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 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 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 in press reports of her death as " the oldest person in England " and the " oldest woman in the UK ", Reeves was survived by both Lucy d ' Abreu of Scotland, aged 113, and Judy Ingamells of Enfield, born one month before her and recognized as England's oldest woman by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Described as " A Walking Book of Knowledge ", Kuehnelt-Leddihn had an encyclopedic knowledge of the humanities and was a polyglot, able to speak eight languages and read seventeen others .< ref name =" WFB1 ">

Described by the Midwest Book Review as a generation of " thirty-somethings who have fallen through the cracks of parental, academic, and worldly expectations ," this group is given voice in Blyler's debut novel, Steffi's Club, set in the subterranean streets of Plzeň, Czech Republic, several years after the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism.

Described as " Britain's fifth most important political party " in 1986 it played a prominent role in the 1989 – 1991 mass anti-poll tax movement which was widely thought to have led to the downfall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Described as " a top redbrick university and one of the giants of the British higher education system " by The Guardian newspaper, the university is ranked nationally between 16th ( QS World University Rankings ) and 27th ( The Independent ).

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 as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.

Described as " vitriolic, intolerant, impatient, and exigent – yes, but generous, sensitive, considerate, a great teacher too, and a great man " by Lord Listowell, the last British secretary of state for India, Menon was an influential and controversial figure on the world scene, and the architect of the Third Bloc foreign policy of non-alignment.

Described as " a British band with blues and metal aspirations, but also a strong art-rock tendency " by Allmusic, It Bites are better described as a band composed of voracious pop fans with a parallel taste for progressive rock.

* Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera Described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum ( 1870 )

Described in the New York Times as ' the king of garage rock ', Billy and Thee Headcoats actually grew out of the British punk scene of the 1970s ( both Billy and Bruce Brand playing in The Pop Rivets and The Milkshakes ).

The book was printed in 1823 and entitled Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays founded on Aprocryphal New Testament Story extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum by the author, investigative journalist, devout Christian and former satirist, William Hone ( 1780 – 1842 ), and printed at 45 Ludgate Hill London.

* Ancient Mysteries Described Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum, Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, the Festivals of Fools and Asses, the English Boy-bishop, the Descent Into Hell, the Lord Mayor's Show, the Guildhall Giants, Christmas Carols, Etc By William Hone, George Cruikshank

Marion Akin, aka Miss Whiplash campaigning as a prospective Member of Parliament on behalf of the Correction Party for the Ribble Valley by-election in 1989. Described as the fastest growing fringe party in 1993, the Corrective party was a radical British political party which campaigned for social justice, civil liberties, animal rights and sexual freedom.

Described on Sash's biography as " the big break ", it reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as reaching the top 10 of five countries ' singles charts, and the top 20 of seven countries ' singles charts.

Described in the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia papers of 1796 as a “ two-story wooden structure w / addition & a cellar floored in stone w / kitchen ”, Violet Bank originally fit an almost canonized two-over-two centre hall plan typical of the late colonial Tidewater Virginia.

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.

" Jewish and Islamic sources describe a similar book, intended to preserve “ the primordial wisdom of paradise for Adam and his generations ” and also “ the genealogy of the entire human race " Described elsewhere in the LDS canon ( D & C 107: 53-56 ) is the story of how Adam gathered his posterity three years prior to his death, and “ predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation .” Though unknown in the Bible, similar stories are told in several ancient pseudepigraphal sources.

Described as " a sexy, sexual record ", Talk That Talk ( 2011 ) was similar to Rated R, both containing hip hop, R & B, dancehall and dubstep genres.

Described as a " detailed look at the nature of evil ," it was the first Dungeons & Dragons book labelled for mature audiences.