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As an eyewitness he gives a clear description in fluent Latin of Vicelinus's missionary labors, of the founding of the bishopric in Oldenburg, of the transfer of this bishopric to Lübeck when German commerce at the latter place had become more important than in the former city, of the spread of German influence among the Wends, of the merciless subjugation and extermination of these, and of the summoning to their lands of foreign settlers, principally Westphalian and Dutch.
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Villehardouin's account is generally read alongside that of Robert of Clari, a French knight of low station, Niketas Choniates, a high-ranking Byzantine official and historian who gives an eyewitness account, and Gunther of Pairis, a Cistercian monk who tells the story from the perspective of Abbot Martin who accompanied the Crusaders.
Lydus claims that the Cappadocian extracted money from his victims and gives an eyewitness testimony to the execution of one such victim.
He gives no indication that he considers the John of the Apocalypse to be a different John from the author of the Gospel of John ; indeed, by calling the author of the Apocalypse of John the " predecessor " of Paul, who, he assumes, wrote to seven churches ( Rev 2-3 ) before Paul wrote to seven churches, he most likely has in mind the gospel writer, since he assumes that the writer of the Gospel of John was an eyewitness disciple who knew Jesus, and thus preceded Paul, who joined the church only after Jesus ' death.
eyewitness and clear
There is mounting evidence, including Doppler On Wheels mobile radar images and eyewitness accounts, that most tornadoes have a clear, calm center with extremely low pressure, akin to the eye of tropical cyclones.
While the police raiding party was composed in part of Temporary Cadets from Depot Company and commanded by an Auxiliary officer, Major Mills, eyewitness reports make it clear that ' Black and Tans ' did most of the shooting at Croke Park.
On 16 December, dawn broke on a clear day, revealing that "' all of Zululand sat there '", said one Trekker eyewitness.
" She added, " The Israelis put out a lot of false and misleading statements immediately after my brother was murdered, and they did try to suggest he was killed by a Palestinian in the back and as a result of crossfire, but they put out many, many lies and false stories, which of course have been shown not only on the APTN video footage of the actual murder, but also through eyewitness testimony and the additional evidence which was very, very clear at the time.
Over the course of the reporting it becomes increasingly clear that the official stories offered to explain the shooting contradict eyewitness and, eventually, previous ' official ' versions of the event.
One Australian eyewitness notes that, " the events which occurred on that day are still not completely clear but one theory based on the reports of several eye witnesses and Intel reports is as follows ":
eyewitness and description
A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.
A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.
The Liberators, by Viktor Suvorov, is an eyewitness description of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, from the point of view of a Soviet tank commander.
A number of figures have been suggested as first circulating an eyewitness description of Niagara Falls.
Orderic also provides us ( 1135 ) with what may be the first description of a troubadour performance: an eyewitness account of William of Aquitaine.
An eyewitness description appears in Hall's Chronicle and Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large.
* Hall, Edward, London ( 1809 ), 605-620, eyewitness description of the Field and tournaments.
Years later an eyewitness, a local shepherd, was more forthcoming in his description of the events: " The people of the island were carried off in one mass, for ever, from the sea-girt spot where they were born and bred ...
Although the leather and textile trades were still major features of the Birmingham economy in the early 16th century, the increasing importance of the manufacture of iron goods, as well as the interdependence between the manufacturers of Birmingham and the raw materials of the area that later became known as the Black Country, were recognised by the antiquary John Leland when he travelled through in 1538, providing the town's earliest surviving eyewitness description.
He supplies a meticulously detailed eyewitness description of the Cayor village he stayed in 1455, the Damel's court, the people, customs, economy, local fauna and flora, etc.
In 1857 he was voted president of the Chicago Board of Underwriters and his wife Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie published a memoir titled Wau-bun that included an eyewitness description of the Battle of Fort Dearborn.
Although much of his focus was on technical and scientific issues, he had an interest in divination and the supernatural, the latter including his vivid description of unidentified flying objects from eyewitness testimony.
He was the only eyewitness who wrote a description of it, in Latin verse, with an account of subsequent events to 896, the so-called De bellis Parisiacæ urbis or Bella Parisiacæ Urbis ( Wars of the City of Paris ).
Largely with the appearance of the eyewitness account of Ginés de Mafra, the only seaman in Magellan's fleet to return to Mazaua, whose testimony reveals a concrete, measurable description of Mazaua, the skein starting from the garbled version of Pigafetta by Ramusio to the mishandling by Combés to Bellin and finally to Amoretti has been unraveled: Pigafetta's Gatighan is Bellin's Limasava.
The scenes include the organized sadism of the glasshouse, a massive “ military exercise ” put on purely to impress foreigners, and an eyewitness description of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The description of present-day Limasawa does not fit the geologic, geographic, geomorphologic, archaeologic, histriographic categories of Mazaua as described and explained in the eyewitness chronicles of Antonio Pigafetta, Ginés de Mafra, Francisco Albo, The Genoese Pilot, Martín de Ayamonte, as well as the secondhand accounts of Antonio de Brito, Andrés de San Martín, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, and Maximilianus Transylvanus.
It was widely thought at the time that Cochise was himself responsible for the planning and execution of the battle, but a description of the Apache leader does not match eyewitness accounts, including the observation that the Apache leader didn't speak much, but directed his fighters with gestures and hand signals during the battle.
However, a film of the murder taking place would be documentary evidence ( just as a written description of the event from an eyewitness ).
eyewitness and Latin
Decan Lude of Hamelin was reported, c. 1384, to have in his possession a chorus book containing a Latin verse giving an eyewitness account of the event.
eyewitness and when
A few months later, in August, an eyewitness, Madelyne Tolentino, reported seeing the creature in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas, when as many as 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly killed.
According to an eyewitness, when Giovanni died on 11 September 1869:
Wace's reference to oral tradition within his own family suggests that his account of the preparations for the Conquest and of the Battle of Hastings may have been reliant not only on documentary evidence but also on eyewitness testimony from close relations — though no eyewitnesses would have been still alive when he began work on the text.
Most eyewitness descriptions of swagmen were written during the period when the country was ' riding on the sheep's back '.
James Shanaghan, an eyewitness, reported how von Tempsky died: I had not gone far when a man of our company was shot.
According to an eyewitness report, when asked on his deathbed what his religion was, Field replied with a characteristic pun: " I am not a Calvinist, but a Claveciniste.
Jourdan was saved from certain execution when an eyewitness, Representative-on-mission Ernest Joseph Duquesnoy rose and contradicted Carnot's version of events at Wattignies.
Used in tandem with Doppler radar information, eyewitness reports can be very helpful for warning the public of an impending tornado, especially when used for ground truthing.
* Carolyn Maull McKinstry's memoir, While the World Watched ( 2011 ), provides an eyewitness account of the bombing, the events leading up to it ( e. g., the anonymous phone calls made to the church, some of which warned that a bomb would go off, and when ), and the climate and life at that time in Birmingham, specifically, and in the Jim Crow South, more generally, as the publisher describes: " from the bombings, riots and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.
In any case, the author was an eyewitness of many of the events which he describes, and must have been living at Edessa during the years when it suffered so severely during the Roman – Persian Wars.
Wilson's drunkenness also led to a scandal in 1980 when an eyewitness reported that Wilson's Lincoln Continental hit a Mazda in a hit-and-run accident on the Washington DC's Key Bridge the night before his first trip to Pakistan.
The other man who the Bridgeport Herald named as an eyewitness to the reported flight on 14 August 1901 was Andrew Cellie, but he could not be found in the 1930s when Randolph investigated.
The event, when Guru Gobind Singh installed Adi Granth as the Guru of Sikhism, was recorded in a Bhatt Vahi ( a bard's scroll ) by an eyewitness, Narbud Singh, who was a bard at the Guru's court.
According to eyewitness reports, when he was waist deep in water, he disposed of most of his heavy equipment and charged towards the enemy, which cut him down in a hail of bullets.
This contrasts with the Walton case " eyewitness " who stuck to his story even when directly asked if he was lying.
Supporting this line of evidence, Tappe records in 1941 an eyewitness who said beaver were plentiful on eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada on the upper part of the Carson River and its tributaries in Alpine County until 1892 when they fell victim to heavy trapping.
Based on a single eyewitness account that Katzenberger had been seen leaving the Seiler apartment " when it was already dark ", Rothaug applied this law to pass a death sentence against Katzenberger.
Changes to the regulations announced in March 1903 required a second eyewitness statement to support each recommendation for the award when the first statement was not from a commissioned officer and stated no award would be made when the subsequent service of the individual recommended had not been honorable.
( 2011 ) has demonstrated that when the data for all of the applied studies are combined, there is a small but reliable effect suggesting that weapon presence impairs actual eyewitness memory.
Clark writes that attempts to " uncover the truth about the late-nineteenth-century airship scare comes up against some unhappy realities: newspaper coverage was unreliable ; no independent investigators (' airshipologists ') spoke directly with alleged witnesses or attempted to verify or debunk their testimony ; and, with a single unsatisfactory exception, no eyewitness was ever interviewed even in the 1950 ’ s, when some were presumably still living.
The Genoese Pilot of the Magellan expedition, states — wrongly — in his eyewitness account that the Spaniards had no interpreter when they arrived back to Cebu, because Enrique had died on Mactan along with Magellan during the Battle of Mactan in 1521.
In more recent eyewitness accounts it has consistently been described as resembling either an ape or giant ground-dwelling sloth and having long arms, powerful claws that could tear apart palm trees, a sloping back, reaching heights of 7 feet when standing on its hind legs and is covered in thick, matted fur.
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