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.

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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 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 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 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 many as the most anti-traditional of the Abstract Expressionists, Still is credited with laying the groundwork for the movement.

Described as having " the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark ," he was an unpopular prime minister mainly remembered today for his many gaffes and situationally inappropriate actions.

Described as a polymath but also an eccentric and outsider, he took part in many ventures related to literature, politics, the arts and philosophy, having a broad impact particularly as an editor, translator, and activist on behalf of a reformed version of the English language.

Described as a " variant player's handbook ", the 256 page hardcover core rulebook bears many similarities to the Players Handbook of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, on which Cook worked a few years prior.

Described at the time as a " mainframe on a chip ", the processor is in many ways an equivalent to Intel's 80386.

Described by Stephen Becker as " modern and almost too intellectual ", the strip eschewed many of the pulp fictional detective tropes ( e. g. alcoholism, two-fisted assistants, and an assortment of interchangeable femmes fatale ).

Described as " the president's man ", he was loyal to the Democratic presidents with whom he served and, to a larger extent than many other northern Democrats, to the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Described as " The Manga Fanboy ", the character of Thor is represented by a personified ( Custom Virus SD ), and the butt of many jokes involving the origins of his ink.

Described by many as ' Glastonbury for dance music fans ' the Glade has carved a niche in the UK dance scene by combining highly credible music with impressive art installations, circus, cabaret, a healing area and high quality sound systems.

Described as a brutal and efficient governor, what set her apart from the other Chosen during the War was that she founded many schools for children in conquered territories.

Described as " big and ugly " by meteorologists, a combination of Norbert and several other storms left many people without a home and hotels nearly empty.

Described by The Times as lightly bow-legged, with a wonderful eye, wrists the envy of any batsman, and feet always the right place to play a shot, Richie Benaud stated that many Australians who saw Weekes in action said he was the closest batsman in style to the pre-World War II Donald Bradman.

He published many important works on geology, including Rocks Classified and Described: a Treatise on Lithology ( translated by Philip Henry Lawrence, 1866 ), one of the first comprehensive works on the subject issued in the English language, which gave great impetus to the study of rocks in Britain.

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.

Described as curious and intelligent, the young Fort did not excel at school, though he was considered quite a wit and full of knowledge about the world – yet this was a world he only knew through books.

Described as " breathtaking " by David Fricke of Rolling Stone, Fricke also expanded upon his statements: " It was a perfect fit — songs about commitment and loss, written and sung by the wounded.

Described by German zoologist Heinrich Boie in 1826, the genus Phylloscopus contains about 50 species of small insectivorous Old World woodland warblers which are either greenish or brown above and yellowish, white or buff below.

Described in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England ( 1848 ) as situated on " on a gentle declivity ", Ashton-under-Lyne lies on undulating ground by the Pennines, reaching a maximum elevation of about above sea level.

Described as " composite listeners ", BBC Local Radio staff are given facts and timelines about Dave and Sue.

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 as Jackass on crack, the film is about " wicked nasty stunts such as liposuction drinking games, beer enema shotguns, things that shouldn't be done with male genitalia, and more ...." Former drug smuggler Howard Marks makes an appearance as Satan.

Described by Cary as " friendly, undemanding music " which nevertheless he was nervous about performing, since the audience was composed of VIPs and included Yehudi Menuhin.

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 by Stukeley in 1723 as being 13 feet long, it is now about half that length, Grinsell suggesting that fragments have occasionally been broken off for mending the roads.

Described as a " stirring anthem to animism ", this song is Pocahontas ' exhortation to Captain John Smith about the wonders of the earth and nature, including the spirit within all living things, encouraging him not to think of them as things he can conquer or own, but rather as beings to respect and live with in harmony.

Described as " Babe's long-overdue confessional " and beginning of redemption, she confesses to Bianca the truth about their children.

Described by critic Dave Marsh as " the most widespread folk song in the English language ," " Barbara Allen " dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665.

Described by Duff as an ' 80s-influenced dance-pop song, " Wake Up " is lyrically about going out and having fun.