These experiences were all recounted in his colourful 1920 war memoir, By Sea and Land.

and Dr Z, whose LP Three Parts To My Soul is particularly noted for its complex and colourful fold-out sleeve.

Other colourful nicknames are found in other languages ; in Hungarian, for instance, the double bass is sometimes called nagy bőgő, which roughly translates as " big crier ," referring to its large voice.

The impact of these studies, the metaphor ' ozone hole ', and the colourful visual representation in a time lapse animation proved shocking enough for negotiators in Montreal to take the issue seriously.

Mexican cuisine, a style of food that originated in Mexico, is known for its varied flavors, colourful decoration and variety of spices and ingredients, most of which are native to the country.

In this role, they are the forces most visible to tourists, and known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard.

The campus is well known for its colourful fall foliage, Georgian style red-brick buildings, and a very steep hill.

The area attracts significant numbers of tourists each year and is widely known for its colourful fruit, vegetable and fish market at the heart of Palermo, known as the Vucciria.

He saw a market for colourful clothes, and sold a younger brother's bicycle in order to buy his first second-hand knitting machine.

These colourful characters are famous for their giant, vibrant hats and costumes.

Others have criticised Haddock's calling them " addle-pated lumps of anthracite ", but Hergé did not intend to be racist – Captain Haddock is well known for his frequently colourful language, which comprises almost 200 insults in total.

Robinson tries to write a colourful journal but he is incapable of doing so, instead Mercredi writes fictitious stories for him.

It is noted for the large and colourful mosaics, and many other artefacts such as pottery, jewellery, tools and coins from the Roman period.

It also exhibits colourful and rare kiras and ghos ( traditional Bhutanese dress, kira for women and gho for men ).

An effective and good chairman rather than a colourful or charismatic leader, he led the new state during the more turbulent period of its history, when the legislation necessary for the foundation of a stable independent Irish polity needed to be pushed through.

Dawkins speculated that the unnatural selection role played by the user in this program could be replaced by a more natural agent if, for example, colourful biomorphs could be selected by butterflies or other insects, via a touch sensitive display set up in a garden.

Lancelot Speed's cartoon work is the source of the nickname for the colourful commander of the WWII Special Forces unit " Popski's Private Army ".

The town is known for its colourful and animated carnaval celebrations.

He influenced Alexandrian poets searching for alternative styles and uses of language, such as Callimachus and Herodas, and his colourful reputation as an acerbic, social critic also made him a popular subject for verse, as in this epigram by Theocritus:

David Langford cited Vance's " engaging speculation ", but concluded that the protagonist " seems too weak a character for his leading role ", while " the culture and landscape of Pao are grey and ill-defined, in strong contrast to the exotically colourful societies and ecologies which became Vance's trademark ".

On 5 June 1774, William married Lady Georgiana Spencer ( 1757 – 1806 ), a colourful character who became something of a national female icon of the late 18th century for her prominent role in fashion, politics and society in a predominately male-dominated environment.

Renowned for the changes she wrought to the French and global music industry with her powerful and colourful performances, she is today still remembered by aficionados throughout the world.

His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation.

The events are usually spectacular and colourful, with sand pits for children to play in, free food and music, however they have been known to degenerate into riots and violence.

According to John Aubrey's very colourful Brief Life, he could " neither read nor write " but " had a stamp for his name.

Bucharest's cultural life has, especially since the early 1990s, become colourful and worldly.

Newspaper articles reported his colourful life with zeal, very many festivals dedicated to the composer were held, readings of his books and a one-hour French television dramatised biography all helped to create a lot of exposure to the composer's life and music – far more than the previous centenary anniversary.

He wanted to create an entire martial art that would convince the public at large – but one capable of revitalising both the body and the spirit, giving energy, refreshment and the hope of living a more colourful life, of restoring the soul day by day.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (; 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901 ) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.

His fame owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men, as a greedy miser, as an inventor of a system of mnemonics and also of some letters of the Greek alphabet ().

His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional.

The series largely concerns the colourful and surrealistic adventures of Tim and Daisy as they navigate through life, decide on what they want to do with their lives, come to terms with affairs of the heart, and try to figure out new and largely unproductive ways of killing time.

Its carol service ( the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols ), celebrated twice in December, including every 24 December, is a colourful feature of Dublin life.

Kitchin led a varied and colourful life.

His play Nummisuutarit ( The Cobblers of the Heath ) – with colourful scenes of rural life in the 19th century Nurmijärvi parish – are performed in summer at an outdoor theatre in Palojoki, the village where Kivi was born.

Today the town is quiet due to the eruption of La Grande Soufriere in 1976, with its French provincial atmosphere and colourful port life.

Scenes of popular life in Madrid around 1 885: returning from a popular festival, young people from good families in search of pleasure mingle with common folk, and give themselves to unrestrained jollity: turmoil, dancing, and colourful to-ing and fro-ing.

resulting in a colourful private life that has often overshadowed his performing career.

Due to his homely way of life — and in contrast to the colourful Earl of Leicester — Ambrose Dudley became known to posterity as the " Good Earl of Warwick ".

" Ambrose Dudley entered tradition as the " Good Earl of Warwick "; this probably came about through his quiet life style, which contrasted with the colourful persona of his brother, the Queen's favourite.

The novel is composed of colourful stories of everyday life in the Tornedalian town of Pajala.

Her private life-multiple marriages, scandals, claims of lesbianism-have made her off-screen life as colourful as her on-screen life.

In Uncle Rudolf ( 2002 ), the narrator looks back on his colourful life and his rescue as a young boy from a likely death in fascist Romania, by his uncle, a gifted lyric tenor and the novel's eponymous hero.

Following this colourful early life, ‘ G. H.

His private life was very colourful, but ultimately rather sad.

* " Fjolsernes Konge "( King of Fools ), 2007, a colourful and exciting novel about Konrad Stork who is travelling in Denmark in the 1890 ´, selling everything on the market, including himself, to the women, and also promoting himself in the theatre, showing the audience his marvellous life. Backstage the police are waiting ...