That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

This problem is illustrated by the fact that many local churches drop from the active membership rolls each year as many as they receive into the fellowship.

" In addition to long and short stories, as well as poetry, many media fanzines included illustrated stories, as well as stand alone art, often featuring portraits of the show or film's principal characters.

The work is a complete and systematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and more besides.

* Rudolph Schindler described many important diseases involving the human digestive system during World War I in his illustrated textbook and is portrayed by some as the " father of gastroscopy ".

In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the Bab Ballads.

The tonewheel illustrated has, comparatively speaking, many fine teeth, and would generate a relatively high frequency.

Utamaro produced over two thousand prints during his working career, along with a number of paintings, surimono, as well as many illustrated books, including over thirty shunga books, albums, and related publications.

Museum expansion slowed after World War I, and the collection did not acquire many significant new works ; exceptions were Georges de La Tour's Saint Thomas and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's ( 1845 – 1934 ) 1935 donation of 4, 000 engravings, 3, 000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books.

R. F. Littledale criticized the Sun myth theory when he illustrated that Max Müller on his own principles was himself only a Solar myth, whilst Alfred Lyall delivered a still stronger attack on the same theory and its assumption that tribal gods and heroes, such as those of Homer, were mere reflections of the Sun myth by proving that the gods of certain Rajput clans were really warriors who founded the clans not many centuries ago, and were the ancestors of the present chieftains.

The book is illustrated with many photographs from the collection of Lady Sayer, a highly influential member of the Dartmoor Preservation Association during the mid 20th century.

* Heidelberg and the Palatine ; elaborate information on history and architecture, illustrated with many pictures.

He produced many brush paintings, called surimono, and illustrations for kyōka ehon ( illustrated book of humorous poems ) during this time.

Early children's books like Orbis Pictus were illustrated by woodcut, and many times the same image was repeated in a number of books regardless of how appropriate the illustration was to the story.

His enduring popularity since then has been fuelled by further exhibitions and the many books and other memorabilia which have illustrated various aspects of his life and work.

In the early 1980s he wrote and illustrated a series of children ’ s books about " The Incredible Cottage ", and was a prolific illustrator of many children ‘ s books.

McFarlane wrote and illustrated Spider-Mans first 14 issues, as well as # 16 ; many issues of which were crossovers with characters such as Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider.

It focuses largely on their time struggling to make a living prior to their break into television in the 1960s and is illustrated with many personal family photographs and previous unseen views of the act.

Although very long spears had been used since the dawn of organized warfare ( notably illustrated in art showing Sumerian and Minoan warriors and hunters ), the earliest recorded use of a pike-like weapon in the tactical method described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries in many countries.

There was also an exhibition of paintings and drawings by John Ward, who illustrated many of the early programmes for the music festival.

" While religious authors view themselves as instilling a part of God's vast glory on the work, many illustrations can be linked to " the history of the texts that were required to be illustrated and the needs and tastes of the readers of those manuscripts.

A friend of Harvey Pekar, Crumb illustrated many of the award winning American Splendor comics by Pekar including the first issues ( 1976 ).

After years of digging, nights and weekends, he put together the big, profusely illustrated book, Of Garryowen And Glory, which is probably the most complete history of any military unit.

De Politionele Acties, Fibula-van Dishoeck, Haarlem ( richly illustrated with a military focus, in Dutch )

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan illustrated that the Commonwealth still had some military meaning during the Second World War and was one of Canada's major contributions to the early war effort.

While in the Air Force, Spinney wrote and illustrated Harvey, a comic strip about military life.

The largest commissions of illustrated books were usually classics of Persian poetry such as the epic Shahnameh, although the Mughals and Ottomans both produced lavish manuscripts of more recent history with the autobiographies of the Mughal emperors, and more purely military chronicles of Turkish conquests.

The other major complication to plans of military forces to purchase new ground-attack aircraft is uncertainty over the degree to which manned fixed wing aircraft may be replaced by unmanned combat drones in this role, a possibility illustrated by the armed Predator drone, which has been used in this capacity.

His service illustrated the close ties between military and commercial aviation.

Both Archibald Wavell in the 1930s and Sir John Dill as CIGS in 1941 ( who commented that he no longer condemned Wilson ” so heartily as one used to ”) commented that Wilson had illustrated that a general must be able to work effectively with politicians, and his modern biographer Keith Jeffery comments that this, rather than Robertson ’ s acrimonious insistence on military autonomy, has been the model since Wilson ’ s time.

But the IDF had achieved numerous goals ; the borders dramatically tranquilized, Nasser promised to disband the Fedayeen, the Suez Canal was once again open to shipping and maybe most important of all, Israel had illustrated its military strength.

Noted World War II military and maritime artist Jack Coggins, who illustrated four F & SF covers in 1953-54, also did cover paintings for Galaxy Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories during this same period.

It was written by Doug Murray, initially illustrated by Michael Golden, edited by Larry Hama and published by Marvel Comics for seven years beginning in 1986, which was originally intended to roughly parallel the analogous events of the period of major American military involvement in Vietnam from 1966 to 1972.

His pyramid had colonnaded courts and relief sculptures which illustrated his naval fleet and recorded his military career consisting mostly of campaigns against the Libyans in the western desert.

In his book Watching M * A * S * H, Watching America, media and communications scholar James Wittebols said that Gomer Pyle illustrated how class differences " supposedly negated or diminished by military training " appeared in military hierarchy.

There was then a paragraph on the owner of the property, with his coat of arms illustrated, and all his children and remoter male-line descendants also listed, each with full names and details of birth, marriage, death, and any matters tending to enhance their social prestige, such as school and university education, military rank and regiment, Church of England cures held, and other honours and socially approved involvements.

However, while the famous novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong describes him as wielding the guan dao, this description may have been an anachronistic one intended to make the character seem more imposing: historically speaking there was no evidence to show that Guan Yu used the weapon that is thus attributed to him, and indeed there is no indication of the existence of what is now known as the guan dao prior to the 11th century, when it was first illustrated in the military manual Wujing Zongyao.

While some historians still contend that the guan dao was simply an uncommon, rare weapon prior to the Tang dynasty and was thus not illustrated before then, historical evidence does lean towards the attribution being an instance of creative license — historically, the guan dao, for the most part, was not actually intended for field use, but was instead used as a tool to test the strength of those who wished to become military officers: weapons of various weights were made, the test composed simply of performing various required maneuvers using such weapons.

While Greek sculptors traditionally illustrated military exploits through the use of mythological allegory, the Romans used a more documentary style.

The collection includes rare illustrated equestrian literature from the 15th century, school books from one-room school houses, and numerous volumes and other material related to the Museum's collections of military history, ethnology, mineralogy and art.

While in the trenches, Pippin kept illustrated journals of his military service, of which six drawings survived.

Bannerman's illustrated mail order catalog expanded to 300 pages ; and became a reference for collectors of antique military equipment.

The functions of a military attaché are illustrated by the American military attachés in Japan during the Russo-Japanese war years.

The 1979 SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union led to a vigorous debate ( and subsequent rejection by Congress of the treaty ) which illustrated how far the United States military had fallen into disrepair during the 1970s.