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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.
According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.
The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin ( Vulgate Merlin Continuation ), which describes King Arthur's early adventures.
An extremely popular work ( it went through 25 editions after its first appearance in 1771 ), it describes the adventures of an unnamed man who, after engaging in a heated discussion with a philosopher friend about the injustices of Paris, falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future.
" After returning to Baghdad, Ja ' afar reads the same book that caused Harun to laugh and weep, and discovers that it describes his own adventures with Attaf.
Call stacks are also discussed in GEB, as one dialogue describes the adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise as they make use of " pushing potion " and " popping tonic " involving entering and leaving different layers of reality.
Tom Swift, Jr .' s Cold War-era adventures and inventions are often motivated by patriotism, as Tom repeatedly defeats the evil agents of the fictional " Kranjovia " and " Brungaria ", the latter a place that critic Francis Molson describes as " a vaguely Eastern European country, which is strongly opposed to the Swifts and the U. S. Hence, the Swifts ' opposition to and competition with the Brungarians is both personal and patriotic.
Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism.
Longus's legend of Daphnis and Chloe describes two children who grow up together and gradually develop mutual love, eventually marrying after many adventures.
The tale describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he prowls the now-empty New York house where he grew up.
Several later works expand on Geoffrey's mention of Gawain's boyhood spent in Rome, the most important of which is the anonymous Medieval Latin romance The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur, which describes his birth, boyhood and early adventures leading up to his knighting by his uncle.
* Bill Richardson's novel After Hamelin describes the adventures of the remaining child ( in this version a deaf girl ) who must rescue the others.
Barrie describes " they are not really friendly to Peter, who has a mischievous way of sneaking out behind them and trying to blow them out ", but the younger stars wanderlust and " fond ( ness ) of fun " compels them to support Peter's adventures and spiriting away of the Darling children to the Neverland.
" After returning to Baghdad, Ja ' far reads the same book that caused Harun to laugh and weep, and discovers that it describes his own adventures with Attaf.
The text describes Thomas ' adventures in bringing Christianity to India, a tradition later expanded upon in early Indian sources such as the " Thomma Parvam " (" Song of Thomas ").
A satire, it describes the adventures of Arthur Même who lives on the walls of his family's former property.
In it, Abbey vividly describes the physical landscapes of Southern Utah and delights in his isolation as a back country park ranger, recounting adventures in the nearby canyon country and mountains.
The book describes the adventures of Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, covering the period of his life between 1935 and 1946.
Colm Ó Snodaigh's novella, Pat the Pipe-Píobaire, describes a busker's adventures in Dublin's streets in the nineties.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin ( Vepkhvistkhaosani ) describes the adventures of Avtandil, a young Arab nobleman, and his friend Tariel, an Indian prince.
The series describes the adventures of 3 women: an over 1000-years old teenage vampire, a 300-year old alchemist-szlachcianka, and her relative, a former Polish secret agent from CBŚ ( Polish ' FBI ').
* In his book A Lifetime with Lions, George Adamson describes various adventures along Lake Turkana.
The narrator, Jack Wilton, describes his adventures as a page during the wars against the French, and his subsequent travels in Italy as page to the Earl of Surrey.
The semi-autobiographical novels include Kross ' novel about the ultimate fates of his schoolmates, i. e. The Wikman Boys ( Wikman being based on his alma mater the Westholm Grammar School-both names are of Swedish origin ) a similar sort of novel about his university chums, Mesmer's Circle / Ring ; the novel Excavations which describes Kross ' alter ego Peeter Mirk and his adventures with archaeology, conformism, revolt, compromise and skulduggery after he has returned from the Siberian labour camps and internal exile out there.

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In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.
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.
Ammianus describes Alemanni rulers with various terms: reges excelsiores ante alios (" paramount kings "), reges proximi (" neighbouring kings "), reguli (" petty kings ") and regales (" princes ").
Clement describes the Stromata as a work on various subjects, which spring up in the text like flowers in a meadow.
Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster.
The DM selects and describes the various non-player characters ( NPCs ), the party encounters, the settings in which these interactions occur, and the outcomes of those encounters based on the players ' choices and actions.
In a more general form, the first law describes the internal energy with additional terms involving the chemical potential and the number of particles of various types.
The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.
* Acts 2, which describes an occurrence of speaking in tongues in Jerusalem at Pentecost, though with various interpretations.
It also describes the prosperity of the Nephites-they grew in number, worked in gold and silver, built buildings and machinery, engaged in various metalworks, agriculture equipment as well as weaponry.
In Strabo ’ s writings of the history of Judaism as he understood it, he describes various stages in its development: from the first stage, including Moses and his direct heirs ; to the final stage where " the Temple of Jerusalem continued to be surrounded by an aura of sanctity.
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts.
The BITE model describes various controls over human behavior, information, thought and emotion.
This article describes the various forms of transportation in the Philippines, an archipelago of over 7, 000 islands.
This page describes various methods of transportation in Saudi Arabia.
In stanza 17 of Grímnismál, during Odin's visions of various dwelling places of the gods, he describes Víðarr's ( here anglicized as " Vidar ") residence:
** Elizabeth II describes this year as an annus horribilis ( horrible year ), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
Considering how Zola's Nana describes an Offenbach-style operetta performance in Paris, it is not surprising that the mostly male, upper-class audience crowded the various theaters every evening.
For example, Gerard's herbal describes various kinds of spiderwort: " The first is called phalangium ramosum, Branched Spiderwort ; the second, phalangium non ramosum, Unbranched Spiderwort.
It describes the eternal questions which have dogged men since the beginning, and how the various religious traditions have tried to answer them.
Wilson describes Fort as " a patron of cranks " and also argues that running through Fort's work is " the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity.
* Domain model, a conceptual model of a system that describes the various entities involved and their relationships
" Contendings " describes the two gods appealing to various other deities to arbitrate the dispute and competing in different types of contests, such as racing in boats or fighting each other in the form of hippopotami, to determine a victor.
Motor racing describes various forms of motor-powered racing:

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