He also wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments.

Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Gaius Marius, Nero, and others, as well as his descriptions of " battles in the clouds " and " frogs falling from the sky.

None of these can be accurately identified with ancient descriptions, though it is not unlikely that some of the narrow-leaved cultivars most esteemed may be descendants of the Licinian olive.

Some of the techniques that would be applied in anō pankration and katō pankration, respectively, are known to us through depictions on ancient pottery and sculptures, as well as in descriptions in ancient literature.

Still, the greatest poets and thinkers of ancient Rome continued to emulate her or compare other writers to her, and it is through these comparisons and descriptions that we have received much of her extant poetry.

He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.

In 1827, his brother Charles mounted an antiquarian production at Covent Garden ; it featured costumes designed after the descriptions of the ancient British by such writers as Julius Caesar and Diodorus Siculus.

For the decades to follow, scientists and scholars believed the ancient descriptions of a sacred, inspiring pneuma to be fallacious.

Estimates based on descriptions of the gardens in ancient sources say the Hanging Gardens would have required a minimum amount of 8, 200 gallons ( 37, 000 liters ) of water per day.

Claimed OOPArts have been used to support religious descriptions of pre-history, ancient astronaut theories, or the notion of vanished civilizations that possessed knowledge or technology more advanced than our own.

) shed their stinking piss upon it ... these false bretheren burned and rent not only all kind of Church books, but, moreover, destroyed whole libraries of books of all sciences and tongues, yea the Holy Scriptures and the ancient fathers, and tore in pieces the maps and charts of the descriptions of countries.

Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.

Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, a teacher at Cairo's Al-Azhar University in the 13th century, wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments.

The descriptions of the city by travellers who followed the traders in the discovery of Egypt have proved instrumental in reconstructing an image of the ancient capital's glorious past.

The ancient Igbo descriptions of Ekwensu could be seen as a deity with a convoluted modern identity.

It is unlikely that this latter, in ancient times more famous, episode has not influenced the descriptions of the former.

Of even greater importance, their book provided descriptions of several ancient Maya sites, along with illustrations by Catherwood.

Aelian, Diodorus Siculus and Stephen of Byzantium all recorded important ancient Greek sources on Hyperborea, but added no new descriptions.

Chronicle descriptions make it clear the decorations, carved and painted had martial iconography ; " The foregate of the same palace or place with great and mighty masonry by sight was arched, with a Tower on every side of the same portered by great craft, and inbatteled was the gate and Tower, and in the fenesters, and windows, were images resembling men of warre redie to cast great stones: also the same gate or Tower was set with compassed images of ancient Princes, as Hercules, Alexander and other, by entrayled worke, richly limned with gold and Albyn colours, .... also the tower of the Gate as seemed was built by great masonry, ... for the sundrie countenances of every Image that their appeared, some shooting, some casting, some ready to strike, and firing of gonnes, which shewed very honourably.

First, the originality of his main source, Cassiodorus, is debatable because large part of it consists of culling of ancient Greek and Latin authors for descriptions of peoples who might have been Goths.

There are references to harpoons in ancient literature ; though, in most cases, the descriptions do not go into detail.

There are references to fishing with spears in ancient literature ; though, in most cases, the descriptions do not go into detail.

The popular appreciation of the realism of still life painting is related in the ancient Greek legend of Zeuxis and Parrhasius, who are said to have once competed to create the most lifelike objects, history ’ s earliest descriptions of trompe-l ' œil painting.

The artists ' descriptions of Kangasala lured more and more travelers to the parish.

Maggin contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version ; it describes the planet as a " failed star " with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers ( and their dogs ) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory.

According to descriptions of Pierre Gilles and English travelers from the 17th century, these reliefs were arranged in two tiers, and featured mythological scenes, including the Labours of Hercules.

Some of these papers were written by persons, i. e. Reverend D. G. Whitney, who had never visited the New Siberian Islands and relied upon anecdotes of traders and travelers and local folklore for their descriptions of them, and other articles were written by explorers and ivory hunters untrained in either geology or other sciences.

The oldest representational descriptions and illustrations of Persian gardens come from travelers who reached Iran from the west.

Recorded descriptions of it say that it depicted Philip III pointing with his baton to a crowd of men and women being led away by soldiers, while the female personification of Spain sits in calm repose.

One of modern Japan's most dedicated antimilitarist intellectuals, Kuroshima Denji is best known for his Siberian stories of the late 1920svivid descriptions of agonies suffered by Japanese soldiers and Russian civilians during Japan's invasion of the newly emerged Soviet Union.

During the early colonial period, some of the best descriptions of the site come from the soldiers and missionaries who arrived first in the valley.

Steinbeck's articles include descriptions of life on a troop transporter, an account of the liberation of a small Sicilian town, a description of how homesick US soldiers tried to grow their native vegetables in the English gardens where they billeted, and an account of how a detachment of US paratroopers tricked the German garrison at Ventotene into surrendering.

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.

* Statistical Accounts of Scotland ( 1791 – 1845 ) online, detailed local descriptions

Travelers ' descriptions, etched views, and local guidebooks chronicle the fate of the Renaissance Bagno del Papa over the years and through several rebuildings resulting in a general assumption that most of the original 15th-century structure had vanished.

Physicists also discuss the time-reversal invariance of local and / or macroscopic descriptions of physical systems, independent of the invariance of the underlying microscopic physical laws.

Provides separate descriptions of music and dance traditions in the four Nordic countries in the local language, followed by complete translation in English.

The name is found in Chinese historical texts describing the kingdom, and the most extensive descriptions are largely based on the report of two Chinese diplomats representing the Wu Kingdom of Nanking who sojourned in Funan in the mid-3rd century A. D .; however, the name " Funan " is not found in any texts of local origin, and it is not known what name the people of Funan gave to their country.

Social scientists point out that descriptions of these creatures vary over time with the values and mood of the local cultures, following the pattern of folk beliefs and not what would be expected if the reports were of actual encounters with real animals.

A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition ( position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local details — text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet ).

The main sources of study are from the Ming and Qing period, since the dialectal differences were not as obvious until Ming times, and lie in historical folk songs, tanci (, a kind of ballad or lyric poem ), local records, legendary stories, baihua novels, educational material produced for the region, notes which have survived among individuals ' effects, the linguistic descriptions made by foreigners ( primarily by missionaries ), and the bibles translated into Wu dialects.

The novel is notable for its descriptions of the local scenery.

The entire length of the former Stuck is now considered the final reach of the White River, though the Stuck River name still appears on many maps, in local place names, and in legal descriptions of property near the river.

Publications include a translation of the Qur ' an, a variety of textbooks on subjects such as physics and geography, poetic and philosophical works, descriptions of traditional medicine, a dictionary, and several local newspapers.

N ' Ko publications include a translation of the Qur ' an, a variety of textbooks on subjects such as physics and geography, poetic and philosophical works, descriptions of traditional medicine, a dictionary, and several local newspapers.

PVS also provides records of public statements, contact information for state and local election offices, polling place and absentee ballot information, ballot measure descriptions for each state ( where applicable ), links to federal and state government agencies, and links to political parties and issue organizations.

Following are summary descriptions of the local technology observed by Pelton, and of the science by which the Pelton wheel extracts kinetic energy from a coursing mountain stream:

A 28 page visitor's guide booklet to the Miami & Erie Canal Heritage Corridor, including numbered tour map, stories, photos and descriptions of canal features, local attractions, museums, parks, and hiking trails is available online from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

A wooden statue of the Madonna and Child displayed in the local church of the Italian seaside town of Nettuno closely matches various descriptions of the Ipswich statue.

Apart from descriptions of the house and its contents ( some of which may be drawn from Larkin's own childhood home in Coventry ), much of the narrative is taken up with a comical description of an attempt to launch the local lifeboat.

This issue led the owner, the Local Government of the Capital City making BKV accept a new Company Inner Regulation System and its assembly enacting local government degrees guaranteeing complete transparency in the contracts, billings, and job descriptions for the owner, and for all representatives of its assembly even individually.

However, for the sequicentenary of the town of Burnie in 1977, a portrait was created by local artist Casey McGrath from descriptions, and used as the basis for 200 silver medallions and 4, 000 anodised aluminium ones that were given to school children in the area.

Anderson states in the book's preface, " So, any of the local residents who can read, and do read this novel, and take offense at the descriptions or content, instead of sucker-punching me while I'm in town trying to buy groceries with my wife and son, let me just buy you a drink and we'll call it even.

Content is defined by the FCC as " noncommercial voice information pertaining to traffic and road conditions, traffic hazard and travel advisories, directions, availability of lodging, rest stops and service stations, and descriptions of local points of interest.

Furthering this creative ambiguity as to which city the group hails, several radio stations added descriptions of their own local areas when they ran the song.