`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

Subtitled A Farmwife's Almanac Of Country Living, this is a gentle and nostalgic chronicle of the changing seasons seen through the clear, humorous eye of a Hoosier housewife and popular columnist.

Subsequently other topics would be explored in films such as Omar Guetlato of Merzak Allouache ; this production, which has been a significant success, is a chronicle of the difficulties that can meet the urban youth.

Rieux reveals that he is the narrator of the chronicle and that he tried to present an objective view of the events.

He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

# The remainder of 2 Chronicles ( chapters 10 – 36 ) is a chronicle of the kings of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call by Cyrus the Great for the exiles to return to their land.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

Generally a chronicle (, from Greek, from, chronos, " time ") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.

A chronicle which traces world history is called a universal chronicle.

A dead chronicle is one where the author gathers his list of events up to the time of his writing, but does not record further events as they occur.

A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur.

There is a surviving report of the ceremony by Widukind of Corvey which makes no mention of his wife having been crowned at this point, but according to Thietmar of Merseburg's chronicle Eadgyth was nevertheless anointed as queen, albeit in a separate ceremony.

According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Géza continued to worship pagan gods ; a chronicle claims that when he was questioned about this he stated he is rich enough to sacrifice to both the old gods and the new one.

As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval " chronicle tradition "' of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Historia Brittonum is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War, when Arthur's legendary resistance to Germanic invaders struck a chord in Britain.

This work is taken as a chronicle of the last and greatest of the persecutions, in spite of the moral point each anecdote has been arranged to tell.

The only other major contemporary source is the Liber Historiae Francorum, an anonymous adaptation of Gregory's work apparently ignorant of Fredegar's chronicle: its author ( s ) ends with a reference to Theuderic IV's sixth year, which would be 727.

The homage is then a separate issue, since, according to the chronicle of Thietmar, Mieszko actually paid tribute to the Emperor from the lands usque in Vurta fluvium ( up to the Warta River ).

This fact is confirmed in the chronicle of Thietmar:

Lesser Poland supposedly after its incorporation had become the partition of the country assigned to Mieszko's oldest son, Bolesław, which is indirectly indicated in the chronicle of Thietmar.

The oldest Vamshavali or chronicle, the Gopalarajavamsavali, was copied from older manuscripts during the late 14th century, is a fairly reliable basis for Nepal's ancient history.

* September 18 – Emperor Domitian is stabbed to death by a freedman at age 44 after a 15-year reign in a palace conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard.

* March 10 – Pope Simplicius dies at Rome after a 15-year reign and is succeeded by Felix III as the 48th pope.

He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy ( though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder ).

Barzee is currently serving her 15-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Texas, which holds female inmates in need of special medical and mental health services ; she is scheduled for release in 2016.

This area is currently in the Phase 2 of a major 15-year phased regeneration which includes near-total demolition of the existing residential units, and the construction of new and more numerous residential units.

The Comptroller General is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a 15-year, non-renewable term.

As Dune begins, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam ( Jessica's former instructor ) is still furious over Jessica's insubordination, but is somewhat intrigued by the potential she sees in 15-year old Paul.

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, the main character, Christopher Boone, is a 15-year old autistic boy with total recall abilities.

Megan Wheeler, a 15-year old girl there, is horrified when the thugs shoot her dog.

That meeting is credited with resulting in Ms. Gandhi's subsequent 15-year ban on felling of green trees in 1980.

Kathie Lee Gifford ( born 16 August 1953 ) is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run ( 1985 – 2000 ) on the talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin.

He is the son of Sandy Alomar, Sr., a former All-Star second baseman with a 15-year MLB career.

The contract is a 15-year, $ 100 million deal.

Under the LURA, the project is required to meet the particular project's low income requirements for a 15-year initial " compliance period " and a subsequent 15-year " extended use period " ( or longer, if required by the local authority ; the extended use rules were added in 1989, and do not apply to projects developed in the first few years of the program.

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.

An " option ARM " is typically a 30-year ARM that initially offers the borrower four monthly payment options: a specified minimum payment, an interest-only payment, a 15-year fully amortizing payment, and a 30-year fully amortizing payment.

Jeremy Michael Duncan is an intelligent, 16-year-old high school sophomore ( earlier a 15-year old freshman ) who aspires to be a rock musician.

For example, if the required period in a given jurisdiction is twenty years and the squatter is removed after only 15 years, the squatter loses the benefit of that 15-year possession ( i. e., the clock is reset at zero ).

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

The plan is admirably fulfilled for the period up to 1832.

His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.

Whether or not Danchin is correct in suggesting that Thompson's resumption of the opium habit also dates from this period is, of course, a matter of conjecture.

This, naturally, will be difficult to do since both the archaeological and place-name evidence in this period, with some fortunate exceptions, is insufficient for precise chronological purposes.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

This is the period during the melancholy days of autumn when universities and colleges schedule what they call `` Homecoming Day ''.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

A 5-percent royalty is paid on any production during the period the contract is in effect ; ;

if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.

One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.

The other problem is the matter of financing the transition period in the several cities and towns.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.

The need here is most clearly felt and our capacity to recruit and train qualified volunteers in a short period of time is greatest.