The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

* Description of COMAL, versions, and characteristics

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

* Description from the Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

* Description of Inland Waterways in the Congo from the UN Joint Logistics Centre

The court of N ' Gangue M ' voumbe Niambi, from the book Description of Africa ( 1668 )

* Description of operating principle ( with animation ) from HowStuffWorks

* Description of Audiation from the Gordon Institute for Music Learning

& Puerta, Pablo ( 2003 ): Description of the earliest fossil penguin from South America and first Paleogene vertebrate locality of Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina.

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

Their findings, recorded in the Description de l ' Égypte, include detailed maps that depict the discovery of an ancient canal extending northward from the Red Sea and then westward toward the Nile.

* Description and Examples of the villanelle from a web page for a course taught by poet Alberto Ríos.

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

Description of Israelite captives from the kingdoms of Kingdom of Israel ( Samaria ) | Israel and Kingdom of Judea | Judea, as they were portrayed on the Southern wall of Shoshenq I's Temple of Amun in Karnak ( dated 925 / 6 BCE )

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

* Description of the Bacchanalia and the Senate's ruling from Fordham

* Description of the sinking of the Forfarshire and Grace Darling ’ s part in the rescue, from The Tragedy of the Seas, 1841, from Google Book Search

In 1987, a request from the U. S. Department of Defense led to the development of VHDL ( VHSIC Hardware Description Language, where VHSIC is Very High Speed Integrated Circuit ).

" Description of a new species of subfossil eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus ( Aves: Falconiformes ) from the deposits of Amphasambazimba ," Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 107: 421-428.

" From Olaus Magnus ' A Description of the Northern Peoples from 1555.

" From Olaus Magnus ' A Description of the Northern Peoples from 1555.

* Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ) from the W3C

" Crunchy Frog " is a fictional confection originating from a Monty Python sketch titled " Trade Description Act ", inspired by the British law Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

* Description and history of Clerkenwell from an 1868 Gazetteer

* Melliss, John C. M., St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island Including Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology, L. Reeve & Co, London, 1875

Torrey, in the mean time, had planned A Flora of the Northern and Middle United States, or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of all the Plants heretofore discovered in the United States North of Virginia, and in 1824 began its publication in parts, but it was soon suspended owing to the general adoption of the natural system of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in place of that of Carl Linnaeus.

St. Helena: A Physical, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Island, Including Its Geology, Fauna, Flora, and Meteorology.

Barton's proposed flora was never written, but Pursh, who then moved to London, England, did make a major contribution to North American botany in his Flora americae septentrionalis ; or A Systematic Arrangement and Description of The Plants of North America, ( variously dated as published in 1813 or 1814.

* Description of stadium on FC Flora site

According to The Description of the National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (《 中華人民共和國國徽圖案說明 》): These elements together were designed to symbolise the revolutionary struggles of the Chinese people since the May Fourth Movement, and the coalition of the proletariat which succeeded in founding the People's Republic of China.

Books of the Marvels of the World ( French: Livres des merveilles du monde ) or Description of the World ( Divisament dou monde ), also nicknamed Il Milione (" The Million ") or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing the travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1271 and 1291.

* Description of the group, with details on China Daily Hong Kong Edition ( in Simplified Chinese )

* Description of the group, with details on China Daily Hong Kong Edition ( in Simplified Chinese )

A General Description of China.

* John Francis Davis, The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants ( London: Charles Knight, 1836 ).

* Description: Artist impression of Paektusan ( North Korea / China ).

D ' Anville's map of China and Central Asia ( 1734 ) for du Halde's " Description geographique de la Chine ", compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits ( ca.

In the first place, the two groups of firms, when combined, had characteristics and practices that were more representative of companies that were the subject of this study than did the firms from the AIA list alone.

The high cost of land and a few operational problems resulting from excessive loadings have created the need for a wastewater treatment system with the operational characteristics of the oxidation pond but with the ability to treat more organic matter per unit volume.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

With the phylogenetic classification, the taxon Labyrinthodontia has been discarded as it is a paraphyletic group without unique defining features apart from shared primitive characteristics.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

The psychologist David H. Barlow of Boston University conducted a study that showed three common characteristics of people suffering from chronic anxiety, which he characterized as " a generalized biological vulnerability ," " a generalized psychological vulnerability ," and " a specific psychological vulnerability.

Notably, during this time his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having become thin with age and with obviously dyed hair.

They are derived from the characteristics of their spectroscopic lines: sharp, principal, diffuse, and fundamental, the rest being named in alphabetical order ( omitting j ).

In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that " Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes ".

While Aristotle likewise identifies the first two characteristics, St. Thomas conceives of the third as an appropriation from principles developed by neo-Platonic and Augustinian thinkers.

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

This anatomic zonation can be appreciated at the microscopic level, where each zone can be recognized and distinguished from one another based on structural and anatomic characteristics.

However, the extent to which acid rain contributes directly or indirectly via runoff from the catchment to lake and river acidity ( i. e., depending on characteristics of the surrounding watershed ) is variable.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

Blackness can be contrasted with " acting white ," where black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans, with regard to fashion, dialect, taste in music, and possibly, from the perspective of a significant number of black youth, academic achievement.

" It is based on " similarities emanating from historical, social and cultural characteristics ", and it is identified as having been " one of the world's richest sources of creative talent " between the 17th and 20th centuries.

Computer software has special economic characteristics that make its design, creation, and distribution different from most other economic goods.

# via conceptual metaphors as arising from characteristics of human cognition itself-categories are found via cognitive science and other study of that biological system

The particular characteristics of this ideal observer can vary from an omniscient observer, who would grasp all the consequences of any action, to an ideally informed observer, who knows as much as could reasonably be expected, but not necessarily all the circumstances or all the possible consequences.

This turn of events marked China's transition from a planned economy to a mixed economy with an increasingly open market environment, a system termed by some as " market socialism ", and officially by the Communist Party of China as " Socialism with Chinese characteristics ".

According to Locke, a general idea is created by abstracting, drawing away, or removing the uncommon characteristic or characteristics from several particular ideas.

The characteristics that he believed uniquely differentiate the Western legal family from the other four are

The first collisional family — a group of objects thought to be remnants from the breakup of a single body — is the Haumea family It includes Haumea, its moons, and seven smaller bodies .< sup >†</ sup > The objects not only follow similar orbits but also share similar physical characteristics.

Other MFM formats were possible if their characteristics were added to the CP / M C128-specific source code ( available from Commodore ) and the CP / M operating system were re-assembled.