Descent 4 was a game being developed by Volition as part of the Descent game franchise, as a prequel to Descent.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

In France it was customary to blow trumpets during Divine service, to recall the sound of the mighty wind which accompanied the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

This hypothesis was notably discussed and defended at length by Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ).

* When Stephen Hawking guest starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Descent ", he was taken on a guided tour of the set.

This idea was expanded upon in his second book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.

Aside from this extended epic " The Descent of Inanna ," a previously unknown " Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi " was first translated into English and annotated by Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer and folklorist Diane Wolkstein working in tandem, and published in 1983.

Burr Caswell was the first permanent settler of European Descent to arrive in 1847 with his family aboard the Schooner Eagle.

The racial makeup of the city was 79. 4 % White, 2. 8 % of African Descent ( U. S. Census, 6. 8 % Native American, 1. 8 % Asian, 0. 2 % Pacific Islander, 3. 0 % from other races, and 3. 98 % from two or more races.

Following the scheme of the novel, it was to be divided into four sub-cycles: ' Water ( The Arrival )', ' Fire ( The Descent )', ' Earth ( The Expectancy )' and ' Air ( The Return )'.

(... au dela du hasard is described as a commentary on Affranchi du hasard, which was to have been the eleventh piece of ' Fire ( The Descent )' but was not actually composed.

More recently he has worked with the band Nightrage, but shortly after their second album Descent into Chaos was released in 2005, Lindberg left the band so that a more full-time vocalist ( Antony Hämäläinen ) could accompany them on tours and studio albums.

The trademark registration for Descent was allowed to lapse by Interplay in 2002 and was re-registered in 2008.

This was overcome in Descent 3 with the use of opaque wall brushes and lighting closely matching that found in-game.

Descent II was especially popular online due to its support for short packets and variable packet rate, which significantly improved quality of play over the slower Internet connections prevalent at the time.

A console port of Descent was created for the Sony PlayStation.

The shareware version of Descent was released in December 1994 with the full version released three months later, just over a year after id Software's Doom ( December 1993 ).

The source code to the original Descent ( minus the audio code, which was replaced with that of the Allegro library ) was released in 1997.

The source code to Descent II was subsequently released in 1999.

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War in 2010 was ported to AmigaOS 4 by Peter Gordon, around ten years after it was ported to AmigaOS 3 by Hyperion Entertainment contractors.

Darwin sought to trump Frances Power Cobbe by writing in the The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex | Descent of Man that that though women tended to be more intuitive, this was shared by less advanced peoples.

** The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley ( 1996 )

* Descent II, a 1996 video game

* The Descent of Alette ( 1996 )

The company was created when Parallax Software ( developers of the Descent series ) was split in two, led by Mike Kulas in November 1996.

* David Folley, The Descent From The Cross ( 1995 – 1996 ), now at the Jesus Chapel, St. Andrew's Church, Wickford, Essex.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Descent on both the father and the mother ’ s side of the family is equally recognized.

Shaun of the Dead and the highly rated 2005 horror film The Descent were both shot on the lot.

* Double Descent are societies in which both the patrilineal and matrilineal descent group are recognized.

Examples of independent survival horror games are the Penumbra series and Amnesia: The Dark Descent by Frictional Games, both of which were praised for creating a horrific setting and atmosphere without the overuse of violence or gore.

He also lent his voice to the popular video games Star Wars: Starfighter, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter ( as the character Nym in both games ), Descent 3, and Age of Mythology.

The E53 was developed at a time when BMW still owned Land Rover and as such shares many components and designs with both the Land Rover Range Rover L322 model ( specifically the Hill Descent System and Off Road Engine Management system ) and the BMW E39 5-series ( specifically engines and electronic systems ).

The Avon Descent is an annual, two-day, white water event involving both paddle craft ( kayaks, surf skis ) and small motor boats.

Noone also co-starred in The Descent and Doomsday, both directed by Neil Marshall, Speed Dating and Ella Enchanted.

The original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa were both written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR, Inc. in 1978.

Descent Into the Depths of the Earth, the first module of the D-series, was printed as a sixteen page booklet, and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa, second of the three-part D-series was twenty pages ; both featured an outer folder.

Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, " Inanna's Descent to the Underworld ", " Dumuzi's dream " and " Dumuzi and the galla ", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold ; Dumuzi himself is weeping at the hard fate in store for him, after he had walked among men, and the cruel galla of the Underworld seize him.

Kulas, who had worked on several versions of Flight Simulator and Descent, brought his experience into the game's artificial intelligence ( AI ).

The first release of the 3D version was called Catacomb 3-D: A new dimension, but it was later re-released as Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, as well as Catacombs 3 for a re-release as commercially packaged software ( the earlier versions had been released by other means such as disk magazines and downloads ).

And, despite its lackluster 3D-speed, the ViRGE did receive some S3D enhanced games, due in large part to the brand prestige S3 carried in this period: ViRGE-enhanced versions of Terminal Velocity, Descent II, Tomb Raider and MechWarrior 2.

It gives users the tools necessary to design, create and implement levels for the commercial versions of Descent and Descent II.

Remixed versions of some music tracks from the original Descent II were also included on the CD in Redbook CD-audio format, an interesting addition to what is a simple level pack.

The first disc contains Descent II with the latest patch applied ( providing support for 3dfx and Rendition video cards ), while the second disc is the original " Vertigo Series " add-on ( with remixed versions of original music tracks from the first CD in Redbook CD-audio format ).