Gaudí's multicolored mosaic salamander, popularly known as " el drac " ( the dragon ), at the main entrance, prior to vandalism early in 2007

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Benny Carter became Fletcher's main arranger in the early 30's, moving on become as famous for his arranging expertise as his musicianship.

The mausoleums of the early Ottoman sultans are located in Bursa and the numerous edifices built throughout the Ottoman period constitute the city's main landmarks.

During the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes ( main and reserve ), and deployment components.

The main early Buddhist philosophical schools are the Abhidharma schools, particularly Sarvāstivāda and Theravāda.

In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

An early computer might use a hand-wired CPU of vacuum tubes, a magnetic drum for main memory, and a punch tape and printer for reading and writing data.

These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.

In the early 1980s, cheerleading squads not associated with a schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge.

The two main written sources for early West Saxon history are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List.

The compact nature of such instruction sets results in smaller program sizes and fewer ( slow ) main memory accesses, which at the time ( early 1960s and onwards ) resulted in a tremendous savings on the cost of computer memory and disc storage, as well as faster execution.

A 1964 ad expressed the main advantage of the PDP-5, " Now you can own the PDP-5 computer for what a core memory alone used to cost: $ 27, 000 " 116 PDP-5s were produced until the lines were shut down in early 1967.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early modern Games, such as fundraising stamps for the 1896 games and the main posters for the 1920 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

Diocletian's reforms shifted the governors ' main function to that of the presiding official in the lower courts: whereas in the early Empire military and judicial functions were the function of governor, and procurators had supervised taxation ; under the new system vicarii and governors were responsible for justice and taxation, and a new class of duces (" dukes "), acting independently of the civil service, had military command.

His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics ( especially geometry ) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.

The great flood of the main Nile usually occurred in Egypt during August, September, and October, but it sometimes began as early as June at Aswan and often did not completely wane until January.

The main difference between the early EEC and the EFTA was the absence of a common external customs tariff, and therefore each EFTA member was free to establish individual customs duties against trade with non EFTA countries.

Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious ; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages.

This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero's reign.

Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.

The main planning features on which Tapiola was built, as synthesised from Von Hertzen's writings, are summarised below:

Phenomenology has at least two main meanings in philosophical history: one in the writings of G. W. F.

The main biographical references for Orosius come from the writings of Gennadius of Massilia and Braulio of Zaragoza, although his own writings should not be overlooked.

Colin Ward in his main theorectical publication Anarchy in Action ( 1973 ) in a chapter called " Schools No Longer " " discusses the genealogy of education and schooling, in particular examining the writings of Everett Reimer and Ivan Illich, and the beliefs of anarchist educator Paul Goodman.

Janáček's writings indicate that this was a deliberate ploy to give musical embodiment to the disruptive, unsettling main character Emilia Marty / Elina Makropulos.

The main problem was the completion of the eleventh and last volume of the Lutheran writings, whose appearance was announced at the same Michaelmas Fair of 1733.

Holberg's travels were a main inspiration in his later writings these experiences matured him both artistically and morally.

Romanian scholar Mircea Handoca, editor of Eliade's writings, argues that the controversy surrounding Eliade was encouraged by a group of exiled writers, of whom Manea was a main representative, and believes that Eliade's association with the Guard was a conjectural one, determined by the young author's Christian values and conservative stance, as well as by his belief that a Legionary Romania could mirror Portugal's Estado Novo.

In Herbart's writings logic receives comparatively meagre notice ; he insisted strongly on its purely formal character, and expressed himself in the main at one with Kantians such as Fries and Krug.

Newton's writings suggest that one of the main goals of his alchemy may have been the discovery of The Philosopher's Stone ( a material believed to turn base metals into gold ), and perhaps to a lesser extent, the discovery of the highly coveted Elixir of Life.

During 1908 Edith appears to have made a decision to make Swedish the main language of her writings and her poems in German suddenly stopped.

The great difference between the earlier and the later treatise of Hippolytus is that the former was a mere compilation, his account of the opinions of heresies being in the main derived from the lectures of Irenaeus ; but at the time of writing the latter, he had himself read several heretical writings, of which he gives an extract in his treatise.

" While Japanese sociologist Kosaku Yoshino sees Iorga as a main contributor to didactic and dramatized cultural nationalism in Europe, University of Trento academic Paul Blokker suggests that, although " politicized, essentialist and sometimes anachronistic ", Iorga's writings can be critically recovered.

Iorga's descendants include historian Andrei Pippidi, son of Dionisie, who is noted as a main editor of Iorga's writings.

This can perhaps be classified into four main areas — prose, lyric poetry, political writings including epigrams and Latin.

In 1902, Kraus published Sittlichkeit und Kriminalität ( Morality and Criminal Justice ), for the first time commenting on what was to become one of the main issues in his writings: the allegedly necessary defense of sexual morality by means of criminal justice ( Der Skandal fängt an, wenn die Polizei ihm ein Ende macht, The scandal starts when the police is stopping it ).

One of the main points of his writings was to show the great evils inherent in such seemingly small errors.

Young said that Hubbard had written the main text of the series, but that he had ghostwritten the introduction of each volume, as well as other writings in Hubbard's name.

The main facts of his career were finally elucidated by Eduard Dietrich in a series of articles in the Zeitschrift für historische Theologie, which formed the basis of subsequent writings on the subject.

One main point of criticism of Lorber's works was the use of the first person as if the writings were dictated by Jesus Christ himself.

The " old " romance is what we would consider pre-novel prose — a main tenet of such writings is their fantastic nature.