Stephens had written his classic `` incidents of travel '' about these regions a hundred years before, and Catherwood, who had studied Piranesi in London and the great ruins of Egypt and Greece, had drawn the splendid illustrations that accompanied the text.

The intuition about mankind conveyed in these opening pages is of crucial importance for understanding the remainder of the text ; ;

dictionary information about the form stored at this location can be retrieved directly by occurrences of the form in text.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

In 1893, Sir W. M. Ramsay in The Church in the Roman Empire held that the Codex Bezae ( the Western text ) rested on a recension made in Asia Minor ( somewhere between Ephesus and southern Galatia ), not later than about the middle of the 2nd century.

Each new key requires pre-processing equivalent to encrypting about 4 kilobytes of text, which is very slow compared to other block ciphers.

In all, about 2, 700 words found in the Masoretic text are not found in the Septuagint.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

*** Walk around Colossus A detailed tour of the replica Colossus – make sure to click on the " More Text " links on each image to see the informative detailed text about that part of Colossus

Some scholars feel that in addition to its spiritual components, portions of the text merely reflect the human authors ' beliefs and feelings about God at the time of its writing, and their cultural sensibilities.

* Pseudaria, or Book of Fallacies, was an elementary text about errors in reasoning.

Roughly 1200 words of readable text, mainly repetitious prayers, yielded about 50 lexical items.

Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech at 42 zettabytes ( 42, 000 exabytes, and 8, 400 times the original estimate ), if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio, although he did freely confess that " maybe the authors the exabyte estimate were thinking about text.

Earlier Berkeley studies estimated that by the end of 1999, the sum of human-produced information ( including all audio, video recordings and text / books ) was about 12 exabytes of data.

However, through careful research relating to paper construction, handwriting development, and the established principles of textual criticism, scholars can be rather certain about where these errors and changes appeared and what the original text probably said.

For example, students have been found to perform better on a test of knowledge about a text passage when a second reading of the passage is delayed rather than immediate ( see figure ).

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

In that text is a passage about Louis the Pious which says annona militaris quas vulgo foderum vocant, which can be translated as " Louis forbade that military provender ( which they popularly call " fodder ") be furnished .."

He also had not read Kelles-Krauz's text, but the financial expert of the party, Hermann Diamand, had read it and had told him, i. e. Daszynski, everything about it ".

We have little information about the early condition of the Homeric poems, but in the second century BC, Alexandrian editors stabilized this text from which all modern texts descend.

" While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction.

The full text is about two pages long, but they are often summarized as:

Countless web-sites are devoted to the collection of Internet humor, and every day e-mail crosses the world, containing the text of humorous articles, or jokes about current events.

It is important in one's reading of the text of Jeremiah that one remember that the recorder of these events ( i. e. the author of the text ) had neither the same audience nor, potentially, the same intent that Jeremiah had in performing these prophetic gestures.

Many secular motets are known as " ceremonial motets " Characteristic of ceremonial motets was a clarity of diction, for the audience was not presumed to be familiar already with the text ( as would have been true with Latin hymns ) and also a clear articulation of formal structure, for example a setting apart of successive portions of text with sharp contrasts of texture or rhythm.

His appearance on stage always brought a roar of delight from the kids in the audience and Spike had soon left the text far behind as he went off into a riff of sublime absurdity.

" In that text, intended for a French audience, Heidegger explained this misreading in the following terms:

" In China, after the finale of the 2005 season of Super Girl ( the local version of Pop Idol ) drew an audience of around 400 million people, and 8 million text message votes, the state-run English-language newspaper Beijing Today ran the front-page headline " Is Super Girl a Force for Democracy?

The reader would typically already have memorized the text through an instructor, had memorized where the breaks were, and the reader almost always read aloud, usually to an audience in a kind of reading performance, using the text as a cue sheet.

She states that the reason for this, apart from the many differences in the text, and some extremely sloppy writing in A Shrew, is " because it identifies the acting company with an audience of lowlifes like Sly.

The older the text, or the more general the audience, the more likely that HFE is implied.

* text audience: if the author is writing to a peer rather than a student, or their spouse rather than their employer, again quite different vocabulary will appear.

In the Middle Ages he was known for his rediscovery and teaching of geometry, earning his reputation when he made the first full translation of Euclid's " Elements " and began the process of interpreting the text for a Western audience.

This requires the audience to understand both the surface, nonsensical translation as well as the source text – the former then sounds like the latter spoken in a foreign accent.

It was during the latter that the action progressed while the audience waited for the next aria ; on the other hand, the text of the arias was almost entirely buried beneath music whose chief aim was to show off the virtuosity of the singer.

The comics were a fairly accurate retelling of the original series ' plot, although the characters are younger than the those in the original stories ( to appeal to the target audience of scouts ) and the text and illustrations are often very expository.

Through this mode, Milton is able to create a working dialogue between the text and his audience about the ‘ truths ’ they hold for themselves.

Called " Met Titles ", the $ 2. 7 million electronic libretto system provides the audience with a translation of the opera's text in English on individual screens mounted in front of each seat.

On 24 October he gave his first lecture, to " a crowded audience "; the text was soon printed and published as A Discourse on the Study of the Law.

While Debord's influence in bringing Chtchglov's text to an international audience is undoubted, his ability to practise the ' praxis ' of unitary urbanism has been placed into question by almost all of the subsequent protagonists of the Formulary's directives.

In stories told orally, there is a person telling the story, a whom the audience can see and / or hear, who adds layers of meaning to the text non-verbally.

The term discourse is used to describe the stylistic choices that determine how the narrative text or performance finally appears to the audience.

Exegesis includes a wide range of critical disciplines: textual criticism is the investigation into the history and origins of the text, but exegesis may include the study of the historical and cultural backgrounds for the author, the text, and the original audience.