A contemporary description of the war between the Maroons and the plantation owners in Suriname can be found in Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman.

The party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Germany, along with the conservative CDU / CSU, and is led by Sigmar Gabriel.

He states that he wanted to become a writer in college after discovering the novelist Gabriel García Márquez and the contemporary poets Edward Field, W. S. Merwin, Charles Simic, James Wright and Pablo Neruda, whom he calls " the master of them all.

Also complicating Louise's life are her relationship with her ex-husband Peter ( Gabriel Byrne ), who confesses he is learning to cope with a sex addiction that, unbeknownst to her, plagued their marriage ; her ne ' er-do-well brother Sammy ( Paul Rudd ), who is favored by their mother Ellie ( Lois Smith ) despite his shortcomings ; and her best friend Missy ( Marcia Gay Harden ), who stole the original Scott from Louise before his death and seems intent on doing the same with the contemporary version.

After about 1912 he became more interested in conducting and composition than in violin performance ; he was an early promoter of the works of contemporary French composers, particularly Debussy, Ravel and Gabriel Fauré, in the United States.

Every two years from mid-July to the beginning of October, the Italian Staurós ONLUS foundation hosts at the Sanctuary of Saint Gabriel a celebrated exposition of contemporary religious arts.

The play inspired other contemporary composers, for instance, Gabriel Fauré, Arnold Schoenberg, and Jean Sibelius.

Opened in 1913, it was designed by French architect Auguste Perret and founded by journalist and impresario Gabriel Astruc to provide a venue suitable for contemporary music, dance and opera, in contrast to traditional, more conservative, institutions like the Paris Opera.

Though contemporary rumours had it that the conflict between Gabriel and Kornis arose when the Prince lusted for his captain's wife, the reasons for the following events were in fact political.

The earliest academic studies of contemporary Paganism were published in the late 1970s and 1980s by scholars like Margot Adler, Marcello Truzzi and Tanya Luhrmann, although it would not be until the 1990s that the actual multidisciplinary academic field of Pagan studies properly developed, pioneered by academics such as Graham Harvey and Chas S. Clifton.

* Harvey Pratt ( born 1941 ), contemporary Cheyenne – Arapaho artist

The only surviving contemporary portrayal of Harvey is this caricature from Nashe's pamphlet Have with You to Saffron-Walden, depicting him rushing to the toilet at the thought of Nashe's publication.

In 1599 Archbishop Whitgift made a raid on contemporary satire in general, and among other books the tracts of Harvey and Nashe were destroyed, and it was forbidden to reprint them.

In 2004 he released his 34th album, Life's What You Make It, a collection of distinctive and poignant versions of songs by contemporary artists as diverse as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.

In 1993, Dark Horse Comics published two issues of Harvey Kurtzman's The New Two-Fisted Tales, featuring war stories by contemporary creators.

Harvey is also the percussionist for the contemporary jazz group Fourplay, which includes keyboardist Bob James, guitarist Chuck Loeb, and bassist Nathan East.

It also featured a number of contemporary artists as guest vocalists including Jarvis Cocker, Badly Drawn Boy, Brigitte Fontaine, The Bad Seeds ’ Mick Harvey and the lead singer from Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys.

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers wrote that the Ancient Puebloans are ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

His contemporary biographer Asser wrote that many nobles baulked at the new demands placed upon them even though they were for " the common needs of the kingdom ".

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a contemporary bestiary of sorts, the Book of Imaginary Beings, which collects imaginary beasts from bestiaries and fiction.

That the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote in 2004 that,

Second, Laozi was Lao Laizi ( " Old Come Master "), also a contemporary of Confucius, who wrote a book in 15 parts.

He was a contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote with great bitterness.

For contemporary commissions, he wrote up a list for paintings he recommended commissioning, including to ask of history paintings from Tiepolo, Pittoni, and Piazzetta ; scenes with animals from Castiglione, and veduta with ruins from Pannini.

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

Trained as a lawyer he chose the profession of journalism, and wrote about contemporary issues and most importantly about Islam and Islamic law.

Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was " a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture ".

A contemporary French critic wrote, " A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod.

His contemporary Suetonius wrote biographies of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar through Domitian.

His contemporary Sheykhi wrote verses on love and romance.

Michael Specter wrote that Singer is among the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

A contemporary, John Bargrave ( having visited Rome during the period following his election and then later during his papacy ) wrote the following:

The historical context within which Plautus wrote can be seen, to some extent, in his comments on contemporary events and persons.

He wrote a number of books that now define much of contemporary democratic education philosophy.

Jordanus of Quedlinburg was a 14th century preacher and monk wrote texts about contemporary devoutness.

Another contemporary writer also wrote of Rhys if Roger Turvey is correct in stating that Walter Map's piece Of the King Appollonides deals with Rhys under a pseudonym.

A passionate advocate of evolutionary theory, Gould wrote prolifically on the subject, trying to communicate his understanding of contemporary evolutionary biology to a wide audience.