The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe.

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

Cosmological perturbation theory, which describes the evolution of slight inhomogeneities in the early universe, has allowed cosmologists to precisely calculate the angular power spectrum of the radiation, and it has been measured by the recent satellite experiments ( COBE and WMAP ) and many ground and balloon-based experiments ( such as Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, Cosmic Background Imager, and Boomerang ).

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

Interestingly, this image's caption describes the game as " a curious ancient pastime ", confirming that croquet games were not new in early nineteenth century England.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

This early post, on August 7, 1985, describes the awards as being, " given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.

Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.

Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.

Allen had the work, which historian Charles Jellison describes as " rebellion in print ", printed in Connecticut, and began selling and giving away copies in early 1775.

The thermodynamic definition was developed in the early 1850s by Rudolf Clausius and essentially describes how to measure the entropy of an isolated system in thermodynamic equilibrium.

He describes this early period in sound for film:

" Glazer describes how " John's accidental transformation from drifter to national figure parallels Capra's own early drifting experience and subsequent involvement in movie making ... Meet John Doe, then, was an attempt to work out his own fears and questions.

Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind.

Ian Glasper describes the group as " pissed-off hateful noise with its roots somewhere between early Discharge and Disorder, with Dean and Phil pushing their trademark vocal extremity to its absolute limit.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

The first volume, ' Hubris ', describes Hitler's early life and rise to power.

This term, used as early as 1990, describes computer-based objects developed for collecting and storing specific information, in order to use that information to accomplish a specific task, and to enable sharing that information with other objects or processes.

More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The latter of the two describes the sentiment towards female members of the early Gnostics:

The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin ( Vulgate Merlin Continuation ), which describes King Arthur's early adventures.

" The article describes other early earth experiments being done by MacNevin.

" Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".

It primarily describes the coasts of southern Spain and Portugal, but makes brief mention of a visit to " the sacred isle " ( Ireland, Ierne ) located across from Albion ( an early name for Britain ).

Jeffrey Richards describes him as " the last survivor of the Symmachan old guard ", having been ordained as a deacon perhaps as early as 502, during the Laurentian schism.

In the semi-autobiographic Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn the narrator describes a period of time selling the Encyclopædia Britannica door by door in the town.

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term " instant celebrity " describes someone who becomes a celebrity in a very short period of time.

Although derived from the Latin word feodum or feudum ( fief ), then in use, the term feudalism and the system it describes were not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the medieval period.

A single period is thus the smallest repeating unit of a signal, and one period describes the signal completely.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

The historian Kelly DeVries describes the period preceding her appearance in the following terms: " If anything could have discouraged her, the state of France in 1429 should have.

According to the chapter heading, the book covers the time period between ca 420 BC and 361 BC and describes the efforts of the Nephite prophets to " keep them Nephites in the way of truth ".

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.

" Princeton University archaeologist Jack Finnegan describes additional archaeological evidence related to settlement in the Nazareth basin during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and states that " Nazareth was a strongly Jewish settlement in the Roman period.

" Postmodernist " describes part of a movement ; " Postmodern " places it in the period of time since the 1950s, making it a part of contemporary history.

Indeed, in the period immediately after his death, Mozart's reputation rose substantially: Solomon describes an " unprecedented wave of enthusiasm " for his work ; biographies were written ( first by Schlichtegroll, Niemetschek, and Nissen ; see Biographies of Mozart ); and publishers vied to produce complete editions of his works.

In the book, she describes learning about Ono's control over John ( who referred to Ono as " mother ") in the period in the mid-1970s when Ono chose May Pang to be John's companion.

The book describes the period of time immediately following the visit of Jesus Christ to the Book of Mormon peoples, in which time the Nephites and the Lamanites are all converted to the Church of Christ.

Edwards describes this period:

In women who have a uterus, perimenopause describes the years before and after the final period ( although it is only possible to determine in retrospect which episode of flow was indeed the final period ).

The Historia Francorum is of salient historical interest since it describes a period of transition from Roman to Medieval, and the establishment of the Frankish state, the area of which, despite numerous fluctuations, was to remain large in terms of population and territory, and fortunate in terms of resources and wealth, throughout the Medieval period, despite divisions that formed as the modern map of Europe evolved.

Old school hip hop ( also spelled " old skool ") describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music ( approximately from 1979 – 1984 ), and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended ( see Roots of hip hop ).

One biographer describes this period as her " emergence from Richard's shadow.