A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

The practice of commendation, by which — to meet a contemporary emergency — the revenues of the community were handed over to a lay lord, in return for his protection,

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.

In the Hebrew of the contemporary State of Israel, the word pilegesh is often used as the equivalent of the English word, mistress — i. e. the female partner in extramarital relations, regardless of legal recognition.

:“ Rather than glorifying — consciously or not — the rugged existence of the peasants, he placed them without any ‘ pose ’ in their habitual surroundings, thus becoming an objective chronicler of one of the many facets of contemporary life .”

In line with contemporary thinking, he assumed a static universe, adding a new parameter to his original field equations — the cosmological constant — to reproduce that " observation ".

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

Contrary to a popular misconception — that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep — contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.

Daniel, though claiming to be a contemporary, admits to no knowledge of John's origins — any speculation on John's birth is the result of much later speculation, and is confined to references in the Menologion.

" Alberti's thoughts on harmony were not new — they could be traced back to Pythagoras — but he set them in a fresh context, which fit in well with the contemporary aesthetic discourse.

In contemporary analytic philosophy, the issue of subject — and more specifically the " point of view " of the subject, or " subjectivity " -- has received attention as one of the major intractable problems in philosophy of mind ( a related issue being the mind-body problem ).

This gave it a marching speed that contemporary armies could not hope to match — on occasion forces surrendered to Alexander simply because they were not expecting him to show up for several more days.

During the mid-to-late-1990s, the " Mix " format — a loosely defined mixture of Top-40 and classic rock with something of an emphasis on adult contemporary music — began to appear across the country.

Dix's work, like that of Grosz — his friend and fellow veteran — was extremely critical of contemporary German society and often dwelled on the act of Lustmord, or sexual murder.

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

" The old priest, Eli, fell dead when he heard it ; and his daughter-in-law, bearing a son at the time the news of the capture of the Ark was received, named him Ichabod — explained as " The glory has departed Israel.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

Roman Legate Hilary, who as pope dedicated an oratory in the Lateran Basilica in thanks for his life, managed to escape from Constantinople and brought news of the Council to Leo who immediately dubbed it a " synod of robbers " — Latrocinium — and refused to accept its pronouncements.

Claudius convinces Laertes that Hamlet is solely responsible ; then news arrives that Hamlet is still alive — a story is spread that his ship was attacked by pirates on the way to England, and he has returned to Denmark.

Using the propaganda model, Manufacturing Consent posits that corporate-owned news mass communication media — print, radio, television — are businesses subject to commercial competition for advertising revenue and profit.

As such, their distortion ( editorial bias ) of news reportage — i. e. what types of news, which items, and how they are reported — is a consequence of the profit motive that requires establishing a stable, profitable business ; therefore, news businesses favoring profit over the public interest succeed, while those favoring reportorial accuracy over profits fail, and are relegated to the margins of their markets ( low sales and ratings ).

* — Australian news groups

* — Canadian news groups

* — Chinese news groups

* — Hewlett-Packard internal news groups

* — Polish news groups

* — Taiwan news groups

In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange ( often local ) news, while others — especially those away from village centres — existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.

* WordPerfect Universe — a moderated, user-supported community of thousands of dedicated fans of WordPerfect, with forums where visitors can ask questions, read FAQs, tips, news, and more.

In her bedroom, Maria has not heard the news and daydreams happily about seeing Tony with her friends — Rosalia, Consuelo, Teresita and Francisca (" I Feel Pretty ").

Within the industry, a tiering is sometimes created among groups of networks based on whether their programming is simultaneously originated from a central point, and whether the network master control has the technical and administrative capability to take-over the programming of their affiliates in real-time when it deems this necessary — the most common example being national breaking news events.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

* Joe Marek chronology — Joe Marek's chronology is limited to stories written ( or devised ) by Howard, though within that context it is essentially a revision of the Miller / Clark tradition to better reflect the internal evidence of the stories and avoid forcing Conan into what he perceives as a " mad dash " around the Hyborian world within timeframes too rapid to be credible.

* Dale Rippke chronology — The Darkstorm Conan Chronology ( 2003 ) was a completely revised and heavily researched chronology, radically repositioning a number of stories and including only those stories written or devised by Howard.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Only a few, trusted people are aware of it, such as Batman and other members of the Justice League, Superman's cousin Supergirl, and Clark's childhood friend Lana Lang ( In pre-Crisis stories, Lana did not know but their friend Pete Ross did, unbeknownst to anyone — including Clark ).

" In Golden Age detective stories, an outsider — sometimes a salaried investigator or a police officer, but often a gifted amateur — investigates a murder committed in a closed environment by one of a limited number of suspects.

Many conventions of the detective-fiction genre evolved in this era, as numerous writers — from populist entertainers to respected poets — tried their hands at mystery stories.

And for the writing of detective stories there are very definite laws — unwritten, perhaps, but nonetheless binding ; and every respectable and self-respecting concocter of literary mysteries lives up to them.

Each book has over 500 pages, and summarizes much of what FASA published — not only the game mechanics, but also the setting, narrations, and stories.

Books featuring Brown are subdivided into a number — usually ten or more — of ( possibly interlinked ) short stories, each of which presents a mystery.

Examples of this type are the Malory Towers stories, the St Clare's series, and the Naughtiest Girl books and are typical of the times — many comics of the day also contained similar types of story.

The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica related curious stories of him, that by way of self-mortification he lay every night for twenty years on the bare ground with only a bear's skin for a covering — yet it is known that he remained a layman, was married and had children — that in an audience he had with

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

Neither term is part of a rigorous taxonomy — instead they are approximate ways of characterizing stories that reviewers and commentators have found useful.

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Malory based his book — originally titled The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table — on the various previous romance versions, in particular the Vulgate Cycle, and appears to have aimed at creating a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Arthurian stories.