Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

The magnetic quantum number,, describes the magnetic moment of an electron in an arbitrary direction, and is also always an integer.

Alkyne trimerization describes the cyclization of three alkynes, in the Dötz reaction an alkyne, carbon monoxide and a chromium carbene complex are the reactants. Diels-Alder reactions of alkynes with pyrone or cyclopentadienone with expulsion of carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide also form arene compounds.

Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

The text explicitly describes Abigail as " intelligent and beautiful " ( 1 Samuel 25: 3, NIV, also in the JPS Tanakh ).

The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.

It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

* It also describes the variation of the critical magnetic field ( above which the superconductor can no longer expel the field but becomes normal conducting ) with temperature.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

The term also describes films that have remained popular over a long period of time amongst a small group of followers.

The term cretin describes a person so affected, but, as with words such as spastic, idiot and lunatic, also is a word of abuse.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Bede also describes hot baths in the geographical introduction to the Ecclesiastical History in terms very similar to those of Nennius.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

The literature also describes a contrast between velar and uvular rear articulations for some languages.

He describes it simply as a second version that he is also satisfied with, even though the original released cut is still his preferred version.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

There is also Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) was established in 1989 with the vision of achieving stability, security and prosperity for the region through free and open trade and investment.

They accelerated only after May 1926, because of an increase in Polish exports by sea, economic prosperity, the outbreak of the German – Polish trade war which reverted most Polish international trade to sea routes, and also thanks to the personal engagement of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Polish Minister of Industry and Trade, also responsible for construction of Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy.

Service in the Army was also attractive to young men from Highlands, who sent pay home and retired there with their army pensions, but the prosperity ended after 1815, and long-run negative factors began to undermine the economic position of the crofters.

Weber also writes that " the affluent embrace good fortune theodicies, which emphasise that prosperity is a blessing of God ... theodices of misfortune emphasise that affluence is a sign of evil and that suffering in this world will be rewarded in the next.

The Benelux countries, despite also suffering under the Nazis, had long been closely linked to the German economy and felt their prosperity depended on its revival.

Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.

Such a translation is, however, imprecise, as Shalom, which is also cognate with the Arabic " salaam ", has multiple other meanings in addition to peace, including justice, good health, safety, well-being, prosperity, equity, security, good fortune, and friendliness.

The prosperity of Zubarah, which is now in modern Qatar, had also brought it to the attention of the two main powers at the time, Persia and the Oman, which were presumably sympathetic to Sheikh Nasr ’ s ambitions.

In the surrounding areas of northeastern Oklahoma, blacks also enjoyed relative prosperity and participated in the oil boom.

Harding also sensed the importance of oil in terms of national security and prosperity, signing an executive order that gave the U. S. a giant oil reserve in Alaska.

With increased prosperity in the 20th century, the tradition also grew to include the practice of wearing the dress only once.

He also said that the log's role was primarily one of bringing prosperity and protection from evil-by keeping the remnant of the log all the year long the protection was said to remain across the year.

* Less affluent nations such as India, Malaysia, and Vietnam also saw tremendous improvements in economic prosperity and quality of life during the 1990s.

In 2010, the OECD ( the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development ) encouraged the governments of advanced economies to embrace policies to increase innovation and knowledge in products and services as an economical path to continued prosperity .. International policies also often address human capital flight, which is the loss of talented or trained persons from a country that invested in them, to another country which benefits from their arrival without investing in them.

Rouen also depended for its prosperity on the river traffic of the Seine, on which it enjoyed a monopoly that reached as far upstream as Paris.

Wilson first served as Prime Minister in the 1960s, during a period of low unemployment and relative economic prosperity ( though also of significant problems with the UK's external balance of payments ).

The Roaring Twenties brought a sustained period of economic prosperity principally to North America, but also to London, Berlin and Paris, with the end of the Depression of 1920-21 in the U. S. and a robust American economy.

However, the long period of prosperity beginning in the late 1940s ( which allowed most residents to acquire cars ), also led new retail development to build on cheaper land along highways near the newer residential areas of Vestal and Endwell.

A husband's prosperity was also intricately linked to the influence of his wife or wives.

But he also praised the achievement of the CCP in bringing economic progress and prosperity ; at one point he even alluded to the Tiananmen Square massacre and take it as an example to sustain his point that freedom should be obtained through " cleverer " means, rather than mass revolutions that could result in numerous deaths.

He also expressed support for a Jewish State in Palestine, which he believed had " begun to recover its ancient prosperity " as a result.

The nobles served in the upper levels of the elector's army and bureaucracy, but they also won new prosperity for themselves.

The area was mountainous, giving it protection, but also highly fertile, giving prosperity,