In "Parsifal," the character Kundry explains the origin of her curse, which was her mocking laughter at Christ.
This explains the origin of "schools" of Romanesque families of designs inspired by successful buildings in a local context.
One of its great virtues, cosmologists say, is that inflation explains the origin of galaxies, the main citizens of the cosmos.
Accordingly, an etiologic tale explains the origin of a custom, state of affairs, or natural feature in the human or divine world.
Dynamo theory, geophysical theory that explains the origin of Earth's main magnetic field in terms of a self-exciting (or self-sustaining) dynamo.
The New Yorker, October 9, 1926 P. 17 Gentleman explains the origin of the Black Bottom by telling a group that it simulated the movements of a cow mired in black bottom river mud.
Physicists at the collider say they hope to capture that particle, which supposedly explains the origin of mass, and perhaps a few other particles that could point to an extension of the model.
"Fortunately," written, directed and designed by Judith Martin, the troupe's artistic director, with the assistance of Ted Brackett, includes wonderful skits like "Bow Wow," which explains the origin of human writing in terms anthropologists have never considered.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America explains the origin of this dish: "Natives taught settlers how to cook beans with maple sugar and bear fat in a pit filled with hot stones or ashes".
