The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.

Ancient Greek notation appears to have fallen out of use around the time of the Decline of the Roman Empire.

* Decline in creosote use for wood preserving.

Frances Hamerstrom was a licensed falconer, studied American kestrels and the use of nest boxes as a management tool for kestrels, and banded thousands of raptors in Wisconsin and in other parts of North America during her many travels, and in 1969 was a contributor to the book Peregrine Falcon Populations: Their Biology and Decline.

In his 1986 book Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness, Valenstein explores the history of lobotomy ’ s heyday, in the 1940s and 1950s, while questioning the legitimacy of widespread use of such unproven medical treatments.

Decline refers to the degenerating of something whereas obsolete refers to the outdating of something or that it is no longer in use.

In England the just appreciation of his labors by Edward Gibbon, and the ample use made of them in the later volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, early secured him his rightful place in the estimation of English scholars.

English historians preferred to use Roman terminology ( Edward Gibbon used it in a particularly belittling manner ), while French historians preferred to call it Greek .< ref > Edward Gibbon " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ", Alexandre Rambeau, " L ' empire Grecque au X < sup > e </ sup > siecle "</ ref > The term reappeared in the mid-19th century and has since dominated completely in historiography, even in Greece, despite objections from Constantine Paparregopoulos, Gibbon's influential Greek counterpart, that the empire should be called Greek.

Belge was a member of the organizing committee for a two-day academic conference that started on September 24, 2005, held at Bilgi University in Istanbul, titled " Ottoman Armenians During the Decline of the Empire: Issues of Scientific Responsibility and Democracy ".

The story that she and her ladies dressed as Amazons is disputed by serious historians, sometime confused with the account of King Conrad's train of ladies during this campaign ( in Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ).

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1788 ) summarised the scholarly consensus as being that the Liber Pontificalis was composed by " apostolic librarians and notaries of the viii < sup > th </ sup > and ix < sup > th </ sup > centuries " with only the most recent portion being composed by Anastasius.

Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film " The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II ".

The Germs are featured in Penelope Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline.

According to Asimov, the premise was based on ideas set forth in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and was invented spontaneously on his way to meet with editor John W. Campbell, with whom he developed the concept.

Decline in Arab power eventually allowed local Armenian rulers to re-emerge, with the Artsruni dynasty soon becoming the most powerful.

Oswald Spengler in his book The Decline of the West ( 1918 ) presented Western civilization as ' Faustian ', striving to attain the infinite, in contrast with antiquity which he took to be ' Apollonian '.

Epitomes of a kind are still produced today, when dealing with a corpus of literature, especially those classical works which are often considered dense and unwieldy, and unlikely to be read by the average person, in order to make them more accessible: some of these are more along the lines of abridgments, such as many which have been written of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a work of eight large volumes ( some 3600 pages ), often published as one volume of about 1200 pages.

At the local level, Siskiyou County Supervisoral District 3, in which Weed is the core community, voter registration is 39. 6 % Democrat, 39. 1 % Republican, 16. 2 % Decline to State, with remainder split amongst other political parties such as Green, and Libertarian as of 2006.

Sabine's appointment was violently attacked by Charles Babbage, the father of the computer, ( largely on account of his associations with the Royal Society, whose scientific credentials Babbage did not recognise ) in a pamphlet entitled Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes.

Decline on most of the river was rapid, with tolls halving between 1855 and 1862.

The cataphract finally passed into the pages of history with the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, when the last nation to refer to its cavalrymen as cataphracts fell ( see Decline of the Byzantine Empire ).

Caffarra, P .; Santamaria, V .; 1987, " The Effects of Phosphatidylserine in Patients with Mild Cognitive Decline: An Open Trial ," Clinical Trials Journal, 24 ( 1 ): 109-114.

Beginning with Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire some historians have taken the view that Christianity weakened the Roman Empire through its failure to preserve the pluralistic structure of the state.

After being escorted to Union lines in March 1862, Brownlow toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession ; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels ( Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862 ).

The " Decline " is largely concerned with comparisons between the Classical and Western cultures, but some examples are taken from the Arabian, Chinese, and Egyptian formations.

For nearly 300 years after Casaubon's edition, though much of the Augustan History was treated with some scepticism, it was used by historians as an authentic source – in the first volume of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, for example.

The promotional poster for The Decline ( and the record cover of the soundtrack album ) featured a close-up frame of Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage with his eyes closed.

Writing in the International Affairs journal, Michael T. Boyle of the Australian National University reviewed Hegemony or Survival alongside Immanuel Wallerstein's The Decline of American Power: The U. S. in a Chaotic World ( 2003 ), considering both to be " well-considered if imperfect arguments " that the Bush administration's foreign policy was in keeping with a long history of U. S. interference in global affairs.

Waugh ’ s Decline and Fall bore a dedication to Harold ‘ in Homage and Affection ’, but when Harold ’ s own novel – disastrously entitled Humdrum – appeared in October 1928, it was slated in comparison with Decline and Fall by critics such as Cyril Connolly.

Asimov created the Galactic Empire in the early 1940s based upon the Roman Empire, as a proposal to John W. Campbell, after reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire when he was working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Robert Heinlein.

* Rise and Decline of the Third Reich ( Avalon Hill, 1974 )-The first serious attempt to model WWII in Europe in its entirety, including ( in a limited way ) the economic and industrial production of the nations involved.

Decline in economic importance marked both towns during the nineteenth century.

The Decline of the Ottoman Empire ( 20 October 1827 – 24 July 1908 ) is the period that followed after the Stagnation of the Ottoman Empire ( 11 / 12 September 1683 – 20 October 1827 ) in which the empire experienced several economic and political setbacks.

Scottish historian Lord Kinross, in his The Seeds of Decline, sees the massive outlay for the fleet-rebuilding following the Battle of Lepanto as the start of the Empire's slow decay.

They released only one album, 1979's ( GI ) ( produced by Joan Jett ) and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris ' documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement.

In the following year he published Contemporary French Painters, and in 1868 a continuation, Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism.

In 1838 he had edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and in the following year published his Life of Gibbon.

The classic source for this is Spengler's The Decline of the West ( 1918 – 1923 ), often cited in the years following its publication.

Decline began the following season.

The following is based upon " Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Webster / Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians " ( Oct. 2001 ) and reiterated in the " Final Determination to Decline Federal Acknowledgment of The Nipmuck Nation " ( June 2004 ) and as such represents the views of the Department of the Interior and may differ from the views of Nipmuc Nation representatives.