Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

Caesar himself mentions few place-names ; and although the battle is called after Pharsalos, four ancient writers – the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum ( 48. 1 ), Frontinus ( Strategemata 2. 3. 22 ), Eutropius ( 20 ), and Orosius ( 6. 15. 27 ) – place it specifically at Palaepharsalos.

Others are known only from mentions in Clement's own writings, including On Marriage and On Prophecy, although few are attested by other writers and it is difficult to separate works which he intended to write from those which were actually completed.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

A few fanzines have evolved into professional publications ( sometimes known as " prozines "), and many professional writers were first published in fanzines ; some continue to contribute to them after establishing a professional reputation.

In the past, it was a popular cliché with travel writers that Gibraltar still had traditional red British-style telephone boxes when there were just a few original ones in service.

In addition, as numerous writers testify, it could be extinguished only by a few substances, such as sand ( which deprived it of oxygen ), strong vinegar, or old urine, presumably by some sort of chemical reaction.

Paintings of martyrs and their feats began to appear, and early writers commented on their lifelike effect, one of the elements a few Christian writers criticized in pagan art — the ability to imitate life.

... we will add a few words about mandragores ( mandrakes ) and kandroids, which several writers on magic confound with the waxen image ; serving the purposes of bewitchment.

As a result, apart from Dobzhansky, Bernhard Rensch and Ernst Mayr, very few neo-Darwinian writers used the term, preferring instead to talk of evolution as changes in allele frequencies without mention of the level of the changes ( above species level or below ).

Over time, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to incorporate the idea of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds ; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which normally do not overlap ( see below or Multiverse for more information ).

OS / 2 has very few native computer viruses ; while it is not invulnerable by design, its reduced market share appears to have discouraged virus writers.

This was not seen as a drawback since though the few — the compiler writers — would have more work, the many — the programmers — would have less.

A few months later, at a party meeting, it was decided that administrative actions against the writers who openly expressed support of reformation would be taken.

The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

A few years earlier, naturalist John Burroughs had published an article entitled " Real and Sham Natural History " in the Atlantic Monthly, attacking popular writers of the day such as Ernest Thompson Seton, Charles G. D. Roberts and William J.

" Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize ; such works include The Tower ( 1928 ) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems ( 1929 ).

A few of these documents are by unknown writers, although traditional historiography has given them names.

A relative few did join the new UPI and the columns of popular INS writers, such as Bob Considine, Louella Parsons and Ruth Montgomery, were carried by UPI.

Fifteen writers a year worked on the show's scripts, but very few lasted longer than one season.

It is one of the few African literary awards that recognizes writing for children and young adults and the only pan-African writing competition that recognizes promising African writers of children's literature.

Created by the television series writers, she calls him " Bubele ", to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French dialogue ( the meaning is not important — any French will do ).

A few women began to gain fame as writers and speakers on the subject of abolition.

Mitotic cyclins, which persist in the cell for only a few minutes, have one of the shortest life spans of all intracellular proteins.

For example, visual hallucinations during occipital lobe seizures are typically visions of brightly colored, geometric shapes that may move across the visual field, multiply, or form concentric rings and generally persist from a few seconds to a few minutes.

There are several larger mammal species found in the park. Koalas were quite abundant around 1900 and a few may still persist in the park.

In the 1970s the immunologist Ted Steele, formerly of the University of Wollongong, and colleagues, proposed a neo-Lamarckian mechanism to try to explain why homologous DNA sequences from the VDJ gene regions of parent mice were found in their germ cells and seemed to persist in the offspring for a few generations.

Lactase deficiency may develop in an infection with Giardia, but this usually does not persist for more than a few weeks, and a full recovery is the norm.

Therefore, relatively few of them persist in a population that is not exposed to a particular insecticide to which they have developed resistance.

Clopyralid is notorious for its ability to persist in dead plants and compost, and has accumulated to phytotoxic levels in finished compost in a few highly publicized cases.

The WJC would persist in its efforts to bring the " few old men out there who have the blood of innocent Shoah victims on their hands " before courts of law, to be tried and held accountable for their actions.

Although several theories of the ultimate cause of the singer's death persist to this day ( including a few rather sinister ones ), given what is now known about cardiovascular disease, it seems likely that by the time of his death Vysotsky had an advanced coronary condition brought about by years of tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse, as well as by the stress of persecution and of the grueling work schedule.

Although few leukemic cells persist in most patients as evaluated by RT-PCR, and treatment has to be continued indefinitely, CML is the first cancer in which a medical treatment ( imatinib ) can give to the treated patients a normal life expectancy.

The gross hematuria resolves after a few days, though microscopic hematuria may persist.

Some plants described as subshrubs are only weakly woody and some persist for only for a few years.

The cerebellar clamp may persist for days to a few weeks after the initial injury.

Only small populations persist in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria and a few may remain also in Egypt.

This can rapidly result in transitions to barren landscapes where relatively few species persist.

In severe cases of thiamine deficiency, a few of the positive symptoms ( including neuropathic pain ) may persist indefinitely.

A few small patches of rain forest persist to the west of the Mbam River in the Noun division.

This rivalry would remain bitter as the Lira Fraternal Calhetense was directed by João Ávial de Melo, and would persist until the 1940s when few musicians and financial difficulties would force the integration of both bands.

It is one of only a few continuously operating Independent Chautauquas that persist in the 21st century.

Very few traces of the languages of the native peoples of western Iberia ( Celtici, Lusitanians, Conii, or Gallaeci ), or of pre-Roman settlers like the Phoenicians or Carthaginians who settled in eastern Iberia, persist in the language, but there are some exceptions ( most are unconfirmed ).

This current may persist for only a few hundred femtoseconds, up to several nanoseconds, depending on the material of which the substrate is composed.

Normally, some measure of improvement appears in a few weeks, but residual signs and disability may persist, sometimes severely.

Although the western territories to the south of the Tagus River were only conquered after the victory of Licinius Crassus in the year 93 BC, very few traces of the native languages persist in modern Portuguese.