Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

He was a favorite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns, and wrote a third historical work on Alexander.

He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity ( the last was written by Procopius ).

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

He wrote " The Princes of the Lost Tribe " and " Ancient Queen of Somawathee " for Menaka De Shabandu and Bridget Halpe's choirs, respectively, based on historical incidents in ancient Sri Lanka.

The last mention of Ambrose in the historical record is in Origen's Contra Celsum, which the latter wrote at the solicitation of Ambrose.

Bede wrote scientific, historical and theological works, reflecting the range of his writings from music and metrics to exegetical Scripture commentaries.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

Jacopo was also a witness to and wrote an account of the sack of Rome, which is one of the most important historical documents recounting that event.

* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.

Elwes wrote the script with Joey Sagal and Hanala Sagal, which is " inspired by a true historical event ".

Baur in 1836 when he suggested " this letter had to be interpreted according to the historical circumstances in which Paul wrote it.

After the Emperor's death ( c. 337 ), Eusebius wrote the Life of Constantine, an important historical work because of eye witness accounts and the use of primary sources.

He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction.

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, who wrote historical and early SF novels and stories wrote Mertvec-ubiytsa ( Dead murderer ) in 1879.

The first historical mention of the region is from the Massaliote Periplus, a sailing manual for merchants thought to date to the 6th century BCE, and Pytheas of Massilia wrote of his exploratory voyage to the island around 325 BC.

Friedrich Engels wrote: " I use ' historical materialism ' to designate the view of the course of history, which seeks the ultimate causes and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, with the consequent division of society into distinct classes and the struggles of these classes.

Like the Turk, wrote Benjamin, " he puppet called ' historical materialism ' is always supposed to win.

In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...

From December 1851 to March 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

Quintus Ennius wrote a historical epic, the Annals ( soon after 200 BC ), describing Roman history from the founding of Rome to his own time.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

He wrote: " the Summary does not even mention the existence of 18 years of weather satellite data that show a slight global cooling trend, contradicting all theoretical models of climate warming.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

" For approximately three years ( 1947 – 50 ), Fox wrote for EC Comics, including scripts and text pieces which appeared in the famous The Crypt of Terror, The Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy titles, as well as in the lesser-known Gunfighter, Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl, Saddle Justice and the new trend title Valor, among others.

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

Rolling Stone rated the album 5 of 5 stars but also wrote "... even when his songwriting is sharp, the mellowing trend in his music dulls the impact.

In a 1989 commentary for the New York Times, she wrote that, while " censorship and government interference in the directions and standards of art are dangerous and not part of the democratic process ," controversial grants to Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe and others reflected a trend in which the NEA was supporting work " of increasingly dubious quality.

Samuel P. Huntington wrote The Third Wave, partly as response to Fukuyama, defining a global democratization trend in the world post WWII.

" The Times in London, however, noted a growing recent trend toward heraldic " castration ", pointing to the lions passant on the royal coat of arms of England, as well as the lions rampant on those of Norway, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Scotland, all of which have recently been depicted without genitals ; in conclusion, The Times wrote, " some crests are ambiguous, but the message remains clear: the lions are supposed to display courage and nothing else.

Over the next few years, the number of novelists who picked up on the procedural trend grew to include writers like Ben Benson, who wrote carefully researched novels about the Massachusetts State Police, retired police officer Maurice Procter, who wrote a series about North England cop Harry Martineau, and Jonathan Craig, who wrote short stories and novels about New York City police officers.

For example, Statistics New Zealand demographers in 2008 spotted a trend of fewer women having children and wrote: " Deciding not to have children happens as a consequence of other life events .... Education, career, mortgages, changes in family and partners for many couples, childlessness is what happens while they are making other plans.

Writing in The Observer, the journalist Nick Cohen wrote disparagingly of Hegemony or Survival, describing Chomsky as a " master of looking-glass politics ", exemplifying a trend in the western Left for being more interested in anti-Americanism than in opposing the " fascist " regime of Saddam Hussein.

Linehan wrote and directed the 2006 Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, in which he sought to move away from the recent British trend towards mock-documentary comedies, and to return to an old-fashioned style of sitcom, recorded before a studio audience.

A scriptural geologist, Gisborne wrote two books which criticized the trend of geology away from a basis in the Bible: Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity ( 1818 ) and Considerations on Modern Theories of Geology ( 1837 ).

He wrote a short story ( The duk-duk affair ) in which he mocked those who are following the trend set by him.

He also wrote canzonettas, dialogues, keyboard toccatas and capriccios, a Sonata cromatica, and numerous other pieces which display an interest in just about every contemporary musical trend in north Italy.

The BBC's William Gallagher wrote in a November 2001 column that Soul's guest-appearance had begun a trend for American actors appearing in UK shows.

" This trend is also visible among notable and influential civilians: Senator Ben Nelson, a member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, wrote " when the word ' brat ' is used to describe someone it is not meant as a compliment, but when it is preceded by another word and becomes " military brat " it becomes a term of endearment.

In his review of The Simpsons: The Complete Eleventh Season, Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide wrote " Even in the series ’ crummier seasons, the staff always seems to come up with a good Halloween episode ", and that " Treehouse of Horror X " " continues that trend ".

Shafer wrote, " If pharm parties are a trend, they're the best-hidden and least-talked about one in the country.

Trip Shakespeare's commercial failure has been attributed to the band's poor timing: " 1991 was the great embrasure of the grunge movement when Nirvana's Nevermind set the decade-long trend for the popular music charts ," wrote AllMusic. com.

During the 2012 Republican National Convention, Blackwell wrote letters warning against rule changes that he indicated would support a trend toward a national presidential primary, reduce influence from the party's grassroots, and concentrate power in the RNC Chairman.