Because of the accompanying biographical annotations on the authors and composers, the work is an important historical source.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Common selection tools include ability tests ( e. g., cognitive, physical, or psychomotor ), knowledge tests, personality tests, structured interviews, the systematic collection of biographical data, and work samples.

He actively supported the court Society of Miniaturists, commissioning several volumes including the Siyer-i Nebi, the most heavily illustrated biographical work on the life of Muhammad, the Book of Skills, the Book of Festivities and the Book of Victories.

A brief biographical note is found in Aelius Donatus's Life of Virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by Suetonius.

He assessed some of Keynes biographical and editorial work as among the best he'd ever seen.

The work of Waller, along with John Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors and John Aubrey's Brief Lives, form the major near-contemporaneous biographical accounts of Hooke.

The numerous biographical notes are probably taken from the work of Hesychius of Miletus.

According to the composer, this work is the culmination of his two other biographical operas, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha ( about Mohandas Gandhi ).

Families of the deceased who could afford the work of a stonemason had a headstone carved and set up over the place of burial with an indication of the name of the deceased, date of death and sometimes other biographical data.

A considerable amount of information about the life of Archilochus has come down to the modern age via his surviving work, the testimony of other authors and inscriptions on monuments, yet it all needs to be viewed with caution — the biographical tradition is generally unreliable and the fragmentary nature of the poems doesn't really support inferences about his personal history.

* It's All in the Upbringing-A biographical sketch of Watson's life and work on the website of Johns Hopkins University, where he worked from 1908 to 1920.

Its work encompasses all aspects of military intelligence requirements – from highly complex missile trajectory data to biographical information on foreign military leaders.

An extended sketch of his life appears in the biographical department of this work.

A biographical analysis of some 200 of its employees, classed as capitalists, managers, laborers, and general service personnel, reveals that the resulting work force included Europeans, Americans, Mexicans, and Indians.

His most important work was this biographical dictionary of artists, Notizie de ' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, of which the publication began in 1681 and continued after his death.

* Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, a biographical reference work in the German language

In recent years there has been a renewal of critical and biographical interest in Lewis and his work, and he is now regarded as a major British artist and writer of the twentieth century.

In 1954, the Australian journalist and author, George Johnston, wrote a well-researched series of biographical articles on Finch, his life, and his work, which appeared in The Sun-Herald ( Sydney ), on four consecutive Sundays, which were certainly the first detailed account of Finch's life ever published.

After Gothika, Downey was cast in a number of leading and supporting roles, including well-received work in a number of semi-independent films: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Good Night, and Good Luck, A Scanner Darkly, and Steven Shainberg's fictional biographical film of Diane Arbus, Fur, where Downey's character represented the two biggest influences on Arbus ' professional life, Lisette Model and Marvin Israel.

His History of the Christian Church resembled Neander's work, though less biographical, and was pictorial rather than philosophical.

Amongst the strongest critics of Froude's biographical work was novelist Margaret Oliphant, who wrote in the Contemporary Review of 1883 that biography ought to be the " art of moral portrait painting " and described the publication of Jane Carlyle's papers as the " betrayal and exposure of the secret of a woman ’ s weakness.

" After Froude finished his work, ownership of the manuscript material was passed to Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, who quickly authorised alternative biographical volumes by Charles Eliot Norton that excised the offensive material.

A revised edition of this work, with a historical and biographical introduction, was published in 1885 by Charles Plummer, under the title The Governance of England.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Fuller was portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in Tim Burton's 1994 Wood biographical film Ed Wood, a portrayal of which she disapproved due to the image of her smoking in the film.

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

When asked for biographical details, Tiptree / Sheldon was forthcoming in everything but gender.

* In 2009, it was reported that Roger Daltrey was developing a biographical film about Moon called See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure, to be released in 2012.

In 1937 a biographical film, Karel Hynek Mácha, was made by Zet Molas ( a pen name of Zdena Smolová ).

Dunst's next film role was the title character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette.

Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age.

According to the newly released website, pottermore, Merlin was described with deeper biographical background.

Even Leoni accepted on page 115 that he had never seen an original edition, and on earlier pages he indicated that much of his biographical material was unsourced.

Hogue was in a position to take advantage of it, but it was only in 2003 that he accepted that some of his earlier biographical material had in fact been apocryphal.

Boken om Nurmi ( A Book of Nurmi ), released in Sweden in 1925, was the first biographical book on a Finnish sportsman.

If Fragment 98 of her poetry is accepted as biographical evidence and as a reference to her daughter ( see below ), it may indicate that she had already had a daughter by the time she was exiled.

This text was a biographical treatise on ancient famous women.

In 2005 actor Shane West was cast to play Crash in the Germs biographical film What We Do Is Secret named after a song by the Germs.

Virgil's biographical tradition is thought to depend on a lost biography by Varius, Virgil's editor, which was incorporated into the biography by Suetonius and the commentaries of Servius and Donatus, the two great commentators on Virgil's poetry.

The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues ( or Bucolics ) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39 – 38 BC, although this is controversial.

However, Walt-The Man Behind the Myth, a biographical documentary about Disney, was later made.

After Keynes's death Schumpeter wrote a brief biographical piece called Keynes the Economist – on a personal level he was very positive about Keynes as a man ; praising his pleasant nature, courtesy and kindness.

At Bristol, one of his teachers was Rendle Short, who had proposed that appendicitis is caused by a lack of cellulose in the diet ( it is worth noting, perhaps, from a biographical perspective, that Cleave's sister had died at the age of eight years from a perforated appendicitis ).

The film features Lawrence's alleged sadomasochism as a major part of his character ( for instance, his " match trick " in Cairo, his " enjoyment " of killing Gasim ); while Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and like activities after the Deraa incident, there is no biographical evidence he was a masochist prior to that incident.