The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Hundreds of names had to be chosen, so the names covered a wide variety of subjects and include some obscure words.

His penchant for quoting diverse and sometimes obscure sources, both from the Internet and from a wide variety of books, made his column an interesting parallel to political blogs although the ANC does not describe it in these terms.

Malvasia Corada is a synonym used in the Douro for an obscure white wine grape variety known as Vital that may or may not be related to true Malvasia.

He cut three obscure singles on CBS Records and sang with a variety of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, which brought him into contact with drummer John Bonham.

Additionally, members may form Special Interest Groups ( SIGs ) at international, national, and local levels ; these SIGs represent a wide variety of interests, both commonplace and obscure, ranging from motorcycle clubs to entrepreneurial cooperations, reflecting the wide diversity of members in occupation and social class.

Critics highlighted various aspects of Rip the Jackers originality, both in terms of beats and lyrics ; Stoupe had employed a large number of samples from often obscure compositions, while Canibus himself undertook a variety of topics from various perspectives.

To confuse matters, " Red Riesling " has also been used as a synonym for red-skinned Traminer grapes ( such as the Savagnin rose of Klevener de Heiligenstein ) and the obscure variety Hanns, which is a seed plant of Roter Veltliner.

This extremely tricky puzzle appeared very early in the game, required the player to use a variety of obscure items in a very specific fashion, and had to be " solved " within a limited number of turns.

Sculptures include works by a variety of artists, ranging from the obscure to international stars such as Jean / Hans Arp, César Baldaccini, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Victor Vasarely.

More obscure clue words of this variety include:

The variety of bobbleheads on the market rose exponentially to include even relatively obscure popular culture figures and notable people.

For example, Thomas Pynchon includes in his novels elements from detective fiction, science fiction, and war fiction ; songs ; pop culture references ; well-known, obscure, and fictional history mixed together ; real contemporary and historical figures ( Mickey Rooney and Wernher von Braun for example ); a wide variety of well-known, obscure and fictional cultures and concepts.

He also frequently appears as a guest performer with musicians both famous and obscure, from a diverse variety of genres.

Afterwards, The Works ( 10. 00 – 12. 00 ) features a variety of pieces: the well-known and the obscure, the newly recorded alongside archive recordings.

Enlisting in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 22 August 1914, he served in a wide variety of theatres and actions in the First World War, including the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, Harwich light cruisers, Admiral Troubridge ’ s mission to the Danube, naval siege guns at Flanders, the Zeebrugge Raid in which, commanding a rear gun on the Vindictive, he was severely wounded, necessitating the amputation of his right arm, and, finally, in the obscure Russian campaign, commanding an armoured train on the line south of Archangel.

The website of Libertarians For Life offers a wide variety of materials on most of the mainstream arguments of abortion, and many of the obscure arguments.

" Heard weekdays at 3 p. m., this hour-long program played selections from a wide variety of operas, both famous and obscure.

At the time, in addition to records released by larger record companies, there was a huge number of soul releases by a wide variety of artists on a multiplicity of obscure, independent labels.

For a variety of reasons ( notably, a relatively nonexistent marketing budget and the emergence of games dominated by the demands of 3D-graphics cards ), unfortunately for its designers, the game had little mass appeal, sold poorly, and has remained obscure.

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

As in other theatrical works of the time and place, the characters in Goldoni's Italian comedies spoke originally either the literary Tuscan variety ( which became modern Italian ) or the Venetian dialect, depending on their station in life.

Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art / literary journals ; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media.

Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.

By the time he composed the Gospel, he must have been a highly practiced and competent author-able to compose in a wide variety of literary forms according to the demands of the moment.

One common location for these was the endpapers and title pages of his own diaries, and they covered a wide variety of topics, from political commentary to his feelings toward his literary contemporaries and his current romantic interests.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works ; discoveries and inventions ; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.

Jerome's letters or epistles, both by the great variety of their subjects and by their qualities of style, form an important portion of his literary remains.

Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.

Though much proverb scholarship is done by literary scholars, those studying the human mind have used proverbs in a variety of studies.

However, it is uncontroversial that a Robin and Marion figured in 13th-century French " pastourelles " ( of which Jeu de Robin et Marion c. 1280 is a literary version ) and presided over the French May festivities, " this Robin and Marion tended to preside, in the intervals of the attempted seduction of the latter by a series of knights, over a variety of rustic pastimes.

Often depicting few characters and concentrating a ' single effect ' or mood, it differs from the anecdote in its use of plot, and the variety of literary techniques it shares with the more extensive novel.

To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish — the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire — spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded.

Additionally, freedom of word order may vary within the same language — for example, formal, literary, or archaizing varieties may have different, stricter, or more lenient constituent-order structures than an informal spoken variety of the same language.

* The Roots & Heritage Festival: An event that takes place throughout the month of September and consists of a wide variety of culturally enriching activities including art exhibits, literary readings, film presentations, the Festival Ball and the ever-popular two-day street festival featuring live musical performances from internationally renowned artists.

Since the development of more complex conceptions of gender and subjectivity and third-wave feminism, feminist literary criticism has taken a variety of new routes, namely in the tradition of the Frankfurt School's critical theory.

Kirkpatrick suggests that it " both borrows from and originates a variety of literary genres and subgenres without neatly fitting into any one of them ".

This principle has been largely adopted for understanding Taiwan ’ s cultural representation and expressed in a variety of cultural activities, including music, film and the literary and performing arts.

A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors ' books and fostering a love of literature and writing.

There are many literary uses of this variety of English, particularly in African-American literature.

Brongersma published extensively on a wide variety of topics, authoring some 1200 books and articles between 1930 and 1998 on social and philosophical subjects such as criminal law, constitutional law, criminology, philosophy, religion, sexuology, legislation on public morals and literary topics.

:" In addition, the present century has seen the conscious creation of a ‘ mainstream ’ variety of Scots — a standard literary variety, [...] referred to as ‘ synthetic Scots ’, now generally goes under the name Lallans (=‘ Lowlands ’).