" Previous generations of scholars argued that the crusaders were motivated by greed, hoping to find a better life away from the famines and warfare occurring in France, but as Asbridge notes, " This image is ... profoundly misleading.

Asbridge, however, provides little evidence from Urban's own writings to bolster this claim, and Urban's four extant letters on crusading do not seem to express such a motive.

" Noted historian Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes and barbarity on a vast scale.

This argument distinguishes the relatively recent violence and warfare that followed the conquests of the Turks from the general advance of Islam, the significance of which is dismissed by Runciman and Asbridge.

The First Crusade: A New History ( 2004 ) is a history book by Thomas Asbridge, a University of London medieval history scholar.

As Thomas Asbridge wrote, " Just as we can do nothing more than estimate the number of thousands who responded to the crusading ideal, so too, with the surviving evidence, we can gain only a limited insight into their motivation and intent.

* Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade: A New History.

Thomas Asbridge argues that the First Crusade was Pope Urban II's attempt to expand the power of the church, and reunite the churches of Rome and Constantinople, which had been in schism since 1054.

Asbridge, however, fails to note that the recent Turkish conquests of Anatolia and southern Syria had shattered the tense but relatively stable balance of power that a somewhat revived Byzantine Empire had gradually developed with earlier Islamic powers over the course of the 10th and early 11th century.

* Thomas S. Asbridge and Susan B. Edgington, trans.

* Asbridge, Thomas.

* Thomas S. Asbridge and Susan B. Edgington ( translators ), 1999.

Thomas S. Asbridge and Susan B. Edgington, Ashgate, 1999.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

The magnetic quantum number,, describes the magnetic moment of an electron in an arbitrary direction, and is also always an integer.

Alkyne trimerization describes the cyclization of three alkynes, in the Dötz reaction an alkyne, carbon monoxide and a chromium carbene complex are the reactants. Diels-Alder reactions of alkynes with pyrone or cyclopentadienone with expulsion of carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide also form arene compounds.

Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

The text explicitly describes Abigail as " intelligent and beautiful " ( 1 Samuel 25: 3, NIV, also in the JPS Tanakh ).

The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.

It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

* It also describes the variation of the critical magnetic field ( above which the superconductor can no longer expel the field but becomes normal conducting ) with temperature.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Bede also describes hot baths in the geographical introduction to the Ecclesiastical History in terms very similar to those of Nennius.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

The literature also describes a contrast between velar and uvular rear articulations for some languages.

He describes it simply as a second version that he is also satisfied with, even though the original released cut is still his preferred version.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry, ( of which weird or macabre poetry is a major subclassification ), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are ' beyond reality ', whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction.

However, it is also possible to read the poem as an allegory on the way fate moves human affairs or as an attempt to comprehend the horrific violence in Europe at the time of the poem's composition.

The horrific subject matter of the Massacre of the Innocents also provided a comparison of ancient brutalities with early modern ones during the period of religious wars that followed the Reformation-Bruegel's versions show the soldiers carrying banners with the Habsburg double-headed eagle ( often used at the time for Ancient Roman soldiers ).

The term ' maenad ' is also used to refer to a category of women in the mythology who resist the worship of Dionysus, and are therefore driven mad by him, being forced against their will to participate in often horrific rites.

A user's fingers, hand, arm, or hair could become entangled in the laundry being squeezed, resulting in horrific injuries ; unwary bystanders, such as children, could also be caught and hurt.

Artaud also recorded his horrific withdrawal from heroin upon entering the land of the Tarahumaras.

The race also saw a horrific incident involving Robert Kubica ( who went on to win the race the following season ).

Even more than John Ford, whose ' Tis Pity She's a Whore is also very bleak, Webster's tragedies present a horrific vision of mankind.

Developed by Capcom, the game would become the main inspiration behind their later release Resident Evil, which also borrowed various other elements from the game, such as its mansion setting, " opening door " load screen, death animations, multiple endings depending on which characters survive, dual character paths, individual character skills, limited item management, story told through diary entries and frescos, emphasis on atmosphere, and horrific imagery.

Gabriel also discovers connections between the case and a horrific recurring nightmare which has plagued him all of his life.

Legend tripping, also known as ostension, is a name recently bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent practice ( containing elements of a rite of passage ) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting.

From these he discovers Frankenstein's whereabouts, but also discovers the horrific details of his own birth.

Upon discovering many of those Humans also had Minbari souls, the Minbari leaders realised they were harming their own souls through this war, a horrific concept to them, and had no choice but to stop the war.

During a horrific journey through this labyrinth, Willet discovers the full truth about Curwen's crimes and also the means of returning him to the grave.

Less horrific are Black Sex ( the first genuine Italian hardcore movie and at the same time a weird melange of ghost story and cancer drama ), Hard Sensation ( another variation on the Last House on the Left-model, also hardcore ) and Paradiso Blu ( a softcore Robinsonade starring Anna Bergman ).

Some corporate entities also began breeding for super soldiers and superior intellects, good looks, sexual prowess, etc., or mixes of such traits, practices that led to a horrific " Final War " on Old Earth.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin also criticised the remarks, describing them as " offensive to the Jewish community ", " offensive to all who feel revulsion concerning the Holocaust, one of the most horrific events in human history ” and “ I can only decry the comments as insensitive and hurtful to the suffering of the victims and to a memory which is sacred ”.

In addition to the river and the decaying structures that surround it, he also researched murders that involved the Passaic River, including the horrific case of Jonathan Zarate who attempted to dump the mutilated body of his 16 year-old neighbor in the river, but was thwarted by a police officer who happened to pass by at the time.

He also deliberately changes the course of history because he didn't like the way things " should " go, replacing a horrific war with a century of peace.

In addition, horrific supernatural monsters are beginning to appear on the planet as a consequence of the Reckoners, who ( unbeknownst to the Banshee colonists ) have found themselves also stranded on Banshee.

: In addition to the usual Hit Points and Mana Points for each character, there are also Sanity Points ( SP ), which decrease every turn the character is in battle ( as a representation of the character's exposure to the horrific and maddening creatures ) or can also be drained by enemies.

The season was also marred by one of the most horrific accidents in Formula One history.

But he can also be courageous, with enough strength of mind and character to fight and defeat the horrific creatures of the Dreamlands ( see also Lovecraft's Dream Cycle ).