Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Orwell ’ s description of political speech is extremely similar to the contemporary definition of doublespeak ;

The contemporary monk Richer from Rheims described Gerbert's contributions in reintroducing the armillary sphere that was lost to European science after the Greco-Roman era ; from Richer's description, Gerbert's placement of the tropics was nearly exact and his placement of the equator was exact.

In the 4th century BC Aristotle wrote the Poetics, a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works of art.

Richard North says that the description of a raven flying over the Egyptian army ( glossed as wonn wælceaseg ) may have been directly influenced by the Old Norse concept of Valhalla, the usage of wælcyrge in De laudibus virginitatis may represent a loan or loan-translation of Old Norse valkyrja, but the Cotton Cleopatra A. iii and the Corpus Glossary instances " appear to show an Anglo-Saxon conception of wælcyrge that was independent of contemporary Scandinavian influence ".

Tacitus ' description of their contemporary settlement area, adjacent to the Goths at the " ocean ", is generally seen as the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, the later Pomerania.

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In 1882 the Minnesota and Dakota Gazeteer, gave a contemporary description of Peterson:

Although interpretations of Philip's role in government have improved in recent years, Diego Velázquez's contemporary description of Philip's key weakness — that ' he mistrusts himself, and defers to others too much ' — remains extant.

Armstrong saw in it a description of national characteristics of contemporary descendants of Jacob, and deduced that the United States, the British Commonwealth and several countries situated in northwestern Europe were actually the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Bullinger arrived with his wife and two little children in Zurich, where he already on the Sunday after his arrival stood in Zwingli's pulpit in the Grossmünster and, according to a contemporary description, " thundered a sermon from the pulpit that many thought Zwingli was not dead but resurrected like the phoenix ".

In contemporary terms, the metric tensor allows one to compute the dot product of tangent vectors in a manner independent of the parametric description of the surface.

The contemporary writer Giovanni Boccaccio has left us with the following description of Queen Joanna in his On Famous Women: " Joanna, queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, is more renowned than other woman of her time for lineage, power, and character ".

There is no contemporary image or detailed physical description of Cabral.

Conversely, supporters of simplified Chinese characters object to the description of traditional characters as " standard ," since they view the new simplified characters as the contemporary standard used by the vast majority of Chinese speakers.

Emperor Dangun's rule is usually calculated to begin in 2333 BC, based on the description of the Dongguk Tonggam ( 1485 ) contemporary to the 40th year of the reign of the legendary Chinese Emperor Yao.

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His contemporary reputation rested on his pastorals and epistles, particularly the description of winter addressed by him from Copenhagen ( 1709 ) to the Earl of Dorset.

A contemporary description of the buildings is given in George Gissing's novel The Nether World.

The account of the rising by the contemporary chronicler Jean le Bel includes a description of horrifying violence.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is reserved for " For albums containing at least 51 % playing time of newly recorded pop / contemporary gospel vocal tracks.

In the " Letter of an Old Bolshevik " ( 1936 ), written by Boris Nicolaevsky, there is this contemporary description of Yezhov:

Very often, Kross ' description of the historical struggle of the Estonians against the Baltic Germans is actually a metaphor for the contemporary struggle against the Soviet occupation.

And in a concluding chapter about America's stance in the contemporary world, one senses certain misplacements of emphasis and a failure to come to grips with the baffling riddle of our time: How to deal with a wily and aggressive enemy without appeasement and without war.

Absalon first appears in Saxo Grammaticus's contemporary chronicle Gesta Danorum at the end of the civil war, at the brokering of the peace agreement between Sweyn III and Valdemar at St. Alban's Priory, Odense.

Taking advantage of civil war in the Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese ( Wu Hu ) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.

An history of the Albigensian war told by a contemporary.

As before the war, Datsun closely patterned their cars on contemporary Austin products: postwar, the Devon and Somerset were selected.

Constructing Maya Protestantism in the face of war in contemporary Guatemala ", LFM.

Spain and Britain came close to war over ownership of the Nootka Sound on contemporary Vancouver Island, and of greater importance, the right to colonize and settle the Pacific Northwest coast.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games.

Some contemporary Islamists have succeeded in replacing the greater jihad, the fight against desires, with the lesser jihad, the holy war to establish, defend and extend the Islamic state.

Both are compilations of the contemporary records and letters about the events of the war without further historical commentary.

Andriessen's early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post war serialism ( Series, 1958 ), pastiche ( Anachronie I, 1966 – 67 ), and tape ( Il Duce, 1973 ).

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.

In numerous speeches Catholic teaching is related to various aspects of life, education, medicine, politics, war and peace, the life of saints, Mary, the Mother of God, things eternal and contemporary.

The rebellion was described by Jordan Fantosme, a contemporary poet, as a " war without love ".

Analogous to those, are the ' contemporary ' games, ones that simulate current forces and postulate what an actual war involving them would be like.

Today, as in his own time ( though for different reasons ), Paley is a controversial figure, a lightning rod for both sides in the contemporary " war between science and religion ".

It features several different strands that alternate throughout, including a documentary-style chronology of the main events, featuring reportage-like images of the war, the nuclear strikes, and their effects on civilians ; brief contemporary interviews, in which passers-by are interviewed about their knowledge of nuclear war issues ; optimistic commentary from public figures that clashes with the other images in the film ; and fictional interviews with key figures as the war unfolds.

The manifesto thus combined elements of contemporary democratic and progressive thought ( franchise reform, labour reform, limited nationalisation, taxes on wealth and war profits ) with corporatist emphasis on class collaboration ( the idea of social classes existing side by side and collaborating for the sake of national interests ; the opposite of the Marxist notion of class struggle ).

Writer Sally Miller Gearhart calls this sort of fiction political: it contrasts the present world with an idealized society, criticizes contemporary values and conditions, sees men or masculine systems as the major cause of social and political problems ( e. g. war ), and presents women as equal to or superior to men, having ownership over their reproductive functions.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

* A contemporary account This reference should be to the 1838 translation of a contemporary chronicle on http :// www. hillsdalesites. org / personal / hstewart / war / Ren / 1471-Tewkesbury. htm.