Apart from Goya's surviving proofs - above all, a unique album with his handwritten captions in the British Museum's prints and drawings collection - there are no entirely "original" sets of the Disasters; published posthumously, it does not even have Goya's original title - he called the etchings "Fatal consequences of the Bloody War in Spain against Buonaparte and other Emphatic Caprichos".
Unfortunately, the 150 joke anthologies compiled by Melissus in the Augustan age disappeared, but the Renaissance humor of Poggio Bracciolini survived — proof that fat jokes and fart jokes never grow old — as did numerous Elizabethan jest books.
These governments hope for Hamas's defeat; the resisters hope, if not for an unlikely Hamas victory, then at least for Gaza's rulers to survive, as proof that Israel cannot simply smash all its enemies into submission.
In what now seems like a sick joke he said that the canary's ability to survive was proof that the air in the cellar could not have been that bad after all.
Dave Ritter, sustainability director at BDP architects, who are also involved with the scheme, said the sheer number of surviving terraces was proof of their appeal.
Liberate yourself from any gods, messiahs, prophets, and spiritual teachers by deciding to believe only what survives rigorous scientific proof (or predicate logic, for those with a mathematical bent), based on axioms that are acceptable to you; then question your axioms, and repeat.
In the case of an author such as Plato, where the vast majority of surviving works are surely authentic, the onus of proof is on anyone who wants to argue that a work is spurious.
Placing the missing panel inside the replica led Lowe to notice that its surface was far less deteriorated visual proof that tourism is rapidly damaging the surviving walls.
One generation later, they had their proof that the approach works: Of 120 surviving adults, three had offspring with eye colors that were reddish brown instead of white, Collins says.
One of the surviving specimens of the mostly melted rounded rim pieces is in proof; this unique specimen is in private hands.
