Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.

The earliest account describing a possible plague epidemic is found in I Samuel 5: 6 of the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ).

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

The main account of Saul's life and reign is found in the Books of Samuel.

In this view it was on account of his modesty that he did not reveal the fact that he had been anointed king ( 1 Samuel 10: 16 ; Meg.

Just before his retirement, Samuel gathered the people to an assembly at Gilgal, and gives them a farewell speech, in which he emphasised how prophets and judges were more important than kings, how kings should be held to account, and how the people should not fall into idol worship, or worship of Asherah or of Baal ; Samuel threatened that God would subject the people to foreign invaders should they disobey.

In the Qur ' anic account, Samuel prophesies to the children of Israel, telling them that the sign of Saul's kingship will be that the Ark of the Covenant will come back to the Israelites:

The account of the battle between David and Goliath is told in 1 Samuel, chapter 17.

Hooke also participated in the design of the Pepys Library, which held the manuscripts of Samuel Pepys's diaries, the most frequently cited eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London.

Samuel Pepys wrote an eyewitness account of the execution at Charing Cross, in which Major General Harrison was dryly reported to be " looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition ".

Adherents of source criticism suggest that references to a woman called Ahinoam being Saul's wife belong to the account of the republican source of the Books of Samuel, while in the passages ascribed to the monarchial source, the only mention of a woman called Ahinoam is the description of her as a wife of David.

The account in 1 Samuel 5. 2 – 7 relates how the ark of Yahweh was captured by the Philistines and taken to Dagon's temple in Ashdod.

There are no contemporary independent documents other than the claimed accounts of the Books of Samuel, which clearly shows too many anachronisms to have been a contemporary account.

Samuel Wells Williams gave an account of them in his book " The Middle kingdom: a survey of the ... Chinese empire and its inhabitants ":

In 1797, according to his own account, the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reading about Xanadu in Purchas his Pilgrimage, fell asleep, and had an opium-inspired dream.

There is an account of his life in the Gentleman's Magazine for April ( 1742 ) by Samuel Johnson.

In 1949, Tom Tyler played Frank James in the film I Shot Jesse James, an account from Robert Ford's viewpoint, and the first western directed by Samuel Fuller.

A full account of Rogers is given in two works by P. W. Clayden, The Early Life of Samuel Rogers ( 1887 ) and Rogers and his Contemporaries ( 2 vols., 1889 ).

An early written account appears in the Bible, II Samuel 21: 9.

Samuel Purchas, who in 1625 published an English translation of Pantoja's letter and Ricci's account, thought that perhaps, Cathay still can be found somewhere north of China.

The first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts was a Puritan ordinary, opened in 1633, by one account, but the date was actually 4 March 1633 / 4, which is more correctly written 1634 ; on this date John Winthrop recorded that Samuel Cole set up the " first house for common entertainment.

Gottlieb Samuel Studer published an account of the next ascent made by himself and Bürki in 1842.

Rather than the name of his wife was Abigail ( ש ׁ ם א ִ ש ׁ ת ּ ו ֹ אבגי ִ ל ) the account in the Books of Samuel may have originally read the name of the chief of Abihail ( ש ׁ ם שר אביהי ִ ל ), and told of a clan named Abihail, which left a political alliance with the Rechabites ( represented by Nabal / Nadab ) to join the Kingdom of Judah ( represented by David's band of men ).

Psychologists such as Robert Baker and Graham Wagstaff claim that what we call hypnosis is actually a form of learned social behaviour, a complex hybrid of social compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility that can account for many esoteric behavioural manifestations.

2011 novel by Jeanette Baker " Legacy " ( Casablanca Classics ) is a fictional account of the possibility of the original Stone of Scone being hidden away and a replica taken to Westminster.

* See also Stephen Gottschalk, Rolling Away the Stone, Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism, ( ISBN 0-253-34673-8 ) for a new account of her founding the church and relations to critics such as Mark Twain.

Kerehona elaborates by inferring that it is clear by the accounts of Colenso ( 1890 ) that not only did Moka clearly express his concerns about the Treaty's effects whilst at the meeting on February 5, but that the discussion that he had with the Reverend Charles Baker combined with Moka's final comment should be taken into account.

The director, Roy Ward Baker, was chosen on account of his experience with technically demanding productions such as A Night to Remember.

Baker only starred in one of these, however, that being The First Fast Draw, a highly fictional account of Baker's origin and subsequent years.

Roger Baker, writing in The Times noted that from one angle Colonel Sun is a " neat, not over-inventive thriller, low on sex, high on violence and more than usually improbable "; however, he noted that once the elements of the re-incarnation of Bond and the writing of Kingsley Amis were taken into account, things were different.

Pichon, in 1949, offers another account of Pachypodium brevicaule Baker in Mém.

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis, describes Beatty's next order as, " Steer two points nearer the enemy.

Hoy describes Levinas's account as " not the attempt to use power against itself, or to mobilize sectors of the population to exert their political power ; the ethical resistance is instead the resistance of the powerless "( 2004, p. 8 ).

Allen, whether motivated by patriotic impulses ( as he describes in his account of the events ), or by the realization that the action might improve the political position of his side in the grants disputes, agreed to help, and began rounding up the Green Mountain Boys.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

A gospel is an account, often written, that describes the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Huston Smith ( 1991 ) describes an account in the Qur ' an of meetings in heaven between Moses and Muhammad, which Huston states were " one of the crucial events in Muhammad's life ," and resulted in Muslims observing 5 daily prayers.

In this book he describes radical nanotechnology as a deterministic / mechanistic idea of nano engineered machines that does not take into account the nanoscale challenges such as wetness, stickness, brownian motion, high viscosity ( Drexler view ).

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.

The book describes, among other stories, an account of the purported Pope Joan giving birth to a son in plain view of all those around, accompanied by a detailed engraving showing a rather surprised looking baby peeking out from under the Pope's robes.

QED mathematically describes all phenomena involving electrically charged particles interacting by means of exchange of photons and represents the quantum counterpart of classical electromagnetism giving a complete account of matter and light interaction.

Busbecq, who claims to have received an account from an eyewitness, describes Mustafa's final moments.

He later wrote a detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.

Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.

Suetonius, whose father had fought for Otho at Bedriacum, gives an unfavourable account of Vitellius ' brief administration: he describes him as unambitious and notes that Vitellius showed indications of a desire to govern wisely, but that Valens and Caecina encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background.

William of Poitiers describes a council called by Duke William, in which the writer gives an account of a great debate that took place between William's nobles and supporters over whether to risk an invasion of England.

The gloss describes the poem as an account of sin and restoration.

The biblical account describes Goliath as falling on his face after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead.

* It describes simple motor response of, say, the human hand, failing to account for software acceleration usually implemented for a mouse cursor ;

Barras's account of the visit describes the child as suffering from extreme neglect, but conveys no idea of the alleged walling in.

In 2008 Irving self-published Banged Up, an account of his recent imprisonment in Austria, in which he writes " Since January 1965 a close friendship has bonded me with ... Rolf Hochhuth " and describes a phone conversation between them in 2005.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

In that account, he describes with detail how Travis was heroic in his final moments, turning straight into the Mexican soldiers and facing his death with honor.

Traditional scholars believe the briefer account describes a different structure, perhaps Moses's personal tent.