However Id Tech 4 had far fewer licensees than the Unreal Engine from Epic Games, due to the long development time that went into Doom 3 which Id had to release before licensing out that engine to others.

Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

Not long after Amos was ensconced with her new label, she received unsettling news when Polly Anthony resigned as president of Epic Records in 2003.

There is no shootout during the NHL playoff games, as multiple 20-minute OT periods of five-on-five hockey are played until one of the teams scores, which wins them the game ( this has created extremely long contests such as the " Easter Epic ").

The band left Epic Records after White Light, White Heat, White Trash ( 1996 ) and Ness formed Time Bomb Recordings, releasing Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past ( a collection of old recordings and singles that were done in the early ' 80s ), a re-issue of the long out of print Mommy's Little Monster, along with a re-issue of their second album Prison Bound, and Live at the Roxy ( 1998 ).

Her Epic, RCA and EMI albums have long been out of print and have only recently attracted the attention of specialist reissue labels, but a Best Of album titled Transformation was released in 1999 by Razor & Tie.

This long poem — which concerns an Anatolian shaykh's rebellion against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I — is a modern epic, yet draws upon the same independent-minded traditions of the Anatolian people as depicted in the Epic of Köroğlu.

He re-emerged in 1991, after a long illness that prevented him from drawing, with The Last American, written by Wagner and Grant, for Marvel Comics's Epic imprint, and another radical change in drawing style.

Ancient literature indicates that steering poles have long been part of boat construction, and are referred to in ancient texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh.

However the unexpected long development time going into Doom 3 from 2002-04 meant that they could not put up competition to Epic Games's Unreal Engine 2 during that period.

The Essential Jacksons is the first compilation to cover The Jacksons ' fourteen-year long tenure at CBS / Epic Records.

He started as both a performance artist and the creator of a long sequence of charcoal drawings called The Epic of Oracle Foster.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

Epic poetry is a genre of poetry, and a major form of narrative literature.

They differ, in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

Ancient epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey and the Mahābhārata use similar narrative techniques as modern thrillers.

Epic poems are very vital to narrative poems, although it is thought that narrative poems were created to explain oral traditions.

While LDS periodicals were filled with moralistic and faith-promoting stories, poets Josephine Spencer and Augusta Joyce Crocheron published didactic and narrative poems, Charles Walker recited his Southern Utah folk poetry, and Whitney published hymns, lyric poetry, and a book-length poem, Elias, an Epic of the Ages ( 1904 ).

For the ancient Greeks, the tale of the Trojan War and the surrounding events appeared in its most definitive form in the Epic Cycle of eight narrative poems from the archaic period in Greece ( 750 BC – 480 BC ).

According to the Epic Cycle narrative of the Little Iliad, on the way to the ships, Odysseus plotted to kill Diomedes and claim the Palladium ( or perhaps the credit for gaining it ) for himself.

Lucia Bozzola wrote of this version, " With the freedom of home video, The Complete Epic reinstated the violence that had been edited for television ; free of commercial breaks, the narrative drive of Part I was mostly restored, but the impact of Part II was still muted by the separation of Vito's rise from Michael's descent.

In the Epic poetry | epic poem Nibelungenlied ( Song of the Nibelungs ), Siegfried is famously stabbed in the back by Hagen ( legend ) | Hagen.

Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Epic poetry | epic poem in Castilian language.

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature.

Leonidas was the name of an Epic poem written by Richard Glover, which originally appeared in 1737.

* Epic of Manas, a Kyrgyz epic poem with 500, 000 lines

The Epic of Manas (, ) is a traditional epic poem claimed by the Kyrgyz people dating to the 18th century, though it is possibly much older.

In one of its dozens of iterations, the epic poem consists of approximately 500, 000 lines, and while Kyrgyz historians consider it to be the longest epic poem in history, the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar are both longer.

For much of the 1950s, the Danube – Black Sea Canal was celebrated in agitprop literature ( notably, in Geo Bogza's 1950 reportage Începutul epopeii, " The Beginning of the Epic ", and in Petru Dumitriu's Drum fără pulbere, " Dustless Road "), music ( Leon Klepper's symphonic poem Dunărea se varsă în mare, " The Danube Flows to the Sea "), and film ( Ion Bostan's 1951 Canalul Dunăre-Marea Neagră, o construcţie a păcii – " The Danube – Black Sea Canal, a Construction of Peace ").

Benefits that are commonly quoted include: the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) today is 30 times that before 1950 ; it has 22, 500 km of highways, all built since 1950 ; all secular education in the region was created after integration into the PRC ; there are 25 scientific research institutes, all built by the PRC ; infant mortality has dropped from 43 % in 1950 to 0. 661 % in 2000 ; life expectancy has risen from 35. 5 years in 1950 to 67 in 2000 ; the collection and publishing of the traditional Epic of King Gesar, which is the longest epic poem in the world and had only been handed down orally before ; allocation of 300 million Renminbi since the 1980s to the maintenance and protection of Tibetan monasteries.

Enkidu, a main character in the Babylonian poem " The Epic of Gilgamesh " can be considered a parahuman.

The name " Manas " refers to the Epic of Manas, a world-renowned Kyrgyz epic poem.

He claimed that absurdity in reasoning being veiled by charming language in poetry, " As it is, the absurdity is veiled by the poetic charm with which the poet invests it … But in the Epic poem the absurdity passes unnoticed.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia is among the earliest known works of literary fiction.

The " Sundiata Keita " or " Epic of Sundiata " ( also referred to as the Sundiata Epic ) is an epic poem of the Malinke people and tells the story of the hero Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire.

* " The volunteers at Shipka ", a poem by Ivan Vazov, part of Epic of the Forgotten