Described as a " motorbike-car " hybrid, the Lit Motors C-1 two wheeler uses a set of futuristic electronic gyroscopes, or Control Moment Gyroscope to ensure it remains upright and balanced, similar to the positioning technology used in the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Described as the " last of the Serpent Kings ", he appears as a large bald humanoid with a legless, serpentine lower body and one of his eyes either covered or replaced by some form of invertebrate / plant hybrid.

Described by the Government as " The oldest military formation in the Republic, nominated in the statutes of 1295 ", its uniform is medieval in design, and although it is a statutory military unit, it has no actual military function today.

Described by its creator as " an average stone-age community ," Dogpatch mostly consists of hopelessly ramshackle log cabins, pine trees, " tarnip " fields and " hawg " wallows.

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

Described as the linguistic approach to the treatment of expressive aphasia, treatment begins by emphasizing and educating patients on the thematic roles of words within sentences .< ref name =" TUF "> Thompson CK, Shapiro LP.

Described as the " Maestro's spiritual testament ” by his biographer Tullio Kezich, excerpts culled from the conversations later served as the basis of their feature documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ) and the book, I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon.

Described by one source as a " determined, rather plodding organizer ", he failed to obtain a degree, but, according to the Jesuit priest, Father François Ponchaud, he acquired a taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of Karl Marx.

Described another way, the signals transmitted by the control store are being played much like a player piano roll.

Described by historian Walter Goffart as " the bible of warfare throughout the Middle Ages ", De re militari was widely distributed through the Latin West.

Described as a glam rock band, because of flamboyant costumes and make-up, Skyhooks addressed teenage issues including buying drugs (" Carlton ( Lygon Street Limbo )"), suburban sex (" Balwyn Calling "), the gay scene (" Toorak Cowboy ") and loss of girlfriends (" Somewhere in Sydney ") by namechecking Australian locales.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

Described as " a typical New York butch " and " a dyke — stone butch ", she had been hit on the head by an officer with a billy club for, as one witness claimed, complaining that her handcuffs were too tight.

Described as a place of unending Springtime and a paradise of green plants, Tlalocan was the destination in the afterlife for those who died violently from phenomena associated with water, such as by lightning, drowning and water-borne diseases ( Miller and Taube, 1993 ).

Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.

Described by many as about " the meaning of life " or " gender identification " or " the hollow existence of the American suburbs ", the film has defied categorization by even the filmmakers.

Described in detail by eyewitness Thomé Lopes and chronicler Gaspar Correia as one that is unequalled in cold-blooded cruelty, da Gama looted the ship with over 400 pilgrims on board including 50 women, locked in the passengers, the owner and an ambassador from Egypt and burnt them to death.

Described later by Friedrich List, it was designed to allow the fledgling American manufacturing sector, largely centered on the eastern seaboard, to compete with British manufacturing through the creation of tariffs.

Hydotherikornis oregonus ( Described by Miller in 1931 ), the oldest purported alcid from the Eocene of California, is actually a petrel ( as reviewed by Chandler in 1990 ) and is reassigned to the tubenoses ( Procellariiformes ).

Described by Mark Bowden in his investigative work Killing Pablo, the sicarios played a key role in the wave of violence against police and authorities during the early 1990s campaign by the government to capture and extradite fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar and other partners in the Medellin cocaine cartel.

Described scientifically by English naturalist John Latham in 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenopis.

Described by many today as one of America's more " historical cities ", Wilkes-Barre has gained considerable bad press ( although it is not a major nationally recognized location ) since the Knox Mine Disaster.

" Described by writer Johannes Jonsson as " slow black metal with influences from Nordic folk music ", it has been considered a category of folk metal.

* Pacal's sarcophagus lid: Described by Erich von Däniken as a depiction of a spaceship.

Described by Heylin as an " evocation of a fragmented relationship ", the lyrics were later rewritten and overdubbed with new vocals and an additional guitar part.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

Described by Allmovie as " one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors ", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.

Described by British journalist John Walker as a " cautious toe in the water " for LucasArts, the move was prompted by LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez, who had assumed the post only two months prior.

Described through first-person narrative as a man familiar with the firearms and machinery trade, Hank is a man who had reached the level of superintendent due to his proficiency in firearms manufacturing, with two thousand subordinates.

Described as an “ endangered species ”, Doggett is one of the two white Democratic House members ( the other being Gene Green ) in a state with mostly Republicans and minority members of the Democratic Party.

Described as a cross between The People's Court and Bowling for Dollars, the show had participants play against each other to settle feuds and win nearly worthless prizes ( in the second 1998 episode, a player received merchandise for a radio station that had been defunct for two years ; gift certificates for Old Country Buffet were common that year ).

Described as " one of the seamiest lawsuits of the age ", Louis did not, as might be expected, argue the marriage to be void due to consanguinity ( the general excuse for the dissolution of a marriage at that time ): though he could produce witnesses to claim that the two were closely related due to various linking marriages, there was no documentary proof, merely the opinions of courtiers.

Described as " The Road to Prosperity " by business leaders and government officials who initially proposed it in the late 1970s, Illinois 255 was part of a region-wide effort to create a high-speed alternative to U. S. Route 67 over the Clark Bridge through the city-center of Alton, and to two congested local routes ( Illinois Routes 3 and 111 ) that roughly parallel the Illinois 255 corridor.

Described as " A superior blues player who could also swing fairly early ", Green played on several Bessie Smith recordings, ( including one called " Trombone Cholly "), recorded in the 1920s with several other blues singers, and also worked with the bands of Benny Carter ( 1929 – 1931 and 1933 ), Chick Webb ( several times during 1930-1934 ), Jimmie Noone ( 1931 ), Don Redman ( 1932 ), and at the end with Kaiser Marshall.

Described as " a pair of deft, intelligent rappers " by Allmusic, they were major contributors to the jazz rap movement of the early 1990s.

Described in 1997 by The Times columnist Matthew Parris as a " classic House of Commons bore ", his speeches were compared by Labour MP Stephen Pound with " root canal surgery without anaesthetic ", but Parris added in 2001 " You underestimate him at your peril.

Described as counterculture patriots, they were ardent conspiracy theorists, government watchdogs and computer hackers who frequently assisted central X-Files characters Mulder and Scully, though they sometimes had their own adventures.

Described in 1638 the " withdrawinge roome ", it was used by the family to withdrew from the more public ceremonies held in the Great Chamber and also could be used to form a suite with the neighbouring bedroom ( room 5 ) when eminent guests were entertained in the house.

Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously-published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: " The Word of Unbinding " and " The Rule of Names " gave Le Guin the place that was to become Earthsea ; " Semley's Necklace ," was first published as " Dowry of the Angyar " in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel Rocannon's World in 1966 ; " Winter's King " is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness.

Described by the company as " family sports cars ", they were all two-door, four-seat coupes and hardtops.

Described initially by Jules Desnoyers and later on by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, these ichnofossils were quite celebrated, and most French geologists of the late 19th century knew about them.

Described as a dangerous hitter with power in Who ’ s Who in Baseball History, Lollar played most of his career in cavernous Comiskey Park, whose dimensions were 352 '- 415 '- 352 ' LF-CF-RF.

Described as " The Newest, Up-To-The-Minute Mystery and Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls, featuring your favorite characters ," a variety of famous actors and actresses were spotlighted, including Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, John Payne, Ann Sheridan, Jane Withers, Bonita Granville, Gene Autry, Deanna Durbin and Ann Rutherford.

Described in IC 9650-9956, these were steel underframe drover's cabooses built between 1897 and 1913, and reclassified as banana messengers sometime between 1955 and 1963.

Described as ' a monument to German ingenuity and might ', it is perhaps with some irony that the IG Farben building is used by Tourneur to illustrate this dualistic contrast ; it was here that many of the German ' tools of war ' were developed, including Zyklon B gas.