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 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 academic reviewers as, " An extraordinary work which amounts to a theory of everything .. the philosophical equivalent of quantum physics string theory .." The book is a detailed study of the properties of light and colour in specific context of human history.

Described as ' The biggest free festival in Workington ’ s history ', the 2008 festival included a free children ’ s fun fair in Vulcan Park and stage and street entertainnment.

Described by WWE ( formerly the WWF ) chairman Vince McMahon as the most profitable wrestler in the company's history, he gained significant mainstream popularity in the WWF during the mid-to-late 1990s as " Stone Cold " Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied McMahon, his boss.

Described by WWE as " a favorite among WWE fans for his unbelievable athleticism and wrestling ability ," Benoit was widely regarded as one of the most popular, respected, and gifted technical wrestlers in history.

Described as " the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans ", each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life.

Described as an " antebellum landmark " in dramatic cantatas, according to Blumhofer it " featured the contemporary evangelical reading of American history ".

Described by WWE ( previously the WWF ) as " one of the most physically impressive individuals in WWE history ", Smith found success as both a singles and tag competitor, holding every major title in the organization except the WWF Championship.

Described as the biggest match in their history, they won 2 – 0 in Hampden Park and reach the final of the Scottish Cup for the first time in their history.

Described by historian Michael Bliss as the " most bitter election in Canadian history ", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1917 ).

Described by its producers as "... regal portrait ... steeped in historical accuracy ", the series followed the general flow of history, but deviated from historical truth in numerous ways, such as:

Described by the battalion's history as a " reluctant hero ", Statton was granted three cheers before he was carried shoulder high through the ranks while the battalion band played.

* Described by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack as " one of the most undignified incidents in Test history ", the clash between Lillee and Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad in 1981, in which Lillee and Miandad collided with each other, after which the bowler turned and kicked Miandad from behind.

* Described as the " conspiracy theorist to end all conspiracy theorists " for his book Codex Magica: Secret Signs, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati, which purports to expose a secret conspiracy between politicians and other famous people through modern history.

Described as an " erotic fantasy ", the novel ( as explained by Burroughs scholar Jenny Skerl ) consists of several plotlines shuffled together, with the " main " plot loosely dealing with a group of wild boys that seek to rewrite history by travelling through time to various times and places.

Described by Wilson and friend Jesse Greer as having been a generally happy if somewhat mischievous and sassy teenager, Ballard experienced a change in personality, from which she seemingly never recovered, as the result of an incident that occurred in the summer of 1960.

Described as being " the master of the double standard ", a " Psycho-Dad " as well as a perceived hypocrite who often embarrasses his children, even if he wants what is best for them.

Described as " the masters, if not the very source of magic " who appear as " hideous, oozing slimes and gelatinous mounds of flesh and tentacles ", they are each the embodiment of a particular aspect of evil and subsist upon the respective brands of suffering they inflict.

Described as a classic case of " if you build it they will come ",

Described by Special Agent Nitz as a " borderline sociopath ," his motivation for returning to the reservation is at first unknown, but later revealed to be legal troubles which Nitz has promised to erase if Dashiell successfully completes his mission.