His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

Death is not permanent defeat and disappearance ; ;

He quotes, in his essay " Death of the Author " ( 1968 ), that " it is language which speaks, not the author ".

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

: Appointment with Death is set in Jerusalem and its surrounding area.

The God of Death Yama sends his representatives to collect the soul from a person's body whenever he is due for death and they take the soul to Yama.

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

* 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

* 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.

The older woman explains to Anne that such is the lot of a wife, and that marriage brings pain (" Every Day A Little Death ").

By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 60 ( 6 / 18 ), but equal to or better than 20 / 200 ( 6 / 60 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

Death from Ebola virus disease is commonly due to multiple organ failure and hypovolemic shock.

The Black Death is thought to have started in China or central Asia, before spreading west.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.

Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

* Ring of Death, a common malfunction of the Xbox 360 game console

A common theme in Nation's science fiction is the depiction of post-apocalyptic societies, as in several of his Doctor Who serials, for example The Daleks, Death to the Daleks and The Android Invasion and in his series Survivors, which Nation created before Blake's 7.

He was a common enemy in the Quantum Beep stages of Road Runner's Death Valley Rally for Super Nintendo.

Reptiles which were once a common sight such as large goannas, King Brown snakes, Death Adders and many others are now rare.

In the State of São Paulo, the work of Death Squads and individual gunmen called " justiceiros " was a common practice during the period.

The Grim Reaper as a personification of Death is a common motif in European iconography ; here, he illustrates a poem on the danse macabre.

Serfdom became progressively less common through the Middle Ages, particularly after the Black Death reduced the rural population and increased the bargaining power of workers.

Analogous themes which are associated with this theory include the Dance of Death, Totentanz or Danse Macabre, a common medieval type.

In common with other large towns in Europe, Haverfordwest was hit hard by the Black Death in 1348, suffering both depopulation ( perhaps by more than 50 %) and diminution of trade.

Although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration of vomit as the cause of his death, the official cause is listed as " Acute alcohol poisoning " and " Death by Misadventure ".

Death during hibernation was a common end for cave bears, mainly befalling specimens that failed ecologically during the summer season through inexperience, sickness or old age.

Among hundreds and then later thousands of witness accounts, the experiences of these people shared common traits which eventually became known as the " Near Death Experience " ( NDE ).

* Wild elephants: Death by elephant is still common in parts of Africa and South Asia where humans and elephants co-exist: in Sri Lanka alone, 50 – 100 people are killed annually in clashes between humans and wild elephants.

* In the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates and 2003 video game Call of Duty, " Victory or Death " is a common slogan for Red Army Political Commissars.

Back in the Gryffindor common room, Harry converses with Sirius ; who informs Harry that Igor Karkaroff, the Headmaster of Durmstrang, was once a Death Eater and is not to be trusted.

Consequently, just as the glorious resurrection of Jesus was an essential part and the final sign of this victory, so that struggle which was common to the Blessed Virgin and her divine Son should be brought to a close by the glorification of her virginal body, for the same Apostle says: " When this mortal thing hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

A common sketch will start up with a set-up of the scene ( e. g. a Schwarzenegger-esque action hero battling armed men in an action film ), then McKellen will burst onto the screen in an electric wheelchair and mock the protagonist of the sketch ( often he opens with the line: " I'm Ian McKellen aka Doctor Death!

Death rates have dropped since the mid-twentieth century ; in Sweden poisoning is common, though life-threatening poisonings have not been detected and there was no fatality reported over the 50 years from 1952 to 2002.

The Dormition is known as the Death of the Virgin in Catholic art, where it is a reasonably common subject, mostly drawing on Byzantine models, until the end of the Middle Ages.

Death was common, and the convicts wished to provide a proper burial for each of the men that died at the mine.

Death and disease were common in overcrowded ships and prisons.

* 1990 – The " Doctor of Death ", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

Death of Commander Lamy of France, 1900The French first penetrated Chad in 1891, establishing their authority through military expeditions primarily against the Muslim kingdoms.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

Nevertheless, this work was important in David's career because it was the first completed painting of the French Revolution, made in less than three months, and a work through which he initiated the regeneration process that would continue with The Death of Marat, David's masterpiece.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

In this first phase of his career, Lang alternated between art films such as Der Müde Tod (" The Weary Death ") and popular thrillers such as Die Spinnen (" The Spiders "), combining popular genres with Expressionist techniques to create an unprecedented synthesis of popular entertainment with art cinema.

It happened within the centuries-long time period of the Second Pandemic, an extended period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics which began in Europe in 1347, the first year of the " Black Death " and lasted until 1750.

The wastes of Gallifrey include the Death Zone, an area that was used as a gladiatorial arena by the first Time Lords, pitting various species kidnapped from their respective time zones against each other ( although Daleks and Cybermen were considered too dangerous to use ).

As a result, the first international conference to revise the International Classification of Causes of Death convened in 1900 ; with revisions occurring every ten-years thereafter.

He appeared in the first episode of the short-lived 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone, playing Death.

In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop ( 1927 ), the legend of Kit Carson is explored, first as compassionate friend to the natives, later as " misguided " soldier.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

* Brian Stableford references human culture as a possible delirium or fever dream of the noösphere in his novella Mortimer Gray's History of Death, first published in 1995.

Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem " Personal Helicon " from his first collection " Death of a Naturalist ":" To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring

Most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being " Love and Death ," which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and " Starbound ," for which Gareth Gwenlan ( who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989 ) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Belbin retired due to ill health afterwards, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon.

Venice took the lead in measures to check the spread of plague, having appointed three guardians of the public health in the first years of the Black Death ( 1348 ).

The first two ballads listed here ( the " Death " and " Gisborne "), although preserved in 17th century copies, are generally agreed to preserve the substance of late medieval ballads.

The Doctor's Time Lady companion Romana constructed a sonic screwdriver of her own similar to the Doctor's, first seen during the City of Death.

Square's first two titles were The Death Trap and its sequel Will: The Death Trap II, both designed by part-time employee Hironobu Sakaguchi and released on the NEC PC-8801.

Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the Death of the Discworld, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels.

Narrated by Anton Lesser, with Geoffrey Whitehead as Death, Carl Prekopp as Mort, Clare Corbett as Ysabell and Alice Hart as Princess Keli, the programme was first broadcast in four parts in mid-2004 and has been repeated frequently, most recently on BBC7.