The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of the present 14th Dalai Lama, describes these unfortunate events as follows:

The percentage summarizes or describes multiple discrete events.

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.

Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland ; see Wars of the Three Kingdoms for an overview.

papers " of Emily's have survived in which she describes current events in Gondal, some of which were written, others enacted with Anne.

Although the inclusion of cognitive appraisal as one of the elements is slightly controversial, since some theorists make the assumption that emotion and cognition are separate but interacting systems, the component processing model provides a sequence of events that effectively describes the coordination involved during an emotional episode.

The gamemaster prepares the game session for the players and the characters they play ( known as player characters or PCs ), describes the events taking place and decides on the outcomes of players ' decisions.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

Like most similar works of its time the journal was not written contemporaneously to the events it describes, but rather compiled many years later, much of it dictated.

In chapter 49, High describes the events surrounding the death of the god Baldr.

" In chapter 51, High describes the events of Ragnarök, and details that when Loki arrives at the field Vígríðr " all of Hel's people " will arrive with him.

Weitzenhoffer describes hypnosis via this theory as " dissociation of awareness from the majority of sensory and even strictly neural events taking place.

These historians pointed out that Snorri's work had been written several centuries after most of the events it describes.

Ammianus, who was a participant in the battle, portrays Julian in charge of events on the battlefield and describes how the soldiers, because of this success, acclaimed Julian attempting to make him Augustus, an acclamation he rejected, rebuking them.

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.

He describes the events at a Greek wedding:

' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.

Another reference is provided by Thomas Gale, Dean of York ( c. 1635 – 1702 ), but this comes nearly four hundred years after the events it describes:

The film is notable for its narration by a dead woman — she describes the events leading up to her death.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

The Old Testament book of the prophet Habbakuk describes the Chaldeans as " a bitter and swift nation ".

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Cordwain, once a synonym of cordovan ( through Old French cordewan ) meaning " from Córdoba " describes painted or gilded embossed leather hangings manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry.

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

In stanza 34, Odin says that more serpents lie beneath Yggdrasil " than any fool can imagine " and lists them as Góinn and Móinn ( possibly meaning Old Norse " land animal "), which he describes as sons of Grafvitnir ( Old Norse, possibly " ditch wolf "), Grábakr ( Old Norse " Greyback "), Grafvölluðr ( Old Norse, possibly " the one digging under the plain " or possibly amended as " the one ruling in the ditch "), Ófnir ( Old Norse " the winding one, the twisting one "), and Sváfnir ( Old Norse, possibly " the one who puts to sleep

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald describes how many white residents of the Old Colony housing project in South Boston used this meaning to degrade the people considered to be of lower status, whether white or black.

" In his Comparative Tables Tolkien describes the mechanisms of sound change in the following daughter languages: Qenya, Lindarin ( a dialect of Qenya ), Telerin, Old Noldorin ( or Feanorian ), Noldorin ( or Gondolinian ), Ilkorin ( esp.

He describes how the " Old Man of the Mountain " ( Sabbah ) would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a " paradise ", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return.

Old school hip hop ( also spelled " old skool ") describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music ( approximately from 1979 – 1984 ), and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended ( see Roots of hip hop ).

The earliest saga Historia Norwegiæ describes her as the daughter of Gorm inn Gamli (‘ the Old ’), king of Denmark ( and hence a sister of Harald Bluetooth ).

* Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the wreck of the Andrea Doria Author Joseph Haberstroh-Although the author states that the Gilboa Quarry his character trains at is near Cincinnati he describes driving on Old State Route 224 and passing Gilboa's giant fiberglass bull.

Cosmetics are mentioned in the Old Testament — 2 Kings 9: 30 where Jezebel painted her eyelids — approximately 840 BC — and the book of Esther describes various beauty treatments as well.

The name ( Old Norse: Jólmstr ) is a word that describes the noise and rumble of the river.

Its non – standard form of Brigg is due to influence from Old Norse bryggja, which although usually describes a jetty or quay here refers to a bridge.

The Testament of Solomon is an Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which Solomon mostly describes particular demons whom he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity. The date is very dubious, though is considered the oldest work surviving particularly concerned with individual demons.

The famous Old English riddle Ic wæs be Sonde describes a conch: " I was by sound, near seawall, at ocean-stream ; I dwelt alone in my first resting place.