Lent (prior to Easter), and a period after Pentecost.

Pagan studies

Pagan studies scholar Chas S. Clifton argued that the discipline had developed as a result of the increasing "academic acknowledgement" of contemporary Paganism's "movement into the public eye", referring to the emergence of Pagan involvement with interfaith groups and the Pagan use of archaeological monuments as "sacred sites", particularly in the United Kingdom.

The earliest academic studies of contemporary Paganism were published in the late 1970s and 1980s by scholars like Margot Adler, Marcello Truzzi and Tanya Luhrmann, although it would not be until the 1990s that the actual Pagan studies discipline properly developed, pioneered by academics such as Graham Harvey and Chas S. Clifton.

Peter Seidel

(This book is based on a proposed new discipline by eminent political scientist John H. Herz to be called Survival Science. Chapters written by scholars from various disciplines explain how their field relates to the subject of human survival. If we are to confront survival seriously, we must look at the broad range of subjects that affect it.)

Prince Edward's Gate

Prince Edward had orders from his brother Prince Frederick, the Duke of York, to restore a sense of military discipline at the garrison.

Rainer Wend

According to Wend important elements of crisis management are besides budget discipline and structural reforms in the affected countries a greater convergence of economic and financial policies of the EU members towards a “political union”.

Rodrigo Rodriguez

He has lived and studied shakuhachi in Japan under the discipline of the Master Kaoru Kakizakai in The International Shakuhachi Kenshunkan School and with Kohachiro Miyata one of Japan's leading players of the shakuhachi.

Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch

It is thought to be the oldest English-language academic organization now existing that is devoted exclusively to the discipline known as Korean Studies.

Schellas Hyndman

Hyndman is also an established Aiki Ju-Jutsu coach, and has been teaching the discipline for over 25 years in the Dallas area.

Scratch track

Scratch track race or Scratch race, a track cycling discipline in which all riders start together

Sérgio da Rocha

He received a licentiate in moral theology at the Theological Faculty Nossa Senhora da Assunção, São Paulo, and a doctorate in the same discipline at the Alphonsian Academy, Rome.

Soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games

Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 2006 Asian Games.

Sophie Dodemont

Dodemont later converted to the compound discipline, achieving success including a team bronze medal at the 2013 World Archery Championships.

Three Kingdoms of Korea

This is different from the concept of state (guk or Sino ko: 國, walled-town state, etc.) in the discipline of Korean History.

Travancore

In this battle, the admiral of the Dutch, Eustachius De Lannoy, was captured; later he joined the Travancore army and rose up to become the commander of the Tranvancore forces and modernised the Travancore army by introducing better firearms, artillery and the European style of military drills and discipline.

Ubi Primum

Ubi Primum (Pius IX, 1847) is an encyclical of Pope Pius IX to the abbots, provincial superiors, and the heads of the Christian religious orders about discipline in religion.


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Paul Starling

It was as an Australian Army officer himself that Paul Starling developed his early leadership skills and the self discipline that helped him build the reputation of Gōjū-ryū via the Sydney Goju Kai Dojo and the Macquarie University Karate Club, into successful traditional Japanese Dojo.